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Hawksmoor

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  1. Mostly Iphone plus some Affinity Photo and AstroSharp/Clean. I came out of Tescos with a packet of their deluxe sourdough range crumpets and noticed that the Moon was dancing around the Belisha Beacon beside the pedestrian crossing. I thought it would make for a [removed word] image. Made me laugh anyway and I can thoroughly recommend the sourdough crumpets for tea on a frosty night. George in Lowestoft with clouds
  2. My birthday today. Yay!

    Spent the day making arty farty metal stuff in the backyard under a very blue sky. Mrs H made lobster linguine and caramel panna cotta (served sequentially and separately) for tea and I watched a fullish Moon rise through the window as we ate.

    All in all a very fine day for an old bloke in Lowestoft next the sea.

  3. Welcome to SGL and I hope you enjoy many fine nights under the stars with your new telescope. Best regards from George on the other side of the World.
  4. Strange week!  Managed to play an active part in the demise of my old Black and Decker Jigsaw and an inexpensive Chinese mini-vice.  Christmas crafting has its consequences.

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    Aurora 02

    From the album: Aurora

    Had a bit of auroral glow in the sky over our house in Oulton Broad. Image taken from our bedroom window early hours of 22-11-2023. Canon 600d DSLR Sigma EX lens at f= 20mm. Cropped and stacked image. Was just visible to the naked eye above the ambient sky glow and light pollution. Nice to see none the less at 52 degrees North.
  6. Yes we are both well thanks Reggie. Hope all well with you too. George
  7. From the album: Jupiter

    This was my last clip of the night and I think the atmosphere was at its most stable and the high level cloud had disappeared. North is up.
  8. Fabulous images! Some of the best aurora images I have seen. The two of the auroral crown are breath-taking. Thank you for posting. George
  9. From the album: Jupiter

    03 November an enjoyable night in the backyard Oulton Broad.
  10. From the album: Jupiter

    My first Jupiter this year with Europa Ganymede and Io in the frame. Had a look at Callisto through the eyepiece. 127mm Meade Apo refractor, x3 Televue Barlow and QHY5111462C planetary camera with IR cut filter. The new camera works very well but requires a different approach to data processing. Much to learn but ok for a first go.
  11. No electrics in the backyard thanks to storm Babet accessing some junction boxes previously water-tight. Old boxes removed and new ordered and awaiting delivery. Wiring made safe, jeans covered in mud and one old man needing a rest. So wouldn't you know it - the first clear night in weeks.

    Two hours of more or less cloud free night sky and the Moon waning over Lowestoft. Too good to miss. This required drastic measures- a long extension lead out the kitchen window and the telescope lives Igor!

    Managed my first proper look at Jupiter this season and captured some avi clips with my newish QHY planetary camera. Hopefully all will process well but they call it 'lucky imaging' for a reason.

    Mrs H was making jam and baking Christmas cakes today so the house smells great! Now off to bed with the promise of Santa and reindeer in the air.

    Nighty night stargazers.

  12. According to Metcheck we are in for 102miles per hour winds this evening in Lowestoft, followed by three days of rain!  Only got snow left to go now! 

    George bracing himself in Lowestoft next the sea!

  13. Lovely set of images John! A treat to view from my armchair located in a currently wet and cloudy bit of the UK. George
  14. Last night in full moonlight, I glimpsed my first view of Orion this year. Nice to see the old fellow striding over my back hedge once more! Nice image . George in cloudy Lowestoft.
  15. This is my go at 'Earth and Moon', which came as a bit of surprise to me as I have had the benefit of rain, fog and clouds for many autumnal nights in Lowestoft. So tonight, I went to the shop on our street to buy a packet of crumpets to cheer myself up and noticed that the full Moon was more or less visible between clouds. So I walked with some purpose back to our house and retrieved my Canon DSLR 600d and a standard Canon EOS zoom lens from their case. Now the Moon was rising above the shop and our house is about 400 metres from the shop, so I thought to myself, just about on for a 'Big Moon' photo with my zoom at about f=200mm. My image was made with just two RAW exposures. Two because to see the clouds, trees and telegraph pole the image of the Moon was completely blown out and was much improved by overlaying and blending the Moon correctly exposed and showing a bit of detail - all done with the same camera , lens and handheld on the same night. I hope this is within the rules! The image was processed and cropped using Affinity Photo2 and denoised using the freeware AstroClean. I have spent much of the day working on a watercolour landscape painting and thought the ever present clouds worked in this image in a painterly watercolour way. Never thought I would be extolling the benefits of clouds for astrophotography!
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    Other Peoples Photons

    Images created from data archive downloads from the Internet
  17. From the album: Other Peoples Photons

    As the weather continues to thwart me I have had a good day painting a watercolour of Eynesford in Kent and experimented with a lot of data fro telescope.org and the WISE infra-red space telescope courtesy of Astrometry net. James Ritson's macros for Affinity Photo 2 were very helpful. Sort of rgbHSO palette. Infra-red pasted into the green channel. Lol
  18. According to Metcheck there wont be a night I can  stargaze in Lowestoft until the 6th of November. Oh well they do say patience is a virtue!

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      PESKYWAABBIT

      That's sad. I hope the weather turns around!

  19. From the album: Other Peoples Photons

    This data was captured in 2015 by the autonomous Bradford Robotic Telescope's Constellation Camera, located on Mount Teide, using a Nikon f=16mm lens at F2.8. This was before the installation was taken over and upgraded by telescope.org and Open Science Observatories, the Open University. As this bit of the Milky Way never rises above my southern horizon at latitude 52deg 28mins 30secs N, I processed and cropped this data using current software to show essentially the centre of our home galaxy. It s intriguing to think that Sagittarius A* a 4million solar masses blackhole is lurking just to the right of the spout on the teapot asterism' in the constellation Sagittarius shown in this image.
  20. Splendid images Reggie. Great capture with the sunspot, nice and sharp! George
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    Saturn

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