johnfosteruk

I once got dive-bombed by a seagull, and you talk about heroics? Pah!

Is there not a rule prohibiting manipulation of time? Advance entry indeed!

This has got to win me this coveted prize This was captured with the iPhone X, Procam on Tiff setting and 10x digital zoom on the 'telephoto' lens, manual focus and exposure, no telescope involved. Handheld, resting the phone on the car roof in Lidl car park. I used Stu's invaluable advice and cropped to remove all the distractions from the background sky Slight processing with PS express. I got narky questions as to what I was doing from a family who were getting out of their car at the time as well, and when I told them I was taking a picture of the moon, they said they couldn't see it (they were closer to the building that the Moon was above than I) When I explained angles to them in the nicest possible terms, they continued to be narky, so I showed them (the moon, then my photo) and they harrumphed, some people! Anyway the point is I suffered for this image, so I deserve the prize. Plus I know the judge personally, so I doubly deserve the prize, ahem.

Well I won't bother entering mine if there's corruption going on

Disgusting behaviour, although a Jaffa Cake may serve as a suitable bribe for the judge to overlook the details

I've just been made 'Leader' of the D&C club and I'd like to drum up a little interest. I'd like to see some activity in here! So, I'm trawling through the old posts from before it was converted to a 'club' and sending out invites to members who reside in the region. I'd like members in the area to get to know each other, and see if we can turn this into a thriving observing/imaging group. Feel free to chip in with ideas for how we use this resource as well. So, if you receive an invite, please accept, pop in and say hello

This is a fabulous build James, I don't know how I've missed it until now.

Struggling here still. This page took about 40s to load.

All good so far. Wish ULA could afford webcams though! ?

I’m not falling for that again ?

Somebody told me there was a prize for this. Where do I put my address for the cheque? ?

I was at the AS monthly talk so missed this. Nice to see 'block 5' did it's job successfully though.

Astonishing image. What a great use of the palette. I think a massive thumbs up, the main reason for me being all of the structure you've captured, and your treatment of it gives it so much depth, it feels like I'm wearing 3d specs!

Mission accomplished. Time to look at some planets.

That's no good, I'm busy on Wednesday. Tell them to change it to tomorrow!

This page shows you how to do simulations. But be quick, as demo performer says, the site is being dropped soon.

Fabulous collection of images. I think I might sell the house!

Cracking images, love the reflections.

Didn't know bunnies could fly!

That's a beast Mr Drew. Proper telescope, I love it.

As seen here in this uninterrupted footage from somebody on the ground with an LX200 and some nice tracking software. It's an incredible feat. The little detail (from the press conference) that stood out for me was how they had to land them not quite simultaneously to avoid confusing the radar.

Centre core hit the water at 300mph after not having enough propellant to slow descent.

Looks like it’s about to start

It's very slow but it does load.

orbit tracking link http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=43205