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LRGB (130:30:30:30) from dark skies (La Banderita Obsevatory in La Pampa, Argentina). Setup: AP167FLZ + AP1100 + Apogee U16M
Here is the final installment in my series of prizes for the Guild Evolution category of the 2024 Summer Joust
The settlement’s new dragon comrades gained them quite the reputation in the coming years. Intelligent and loyal, they were well suited to working together with the cartographers, hunters and trackers of the settlement. Together they could defeat even the most bloodthirsty of beasts that sometimes ventured out of Alnya’s deep forest, quickly deliver important messages, or find missing people. Their services were in high demand and earned them many generous rewards. And so an Adventurer’s Guild was formed where their many unique talents could be put to use solving problems others couldn’t. A large fortress was built with harbor, town, and farms springing up around it to house and supply the increasing number of recruits who came from afar to try and prove their mettle and gain admission.
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Sharpless2-126, a lovely area just off the summer milky way.
340:175:175:175, Explore Scientific 80 FCD100 @ 480mm.
I finally figured out what happened with this shot. While reorganizing some photos I came across the first roll shot on my Canonet way back in January. The photos had to be saturated (at the time using Picasa2) because they came out too pale--two of the photos can be seen here and here.
Well, judging by the second roll shot on the same camera, the problem is the film. This roll was part of the same batch of Fuji Superia 200 purchased on eBay. The film is not expired. The date on the package reads 2007/11 but this film was not purchased by the seller in the US like he said (closeout at B&H) because all the characters in the back of the box are Vietnamese. Perhaps that has everything to do with the quality of the film?
I have a few more of these. Should I post them? ;-)
30 minutes before moonrise. Alligator National Refuge.
With digital sensors seeing more than our eyes, the number of stars is mind numbing.
I find it infeasible that all have been catalogged!
NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away, in the constellation Coma Berenices.
Date: 06.05.2016
Frames: 44 x 300 sec, ISO400 (No darks, flats or bias taken)
Exp: 3.6 hours
Equipment
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Telescope: APM Triplet Apo 107/700mm
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Guiding: TS guidescope 60/240mm and
Lacerta MGEN Autoguider
Been planning to do this one for many months, could never build up the gumption to do it.
More work than my usual shot.
Tried making black PlayDoh using white and some old inkjet ink, ended up more gray.
A few weeks ago I picked up a great assortment of PlayDoh, many colors including black. So I molded and cut and pasted the thing up last week.
Got the courage to shoot it tonight. And mind you, the flash has been misbehaving.
But it got the shot, my solution for the classic Rubics Cube.
My camera for the stereo shot arrived Wednesday. A used G6. I messed around with it and got a nice shot of a Christmas bulb filled with jello. Focusing is a pain, but at first blush, the depth of field is greater than my D90.
The G6 was 135$ shipped, so a cheap camera will do a good job with this type of photo. It's all in the flash, folks.
First light for the ASIAir I picked up.
19x300s
ASI071MC-Cool
ASIAir, AVX, Orion SkyGlow filter, WO SpaceCat 51.
We had spotted this patch of greenery last year once things started growing, but didn't know what it was, a grass, sedge or flower, until just recently. Interesting flowers popped up, but we didn't know if they were related to the greens. Luckily, we had some gardening friends over and one of them used iNaturalist to i.d. it as Star of Bethlehem. I'll post flower pictures later, but even the flowers which close for the night are still photogenic. Some of the info suggests this flower is an invasive, being native to Southern Europe and Southern Africa, but fortunately, it's behaving nicely here.
Recaptured M27 this month. processed entirely in PixInsight for the first time...
Captured with a Sony a6000 on a 6" GSO RCT
used ~40 sub frames captured over 2 nights at 5 min exposure time each at ISO 800.
The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light-years.
Like many nearby planetary nebulae, the Dumbbell contains knots. Its central region is marked by a pattern of dark and bright cusped knots and their associated dark tails (see picture). The knots vary in appearance from symmetric objects with tails to rather irregular tail-less objects. Similarly to the Helix Nebula and the Eskimo Nebula, the heads of the knots have bright cusps which are local photoionization fronts.
The central star, a white dwarf, is estimated to have a radius which is 0.055±0.02 R☉ (0.13 light seconds) which gives it a size larger than most other known white dwarfs.
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In celebration of Mats Valk, breaking the World Record by Solving the Cube in 4.74 seconds in November 2016
St. Elisabeth church
Marburg
Germany
HDR
Sigma 10-20 mm
There are certainly a lot of ugly problems in the world due to a lack of water.
Here I thought that water could solve a few issues ;-)
"Exactly. Basically, it says the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job-- everyone's job-- is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again."
This photo lacks focus, like my mind.
I spent hours trying to solve a maths problem, then found some required information was missing. This picture shows the similar thing. Some parts are missing to complete the expected geometrical shape.
We came back from our adventure to the coast a couple of day early. A tropical storm is potentially building in the gulf. For whatever reason, Hadley is bored and antsy, walking back and forth. An old fashioned method of occupying himself seems to be solving the problem.
I really cannot recall the last time I saw real cards in his hands but whatever works!
ODC: solving the problem
NGC 6914 is an exquisite mixture of emission, reflection and dark nebulosity in Cygnus.
Captured at SRO, 23 Sep - 10 Oct, 2015
Objects in image:
NGC6914, vdB 131, vdB 132
Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (drizzled to higher res)
Exposures: 15x1200s L, 9x1200s R, 13x1200s G, 14x1200s B, 17x1800s Ha (17 hrs LRGB, 8.5 hrs Ha)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
Acquisition credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Leonardo Orazi, Rob Pfile, Rick Stevenson and Jerry Yesavage.
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson
Supernova remnant (SNR) with an apparent diameter of a Full Moon. It's a very challenging object to photograph, as it is quite faint. Without using Ha and OIII filters, the SNR is virtually invisible. Captured in 5 nights, from October, 2018 to January, 2019 (13.5 Hours of global exp.)
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: Triplet Apo Tecnosky 80mm f/4.8
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: camera Magzero 5m, SW 70/500, Phd guiding
Frames: Ha 7nm: 27X600sec - OIII 6.5nm: 27X600sec - RGB: 9X600 sec each bin1
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop