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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(280 km by road north of Toronto), between 05.13 and 05.39 EDT
* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: 63°
* Temperature 1° C.
* Total exposure time: 13 minutes
* 70 mm focal length lens
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Description:
The distinctive "W" shape of the main stars in the constellation Cassiopeia draws the observer's eye to the northeastern sky as northern hemisphere autumn approaches. What is remarkable about this region of the sky, through which the Milky Way passes, is how many deep-sky objects are concentrated in such a small area. More than two dozen open star clusters, and numerous bright red (from ionized hydrogen gas) nebulae, can be seen in this view of a small portion of the constellation.
This image is composed of subframes captured just as morning twilight started to appear in the eastern sky, and I had to bring to an end my short, two hours only, session under a very clear sky.
For a version of this photo WITH LABELS for all of the deep-sky objects and the names and magnitudes of the brightest stars, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/55548417208
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Technical information:
Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f/2.8 G ED VRII lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Thirteen stacked subframes; each frame:
ISO 5000; 1 minute exposure at f/4.5, unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, bright star masking, colour balance correction)
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(280 km by road north of Toronto), between 22.48 and 23.19 EDT
* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: 48°
* Temperature 4° C.
* Total exposure time: 15 minutes
* 35 mm focal length lens
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Description:
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, spans the Canadian sky high overhead in the northern hemisphere summer and into autumn. Dense clouds of stars are obscured in places by winding lanes of dark foreground gas. Many glowing red clouds of hydrogen gas are revealed in long exposure photographs.
The gossamer glow of the Milky Way, which most people never get to see in their lifetimes because of the light pollution thrown into the sky by modern cities, is a thrilling and awe-inspiring sight. But you need to get an hour or more out of the city to be treated to a dark enough sky that will reveal our glorious galaxy.
One of the most distinctive gas clouds is the aptly named "North America Nebula", at bottom left. For a close-up view of this nebula made with a 660 mm telescope 18 days before this image, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/55543977624
For a version of this photo WITH LABELS, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/55578571268
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Technical information:
Sigma 35 mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Fifteen stacked frames; each frame:
35 mm focal length
ISO 4000; 1 minute exposure at f/4.5; unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes registered in RegiStar;
Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance)
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"Well, dinnae jes stand thar, get in thar 'n get 'im!"
"Hm. Well, Cap'n, we got a bit o sub-framin' goin' on."
"A bit'o WOT?"
"Sub-framin. Prince Valiant is framed as a shot within tha shot!"
"Aye, 'e's even focus 'n we ern't."
"I'd say that were Paprika's shoddy camera work! Wot'r ye blatherin' on aboot??"
"If ye ask me, tis a set-up fer a 'eroic scene, 'tis."
"So, it'd be a bit like suicide fer us ta go in after 'im."
"Ohhh, talk aboot knight photography...!"
"I dinnae usually trust plastic castles with purple doors in any case."
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
A series featuring 54mm scale(ish) toy soldiers from Britains, Marx, Elastolin and others.
Elastolin
Prince Valiant
Germany, 1960
Britains Ltd.
Deetail
Knights
1970s
1994 Vauxhall Calibra turbo 4x4.
Last MoT test expired on 8th January 2022 (SORN).
It failed a test on 9th May 2022 -
Offside front outer drive shaft joint constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.1.7 (g) (ii)) - Major
Offside rear coil spring fractured or broken broken (5.3.1 (b) (i)) - Major
Nearside front suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength subframe (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Emissions not tested do to fuel leak (8.2.2.2 (e)) - Major
Fuel system component leaking pipe (6.1.3 (b) (i)) - Major
Photo with kind permission of [https://www.flickr.com/photos/34679063@N04].
My latest attempt at this fantastic object, this time a wider field captured with a Canon 400mm f5.6L lens on a QHY168C cooled CMOS camera. 283 x 180s subframes integrated in PixInsight.
Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand.
Eagle Nebula (M16), Swan Nebula (M17), star cluster M18, Sagitarius star cloud and a lot of other structures. For me a surprising new view of Eagle Nebula: a face in a fascinating expression (left side). Mosaic captured last night (2015-08-16) in Tenerife, 1200 m altitude, 2 x 20 x 150 sec subframes, Sony A7s (CentralDs modded and cooled, ISO 4000, IDAS-V4 filter), RASA 11" F2.2, ASA DDM85 unguided, processed in PixInsight, PtGui and PS CC.
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Photographed 4.5 km north of (13 km by road from) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Ayers Rock), Northern Territory, Australia, between 23.30 and 23.49 CAST (Central Australia Standard Time)
* Observing site: Long. 131.07° E. | Lat. 25.22° S. | Elev. 501 m
* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: ~76°
* Total exposure time: 12 minutes
* 50 mm focal length lens
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Description:
Part of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, runs from the constellation Aquila (The Eagle) at the left side to Sagittarius (the Archer) at right.
Dozens of star clusters, glowing clouds of pink-red ionized hydrogen gas, and foreground dark nebulae are strewn across this area of the sky. The centre of the Milky Way lies out of view to the right side.
The 12th brightest star of in the sky, Altair, is near the left edge of the frame, below centre.
All of what is shown in this image can also be seen from the northern hemisphere, but I wanted to photograph it from south of the equator as well, from which it can be viewed almost straight overhead.
For a version of this photo WITH LABELS, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/49278477912
Here is a photo of the gear that used for astrophotography on this trip:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/49017804808
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Technical information:
Sigma 50 mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART Lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on an iOptron CEM40 equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Twelve stacked subframes - each frame:
ISO 2500; 1 minute exposure at f/4, 50 mm focal length, unguided (with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance)
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Cumulative 3 hour exposure of the Veil Nebula. Subframes were 5 minutes. Taken with Nikon D810a and a Televue NP101.
This is the Sunflower Galaxy in Canes Venatici, nicely high in our skies at the moment and living up to its nickname.
This image is a stack of 31x5minute luminance subframes with added red, green and blue data taking the total image time to just short of four hours over two recent nights.
Taken through my 130mm triplet APO refractor with an Atik 460EX mono CCD.
Peter
This lenticular galaxy are located about 80 million lightyears away in the Hydra constellation, visually near M83. At the top of the frame there is a big star (7.7 Magnitude) that has been masked in order to not pay attention to it, because there are hundreds of tiny galaxies disposed in chains, groups, lines, and patterns around all the field of view. Maybe I will make a bigger effort to get a more beautiful image with a much more expensive optics (and bigger telescope) and from a darker sky, but for me today it's ok from my backyard -suburban skies'- observatory and affortable taiwanese scope.
LRGB 8 hours, GSO RC 30 cms, STF8300-AO/8. 12 min subframes. Poor seeing. Process in basic Photoshop. Comments welcome...
La galaxia lenticular NGC5078 a unos 80 millones de años luz, en la constelación de Hydra, cerca visualmente de M83. Arriba en el borde de la foto hay una estrella enorme (visualmente magnitud 7.7) que ha sido enmascarada para no ponerle atención, ya que hay cientos de pequeñas galaxias distribuidas en cadenas, agrupaciones y linealmente por todo el campo visual. Tal vez en el futuro haré otro esfuerzo mayor con esta fotografía empleando un telescopio mucho más caro y grande y tomándola desde un cielo oscuro, pero para mí está bien por ahora desde mi observatorio casero con cielos sólo suburbanos y usando un telescopio baratito taiwanés.
Exposición LRGB 8 hrs total, 12 minutos subframes, GSO RC 30 cms, cámara STF8300/AO-8.
Seeing pobre. Procesado básico en Photoshop solamente.
Comentarios bienvenidos...
A double portrait using two different smartscopes.
Left: Dwarf 3 | 210 45-second subframes
Right: Seestar S50 | 472 10-second subframes
The planetary nebula NGC2818, another southern target in the Pyxis constellation. This is an Ha L O3 RGB exposure for about 8.5 hrs; Scope GSO RC 30cms, camera Sbig STF8300/AO-8 operating at -35°C. 12 min subframes, from my backyard observatory at La Colonia, Illapel, Chile. This planetary nebula (PLN) doesn't belong to the open cluster (NGC 2818A), but have near the same distance to us.
La nebulosa planetaria denominada NGC2818 en la sureña constelación de Pyxis. No pertenece al cúmulo abierto (NGC 2818 A), sino que está por coincidencia a una distancia y línea de visión similares. Exposición con filtros Ha-L-O3 y RGB, subframes de 12 minutos, telescopio GSO RC de 30cms, cámara Sbig STF8300/AO-8 operando a -35°C, desde mi observatorio casero en La Colonia, Illapel, Chile.
It really took a while before this model was done. Actually I wanted to present it at LEGO World 2013 but didn't manage to get it ready. It was shown at LEGO World 2014 in Copenhagen but afterwards I still had to do some minor changes.
Anyhow; the model. In July 2011 I was visiting the UK for my job and I had the opportunity to do some sightseeing. Just before heading for the UK I saw a couple of pictures of NYR's immaculate Kenworth K100E Aerodyne in "B.J. & the Bear: outfit. A couple of months before they imported one for the States and converted it into a heavy recovery vehicle by fitting a Century Rotator 1140. I took a lot of pictures at their yard (and of course I was very please it was there!). Back home I started to find more details about the K100 and Century Rotator and start building a chassis and cab.
I didn't use chrome before and had to start a collection of chrome pieces. I discovered it's rather expensive and I was hesitating whether I should continue the project or not. Mid 2011 I still had the old Scania 141 with Holmes and when I removed the cab of that one and placed the K100 cab onto the chassis I thought it might be better to start with a smaller truck with some chrome parts. And that's how I start building the K100 with Holmes twin boom; www.flickr.com/photos/51102529@N07/sets/72157631712541786/
But I had to continue with the NYR truck. The other K100 did turn out very well and the Aerodyne would be even better (red, white and black are always good to combine). So I continued early 2013. In a meanwhile Brickonwheels started to build his Pete 379 with Century Rotator 1075; www.flickr.com/photos/bricksonwheels/sets/721576345065103...
From a truck photographer I received some very useful pictures of the century rotator, even a few production pictures. He I really could see all details which enabled me to build quite an exact replica. At a heavy recovery show in Belgium in June 2013 I had a closer look to a few examples of Century Rotators which where there.
The model has a full detailed chassis with drive shafts, air suspension, axle stabilizers, etc. etc. When I was building the chassis I recon it would become long, very long. Without the body should say there wouldn't come an end to the chassis … Nice challenge to get it straight without bending. The cab is tilted with an accurate Cummins 6 cylinder in line engine underneath. This one has some chrome touches. The cab interior differs a bit from the old K100; this one is from a later generation, on of the last produced in 2003.
The body work I had to align with the cab (especially with the striping). As I wouldn't change anything to the design of it (it was perfect) I had to modify the body work quite some times. I think I rebuilt it seven of eight times. The body work consist of one center part at the front and two mirrored sections on each side. These are merged to the chassis with traverse beams. On the truck chassis there's a heavy subframe for the crane. I used a classic turn table to attach the crane base. The crane base also was quite a challenge to build; I wanted to have the shapes correctly. While there aren't any blueprints available of the rotator I really had to study all pictures I took. When building the crane I discovered the truck chassis was a bit too short; I disassembled the chassis and stretched it with three studs. It really was a lot of work but otherwise it wouldn't be right.
The boom has three stages and I chose to use panels, brackets and tiles to make these section. In reality there's a little space between the boom and crane base. The outer section is just less than six studs wide, the middle section four studs and inner section a little more than three studs. I was quite expensive to collect all these pieces but I thought it would fit better.
The truck has three winches; two on top of the crane base and one in the body work.
I spent a lot of time on detailing, like the fuel tanks, air compressor, light bar, support legs, storage cabinets etc. etc.
It's my largest solo vehicle so far, apart from the huge Liebherr cranes I built many years ago. In a time span of two and a half years I spent many hours on it. Mostly it really was fun and exciting to build but sometimes quite frustrating. Patience is the magic word!
Another nice wintertime deep space object to photograph, the Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. It's advertised as 5200 light years from Earth, and the star cluster within it is estimated to be only 5 million years old. It's still just a baby!
TMB 80mm f/6.3 refractor, TV 0.8x field flattener/reducer, ASI533MC Pro, 30 120-second subframes with a dual narrow band filter. Calibrated with darks, flats, etc. Post-processed with DSS and PS.
February 3, 2025, backyard, Tallahassee, Florida. Bortle 7 suburban sky. Seeing was good though transparency was average to poor with high altitude cirrus clouds passing from west to east. Guiding was poor because I was too lazy to do a proper polar alignment.
Many people see religious imagery in clouds, reflections, toast, and rust stains on the side of buildings, among many other things. In that vein, I call this image, "Laughing Jesus." Watch out for the holy spittle! I imagine that He just tricked Satan into pulling His finger.
I recently acquired a Starizona HyperStar for my Celestron C9.25 XLT telescope. The HyperStar replaces the secondary mirror on the SCT. It is a lens system that reduces the C9.25 focal length from 2350mm to 525mm and the focal ratio from f/10 to f/2.2. This effectively converts my narrow-field system into a very fast wide-field imaging setup. Using this accessory I can take high quality images of wide-field objects (comets, nebula, large galaxies) in significantly less time than my wide-field refractors (I have two refractors, an f/7 and an f/4.9).
My plan is to use the HyperStar to image Comets 2025/R2 (SWAN) and 2025/K6 (Lemmon) once they are at a "reasonable" elevation here in the SF Bay Area.
To prepare, I used Andromeda for my first light target to get some practice with the HyperStar. The image above is the result of 45 x 1-minute subs - 45 minutes! This detailed of an image would require 3-4 times the integration time using one of my refractors.
I am looking forward to trying the HyperStar to image one or both of the comets now in our vicinity. I am not making any promises, but I hope to post an image of at least one of the two comets within the next 2-3 weeks.
Date: October 18, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 45 x 1-minute subframes, OSC
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Accessory: Starizona HyperStar C9.25-v4 lens
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC
Antlia Triband RGB Ultra, 2"
Mount: iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture
Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats
Processed with PixInsight, Photoshop
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for December 24, 2013;
This image of SH 2-308 was taken in my backyard inTehachapi, Ca., during a cold snap (13 degrees). Details: Televue NP127is at f4.1; Atik 383L+ at -18 deg C; Orion EQ-G mount;TS OAG; Astrodon 3nm filters: Ha(G)(15x20min),SII(R)(3x20min),OIII(B)(18x20min). Because this 'dolphin' or 'gourd' is so strong in OIII, I mixed approximately 15% OIII into the red channel along with 85% SII. To obtain the final colors, I tweaked the color bandwidths and hues of this image using PSE9 [replace color] in an attempt to achieve a pleasing look. I also used AIPWIN to apply Sigmoid Brightness Scaling on each subframe before stacking.
Using my 150 ED apo triplet and 1000D with UHC filter I captured 4 subframes at 25 minutes apiece,stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop,colour balanced to bring out the Hubble palette.
EQ 6 powered using EQMOD and autoguided using 60mm Tasco refractor,SX Lodestar and PHD2.
Image taken early hours of 27/12/16
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, between 22.17 and 22.30 EDT
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
* Temperature 12° C.
* Total exposure time: 6 minutes.
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Description:
One of the brightest sections in our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is in the small constellation Scutum (the Shield), which appears in the southern sky half way from the horizon to the zenith as seen from southern Canada and the northern United States.
In this area appear many foreground cold, dark nebulae, which obscure the light of the stars beyond. These dark regions were photographed and catalogued by the great American astronomer E. E. Barnard (1857 - 1923) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Emerson_Barnard), and bear the designation "B", numbered from 1 to 370.
Below centre in this view is a favourite target of amateur astronomers with modest telescopes: M11, the "Wild Duck Cluster". This is a rich open cluster of stars that looks like a duck in flight. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Duck_Cluster for more information about M11.
For a wider angle view of the entire constellation and the surrounding area, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/28583103700
For a version of this photo WITH labels, click on the RIGHT side of your screen, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/31295105435
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Technical information:
Nikon D810a camera body on Teleview 101is apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Six stacked frames; each frame:
540 mm focal length
ISO 4000; 1 minute exposure at f/5.4; unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes registered in RegiStar;
Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (levels, brightness, contrast, colour balance)
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1997 Jaguar XK8 4 Litre auto.
Previously registered J20 AKS, JR 7237, J853 GGP, VOT 92 and P804 UAV.
Last MoT test expired in November 2015 (SORN).
It failed a test that month -
Nearside rear subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded outer sill area (2.4.a.3)
Offside rear subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded outer sill area (2.4.a.3)
Nearside brake pipe excessively corroded front to rear (3.6.b.2c)
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
between 00.14 and 00.34 EDT
* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: ~68°
* Temperature 2° C.
* Total exposure time: 10 minutes
* 660 mm focal length telescope
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Description:
Eight open star clusters are shown in this image of a star-rich region of the constellation Cassiopeia.
Our Milky Way galaxy contains some 1,100 open clusters of stars, which are loosely bound together gravitationally. Because of this loose nature, these cluster drift apart over time until they are unrecognizable as star clusters . Most of them are therefore only a few dozens of millions of years old.
An exception is the faint reddish cluster IC 166 in the extreme upper left of this image. It is estimated to be about a billion years old, and is still recognizable as a cluster because it is located outside any of the heavily populated arms of the milky Way. Thus the gravitational effect of other stars is minimal, and the cluster has survived for a long time.
For a version of this photo WITH LABELS and more information about the clusters in this image, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/52399315319
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Technical information:
Nikon D810a camera body on Tele Vue 127is (127 mm - 5" - diameter) apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount
Ten stacked subframes; each frame:
ISO 5000; 1 minute exposure at f/8
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (levels, colour saturation)
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Messier 44 - The Beehive Cluster (or also called the Praesepe) is a open cluster that lies in the constellation Cancer, the location of this open cluster also creates a great many photo opportunities as it is located close to the ecliptic (the line that planets, the sun and moon follow across the sky) thus creating many different conjunctions.
Learn more here: www.leisurelyscientist.com/?p=1573
This wide-field image was taken on February 28, 2016 using my Canon 6D, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM and an iOptron ZEQ25 mount. Total exposure time was 30 minutes using 60-second subframes @ ISO 3200, the lens was set at f/6.3 adding some light star spikes to the image. The image was stacked using DeepSkyStacker, stretched with ImagesPlus and edited in Corel PaintShop Pro X5 and Adobe Lightroom.
150 ED Apo triplet f7 and Atik 314L with motorised filterwheel.
8 subframes at 7 minutes apiece captured in Ha and again in OIII,stacked in Deepskystacker and colour comined (Ha,OIII,OIII) in Maxim DL4,finished in Photoshop. Image taken early hours of 1/12/16
Astro-Tech 6" f/9 RC, ASI533MC Pro, iOptron HAE29 mount. Forty 90 second subframes. Dual narrow band filter. Calibrated with dark, flat, and bias frames. FOV about 32’ x 32’. The "head" of the seagull.
February 25, 2025, backyard, Tallahassee, Florida. Bortle 7 suburban sky. Seeing was poor. Guiding was fair (total error was around 1 arcsec on average) since I did a reasonably good polar alignment. Siril, PS, StarNet. I need to work on my stars, among other things.
This isn't deja vue with my last posting. That was Phase 1, this is the completion of Phase 2 in building my Rosette image this time round. The previous posting was a stack of 15 seven-minute subframes in H Alpha. This image is a stack of 36 seven-minute subframes in H Alpha and marks the completion of this narrowband capture that will form one element (albeit the most important) of the final image in due course.
Main differences with the previous image are more detail in the fainter features and a more subtle difference between the light and dark areas.
Peter
Equipment used: Atik 460EX mono CCD, 0.75 reducer, 130mm triplet APO, autoguided with a Lodestar CCD and telescope on an EQ8 mount.
1997 Citroen XM TurboD VSX auto estate.
Last SORN declaration expired in December 2018 and last MoT test expired in April 2015.
It failed a test in May 2015 (when it had covered 218,806 miles) -
Nearside windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (8.2.3)
Offside windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (8.2.3)
Battery insecure (1.9.1)
Nearside front subframe mounting prescribed area is severely distorted (2.4.a.3)
Offside front subframe mounting prescribed area is severely distorted (2.4.a.3)
Nearside rear suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)
Offside rear suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)
Nearside rear fluid suspension unit interconnecting pipe corroded and seriously weakened (2.4.d.3)
Front fluid suspension leaking (2.4.d.2)
Nearside front anti-roll bar linkage has excessive play in a ball joint (2.4.g.2)
Nearside track rod end ball joint has excessive play (2.2.b.1f)
Nearside rear tyre has a lump, caused by separation or partial failure of its structure (4.1.d.1b)
Parking brake is not capable of being maintained in operation by direct mechanical action only (3.1.2)
My new winter project. A 1979 Mini 850. Its had rebuilt subframes and a reconditioned engine so drives really nice. I'm intending on a full respray fairly soon but still deciding on a colour!
1996 Rover 114 SLi 5-door.
Supplied by Seletar Garage of Mundford (Rover).
Last MoT test expired in July 2016.
It failed a test in September 2016 -
Offside rear subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded sill (2.4.a.3)
Nearside rear subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded sill (2.4.a.3)
Nearside windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2)
(c) Alwyn Greer 2025
09 August 2025
Vienna street photography. 09 August 2025
Café Schwarzenberg is a cool place to hang out and watch people passing by. On this day it was hot so we came inside and the window provided a good frame to use.
A quick image of Messier 27, before exam season begins. Taken during nautical twilight since it doesn't properly get dark here in the UK now until August.
Details:
Skywatcher 200PDS
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Canon EOS 700D
59 x 30s ISO800 subframes, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in IRIS and GIMP.
Used my 6" f7 apo triplet and DSLR with UHC filter to capture 5 subframes at 15 minutes each. Stacked and darkframe (7) calibrated in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop.
Image taken early hours 6/11/16
This is a small part of the Rho Ophiuci complex, a nice zone of the sky toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Within the image you could see dark nebula, dust clouds, star-forming regions and part of the reflection nebula IC 4603 (blue, to the left). Nefertiti's head or a dark angel, whatever you think of the silouette, has also interesting views rotating the image. TEC 140 refractor scope, camera Sbig STF8300-AO/8, 7.5 hours in LRGB exposure, 12 min subframes, from my backyard obs at La Colonia, Illapel, Chile.
Esta imagen es una pequeña parte del complejo nebular cercano a la estrella Rho Ophiuci,hacia el centro de nuestra galaxia la Vía Láctea. En ella se pueden ver nebulosas oscuras, nubes de polvo interestelar, regiones de formación estelar, y parte de la nebulosa de reflección azul IC 4603 a la izquierda. La cabeza de Nefertiti, o un ángel negro, o lo que Ud. vea en la silueta, ofrece también vistas interesantes al rotar la imagen. Telescopio refractor TEC 140, cámara Sbig STF8300-AO/8, 7.5 horas acumuladas en LRGB, subframes de 12 minutos, desde mi observatorio casero en La Colonia, Illapel, Chile. Saludos y comentarios bienvenidos...
Photo taken in 1987. Image is a scan off of a 3-1/2” x 5” print.
Note the leading arm front suspension, the cast alloy I-beam subframe, the Villiers 2-stroke engine and the blue livery. These were common features on most Greeves (GB) motorcycles.
The great nebula in Orion captured on 1-29-2017 from the General Nathan Twinning Observatory (GNTO) in Belen, New Mexico using an AT65 apo refractor, an SBIG ST4000XCM camera and a Losmandy G11 mount. Exposures were:
15 x 10"
15 x 1'
12 x 10'
Subframes were combined and processed using Pixinsight. Final tweaks made using Photoshop CS2.