Another pier thread.....

[Shelster1973]

View images are single 30s exposures @ ISO400 taken on 10mm lens at f4

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[Gina]

Orion showing very nicely to the south

[Shelster1973]

Orion showing very nicely to the south

Yeah. The westerly view is fairly good too. Reckon view is from 25 degrees up so should allow for some good targets

May even take a full panoramic pic to put into Stellarium so I can have better idea of viewing limitations

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[Gina]

It would be nice to see a paroramic view

[kirkster501]

Your pier looks great.  My concern though is that any movement of the wood new to temperature and humidity fluctuations and you will be constantly chasing the polar alignment?

[tekkydave]

Had a look this evening after the really bad rain here earlier and no puddles around the pier and only water that I could see was where it had just got generally wet.

May go for an outdoors paint on it if I can find one that will suit the scheme that has been planned.

Cleared up a bit tonight, but not enough to get set up.  But did grab a few shots with my camera just sat on the pier so that I can get an idea of views.

North

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East

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South

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Did try and get a westerly but clouds have now rolled in

I did a panoramic shot from the top of my pier and made it into a custom background for Stellarium. There is a good tutorial here:

http://www.tanstaafl.co.uk/2011/02/creating-a-bespoke-landscape-for-stellarium/

It's great for working out what will be visible.

[Shelster1973]

Once it stops raining here will have a go

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[tekkydave]

Once it stops raining here will have a go

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I found the most time consuming part was deleting the sky out as I have a very fiddly horizon with trees/shrubs/pergola/trellis etc. It took a few hours in Gimp.

[Shelster1973]

Hopefully not that bad here as should just be house and fence outlines

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