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Hawksmoor

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  1. Really nice images Reggie! Hope you are keeping well in the hot weather . Have not been able to do any Astronomy here as permanent cloud seems to have settled overhead. Hope to have some holiday soon in Italy where it should be a bit warmer and think astrophotography will have to wait until September when the gas giants will be a bit higher in the sky.

    best regards George 

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  2. I left cloud shrouded Lowestoft for three days and actually saw the Sun for a few hours above the Kent country side. Back now and the sky is a uniform grey from horizon to horizon. I’m going on holiday soon for a couple of weeks so the weather in the UK is likely to improve considerably in my absence. Sadly for any meteor fans I will be back before the Perseid maximum which should probably put the kibosh on that.🔭🤣🌧🌪

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  3. 3 hours ago, Macavity said:

    I recently came across an obituary for Prof. M.J. Seaton 1923 - 2007
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/aug/31/guardianobituaries.obituaries
    These folk have such interesting (Academic & Personal) Histories?!?  😎

    I "worked" briefly/remotely with Mike - Setting up his venerable Fortran
    Code on a new/faster computer. A few changes, here and there, to get it
    to run under new hardware/compilers. But he was ever Polite, Kind, and
    Appreciative! I did *not* remark on him STILL using Win 95 on his PC? 😅

    Who knew I'd "contributed" to Astrophysics? lol. TO: "Ships that Pass"! 🥂

    P.S. Sometimes I think the General Public imagine "Scientists" are forever
    "hollering at one another", or checking out (Academic) "Who's Who"? lol
    In a vast majority of cases: NOT TRUE! He/we were/are, just... "Mike" etc.
    But, rather a lot (even my own "Ken"), seem to figure in "obits" now... 😐

    My experience of interacting with exceptionally gifted people has been generally very positive. A few could not get over themselves but the majority were  modest and supportive of others.  Being a good person brings it's own rewards and what could be better than to be remembered as a positive influence and a kindly eccentric soul. Thank you for sharing this memory.

    George

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  4. When I give thought to the more stupid behaviours of our species I recall a copy of the ‘Mad’ magazine I read in my youth. Alfred E Newman was considering the improvement of his High Fi system  by instalments. The system starts small with a few components and issuing from the speakers was the bubble “eat more pork sausages ma”! After adding more components over time and at considerable cost, the smiling Mr N looks on whilst issuing from the bank of speakers was the bubble “EAT MORE PORK SAUSAGES MA”!  
    Good job humans also come packaged with kindness and love but a bit more common sense and environmental responsibility wouldn’t go amiss!

    George next the sea.

  5. Like books so have many collected over 35 years. Not good at throwing stuff away so many of the technical books are now of interest mainly historically. Very untidy so Astro books mixed in with art and geology. Mrs H has novels and poetry books in numbers. At anyone time I keep the last two years of Astronomy Now and the Sky at Night magazines in shelves by our bed and there are even books on shelves in my shed.

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  6. Thank you for your reply which is helpful.  My issue is all about attaching the phone to the Star Adventurer mount.  I have an iPhone clip from a cheap tripod which works well if you can reverse the camera. I will have to improvise. Probably have something in the shed which will work or I could 3d print something. I was just being lazy. Thank you very much for your kind response.

    George

  7. Hi Peter very interesting and have downloaded the App to my phone. I was quite keen to try using it on my Star Adventurer EQ mount to take some widefield shots of the Summer Night Sky but cannot find a way of reversing the camera so that I can lay the phone on its back. Whatever button  I seem to push the camera faces the other way to the screen. I am a family legend at using my iphone as little more than a fancy paperweight, so wonder if I am missing something really simple.  I have been trying out NightCap app and this allows me to reverse the camera. Any help would be appreciated.

    Best regards George

  8. 2 hours ago, Mr Spock said:

    From the LROC quick map. Not a favourable libration on the LROC but it does name the features for you.

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    Thank you very much Michael. Features on the lunar limb seem to vary significantly with both phase and libration.  At least I will now get my image the right way up - come to think about it I'm not sure whether the Universe has a right or a wrong way up?

    "Live long and prosper"  George taking a relaxed role on a grey Lowestoft Sunday.

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  9. I cannot seem to find a way of loading an ACV file as a preset curve adjustment in Affinity2.  The curve window in APS has a load button which makes this simple but there is no such button in AffinityPhoto 2.

    I can create a curve in AFFP2 and then add it as a preset but I cannot find a way of importing a curve from an external source,  is there  a way to do this?

    I would very much appreciate any help regarding this issue.

    George easily baffled in Lowestoft

  10. 2 hours ago, PeterW said:

    Jan2nd, you were looking at the mare australae, which would have been on the lower right on the edge of the moon as you looked at it, the top right as your scope rotated it 180degrees

    With craters oken and lyot (and surrounding ones) visible. I have marked the region on an image taken from NASA dial a moon which gives a photo realistic image for any date and time.

    https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5048

     

    Peter

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    Thank you Peter for this excellent reply including the NASA link which I will find very useful when I next get lost on the surface of the Moon. I very much appreciate your assistance.

    George

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  11. On the evening of 02 January 2023 and whilst I was getting focus sorted out for imaging Mars I captured an avi clip of the lunar limb. I wasn't really taking much notice of what I was imaging but more  focussed on focus!  As I was using a x3 Barlow it is very easy to get lost on the Moon. Anyway taking for read that 'I'm good for my age' I would be very pleased to be informed as to just what I managed to photograph. I have used the Virtual Moon Atlas but incident lighting makes all the difference so would welcome some help. Please note, up is not necessarily North or any cardinal point for that matter! My best guess is  Mare Smythii area but only a guess. Best regards George2072029032_Moon03.thumb.png.6400890cda1d8a520a260682d1de2c99.png

  12. Hi Reggie

    Nice to hear from you. I thought your processing of Jupiter was spot on (literally😀!).

    Orion is better for me before Christmas rather than after. Lowestoft is as far east as you can get in the UK and the OMC now is quite a way west by the time the local street lights go out at 11:30pm. and light pollution levels near my southern horizon fall sufficiently to make astrophotography easier.  I'm not sure whether I managed to capture Hind's Crimson Star earlier in the year on some of my widefield shots of Orion, I will have a look. Anything below Rigel is very difficult from my 52 degrees North location.

    Anita and I are well other than the odd seasonal virus we contracted over Christmas, hope you are keeping well too!

    I'm hoping for a clear night without too much wind this month, so I can have a look and maybe image  comets C/2022 E3 ZTF and C/2020 V2 ZTF. I will have to get up early to image the first of the two and as I age, rising from my warm bed on a cold morning becomes more difficult!

    We have just returned from a walk around the local bird reserve, Carlton Marshes, not many birds about but the fresh air and exercise did us both good. I am now loading astro software onto my new Lenovo laptop after my old machine died at the end of an extended Mars imaging run on a very cold and damp night at the beginning of January.

    Best regards George

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