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That is so cool, how they are getting sharper. Those last two deliver nicely. Give me image capture software, and image processing. I was doing some solar work last week, using Registax. But seeing as Jupe and Saturn are returning, I might have to dust off my planetary camera. Ray
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These are from the 9th and 10 respectively. Best Jupe so far, the Encke still elusive. Cheers!
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Ohhh, so close!
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Weather has been quite abusive here of late, heat, hurricanes and what not. Finally have had a couple of great nights where it's been cool and clear, (yes, both at the same time. Can you believe it!) My first two nights out my images sucked. I blamed the seeing as per usual. After the second night out I decided something was amiss. After I had built my observatory, (mine, mine, mine...) I set up everything as per usual. Everything leveled, plumbed, drifted in the tracking, collimated the scope, (wait, what!) Yep collimated. It was perfect just through an eyepiece. NOT, through the imaging train! I believe K-man (Daryl,) had mentioned this once before. An example forthcoming... Just a couple of more very fine tweaks and I believe The collimation will be perfect. Still using the Celestron C9.25, ZWO120mm cam, Telvue Powermate, Baader LRGB filters, a 685nm on Saturn, and a 742nm on Jupiter every now and then for luminence. Really liking the iOptron CEM 70 (at least till it craps out on me...) Here's any ugly one... Much better! Maybe with that final tweak to the collimation I will be able to get the Encke. Well, that's about it for now folks, Peace out, Tim.
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Dragon Man replied to wingeing Pom's topic in Nature Photography - Storms - Sunsets - Landscape - Time Lapse
Excellent detail Greg! Always stunning seeing insects in Macro. So much too see in hairs and scales and veins. -
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Radar replied to wingeing Pom's topic in Nature Photography - Storms - Sunsets - Landscape - Time Lapse
Beautiful little critters Greg. Not sure if it is the angle, but that bee's wing (in the second bee photo) has seen better days. The orange butterfly appears to have fur as well. Nice work. Ray -
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wingeing Pom posted a topic in Nature Photography - Storms - Sunsets - Landscape - Time Lapse
Got out the macro a couple of days back and managed to grab these guys in the garden. Greg -
I think they wanted it to be more like APOD to get hits by association Greg
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Incredible amount of nuclear furnaces out there. Awesome photo Greg. Ray
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Wow, very jealous. Looks amazing Prof. Ray
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Beautifully sharp image! Canis Minor has always fascinated me in the sense that how did they see a small dog in 2 stars. It is probably the constellation that least matches its name
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Threw together everything I had on M33 and ended up with this. Greg
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The whole of the constellation Canis Minor (effectively Procyon & Gomeisa). Image taken using 2 x Canon 200mm prime lenses with 2 x Trius M26C OSC CCDs. A 2-frame mosaic with each frame approximately 2-hours of 10-minute subs. Greg
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Yes - that is the DSS image and it is flipped top to bottom, so if you want the same area on one of my images, it's around 7:00 towards the bottom. Greg
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Tim very interesting. My C14 would be able to zoom right in on that. Cygnus unfortunately is a tad low for me. I did shoot it once, but I drove out to the bush, and then up onto a monolith called Kokerbin Rock, which gave me super views of the Northern horizon. Ray
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Interesting 'smoke ring' feature at about 11:00 from V1331 in the 3rd image near the top. Kudos, Tim.
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Very cool. Circumstellar disc (a mostly depleted accretion disc,,,posssibly). Ray
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And here is V1331 as a magnified insert on the main image. Greg
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How did I find out I picked the wrong star? Because I decided to take a look at the DSS data and put V1331 in the centre of the field - this is what I got. Greg
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I actually picked the wrong star. V1331 is correctly labelled below.
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V1331 is a young star in Cygnus that sits in the dark nebula LDN981. Image is a total of seven and a half hours of exposure using 15-minute subs. Equipment was the Sky90 array and M26C OSC CCDs. Greg
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We all know that feeling. Winter is in full swing out West at the moment, but I'm hopeful for the next new moon. Fingers crossed. Ray
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No Ray, we were clouded out both nights the comet was next to Helix Another lost moment.
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Thanks for letting us know. Ray
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Dammit, I missed this post Ken. Would have been awesome. Did you get any shots? Ray
