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Post by Egietje on Feb 27, 2022 11:50:25 GMT
Equipment/Software: ♦ Zwo ASI 183 Pro C [cooled] ♦ Skywatcher Evostar 72ED DS-Pro ♦ Skywatcher Star Adventurer Pro 2i Wifi ♦ Shaprcap ♦ Deepsky Stacker ♦ Photoshop CS3 Feb 26th, 2022: 19:15hrs 63 x 40sec images stacked then levels/curves processed. i think this is about as good as I'll get this. more data and some real depth to the core itself. really good data is dependant on too many factors - one of which may be requiring a patio as level as a Pool Table - which I don't have. [...] Looks amazing! I love feeling given by the graininess.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 2, 2022 22:03:14 GMT
Black Wings Chief Mouse ThomasQuinn georg jon_innuendo HelloDelilah Chopin1995 pg emrabt The Real Wizard Lord Fickle Raf katydyd5 ted Steve CuppaJo Mad4Metal Egietje velizar Mustapha Ibrahima month or so ago, I got hold of a Move Shoot Move star tracker. It's the size of an external 3½" HDD and the initial setup is: lock the laser pointer on Polaris, turn on the tracker and then point your camera at your target. anyhow, first time out, the laser died, but the nice people at MSM dispatched a replacement out to me, and tonight I gave it its maiden voyage. Equipment: MSM tracker, tripod, Canon 200d, Samyang 135mm F/2.0 lens. Below is the result of a dozen stacked 30s images. The target is Cigar, Bodes and Garland galaxies. (Garland is so tiny it's hard to spot).
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Post by Lord Fickle on Apr 2, 2022 22:48:59 GMT
Cool! This equipment must set you back a bob or two.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 3, 2022 5:41:17 GMT
yep, but I figure that it's investment in a long-term hobby. Canon 200d - £500 Samyang 135mm F/2.0 lens - £450 MSM tracker - £160 tripod - £80
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Post by Lord Fickle on Apr 3, 2022 8:24:40 GMT
yep, but I figure that it's investment in a long-term hobby. Canon 200d - £500 Samyang 135mm F/2.0 lens - £450 MSM tracker - £160 tripod - £80 I'm sure you could have spent a lot more.
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Post by emrabt on Apr 3, 2022 10:34:04 GMT
I find these photos absolutely amazing. Is Cigar the biggest in your images, then Bodes on the left and Garland in the lower right?
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 3, 2022 14:04:44 GMT
I find these photos absolutely amazing. Is Cigar the biggest in your images, then Bodes on the left and Garland in the lower right? Cigar = the long thin vertical one (left) Bodes = sprial galaxy centre Garland = barely visible [at 5 O'clock] from Bodes - same distance from Bodes as Cigar ...there's also a tiny little galaxy [extreme top right, about 1" in from right edge of image] = NGC2976
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Post by emrabt on Apr 3, 2022 17:49:15 GMT
I find these photos absolutely amazing. Is Cigar the biggest in your images, then Bodes on the left and Garland in the lower right? Cigar = the long thin vertical one (left) Bodes = sprial galaxy centre Garland = barely visible [at 5 O'clock] from Bodes - same distance from Bodes as Cigar ...there's also a tiny little galaxy [extreme top right, about 1" in from right edge of image] = NGC2976 Thank you for explaining this.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 3, 2022 22:07:28 GMT
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Post by The Real Wizard on Apr 4, 2022 19:44:44 GMT
Wow - pretty unreal that you're shooting spiral galaxies from your back yard. Mighty impressive.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 4, 2022 21:27:58 GMT
Wow - pretty unreal that you're shooting spiral galaxies from your back yard. Mighty impressive. cheers. still learning. the main problem is the limitations of DSLR lenses (and my lack of knowledge). Even the best lenses are not that great. Next step is to get the CCD (ZWO) out on the Evo 72d scope and see if I can get more details.
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Post by katydyd5 on Apr 5, 2022 23:36:45 GMT
I find these photos absolutely amazing. Is Cigar the biggest in your images, then Bodes on the left and Garland in the lower right? Cigar = the long thin vertical one (left) Bodes = sprial galaxy centre Garland = barely visible [at 5 O'clock] from Bodes - same distance from Bodes as Cigar ...there's also a tiny little galaxy [extreme top right, about 1" in from right edge of image] = NGC2976 Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying, but I don't think I'm seeing Garland. I appreciate your effort to explain though!
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 6, 2022 13:12:01 GMT
Cigar = the long thin vertical one (left) Bodes = sprial galaxy centre Garland = barely visible [at 5 O'clock] from Bodes - same distance from Bodes as Cigar ...there's also a tiny little galaxy [extreme top right, about 1" in from right edge of image] = NGC2976 Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying, but I don't think I'm seeing Garland. I appreciate your effort to explain though! it's brownish, fuzzy and just below the third bright star in the full cropped image it's almost in the bottom right corner.
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Post by katydyd5 on Apr 6, 2022 23:35:33 GMT
Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying, but I don't think I'm seeing Garland. I appreciate your effort to explain though! it's brownish, fuzzy and just below the third bright star in the full cropped image it's almost in the bottom right corner. Ah, thank you! I see it and was also able to locate it in the full cropped image. The depth of your knowledge on this topic is so impressive.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 7, 2022 5:51:17 GMT
Ah, thank you! I see it and was also able to locate it in the full cropped image. The depth of your knowledge on this topic is so impressive. no knowledge - just "Stellarium". it's an invaluable phone/tablet/pc app...and it's free.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 9, 2022 13:20:01 GMT
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Post by Egietje on Apr 9, 2022 13:59:59 GMT
been cloudy these last few evenings, so nothing new to post. I've pulled together a little compilation of some of my stuff and uploaded it to YT. Clip is only a 2 mins long. Probably better watching externally in YT and selecting 1080p as video quality. Nice compilation! Some great pictures in there
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Post by The Real Wizard on Apr 9, 2022 17:35:21 GMT
I've pulled together a little compilation of some of my stuff and uploaded it to YT. Clip is only a 2 mins long. Probably better watching externally in YT and selecting 1080p as video quality. That's a helluva portfolio. Fantastic job.
Ever considered going back to school and studying astrophysics ? You have the brains and the chops.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Apr 9, 2022 18:59:27 GMT
That's excellent, Martin. 👍
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Apr 10, 2022 6:17:05 GMT
That's a helluva portfolio. Fantastic job. Ever considered going back to school and studying astrophysics ? You have the brains and the chops. too old for that. knowing what buttons to press on a camera is a long way from Dr May's speciality.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on May 6, 2022 7:58:16 GMT
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Post by Lord Fickle on May 6, 2022 8:16:27 GMT
M3 is a cluster of 400,000+ stars, 32,000 light years away - It's 11.4 billion years old. I can never get my head around these numbers. It's just mind-boggling.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on May 6, 2022 8:44:21 GMT
M3 is a cluster of 400,000+ stars, 32,000 light years away - It's 11.4 billion years old. I can never get my head around these numbers. It's just mind-boggling. and to put some of those into perspective: ♦ The number of stars in M3 are almost half the number of total objects in our solar system ♦ M3 is twice as old 11.4 billion years as our own solar system (4.6 billion years old) ♦ the light from M3 takes 16,000x as long to reach us as the light from the outer reaches of our solar system ♦ M3 is 188,160,000,000,000 miles from Earth ♦ Travelling on the fastest existing rocket (if it were possible) a direct journey to M3 would take 515,979 years.
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Post by Lord Fickle on May 6, 2022 9:29:24 GMT
I can never get my head around these numbers. It's just mind-boggling. and to put some of those into perspective: ♦ The number of stars in M3 are almost half the number of total objects in our solar system ♦ M3 is twice as old 11.4 billion years as our own solar system (4.6 billion years old) ♦ the light from M3 takes 16,000x as long to reach us as the light from the outer reaches of our solar system ♦ M3 is 188,160,000,000,000 miles from Earth ♦ Travelling on the fastest existing rocket (if it were possible) a direct journey to M3 would take 515,979 years. ... and yet it can be photographed.
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Post by ThomasQuinn on May 9, 2022 8:43:04 GMT
Just think BrƎИsꓘi...that picture is *much* better than the absolute greatest the world's most advanced observatory could manage a century ago!
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on May 9, 2022 9:22:31 GMT
Just think BrƎИsꓘi...that picture is *much* better than the absolute greatest the world's most advanced observatory could manage a century ago! thanks, but that's down to tech and not anything I could actually do!
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Post by waywardgenius on Jun 2, 2022 19:11:08 GMT
and to put some of those into perspective: ♦ The number of stars in M3 are almost half the number of total objects in our solar system ♦ M3 is twice as old 11.4 billion years as our own solar system (4.6 billion years old) ♦ the light from M3 takes 16,000x as long to reach us as the light from the outer reaches of our solar system ♦ M3 is 188,160,000,000,000 miles from Earth ♦ Travelling on the fastest existing rocket (if it were possible) a direct journey to M3 would take 515,979 years. ... and yet it can be photographed. I found this online a few years ago: "A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet."
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Post by Ryan Newton on Aug 6, 2022 21:44:01 GMT
Half Moon above Saskatoon, SK, Canada. August 5th 2022, 22:24 CST Taken with a Canon EOS Rebel T3. ISO-100, f/5.6, 1/60, EF 75-300mm Telephoto Lens. Photo by Ryan Newton.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 6, 2022 23:26:13 GMT
I've just driven home from London to near the south coast, and the half moon was stunning. Huge, and very low in the sky. Shame I couldn't stop and take a photo.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Aug 7, 2022 18:04:00 GMT
Ryan Newton - nice shot. it was a sight to behold last night
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