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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Continuing the theme of multiple star systems imaged with my Meade 127mm Apo refractor and an astro-modded Canon 200d DSLR. 20x30 sec lights at ISO800 stacked , cropped and processed using Affinity Photo, GradientXterminator, Fitswork4 and Topaz Denoise AI . Full Moon didn't help but pretty none the less. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Whilst waiting for Saturn to get high enough to image, I used my astro-modded Canon 200d DSLR and my 127mm Meade apo refractor to image the multiple star system Mizar and Alcor in Ursa Major. A rising full Moon, no guiding, no field flattener, no darks, flats or bias files, so pleased to split Mizar A and B. Just a fun snap. -
Olly, as a lifelong 'dyspraxic' I have 'dithering' in built. George in Lowestoft
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SGL 2022 Challenge 8 - Pick a Planet
Hawksmoor replied to MartinB's topic in SGL Challenges and Competitions
Saturn taken with my venerable 5 inch Meade 500 Series Apo Refractor from our Backyard in Oulton Broad Lowestoft Suffolk (Lat 52deg28min north). 3x Barlow and QHY5-ll planetary camera. Compilation of best 5000 frames from 12000. Saturn is still low over my neighbour's roof and was subject to low altitude mirk and light from a rising full Moon. I dug four of Saturn's moons out of a lot of 'stretched' noise so was very pleased when subsequently I checked with Stellarium and found they were in the correct locations. Data processed using PIPP, AutoStakkert3, Registax6, AffinityPhoto, FitsWork4 and DenoiseAI. Like me all my kit is getting on a bit so I was quite pleased with the result obtained with the limited aperture of a 5 inch scope.
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From the album: Saturn
Taken with my venerable 5 inch Meade 500 Series Apo Refractor from our Backyard. 3x Barlow and QHY5-ll planetary camera. Compilation of best 5000 frames from 12000. Saturn is still low over my neighbour's roof and subject to low altitude mirk. Dug the moons out of a lot of 'stretched' noise so was very pleased when subsequently I checked with Stellarium and found they were in the correct locations. Data processed using PIPP, AutoStakkert3, Registax6, AffinityPhoto,FitsWork4 and DenoiseAI. Like me all my kit is getting on a bit so I was quite pleased with the result. -
Taking a break from looking after the post op Mrs H, I ventured out to take my first blurry video of the ringed planet. Battling with full on moonlight and a sea fret moving in land and across my southern horizon I managed to capture a few blurry clips before the fog won. I am now in bed contemplating tomorrow's editing and video processing fun and games which will have to compete for time with cooking the Sunday lunch, making some scones for tea and 3d printing a cooker for my graddaughter's dolls house. A house- husband's day is long and arduous!
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Decided my solar white light filters had seen better days and so Flo sent me a well packed BaaderA4 sheet of film. Flo was right it did ‘Contain Clouds’ and it has been raining off and on in Lowestoft since it’s arrival. George remaking filters for 3 scopes in Lowestoft
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Thank you very much for the information. I find judging scale in busy star fields quite difficult. George
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Took a number of images of Saturn with my DSLR and Samyang lens stacked and then overlaid it on a WISE image of the same bit of sky. (1:00am 09 Aug2022) Blinking on and off revealed two potential moons which I thought might be Titan and Iapetus. Probably completely wrong🙃. Any thoughts on this would be well received. Thanks in anticipation George.
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Saturn at Opposition 2022 (and a Jupiter Shot, too)!
Hawksmoor replied to orion25's topic in Imaging - Planetary
Very nice images Reggie! George -
Mrs H safely returned from knee surgery and now is the 'upgraded model' with artificial knee and hip!😍
I'm am currently happily married to a Cyborg 'off world' kick boxer!
All a bit 'Blade Runner' in Lowestoft, so this year 'blurry images' of Saturn will have to wait.
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Trimmed our hedge in expectation.
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Two Perseid Meteors over our home plus too much moonlight. Canon 600d DSLR Sigma EX lens at f=10mm. Composite of two 9 sec RAW images at ISO1500 cropped. Affinity Photo, APS and Topaz Denoise AI. Stayed up until 3.30pm, observed 10 meteors and then spent 30 minutes trying to extricate our neighbour's cat from our house. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Great night of seeing, steady and clear. First light for my 135mm Samyang lens on an equatorial mount. About one and a half hours worth of 1 minute lights at ISO800 using a modded Canon 200d and an unmodded Canon 600d DSLR. Images played about with and cropped using a number of different software packages including; Affinity Photo, Fitswork4, Topaz Denoise AI, RegiStar and GradientXterminator. -
Wonderful clear and steady astro observing last night in Lowestoft. First time I've ever managed to see all the elements of the Veil Nebula from our backyard using handheld 8x30 binoculars. Took a few images of NGC7000 using modded and unmodded DSLRs . Will have some fun stacking them and combining them over the next few days.
If all goes well, Mrs H will be having her knee replaced next week, so housework and nursing may get in the way of Affinity Photo time.
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SGL 2022 Challenge 6 - Holiday Astro
Hawksmoor replied to MartinB's topic in SGL Challenges and Competitions
A blackhole and a fireball over Ladybower Dam. Had a nice holiday in Derbyshire with Mrs H and some of my children and grandchildren. In a fit of optimism I had packed my mobile imaging rig in the 'family truckster' and immediately condemned a formerly sweltering 'High Peak' to a week of cloud and overnight rain. Anyhow, the nearby water reservoirs were very very low so I may have delayed the threatened hosepipe ban for the east midlands by a week! As I am old and naturally gifted in the art of falling over, I am banned by my grandchildren from going out into 'rugged environments' after dark, so my entry is a composite of a fireball meteor luckily captured between clouds from our holiday let in ' Papa nocturnal safe-mode' and a day time image of one of the two 'ginormous sumps' that form part of the Lady Bower Dam infrastructure. The image of the night sky and bright meteor, (possibly a Capricornid) was captured using a single 1 minute exposure at ISO 800 with my unmodded Canon 600d DSLR and a Sigma EX lens at f=10mm all on a Star Adventurer EQ mount. The same camera and lens set up was used at the dam. The two images were developed blended and cropped using Affinity Photo and Topaz Denoise AI. It's all a bit surreal, but then again so am I! George now back in a very sunny Lowestoft
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Hats off to astrophotographers in the Peak District. Clouds, light pollution from Sheffield and planes from Manchester Airport, all a bit much for a country boy from Suffolk. Enjoying the oat cakes though!
George not in Lowestoft.
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Very nice image thanks for sharing. George -
Thank you for your kind comment and pleased to have provided inspiration. It is the first time I've managed to get an image of this bit of sky showing some detail. Antares is only visible from my location on a few nights in summer. My image was captured from a first floor bedroom window. My cameras were mounted on a fixed tripod so exposure time for each light frame was limited to avoid star trailing. Oh to live a bit further south. Best regards George -
Ironically, after I had confused Cirrocumulus Clouds with Noctilucent Clouds, our 'gotten daughter ' Dr Nina Rogers' took this photo with an Iphone in the early hours from her bathroom window. NLC envy in Lowestoft!
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NLCs or not?
Hawksmoor replied to Hawksmoor's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Thanks everyone for the help. George -
Very interesting and unusual high level cloud formations to the north west of our house in Loweswtoft on the 30th June 2022 - 30 minutes after local sunset. I would welcome your views as to whether these are NLCs or not as I was considering entering them in the SGL NLC competition. Either way they were spectacular to see. Each were individual handheld photos taken from a bedroom window using a Canon 600d DSLR with the Standard 18-55 Canon EFS lens . A bit of cropping and a little processing using Affinity Photo software.
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This week, saw a Humming Bird Moth in our backyard! Have only ever seen these in Spain and the South of France before this year. Global warming has many surprises. Unfortunately it flew off before I could get a photo but Mrs. H also saw it so I'm not imagining things.
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Cropped version of Antares Nebula and heavier use of GradientXTerminator. Composite image using 5sec stacks at ISO1600. Modded Canon 200d and unmodded Canon 600d DSLRs on a fixed tripod. Samyang 135mm lens. at F2. Images taken from a bedroom window. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Stack of 5 second images using modded Canon 200d and unmodded Canon 600d cameras and a Samyang 135mm lens at F2. Affinity Photo, FitsWork4, Registar etc. Literally uncropped other than removing our neighbour's roof from underneath!
