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andy fearn

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  1. 6 hours ago, assouptro said:

    Here is one of this seasons galaxy pix 

    Whilst imaging this I got to wondering if someone on a distant planet in that galaxy was taking images of the Milky Way? 
    Then I fantasised they might be taking an image that would include me taking an image of them? Then the maths kicked in and I realised if the said extra terrestrial was to image the milkyway including my timeline it   will take the light emitted by our sun around 38million years to reach them! 

    I suddenly felt mortal and insignificant! 


    ah well. 
    here is my insignificant image of NGC 4565 The needle galaxy in Coma Berenices

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    Thanks for looking 

    Bryan

    Nice image and  detail.

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  2. 23 hours ago, ArmyAirForce said:

    The tubes were plonked in place within the building footprint and will probably be cast the full height of the tube. Lots of digging their foundations before then and some double checking of their position too.

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    Before the day was out, we had a two car trip to B&Q. There we picked up some more blocks and concrete so I can get on tomorrow, while waiting for the rest of the bulk order to be delivered. I'm quite pleased with the progress so far, but my body isn't quite so impressed!!

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    A great job your doing there. just keep telling yourself its all worth the effort. which it will be, no messing about with setting up tripods ect. Its the best thing i ever did.

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  3. On 14/04/2022 at 18:48, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

    Over the new moon I popped up to Priddy Pools on the Mendip Hills to capture a rather wide Milky Way arch over a popular local subject, a lone Scots Pine.  Dealing with the light pollution bubble from Bristol was a nightmare but I think I have a reasonable balance where the LED glow doesn't detract from the image too much.

    The sky is tracked using the LX3 tracker, 2 x 80s per pane.  Taken with my astro-modded 6D and the Samyang 24mm at f/2.  12 panes stitched in MS ICE.

    The foreground was taken with a standard 6D and the Samyang 24mm at f/8.  12 30s exposures light painted and stitched in MS ICE.

    All editing carried out with Siril and GIMP.  The mask to blend the two images took forever to get right.  This is a very low quality version that has been downscaled X2.

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    Stunning, needs to go on a wall.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

    Tuesday 22nd February was the only clear, moonless night I've had in West Somerset this winter.  Sadly my time was limited so I could not make full use of it, but I did manage to bag some half decent images of the Pleiades, and the Horsehead and Flame nebulae with the Stella Mira 90 working at F/4.8 with its dedicated reducer / flattener, and an ASI 6200 full frame OSC.  No filters.

    The image of the Pleiades is something of a milestone for me.  When I first got into astro imaging more years ago than I care to remember the Pleiades was top of my hit list, but after half a lifetime of trying I always seem to have failed miserably on what should have been a relatively easy target.

    So, to have managed to record not only the blue reflection nebulosity but also a hint of the dusty clouds around it, I feel that, after all these years of trying, I have finally bagged an image for which I can say 'Yes, at last I've done it'

    And to have done this on the night when my dear mother, the only person who ever showed real interest in my astronomy, sadly passed away. makes the image all the more special to me.

    Thanks for looking.

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    sorry to hear of your loss. cracking images . maybe frame them in memory of your dear mother.

    Best regards.

  5. 9 hours ago, BCN_Sean said:

    New Year, and in to the lions den...

    Last night the choice was TV or out the back with the Star Adventurer (and if you've ever seen Spanish NYE or Christmas TV, there was no choice!) 

    I'm not 100% happy with this image, never am and that's probably why I've not posted any before, the framing is a little off, them diffraction spikes (though a mask set is on the to-do list) and could have done with some 15 second exposures on it to stop the centre from being as bright.  Anything else that sticks out to more seasoned eyes, then hit me with them.

    Technical wise it's 30 minutes of 30 second exposures, 60 minutes of 60 second exposures, 2.5 hours of 120 second exposures at ISO 800, Nikon D810, a ratty old Sigma 300mm F:/4 on a Star Adventurer, stacked in SiriL and tidied up in Photoshop.

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    very nice image, i would be more than happy with that.   Happy new year.

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  6. 2 hours ago, gorann said:

    This was not planned and I have not imaged the Rosette since I stared with astrophoto seven years ago, but when I after midnight realized that the object I was about to image had fallen below my southern obsy wall, I had to find something else quickly and thought why not see what the RASA8 - ASI2600MC combo could do with this iconic nebula. Nowadays I usually aim at faint and less well known objects, and compared to these, processing the Rosette was just so much easier with an enormous amount of signal. So about 3 hours of data at f/2 seemed enough. Although I had the NBZ dual-band NB filter on I could actually see the nebula live in its full glory on my laptop in my one-second exposures during the focusing and framing.

    So RASA 8 with ASI2600MC and IDAS NBZ filter on Mesu 200. 58 x 3 min (gain 100).

    I attach the image I took December 12th 2015 with an Explore Scientific 5" ED triplet and a Canon 60Da. Fortunately I see that I made some progress during my seven years of astrophotography🙂

    Cheers, CS & Happy New Year

    Göran

    20211227 Rosette RASA2 PS19smallSign.jpg

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    wow, what a difference. you must be very pleased.

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