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Viewing Venus query
BenDavis replied to Night Hawk's topic in Getting Started General Help and Advice
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Dwarf planet Ceres emitting two lights...
BenDavis replied to Rusty-Gunn's topic in Observing - Discussion
The Herschel space observatory had detected water vapour from those regions a few years back -
Thanks. Yes that's what I suspected too. Im at 82% opacity and 82% fill here! Here it is at 35% What do you think between the two?
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Lovely clear sky here last night so had a go at M51, not sure if the luminance layer in PS is too strong? How much percentage would most use or does it depend each time? (Taken with mn190 & Atik 383L with Baader RGB filters, 4 Hrs Total)
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Sounds like you had a great night. Yeah Uley is a bit more south of me, I bet you got some good views up on the Uley hill? Unfortunately the clouds came over head after I had setup in clear sky's. I was probably only just under the clouds to the north if it was clear in Uley. I have a velux window in the spare room which I put in last summer it's a great way to double check now without going outside! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Thanks Ant, I did only mean this in jest, apologies for any miss understandings to any one. You have a great site here. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I've only used the modded life cam studio for video of the moon which was pretty good, I bought it on ebay. I have read overall its no where as good as the spc 900. Keep an eye out on astro buy and sell they come up now and again.
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Yeah its good, at least you can only blame yourself with it!
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Could the speedy moderators who gave me lashes for using a mild swear word please correct my childish spelling mistake of the title forecast please!? Thanks.
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Looks like you south east lot may be lucky tonight, though depending on which forecast you want to trust!?
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May be I'm a feeling a little tired from lack of sleep due to having young children waking up all hours but tonight I got annoyed as after lugging out the scope and kit which weighs over 50k and setting up, the clouds rolled in. I do blame myself in part as I only checked the bbc forcast for our postcode: But clear outside said: But what I usually check is sat24 which always seems the best to use to predict the weather my self: X marks me spot! It just seems crazy that I have to do my own weather forecast my self every time I use the scope all night!? I guess I'm not the only one!? At least
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How critical is it to avoid rain?
BenDavis replied to stormblooper's topic in Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice
This has saved me before it has an app too. http://www.rain-alarm.com/ -
Thanks! Yeah I had lots of issues with dss, I think that's normal with comets!? I used the mount for tracking, no guiding this time. The images from dss all had star trails (as that's the best I could get, I think love joy moves too fast to obtain otherwise!?) which I used PS to remove and then I added a single sub of 60seconds to give the stationary stars for the background. Hope that helps/makes sense!? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Took this of Lovejoy last night. Got a bit more of the tail now but I think that's the comet improving rather than me! As always any advice taken! 1Hr ish LRGB MN190+383L+ DSS (felt like 6 hours) + PS