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1 hour ago, Nakedgun said:

..... currently #12 of 14. 

There, I've said it.

Good gracious me !!!!!...  

Are you a Mantis shrimp ??     " the eyes of a mantis shrimp have between 12 and 16 types of photoreceptors cells."

Looks like a planetary nebula..    We are overdue for a good cometary display.

In terms of the scope collective and size order........  would this be  "seven of nine"    ??

You can do it in  AutoStakkert3.   (before you do any stacking)

When you load up your AVI file, two boxes appear.  The 'image' one has a sliding bar thingy on the top which allows you to step through the frames.  Get to your transit ones and  export each of the frame individually.

Then a bit of Photoshop adding....... 

I did the process yesterday and got this....

Very good for a first attempt.   My first shot of Saturn had less detail than Galileo's sketching.

My Nan could not read or write and so she never followed up on her experience apart from telling her story by spoken word.     As a teenager I was fascinated to hear her describe the phenomena first hand.  This was the era before the internet and my knowledge of the strange and unexplained came from libraries and in particular "Aurthur C.Clarkes Mysterious World".

Her description was very close to the other accounts in the detail.   One thing I remember was her saying that the bright sphere came down the chimney, followed her around the room and when she opened the window to 'shoo' it out   (!!!!), the object passed through the glass.

For a lady of her background, that must have been on a par to seeing a ghost !

Sean.

Grandmas must attract it  !!!     My granny was similarly chased around her house by such a phenomena.   

If she ever visited when a storm was about, she would say  "unplug the telly and open the window to let the lightning out !!"

Bottom one is the better candidate for a meteor.

One thing for sure ( he's says cautiously....)  there are probably not both Perseids.

I agree.   The HST brings in a lot of green for certain objects.

I know they are not  'real colours', but none the less, it has to look the part,    especially when it is hung up in the front room.

You have brought out the filamentary detailing very well.

Careful Adam,  there lies madness as the original post alludes to.  

I quite like the fact that it is there,   but not there.....   if you know what I mean.

Near Baden-Baden in Germany.   Forecast was mixed and looking very poor for our original site, so we used native tracker instincts and ended up in a small town to witness about 75% coverage.  Looking good......

....then a huge thunder cloud rolled over and obliterated everything.   It got dark  <check ✅ >,  it got cold  <check ✅ >  .... I got soaked through.⛈️..errr that shouldn't happen.

Stood in a kind residents garage doorway,  watching a downpour, imagining what should have been.

You have some well trained clouds down in those parts.   They just sit on the horizon and shuffle about !!!!

Gorgeous timelapse.  Been a while since I saw the LMC.

"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."

John Russell
 

Awe inspiring work. Well done.

Ok....  I could n't resist......

I apportion the difference in quality on the the fact that the HST is closer to the gas cloud...   

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The ideal solution for astrophotography after the Zombie Apocalypse.

or...... National Grid losing two generators !!

Thanks Adam. 

I had a smile on my face when the first sub came through..... "oh yes".... I thought  "this might just work out".   ( Not always the case with my imaging.)

It's not quite the Hubble rendition, but it cost about 4 billion pounds less.... 

OK, well, maybe ... looking at the kit I acquired in the last year or two, 3 billion pounds less  😂🤣

A popular object at the moment and derservingly so.

There is a slot between a beast of a tree and my neighbours house that allows about an hour of imaging of this iconic object.  I was keen and the Moon with scudding cloud kept out of the way.

So  23x1min Ha   and  11 x 2mins O3   with an Atik 414ex mono @-20'C  attached to an UK Orion Optics Mak140 ( Astrophysics 0.67x reducer). 

This is the intial DSS stretch and a bit of tweaking in PS.  No refinement to be seen here !!

I'm quite pleased with that.  😀

Sean.

I'm liking the 'shimmer' effect.    Good work.

Probably......

Hi David,

I use a program called  REGISTAR which scans and aligns any image you care to put into it. 

As long as it has a few stars as a reference it will make a good job of arranging all the stacked final components of L R G B or Ha O3 S2  into a common fixed frame.

Then I use PS to do the adding and tweaking, although REGISTAR does itself have a basic combination feature.

It is quite expensive, and there may be other programs that do the same within a bigger package, but I find it works very well.

Sean.

Fantastic image.  Well done.

This is a faint, faint target.....  A case of pointing and hoping for me.     I tried for 3 hours and got a 'possible'  blur.   I shall be inspired by this.

Handing over the baton....

New arrival,  just in time for the holidays.     Picture taken with the outgoing ( lens scratched ) Canon G16....

It has a few astro features to keep me happy whilst up in the mountains.

He was a steady hand on the tiller..... if such an analogy can be made for spaceflight.

According to SpaceWeather.com  the magnetic signature suggests the spots are from the old cycle and not the  eagerly awaited future one...

11 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

....  it's a faint devil but you have it!

Olly

Thanks Olly.    You are right, there is something circular in there, as you say .....down and left a bit.

I didn't what to create an optical illusion of circularity with two orthogonal arrows,  suggesting a presence  than was not by itself a stand out feature.  

Thought it would be more obvious with these exposures, credit to all those who have bagged it though.

Might have to get the 6"F4 reflector out and give it a go approaching the New Moon.

My reference was the photo on the Atik Camera's  Summer Targets Page.

https://www.atik-cameras.com/news/summer-astrophotography-targets/

Cheers,

Sean