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Felias

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  1. The Celestron does indeed fit the Baader zoom, but once you have locked it in place, you can't turn the zoom wheel anymore. It's a bit annoying, but not too bad: once you have decided on the optimal level of zoom for the current seeing, you can stick to that magnification.
  2. Thank you, Stu! I tried to use my DSRL since I found a T2 mount and Canon adaptor from the old school telescope, but I couldn't reach focus. I was a bit disappointed, but at least I had my phone.
  3. I saw the eclipse from Canterbury today. My photos cannot compare to the ones posted already, but I thought I'd join the party anyway! πŸ₯³ I took a couple of videos by holding the phone in front of the eyepiece (Baader Hyperion zoom), and using a Lunt 40 on a basic alt-az mount. The pictures are therefore not great, but I had a lovely time watching my first eclipse in H-alpha.
  4. A bit, sadly. Besides, they have closed Green Court for visitors this term, so neither tourists nor locals are allowed unless they enter with an authorised guide. This is the trend now in most Cathedral towns I believe, all across Europe. They did the same in my home town in 1992.
  5. Yes, I've been taking pictures around the place for years. Most of the time I only have my old phone, though, so they are not great. There's no free pass for locals, but you can attend the services if you want to enter the Cathedral freely, or walk around the Precincts in the evening after they close the building. A shame, I know.
  6. I actually work within the Precincts. πŸ˜‡ I had to attend the Eucharist on Sunday, so I decided that, since I was there, I'd at least take some pictures. Mind you, they now open the Precincts in the evenings after the Cathedral building is closed for visitors, so you can wander at leisure for an hour or so and take pictures. While I was manipulating the camera, two blokes who were walking around the Precincts asked me when the Cathedral was built. They couldn't believe it was so old when I told them when each section was built. πŸ˜… @Nik271@Sunshine Thank you, the moons were difficult, there was a cloud cover, so the haze from Jupiter almost made them disappear!
  7. I took these last Sunday, during the full moon, but I've been really busy this week, so I have been slow at processing. All taken with a Canon 77D, the first one with a Samyang 16 mm f/2, and the others with a Samyang 135 mm. The last photo is just a crop of the previous one, but I think it works on its own, and makes it easier to see Jupiter's moons through the haze of the clouds.
  8. Thanks, I hope your child is better. Mine kept stomping near the tripod, so it's a miracle I got any picture at all!
  9. Nice! I also spotted them from the rather polluted Canterbury city centre, so I couldn't help taking a picture from the living room. Double exposure, with a Samyang 135, merged in PS -and oversharpened for Instagram. ☺️ When zooming in, one can see Ganymede before eclipsing:
  10. Well, it has been a dry summer, I'm told... πŸ˜…
  11. I have been testing some photographic paper I bought for my pupils to build pinhole cameras, and I thought I'd post the result here. I taped the camera (a beer can) outside the window a few days before the summer solstice, and took it down today. Sadly, I don't have a scanner, so I used the photocopier in the school, which apparently can only deliver colour jpeg files or pure b/w tiff. I opted for the jpeg, so it's a bit blocky due to compression, but I guess it's acceptable. The towers at the bottom left of the solar trails belong to Canterbury Cathedral.
  12. Ah, yes, what Vernor Vinge calls the 'Zones of thought'... I'm pretty sure that Andromeda's core falls, like the Milky Way's, in the category of "unthinking depths", when it comes to processing. πŸ€”
  13. Just I fast picture I took of the moon and Jupiter rising tonight, from my living room. Canon 77D, Samyang 135 f/2. -handheld (that lens is heavy!). Basic corrections and cropped in Lightroom. Quite hazy, but I like the halo.
  14. Really good for the first attempt, and only 30 min. Here's my processing with Siril (very useful for the photometric colour calibration) and Photoshop. There's plenty of noise and banding, so I did not push it much, as I didn't want to clip the background. I didn't reduce the stars with Starnet to save time, but it could help in making the galaxy pop. You just need to gather more data, but you're definitely on track!
  15. Siril should be easier if you follow the tutorial step by step: https://siril.org/tutorials/tuto-scripts/ And thanks, but the only trick to that photo was a dark sky, honestly!
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