johnfosteruk

Fantastic cake, save us a piece won't you!

Hope the big day went well, congratulations to you both.

Great review Jules, I do hope you get that affinity over time, get out to the dark sites and I'm sure it'll come into its own with DSO, and enjoy those crisp lunar views at home mate.

6 minutes ago, Paul73 said:

 

Which will be your first targets?

Anything not covered in cloud would be my suggestion ?

Gorgeous, enjoy it and I hope you get first light soon. 

A few more tonight. 40x and 125x. Wratten #58 seems to help with this complex form of imaging.

Posted in the wrong thread

18 hours ago, Stu said:

Well just to be different, I'm going to give it to this one from John. Really nice shot with, I believe craters Orontius, Nasiridden and Huggins looking very nice.

It's a fix I tell you... oh.... wait.... humble, honoured, etc etc. Years of work, wouldn't be where I am etc.

And one more. 

A few more just now. Archimedes area 

Just took this. Was enjoying some vis on the early evening moon after a nice afternoon imaging. Seeing excellent so I have the 1000mm frac with 8mm, polarizing filter and 2.5x Barlow on and the views down the terminator are lovely. 

I simply had to capture it and enter the stupod so here it is. Captured on iPhone 6s and processed in ps express  a bit of sharpening, cropped and converted to mono

A worthy winner for sure. Terrific image. 

11 minutes ago, Paul73 said:

I wonder how it will perform against the ubiquitous Lunt

 

Well is the answer. See

and

One of these. Yesterday. Happy. 

I'm very much liking the look of this. Thanks for the review John.

Nicely sketched Mike considering the aircraft Vomit.

Nowt as fancy as owmuches or Paul's but here's my twopenneth. 

First on a cheap webcam and the newt

next at a dslr job with the frac.  Last November I think

Great idea. Do sketches count?

25 minutes ago, Uplooker said:

@xtreemchaos & @johnfosteruk

those are good images, would not have believed you were both beginners, had you not said.

Thanks Ian

19 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

you two have images that trump mine

You have the images that trump mate, I didn't see the Mercury transit at all thanks to work n clouds, all I could do was dip into Ibbo's live stream periodically.

Well why not, twas my first year of Solar imaging too. Very much a learner so don't laugh. Or laugh if you like, I can take it, it very much boggles my brain that I'm capable of doing any of this imaging stuff  Onwards to better things in 2017!

In no particular order.

11/07/16. My very first Solar image (not that you'd know if I didn't tell you what it was), iPhone up to the EP, took some video and somehow managed to get it to stack. 

08/10/16 I think. AR2599 close up. My first decent close up.

09/08/16. Lots of spots, well, for me at the time anyway.

08/10/2016. Really good day for seeing.

01/09/16. Rather like this one too.

And a closeup the same day.

That's a great find John, I'm very envious  I always have an eye out at the car boot for scopes 'n' bins but to date I've found nothing.

A friend of the family found a Tal-1 recently which he gave to our niece and I get views with that so I mustn't complain really.

Good luck cleaning her up.

I don't know why but I've not paid any attention to this thread, a wonderful collection of images that really push the boundaries of what the equipment can do, amazing

Well caught Helen, welcome to the club

11 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

followed by 2000AD 

I loved 2000AD, my absolute favourite series being Nikolai Dante.

3 minutes ago, barkis said:

Drat, I meant sectioned,  not sanctioned. However,  as you claim the rank of Master Imager,  you are immune from the latter,  but take note,  you are being scrutinised.     Now,  I must get back to Film four,  I'm watching Prometheus,  and it is good. 

Oh dear, I'm not sure either is good frankly, although I think the former should have happened years ago. I'm making claims that I don't think I'll be able to support quite frankly  so scrutinise away my friend.

Enjoy Prometheus, it is good.