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Nice one Pete, Nothing but cloud here...

Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course... Freddie.

I like Johns "Core set of Equipment" place, once you refine that it becomes more a utility for process rather than a process for utility. My agreement with John comes more from the evolution of good reasonably offered equipment over the years where my upgrades have most often been just that...Better equipment had become available and choices and additions were availability and upgrade ability based. Now days that is no longer the case were as function form and abundance are widespread. With all the market offerings today one can easily find something better to trump what they have, just spend enough and its on the doorstep. Too easy all this my wife thinks 😉 Freddie.

Welcome to SGL lan, The best choices are always well considered so take your time and soak up some astro first. Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course 😉 Freddie.

Sorry to hear about your primary, not many folks post up smartphone pics of Jupiter as it's just hard to get good image scale for planets with a smartphone. You did get some details though so well done I'd say 🙂 Freddie...

This looks good Stu, I hear what your saying about single frames though... When seeing is great I get single frames that are quite nice no stacking required and on those same nights doing video and stacking and single frames the stacks do look better than the single frames, on nights of bad seeing though stacking beats single frames by a good length but I just avoid snapping anything in bad seeing as the lure for me using a smartphone for lunar capture is a couple minutes of shooting and a few minutes more for post processing. I would have sharpened this a bit more but that's me 😉

More evidence 😉

Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course... Freddie.

Very nice Matt and Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course for all your astronomical photographic endeavors... Freddie.

Took this stack under high cloud last night after hacking together a new finder for my static eeva rig out of a 6x30 Celestron Ler finderscope objective a 25mm binocular objective for use as a reducer and an infra red blocking filter, should be 4.6 x 2.6° but not sure I couldent see hardly any stars visible with the high cloud and just took the stack blind on a camera tripod outside while sitting in my kitchen as the low temps last night were more like winter. So target area unknown to me/would like to know. Field of view unknown/would also like to know. The original image is 1936x1096 and because its a static livestack png the crop removed the under exposed overlap leaving 1655x1018, I did the crop and a quick edit on my phone to help bring the details for identifcation purposes. My system for eeva is static so just like manual visual observing I need a good magnified finder as the laser often only gets me close and this should speed things up. It can also be a fair eeva wide field set up I am discovering and already thinking I could start a stack on it as soon as a target is located then while busy making ajustments to the main scope camera I can toggle back and have a look after starting the main scope stacking application. Any help would be great, this is all quite new to me, I know I've chosen methods that are uncommon so please bear with me here. Freddie...

Very nice Everyone really enjoyed this one a lot, Congratulations to the winners/all of them 😉

Congratulations Luke, Ten years is a long time and it sounds like you have exploited it well... Freddie.

Welcome to SGL Jim, Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course... Freddie.

It's all about information storage, to store all the individual atom details for every atom and its precise location and type in a human is a massive data storage undertaking. One analogy stated it would take our current hard drive technology with a stack stacked to the edge of the Milky Way to contain this information for a single unique human then a processor that could process and realocate all the atoms almost instantly so one would not be bleeding all over the place upon arrival...This equipment would be needed at both the point of tranmission and collection, to do teleportation without collection and reconstruction equipment at the receive location would require a force field with the dexterity to place single atoms at precise coordinates at great distances and if we look at current force field experiments the science is quite unsteady to say the least. My understanding is we haven't even yet reached what would be considered the stone age of teleportation technology advancement, the good news is experiments in teleportation may not bring dramatic results but do indeed reveal limits and new discoveries none the less and are always an interesting read. I completed all my out of body experiences as a young man and now just do coffee induced thought experiments instead ? Freddie...

Welcome to SGL, Best of luck with your new telescope and Clear Skies of course ? Freddie...

Very nice...Those ovals are indeed looking good and also well captured, thanks Avani...

They say it will be naked eye and appear in the sky as a star, always good to know what I'll missing behind the clouds ? Forecast Unavailable...I'll bet ?

Its just a highly advanced piece of military technology powered by electricity with circuts to control power used and for photon emitting and collection, just a glass objective lens is quite an understatement ?

Very Nice...Again, thanks for posting these!

Very nice...

Haha...ED80's would be sold out worldwide ? Spoke with Bryan Wall's at NASA Images Hubble on the phone but he referred me to Greg Bacon and Greg is the STSCI big cheese, waiting to hear back. Like the minor planet folks it's a bit of work if you want more info than is generally shared via webpage... Best of Luck with your imaging Kirk and Clear Skies of course... Freddie.

If I look through your telescope we are making observations together, if you take a photo through your telescope and share it with me (like here on SGL) we are making observations together. In as much as dedicated imagers like to be described as such they are really just making long period observations were results are far from instant but their intent is to reveal the maximum detail possible with their particular equipment and record their results or observations to share with others...They are indeed Observers in the purest sence, we all are weather it be nv eaa va eeva visual radio spectrometry or any other or weather we have no equipment at all and just look through someone else's or share their observations via images...Comment discussion and learning the likely results. Since the new eeva threads have been created there has been a serious uptick in discussion regarding the new eeva forum or in finer terms eeva itself and one of the most interesting reads currently on SGL in my humble opinion, my thoughts here are that a lot of these discussions would not be taking place in other threads had it not been for the creation of the new outlet that the eeva threads provide. I'm absolutely sure that some beginner astronomers will learn, benefit and succeed via these new forums as I have done being an eeva novice working towards beginner status, being a long time visual observer transitioning into eeva or specifically va I had some at a crossroads issues going primarily digital verses visual but now consider it just another method for observation but with specific advantages other methods do not incorporate. For me the real kicker was observing mag 10 galaxies with a 50% waning moon and high cloud so thick the bright stars in Ursa Major were barely visible all this with a static mount to boot, not like I'm going to head out regularly and observe under skies that bad but it does speak to the awesome capabilities eeva can bring to bear. After reading through this thread a couple times now I thought it was time for my two cents... What's EEVA ?!? EEVA is Awesome... Freddie ?

Welcome to SGL, Best of Luck with upgrading your equipment and Clear Skies of course ? Freddie.

Nice session indeed, waiting for my next clear day 5 days out now they say, like Mike I have had a lot of cloudy nights, my next session will only be my 5th outing doing eaa with a proper camera...Just frustrating becouse the first two sessions were spent on camera and reducer spacing issues, now those are resolved the cloud is that much more dismaying... Best of Luck and Clear Skies all, Freddie.

Welcome to SGL...Best of Luck and Clear Skies of course. Freddie ?