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Phew....Thank goodness somebody came in with a number greater than mine.... 13 .... unlucky for me if my partner sees this..... ( a couple of them only come out on a dark night !! )... She is aware of the brand "Takahashi", could probably work out what a box labelled "Tele-Vue" or "Sky-Watcher" contains..... I think "Vixen" might be the way forward, although thinking about it........
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Aurora and a strange red arc?
Craney replied to Skipper Billy's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
There is a thing called STEVE ( (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) which produces an arc like phenomena in the sky. Looks similar, although I don't think STEVE is technically classed as an Aurora. This is a picture of STEVE posted on a BBC weather website from a different event. -
Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected
Craney replied to DirkSteele's topic in The Astro Lounge
Just in case you have a good Southern horizon (🤣😁)..... here is a handy visual guide. It's in the constellation Pictor. and a zoom-in video.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8E4spViHE -
I think you may have got a cloud to cloud lightning discharge. Some big storm clouds racing across the North East tonight. Another application of the cam.
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Bravo !!..... I normally don't Panda to cheap gags.... but it's worth a punto. Good luck with clear skies.
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OOps!! ...this is a visual report thread. Sorry.
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Excellent stuff. Thanks a lot.
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.... as is the mineral Moon.
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I tried a combination of Black 2.0 (undercoat) and Black 3.0 (top coat) on the inside of a metallic dewshield. It wasn't bad, but it did seem to dry with a slight matt grey sheen, which probably looked worse in bright sunlight than it would at night. Here are some photos, start end I'm not fully convinced. sean.
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Comet H2 Lemmon
Craney replied to andrew63's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
It may re-appear in about 3,870 years..,, -
I tried the Black 3.0 with a Black 2.0 undercoat on an 8" dew shield. It seemed to dry with a slight grey'ish matt sheen. Not terrible, but not "black cat in a coal 'ole" black.
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.... and it was mostly cloudy as well .... ho hum. Peak was at 6pm 'ish.... I was in position about 8 ish.... at Thruscross Reservoir, North Yorkshire. The cloud, lights and reclusive aurora did give the sky a Turneresque appeal.... If you were the guy who we spoke to, who had brought his f4 lens instead of the f1.8. That's you on the Dam ( white light, 3rd piccie, bottom right) getting creative. Sean.
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Great images. They have a 3D look to them.... almost as if the planet is a shiny spherical pebble lodged in my laptop screen.
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@Ouroboros This is the website version. (www.sat24.com) I like to use time stamped photo data in terms of clouds and then use my own judgement as to when or if they are going to hit. Any apps or websites that have the capacity to 'predict' conditions ahead seem to be over / under optimistic in equal measure, which does not help matters. The Met office seems to predict over quite large grid squares, which for Harrogate ( not quite York low level flood plain, not quite high Pennine hills ) leads to variable results.