Hawksmoor
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From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Very pleased to find and photograph the Nova in Delphinus 01.30 17 August 2013. 15x15 lights, 3 Flats and 3 Darks. Tripod mounted Canon 400D DSLR at 18mm. DeepSkyStacker, Iris and Photoshop. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
August 02 2013, Beautiful night, even saw the ISS pass overhead! -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Mounted DSLR with telephoto lens at 90mm on NEQ6 mount. Stacked lights flats and darks. Pleased to capture NGC 7000 as camera not modded. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
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From the album: Out and About
Straddling Airy's Transit Circle which lies at Longitude 0°, by definition, and Latitude 51° 28' 38'' N. -
2013 06 06 2152 LRGB COLOUR MONO RED
Hawksmoor commented on Space Cowboy's gallery image in Member's Album
Best I've seen this season! Can clearly see the polar Hexagon. Well impressed, top notch ! -
From the album: Aurora
Quite nice colour in this image. Tromso Jan 2011 -
From the album: Aurora
Found a few images from Tromso Jan 2011 that I hadn't posted before -
For once a Bank Holiday turned out nice so enjoyed a ramble along the river and took a look at the Sun. http://george-artcabinedujardin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/what-amateur-astronomers-do-in-daylight.html
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Really interesting, looked at my sky chart and wondered whether it was created by the combined starlight effect of a condensation of high magnitude stars which in combination create the fan shaped form. Otherwise you might have discovered a comet! If I get a clear night anytime soon I will take a look. best regards George -
From the album: The Sun
Sunspot 1754 photographed 11.00 am 27-05-2013 from my backyard, using a QHY5v planetary camera attached to my 13 year old ETX 90Ra Mak. AVI clip stacked using AutoStakkert and then manipulated in IRIS and Photoshop. The spot is very visible as it is quite large, in fact the Earth would sit comfortably within the umbra. The 'orange peel' appearance of the photosphere created by convection cells is quite apparent. I know the technicolour APS approach is not for everyone but I quite like it! I thought my old ETX did well for its age. -
From the album: Other Peoples Photons
ESO FITS data set downloaded and messed about with in FITS Liberator and all the usual free software culprits! More Trapezium Cluster stars on view than I can see through my scope. Nice to imagine that the 'proposed' black hole is lurking somewhere in this frame. Credits: European Southern Observatory. -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Early hours of Sunday the 28th of April 2013. Saturn and four of its moons. The rings brightened by the Seeliger effect? -
Superb detail ! -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Managed to pull two Moons out of the murk! -
From the album: Backyard Astronomy
Saturn - 127mm Refractor at F19 QHY5v Planetary Camera. AutoStakkert +Photoshop. -
From the album: The Moon
The 'Straight Wall' made visible in oblique sunlight. QHY5v planetary camera - Meade 127mm Apo refractor. Stacked using AutoStakkert and Registax 6 and finished in Photoshop. -
2013-03-30 - Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)
Hawksmoor commented on StuartJPP's gallery image in Member's Album
Excellent image! -
Lovely image! -
Nice change to have a clear night. Beautiful Moon rising over the trellis in our backyard. Finished my dinner and took one or two handheld images with DSLR + telephoto lens. Lovely!
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Joined Breckland Astronomical Society and attended our first meeting this month. Very much enjoyed Prof Carolin Crawford's talk on 'Exo Planets' and received a friendly welcome from members. The snow stayed away long enough for us to get to and from Great Ellingham which is some hour away from our home by car. The clouds parted on the thirteenth of March for us to see Comet PanStarrs very low over the marshes. The graveyard at our local church provides a great elevated and unobstructed view west over the Waveney River valley. At 6.15pm we set off for the churchyard with two friends. I fixed my camera on a tripod pointing towards the horizon where the sun had not long set. Between us we had two pairs of binoculars so we took it in turns to search the sky for the comet. The crescent Moon was absolutely beautiful with earth-shine illuminating the rest of the disk. The 'dark-side' was so bright that the maria were clearly visible, I don't think I've ever seen earth-shine so bright. We picked up the comet for the first time at about 6.50pm using my 11x80mm binoculars and a little later in 10x50s. Finaly it became visible without optical aid. I managed to get a number of images using 18-55 and 90-300mm lenses. The focus could have been better - guess whose camera hasn't got 'live view' and who forgot to take his spectacles with him? Anyway since the 13th the weather has been quite grim and there have been no further opportunities to view the comet or any other celestial treats for that matter. Seeing the comet, however, really cheered me up. You can't beat a good comet.
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From the album: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids
Since the 13th of March weather has been poor in Lowestoft. I found a good RAW image I obtained on t he 13th using DSLR with telescopic lens. Enlarged etc in Photoshop. -
From the album: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids
First sight of comet over Waveney Marshes. -
From the album: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids
Didn't manage to see or image the comet on the 12th of March. The evening of the 13th was much better!!. This image was taken using a tripod mounted Canon 400D DSLR with telephoto lens. Levels etc tweaked in Photoshop. View through my 11x80 mm Binoculars was top notch! I do love a good comet. -
Brilliant image! We spent a fruitless a hour or more in a graveyard getting very cold trying to get a glimpse through broken cloud. Hopefully the weather in the East of England will be kinder tomorrow!
