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« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2019, 09:43:06 AM » |
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Great stuff! Now is the perfect time of year for sky viewing - pity you can't do it without freezing solid though. :-)
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« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2019, 10:11:35 AM » |
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Great stuff! Now is the perfect time of year for sky viewing - pity you can't do it without freezing solid though. :-)
Long Johns, tracksuit pants and a pair of jeans. Long sleeve vest, T-shirt, 3 jackets. Wool lined hat with ear flaps and one of the jackets got a hoody that goes over the hat. Gloves and 2 pairs of socks in hiking boots. You sit out there for 4 to 5 hours, so it still gets cold.  |
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« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2019, 13:43:54 PM » |
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But it is warming up a bit lately. At least around these joburg parts.
Tweefo is astronomy geek Jesus: He froze for our grins.
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« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2019, 06:11:36 AM » |
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But it is warming up a bit lately. At least around these joburg parts. We haven't had much in the wy of winter yet, though I'm told there's a cold front on its way. After the summer we had, I was hoping for positively arctic weather, but alas, global warming seems to have kicked in now. Tweefo is astronomy geek Jesus: He froze for our grins.
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« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2019, 12:06:06 PM » |
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« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2019, 15:02:46 PM » |
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The Eagle nebula is a bit clearer. I took more photos at a higher ISO and added them to the other day's pics.  |
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« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2019, 14:21:49 PM » |
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My best Trifid nebula so far. 50 Exposures of 120 seconds each at ISO 800. The object is now high in the early evening. All my previous attempts were through a thicker part of the atmosphere.  |
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« Reply #22 on: August 04, 2019, 18:17:20 PM » |
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Trifid again but here I combined two evenings data.  |
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« Reply #23 on: August 05, 2019, 02:48:40 AM » |
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They're getting better and better!
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« Reply #25 on: October 27, 2019, 03:00:09 AM » |
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This image of M42 took me from 12:30 to 3 am on Wednesday night to do the imaging. I took 50 pics but only used 17 in the end, so this is about 38 minutes worth of data.  |
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« Reply #26 on: October 27, 2019, 04:31:30 AM » |
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That one came out rather nice! :-)
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« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2019, 11:50:29 AM » |
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The Tarantula nebula. This is almost 3 hours of data taken over two nights from my backyard. According to the Bortle light-pollution scale, Middelburg rates at 5-6. It came out rather colourless. When I took pictures from a dark site in the Freestate, I got lovely green tones, and that was with only 40 minutes of data. Looks like I need another 3 hours to add to this.  |
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« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2019, 12:56:28 PM » |
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NGC 253 or the Sculptor galaxy. Also called the Silver Dollar galaxy. Far too much noise. This astrophotography comes with a very steep learning curve.   Nothing short of astounding really... that we can "directly" observe such immensity. |
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