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These are from Friday 22nd March, moon about 95% 

Single shots with Astrotracer

3 hours ago, Nakedgun said:

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Had my first look at it 20 MAR 24 along with my neighbor through Tasco No. 216 10x50s.

 

 

 

 

 

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I hope your neighbor didn't mind 🔭

Very good visibility yesterday evening with the arrival of cleaner and drier air from the northwest.

Shame the moon was about 90% full. I haven't seen this comet naked eye, but got a couple of shots in camera. The comet definitely appeared brighter than a couple of weeks ago, plus the sky was clearer yesterday than it had been for about a month.

What's this cloud arriving from the South , surely not ? 🤣  🫣

https://www.sat24.com/en-gb/country/gb

There were clear spells in the evening of Wednesday 6th March, so took a couple of shots of 12P/Pons-Brooks before it sank below the roof. The sky was VERY hazy with pollution being imported from the continent, and this made the light pollution worse. The clouds returned shortly after. 

Single 20 sec exp with Astrotracer and 55-300 zoom.

Ariel view of 12P/Pons-Brooks 

@ Marvin Jenkins 

You say the clarity was amazing due to strong winds and heavy rain. Do you mean the heavy rain and strong winds had moved off, and improved the air quality behind a cold front?

7 hours ago, Geoff Lister said:

As far as I know, the Seestar does not need a mobile signal. Some of the weather and "best targets tonight" parts of the Android or IOS app on the tablet/phone require data access to the internet for updating, but I am not aware of a "SIM" equivalent to communicate with a mobile phone base station.

Geoff

Thanks , 

I'm guessing there is WiFi on the Seestar that connects to your phone, if you have signal.

Does the Seestar need to be near a mobile signal?  If your out in rural areas sometimes the signal drops off. 

Trying to pickup Aurora and just seen a decent meteor traveling from the NE at about 40°. It started in the N and tracked down towards the NW through Cassiopeia lasted about 2 seconds. Magnitude about -2 ish there was a slight covering of cirrus clouds.

I think this particular set of satellites may of been more visible , as they may have been recently deployed and still relatively in low orbit?

I agree that light pollution is already degrading astronomy/astrophotography. 

Adding another layer of pollution with satellites is frustrating for anyone who cares about night skies.

On 18/01/2024 at 20:00, Beardy30 said:

Anyone else watch the starkink train of satellites going across the moon at about 18.05pm tonight? Approx 19 of them counted ,  I saw it from here in Preston, Lancashire, fantastic to watch 

Noticed these when walking back from town last Thursday. 

On 26/12/2023 at 14:51, buddyaderholt said:

I recently got into astrophotography with my Pixel 7 Pro, too. Exciting stuff! Haven't attached it to my telescope yet, but just got a smartphone adapter. Planning to give it a shot soon. Quick question for the seasoned pros: Do you use the timer function? Wondering if it helps with stabilizing after hitting the shutter button. And hey, if anyone's got some mind-blowing Pixel astro pics, please share! I'm itching to see what this little powerhouse can capture in the night sky. Also, totally random, but has anyone tried sell your Samsung Galaxy here? Thinking about switching, so curious to hear experiences.

This could be useful if your using the phone without the scope. If you don't need the tripod,  just get a bluetooth remote. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0CLYDZSTJ/ref=cm_cr_othr_mb_show_all_top?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews

Unfortunately it was cloudy all night. Clear now though🤐.

Perhaps that fireball Mike witnessed was a Quadrantid meteor, or sporadic. 

Should be clearer skies with high pressure building, if the fog holds off. 

Could be quite a cloudy High with milder air mixed into the Anticyclone 

December 23rd 2023

Thunderbird 3 ready for blastoff

Pixel 4a edited in phone

December 26th 19.40GMT 2023

22° Luna Halo

Pixel 4a edited in phone 

On the lookout for Nacreous clouds, but I think they have gone for now. Could be a while before they are so widespread again. Last time I saw them was February 2016.

It's very quiet out and the usual sound of roaring traffic is much reduced. 

Got this shot with Jupiter lower right. 

December 24th 15.55GMT 

Moon and Nacreous clouds 

22 hours ago, Elp said:

This was by far the best one captured live realtime video, total captured around 20 over pre and peak night but none of the others looked anything like this one:

 

What camera is that ELP?  

Friday 15th Dec 23.30GMT

I've been outside for 45mins , it's fairly clear Taurus and M45 easily visible. 

I haven't seen one meteor ,I didn't expect to see many , I thought there may of been about 5 per hour...

Completely clouded out last night. 13th/14th

Had a half hour gap this evening (Thursday 14th 19.00-19.30 GMT)  Saw 5 Geminids in about 15 mins , caught the brightest below Jupiter on dslr camera (10sec ISO 1600 f3.5). And also the same meteor on phone video, thought I'd just try a short handheld video as it was clear. 

"Of course, meteor showers fizzle, rather than sizzle, more often than not, which is part of the reason why the Geminids (and Perseids) are so spectacular: they’re reliable, year after year". 

🤔 🤨

49 minutes ago, carastro said:

I guess we were about a mile away.  Don’t recall any sound.  My son who l have told this story to in the past says l have told him it was green in the past.  Hubby thinks it was Red but if it was it certainly wasn’t a deep red.  Fireball is in my mind until it turned into a Y.  

I was going to say ball-lightning , but now I've read there was a military testing station, it could of been flares, or paratroopers with flares on them. 

Had a small session trying to see anything was difficult. Low cloud and mist, only Jupiter showing through the murk. 

Poor visibility can barely see Jupiter through the low cloud and mist.  

Had a look for ten minutes didn't see anything. 

On 18/11/2023 at 23:59, Elp said:

Could be from the light source in the centre of the image.

As it's taking a number of (is it 15s per image) and then stacking around 4 minutes any changes in intensity of light will accumulate and stack in the final image, it's also not applying any calibration images which you'd normally do when imaging with AP gear.

Yes it's 15s exps , about 4 minutes in total. It's quite strange as it only becomes really obvious when trying to edit the photo. 

As I apply a curve, add contrast, brightness the banding effect becomes obvious. Like a zebra dark/light pattern. I tried the mobile lightroom app ,and it was there but less obvious. I also tried editing some older RAW photos taken earlier in the year, and with the same phone. The older photos didn't have the banding pattern, when I used Snapseed to edit them. I know the pixel 4a is not recieving any more updates since October. It shouldn't affect the camera though. 

On 23/11/2023 at 18:39, Elp said:

I've seen a meteor which was almost horizontal but it moved in a stepped fashion as it was "descending". It must have stepped at least four or five times down as it was moving across the sky, lasted only around 2 seconds. Couldn't have been anything else as I was in the middle of nowhere and it appeared and disappeared as quick as a meteor.

I've seen a bright earth grazer meteor heading towards me from the SW a few years back. It was twilight and the meteor flared up in short bursts as it tracked. The meteor was visible for about three seconds, between the bright flare ups, the meteor became dim, so it appeared to have a stepped track, brightening and almost disappearing.