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Ah! Where those 'dreadful' Aurora cause havoc to imaging! How about removal of the IR filter or a modded DSLR as an intermediate step? p.s. I love the aurora... and have been to Tromso four times for the joy!

Had a visit to the 'Herschel Museum' in Bath a few years ago... My wife thought it 'pricey' for a small museum. I really enjoyed it; however I did feel that it would be more interesting for someone with some prior knowledge of the family and their contribution to science than for someone coming in 'cold'.

Yep... SCNR green gives

From 'The Times' this week...

Beautiful... Thanks for putting these 'up'.

Close Encounters!

A mountweasel!!!

We've had very good times in previous visits... When it's good it is very, very good; when it's bad it's ********!

I had the same near Rothbury, 16th-23rd!

Yes, Andromeda is good.... This is my only clear bit of sky visible from my driveway.... Streetlights and houses spoil/obstruct the rest. I was rather surprised and very pleased. Also the Perseus double cluster. Pixel peeping the Pacman and a few other 'bits and bobs' can also be found!

Fixed tripod. Canon 5DIII, Canon16-35 at 35mm, f 2.8. A goodly clump of 3200 ISO, 5 second images stacked. Now, where's Cassiopeia?

Yes... looking back on it... in the '60's my mother bought us a pack of fags to give to her mum (my nan) as a present when we visited every Sunday... We contributed to her demise! Regrets... we probably all have a few! A different world. I've still got the 'Man in Flight' coins, and my 1966 World Cup Willie periscope!!!!!!!

These are great... I'm envious. One of the benefits of early middle-age (born in the late '50's) is the joy of being able to look back on many iterations of the 'future' via all sorts of media. A sadness is the lack of progress in some areas of space travel etc. following the demise of Apollo. As a teacher I used to show my classes the science books and ephemera that inspired me as a youngster... It always provoked discussion (and a fair bit of hilarity)!

Just asking for a friend... how do you walk away from yourself?

Teach using the CAGE system..... crayon and gluestick experience!

What a lovely thead... Lovely images and so much information... what this site is about.👍

Re-process all those images... and then realise that you'd got it right first-time in so many cases!

Depends upon where they are!🙂

Launch of Telstar, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programmes for me... Apollo 1 fire and death of Virgil Gus Grissom (Thunderbird 2!), discovery of LGM-1, and 1960's dark skies of Norfolk! Entranced by the night sky.

I've got one of those shields!!!!! I reckon that there will be a few out there!

I used the video (and other sources) to improve my mount. I found the video to be be one of the better sources. Cleaning on greasing was carried out very, very carefully, and then the subtle inter-related adjustments of worm/belt tension/gears/grub screws took an age but the end result has been well worth it. Having initially been very wary I'm now actually looking forward to doing a re-fresh whenever necessary!

I agree with Tom... I'd loosen the taper bearing just a touch and give it another swing. Too free and it'll be sloppy and you'll feel it wobble as the scope goes over the top of the axis.

I thought that the 'half-life' of a proton was of the order of 10^32 years so 'unstable' in Universe terms but pretty stable in terms of my weekly calendar... Maybe we are close to the complete set of isotopes...

I'm with Wimvb... and a pixelmath blend of Histogram stretch, arcsinh, and masked stretch may help.