Astro Noodles

I do think it is interesting that these C8th forebears of ours would read so much into meteorological and astronomical phenomena. They were equal to us in intelligence, but not in scientific knowledge. Having said that, I will have egg on my face if there is a Viking invasion in the next few months. 😁

Of course, it might not be a meteor or space junk at all. Anglo Saxon Chronicle 793AD Here were dreadful forewarnings come over the land of Northumbria, and woefully terrified the people: these were amazing sheets of lightning and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. A great famine soon followed these signs, and shortly after in the same year, on the sixth day before the ides of January, the woeful inroads of heathen men destroyed god’s church in Lindisfarne island by fierce robbery and slaughter. And Sicga died on the eighth day before the calends of March.

Just having a look at your light pollution map from the initial post tells me two things. 1. Your night skies must be amazing. 2. Just how big America is. 🙂

I have been using a Canon 600D with the IR filter removed. I have found it to be very enjoyable to use, and the flip out screen is really useful. Having used camera lenses vs astrographs I would say that from my experience an astrograph would generally be better than a zoom lens or even a fixed focus length camera lens because astrographs are designed to focus at infinity. I am not familiar with the TPO lens you are thinking of getting but a 180 f4.5 would work very well with the iOptron mount. Oh - by the way, I like your collection of pipes. 😁

I use an iOptron Skyguider Pro. I think it is an excellent mount. It is very important to make sure it is perfectly balanced. What lenses are you using? I find that I can easily get 60 sec exposures with a 61mm F5.9 scope and 90 sec with a 200mm camera lens.

The idea is to use the mount for beginner AP. Do you think this would be up to the job for 30 sec/60 sec exposures with a DSLR instead of the scope?

Can anyone identify this ? Found in someone's attic. 🙂

If it had any flashing lights it was almost certainly an aircraft. At 10.45 it would presumably be twilight in Vancouver? Perhaps an aircraft at altitude with the sun, just below the horizon was reflecting off the lower surfaces of the aircraft.

If you could see it moving, it was not a comet. How big was it compared to other objects you could see? Did it have a colour? What time of night was it? How far above the horizon?

Was it moving in relation to the stars?

Hi and welcome to SGL

I have a WO61 with field flattener and an ASI 294MC. The camera comes with the correct spacers to attach directly to the field flattener.

Could have been a glint from a satellite.

I read that the people who painted the animals in the cave at Lascaux 17,000 years ago interpreted the constellation of Taurus as a bull (or an Aurochs). It has been suggested that the sequence of dots around it's eye are a representation of the Hyades with Aldebaran as the beast's eye. Over it's shoulder are the Pleiades. I think it a bit of a stretch to come to this conclusion, but not inconceivable. Assuming of course that the stars have conveniently staid in roughly the same position for all that time.

I just had an email from Lulu to say mine has shipped.🙂 Very exciting.