johnfosteruk

SN9 scrubbed tonight due to wind, rescheduled for tomorrow. Fingers crossed

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/01/starship-sn9-speedy-recovery-static-fire-launch/

Brilliant report, I love it when I'm able to tempt my family with the views

You're going to have difficulty, snapbridge should in principle be the tool for the job but it needs improvements. As well as having no port for a cable, it doesn't have an IR receiver to allow use of a wireless remote either. Backyard Nikon isn't supported either.

You could use the self timer to trigger exposures while avoiding vibration, you'll be limited with exposure length though as that won't allow anything over 30s.

On 24/12/2020 at 23:04, Alien 13 said:

Thats a realy good image, your nephew is a natural...Its amazing realy how often hand held Lunar shots work with camera lenses.

Alan

Thanks Alan, they stack well too.

Very nice. One of my favourite terminators. You caught a couple of craterlets in Plato too.

We've got our nieces and nephews and their dad (bubble) with us for Christmas and Will, the oldest, aged 15,  just snapped this single frame handheld with the Tamron 150-600, without stabilisation turned on. We're just getting wrapped up and going out for a vis session, I'm going to give him a tour of the southern highlands.

That's my boy

Just now, JamesF said:

I think that tends to give an impression that perhaps misrepresents what happened

James

Just a bit! The Present Mrs Foster rolled her eyes as I ranted at the Google noise machine thingy!

27 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Oh dear.  BBC News headline for this story today:

"Elon Musk's Starship prototype makes a big impact"

James

Yep. Just heard the R2 news, they went with ‘A revolutionary new SpaceX rocket exploded last night’

Just now, JamesF said:

It looked to me that the rocket didn't fire early enough to get the descent under control before it hit the pad, but otherwise that was so impressive.

James

The flip was incredible. I thought the landing burn fired too late as well, and the bloke on the feed I'm watching said the same.

Incredible!!

Not a failure by any means. Who wants to take bets on how many TFs it'll take them to land it successfully?

Just now, Jonk said:

Correction: 22:40 UK time....they have too may timezones over there!

Yep, 22:40. Turning the feed off to do some work now, somebody poke me at 22:30.

3 minutes ago, Jonk said:

Possible aircraft straying onto the range causing the pause....not confirmed.

I'm picturing an old boy in a Cessna

Paused, standing by for new T-0.

Good news

problems at T- 2:06?

2 hours left in the launch window though.

46 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Ok, a *very* long pole.

James

Nah, just a regular long pole and a pair of good running shoes

Just now, Jonk said:

Aborted?!

Definitely one of the most aborty type launches I've seen

SpaceX is live now, T - 4 mins

Cracking images Steve!

Gorgeous waxing gibbous Moon looking all sparkly in front of a very clear sky this evening so I grabbed the D7000 with Tamron 150-600 attached, shot 5 shots and stacked 'em. Then I setup the Skymax 102 for some visual and had a very enjoyable hour. 

Also had reasonable views of Mars as well and snapped a single frame of both. 

Just watched the NASA Science Live bit. Mainly basic stuff but worth a watch.

It's time for me to invest in an HA setup I think.

I've just had a nice visual session observing Jupiter and Saturn with fairly reasonable views given their positions. 

Anyhoo, finished off with a quick snap or two of our nearest neighbour.

This is 30 of 100 frames shot with the Nikon D3200 and Tamron 150-600 @ 500mm

Processing is Pipp>AS!3>IMPPG>PS

RGB

More saturation

2 minutes ago, DaveL59 said:

a case of not doing the research before listing it at that price perhaps. For sure he got a mega bargain at £30, I never get that lucky!

Even so still a bargain for the revised price, I've seen the tripod and mount only go for way more than that.

Yes I thought about asking for his mate's details, just in case he has any other astro bargains lying around.

Absolutely still a bargain, but just badly timed for me.

Just spoke to the fellow as he's right on my doorstep. He's put the price up to £120 as he's had a ton of interest and has been made aware it's a classic, he's holding out for offers as well!

Apparently he bought it from a friend for £30 a few years ago but never got 'into it'

I would have at the original price but I've just forked out for a new Mac so the Present Mrs Foster would murder me at this price!

I've suggested he add a picture of the objective to the listing, and maybe list it on astrobuysell as well to ensure it finds a good home.

I've an idea the price may drift further upwards when he spots that there's one 'sale pending' for £170 astrobuysell.

It's a shame, but hey ho.

Outstanding work.

A few more for good measure, captured on the iPhone 11 for fun.