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British Museum, London. British Museum, London. 3 of 4 in my first series shot as such..."Pillar To Past"

Manufacturer: Auto Union AG, Zwickau - Germany

Type: Meisterklasse F5-700 Cabrio-Limousine

Engine: 692cc 2 cylinder 2-stroke

Power: 30 bhp

Speed: 85 km/h

Production time: 1935 - 1936

Production outlet: 16,154

Curb weight: 840 kg

 

Special:

- The DKW F-Series (F= Frontantrieb / front-wheel drive) is divided into 5 classes: Reichsklasse, Meisterklasse, Front Zweisitzer, Front Luxus Cabriolet and Front Luxus Sport.

- A subframe (produced at the DKW-factory at Zwickau) was mounted on a central box frame, covered with artificial leather (produced at the AUDI-factory at Berlin-Spandau).

- Three speed gearbox.

 

Addet to the gallery www.flickr.com/photos/75141663@N05/galleries/721576331417...

  

Added to the gallery www.flickr.com/photos/stevepoe/galleries/72157637866264836

It's got da stance. Had to replace the rear axle with bendy hose and remove the rear subframe to do it, but I figure that leaves this with as much structural integrity as a real stanced car.

For those who have met Nic and seen his previous 240 in person, you'll know that it was way different from all of the other cars out there in the scene today. It wasn't perfect but there was just something totally raw about it that everyone loved. Not to mention the fact that he was extremely low...and static. His new 240 coupe isnt any different. It still had the same raw feel that most cars fail to have. As I sat in the passenger seat, you could feel and hear the scraping of his subframe as we cruised around town looking for a shooting spot. As the car scraped we both would gasp from the harsh metal sound but at the same time couldn't help but to laugh at how crazy it was. It was just a fun car to be in. Nic himself is an awesome kid and I believe everyone should get a chance to meet him. He is on a whole other level and we definitely need more kids like him around the "scene".

 

For this shoot, I decided to try out something different. Instead of just shooting a car rigged up or parked in front of something cool with blasts of strobes, I wanted to include the driver and his local town to create a "real image" and tell a story. I used only natural lighting to get a "real" feel to it.

 

Nic sparking it up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUw4zJjg8fQ

1998 BMW 318is coupe.

 

Supplied by Stephen James (BMW).

Scrapped on 17th September 2022 (last MoT test expired on 15th September 2022).

It failed a test on 30th August 2022 -

 

Nearside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

Windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid (3.5 (a)) - Major

Offside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

between 00.32 and 00.52 EDT

* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: 44°, increasing to 47°

* Temperature 9° C.

 

* Total exposure time: 10 minutes

* 1253 mm focal length telescope

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Description:

 

The constellation Auriga is festooned with open star clusters, three of which (M36, M37 and M38) are listed in Charles Messier's catalogue of non-stellar objects, commonly known as the Messier List.

 

In the centre of this image is the bright and large cluster M38, which was discovered in 1654, lies about 3,480 light years from our solar system, and is estimated to be about 250 million years old. It is quite bright, at magnitude 7.4, and is a very pretty sight in even a small telescope.

 

Below M38, near the bottom edge of the frame and just a little right of centre, is the smaller cluster NGC 1907, which is further away (4,500 light years), fainter (magnitude 8.2) and older (~500 million years) than M82.

 

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@N06/52472161224

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Technical information:

 

Nikon D810A camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount

 

Ten stacked subframes; each frame:

ISO 6400; 1 minute exposure at f/8

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

 

Subframes stacked in RegiStar;

Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, colour balance & saturation, sharpening)

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IC434 in Orion constellation . Taken from my backyard at Tiny Twp. Canada with Askar 185APO refractor and ASI533MC OSC camera . Poor data from one session stack of 30 subs 120 sec each . No H@ added yet . Thanks for looking .I hope next year I'll collect more subframes data. Thanks for looking .

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

* Temperature 11 degrees C.

 

* Total exposure time: 10 minutes.

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Description:

 

The centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, lies in the constellation Sagittarius, which in the northern hemisphere summer lies low in the south at midnight.

 

In this view appear many favourite targets of amateur astronomers with modest telescopes, including the large glowing Lagoon Nebula at the right side.

 

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@N06/27443670463

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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 equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head

 

Ten stacked frames; each frame:

140 mm focal length

ISO 5000; 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, colour desaturation)

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A shock find on streetview. While prepping for a spotting trip, I thought I'd have a look in a random newbuild estate, just because the streetview had been done pretty recently. To my surprise, this pre-facelift Ulysse was sitting, so I went to go and see it the next day.

 

Long term ownership and off the road since last year, after failing it's MOT on the dreaded Front Subframe. I'd say it's the end of the road for this rare MPV, but kudos to the owners for keeping it about.

 

P797 FJA

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

* Altitude of M22 at time of exposures: 15°, decreasing to 14°

* Altitude of M13 at time of exposures: 37°, decreasing to 34°

Temperature 13° C.

 

* Total exposure time: 6 minutes for M22

* Total exposure time: 7 minutes for M13

* 1200 mm focal length telescope

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Description:

 

These are two of the largest and brightest globular star clusters visible from the northern hemisphere. M22 in the constellation Sagittarius is brighter and larger than M13 in Hercules, at least as seen from our solar system (it is actually smaller than M13, but M13 is almost 2.5 times as far away from us and has four times as many stars as M22). But because M22 is so far south in the sky, and is in an area that is strewn with other magnificent clusters and bright nebulae, it does not receive nearly the attention that the more northerly, but smaller and fainter, M13 does.

 

Globular star clusters are dense mainly spherical agglomerations of stars that are gravitationally bound together. They are found in the halos of the galaxies in which they are located, and are among the most ancient structures in the 13.8-billion-year-old universe.

 

In this view these two star clusters are shown to exactly the same scale. The subframes comprising each of the final images were made on the same evening, within an hour of each other.

 

Because M22 was extremely low in the sky when I captured the exposures that make up this image, atmospheric turbulence made the stars images move around a lot and turned the stars into small blobs rather than the more pinpoint star images in M13, which was much higher is the sky.

 

About M22, from Wikipedia:

"Messier 22 ... is an elliptical globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius, near the Galactic bulge region. It is one of the brightest globulars that is visible in the night sky.

 

M22 was one of the first globulars to be discovered, on August 26, 1665 by Abraham Ihle and it was included in Charles Messier's catalog of comet-like objects on June 5, 1764. It was one of the first globular clusters to be carefully studied first by Harlow Shapley in 1930. He discovered roughly 70,000 stars and found it had a dense core.

 

M22 is one of the nearer globular clusters to Earth at a distance of about 10,600 light-years away. It spans ... 99 ± 9 light-years [in diameter]. 32 variable stars have been recorded in M22.

 

Despite its relative proximity to us, this metal-poor cluster's light is limited by dust extinction, giving it an apparent magnitude of 5.5 making it the brightest globular cluster visible from mid-northern latitudes ... However, due to its southerly declination, M22 never rises high in the sky and so appears less impressive to northern hemisphere observers than other summer sky globulars such as M13 and M5.."

 

About M13, from Wikipedia:

Messier 13 ..., sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules ..., is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules. ... M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

 

M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter, and ... is 25,100 light-years away from Earth.

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Nikon D810a camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head

 

Multiple stacked subframes; each frame:

ISO 3200 for M22, and ISO 2500 for M13; 1 minute exposure at f/8

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

 

Subframes stacked in RegiStar;

Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance, sharpening)

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Castillo de San Marcos, St Augustine, Florida

Here it is guys! My entry into McLaren's design competition.

 

Performance

• Acceleration: 0-100 km/h in 2.0

• Top Speed: (electronically limited): 350km/h

• Braking: 97-0 in 2.5 seconds (in 30 meters).

• Fuel Consumption: 8.3L/100km/h

 

Design

Drivetrain:

• 5 liter counter-rotating flatplane twin crank V8

• Variable ratio twin screw supercharger

• 6-speed triple clutch gearbox with KERS and hybrid 500kW electric motor

 

Chassis:

• Carbon cockpit tub with titanium rollover frame

• Titanium trellis front subframe with inboard suspension

• Rear suspension mounted directly to engine and gearbox

• Forged magnesium wheels and airless tires with internal aluminium skeleton

 

Computer:

• 1.2 Billion bit solid state optical processor with braided carbon nanotube optical paths

• Honeycomb aluminium nitrogen cooling cell in center of bonnet

 

Specs credit goes to my good friend Kieran.

 

Let me know what you think!

Manufacturer: Carossiers Hermann Graber, Whichtrack (near Bern) - Switzerland

Type: W153 Graber Kabriolett

Engine: 2289cc straight-6

Power: 55 bhp / 3600 rpm

Speed: 116 km/h

Production time: 1939

Production outlet: 1 (one)

Curb weight: 1350 kg

 

Special:

- This two door, four seat convertible is special made on a MB W153 rolling chassis with a x-shaped oval tube subframe.

- Graber always called his convertibles "Kabriolett".

- The straight-6 had two twin chamber Solex 30 JFFK carburettors and a four speed manual transmission.

- Graber was very famous at that time. They also built convertibles for Bugatti, Rolls-Royce, Bentley and even for Duesenberg.

- Bodywork Builder Park Ward (England) built Graber bodies under license.

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 spectral shadowy figure is in fact the Cone Nebula that sits atop the Christmas tree nebula when viewed upside down. It looks more like a figure peering at the stars in the distance than a dark region where new stars have cleared pathways as they form.

 

This is a stack of ten ten-minute subframes in H Alpha.

 

Peter

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

* Temperature 11 degrees C.

 

* Total exposure time: 12 minutes.

 

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@N06/28023003682

 

Here is a photo of the equipment used to make these astrophotos:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/27777670520

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Description:

 

High overhead in the northern hemisphere summer sky the Milky Way - our home galaxy - displays many clouds of red hydrogen gas and numerous star clusters.

 

An especially rich area surrounds the star Sadr - also known as Gamma Cygni - in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan).

 

The star Deneb: At the left edge of the frame is brilliant Deneb, the 19th brightest star in the sky. Deneb is so enormous that, if we were to view it from Earth's distance to our Sun, Deneb would stretch 60° across the sky! Deneb is also one of the most intrinsically luminous stars known; its light output is 200,000 times that of our Sun. It is also very far away; current estimates are about 2,500 light years; this compares with a few light years to a few dozen light years for most of the other bright stars that we can see in our sky.

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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 equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head

 

Twelve stacked frames; each frame:

200 mm focal length

ISO 5000; 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, colour desaturation)

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Merviller, France

Der Bahnhof in dem kleinen Dorf hat keine Gleise mehr, die Schule keine Schüler und viele Häuser stehen leer.

I like how the nebulosity emerged with both emission and hints of reflective nebulae. But I’ll need to figure out how to manage “bloated” stars.

 

TMB 80mm f/6.3 refractor, TV 0.8x field flattener/reducer, ASI533MC Pro, 20 60-second subframes with a dual narrow band filter and 20 90-second subframes without filter. Calibrated with darks, flats, etc. Post-processed with DSS and PS.

 

January 24, 2025; Backyard, Tallahassee, Florida. Bortle 7 sky. Waves of cirrus moved in during imaging making what would otherwise be good seeing variable. Guiding total error was about 2 arcsec. I’ve been using the ST-4 port to connect the guider. I’ll try using the ASCOM driver next time. I also used NINA’s sequencer and it worked fine. I had a few glitches due to “operator error” which should resolve with experience. NINA is an impressive program but has a bit of a learning curve. That’s what makes this hobby so much fun, all the learning curves. It’s hard to get complacent because there are always new challenges.

This is the current state of an ongoing experiment comparing the use of an uncooled colour planetary camera against a deep sky colour camera. Both have CMOS sensors. The deep sky images are on the same scale as the planetary camera image but I have cropped their area down by about half.

 

Progress so far suggests that on the right settings the planetary camera can produce a nice close-up of the Ring nebula that with longer total exposure times and the right individual subframe times could be as (or even more) detailed than the wider field views with the cooled deep sky camera.

 

Peter

Used my 6" f7 apo triplet refactor and 1000D dslr with light pollution filter to capture 10 subframes at 3 minutes each. Stacked in Nebulosity 4 and processed in Photoshop.

Image taken early hours of 23/10/16

Rationalisation at NCS HQ yielded the Modular MQB platform (Modular, Quick-change, Basic) with a common body mated to a wide range of powertrain subframes.

 

Here we have an MQB body mated to a Sondo-Reata-Nautics Hovercraft platform kit.

 

(Apologies for the polygons - Blender doesn't like doing those corner pipes in rubber for some reason)

This is a colour image of the Monkey Head nebula, using H Alpha data as luminance and red with added green and blue data. For anyone struggling to see the monkey's head, the whole bright area makes a monkey's head in profile looking to the left in this image.

 

This is a stack of sixteen eight-minute H Alpha subframes, ten three-minute Green subframes and eleven three-minute blue subframes taken through my 130mm triplet APO on 19 January 2016.

 

Peter

Mini City Mark IV (1976-83) Engine 998cc S4 Tr Production (all Marks) 5,387,862

Registration Number AGS 885 S (Luton)

MINI (BL) ALBUM

 

www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/sets/72157623797597842...

 

The Mark IV was introduced in 1976, featuring front rubber mounted subframe with single tower bolts and the rear frame had some larger bushes introduced. Twin stalk indicators were introduced with larger foot pedals. From 1977 onwards, the rear indicator lamps had the reverse lights incorporated in them. In 1980, the engine was uprated to the improved A-Plus unit from the Metro. This was then followed by a number of later incremental developments:Tha Mark IV was available with 998cc, 1098cc and 1275cc engines though this one is listed as having a much earlier 848cc unit.

 

Diolch am 81,092,502 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.

 

Thanks for 81,092,502 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.

 

Shot 30.05.2021. at Capesthorne Hall car show, Siddington Cheshire 145-270

   

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

between 00.51 and 01.26 EDT

* Altitude of the nebula at time of exposures: 35°, increasing to 41°

* Temperature 13° C.

 

* Total exposure time: 15 minutes

* 1200 mm focal length telescope

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Description:

This is a combination emission / reflection gas cloud, about 5 light years in diameter and lying 1,500 light years distant from our solar system.

 

The bright star that is embedded in the nebula is a "runaway star", the 6.0-magnitude irregular variable star AE Aurigae, which is known as the "Flaming Star". For more about this star, click here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AE_Aurigae

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Nikon D810a camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head

 

Fourteen stacked subframes; each frame:

ISO 8000; 1 minute exposure at f/8

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

 

Subframes stacked in RegiStar;

Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance, sharpening, partial blurring of graininess in image)

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Orion L stacked.reg_9_cropped

 

2 subframes each LRGB - all 5 minutes binned 1x1 +

3 x 30 second RGB frames for Trapezium & star colours.

 

Pelican nebula processed using the LRGB method for DSLRs.

 

More dust and faint nebula are revealed at the same time the noise is controlled. If only the subframes were at lower temperature, they were taken at 32ºC!

Skywatcher 72ED apo with field flattener,SX Trius 694/filterwheel/OAG (Lodestar) riding on CEM60.

Six 10 minute subframes captured through Ha and OIII filters,stacked in Deepskystacker and colour combined (Ha,OIII,OIII) in Maxim DL4. Processed in Astroart 8 and PS CS2.

Taken 31/10/21

NGC 1999 is the reflection nebula at centre right and it is just south of the Orion nebula which is off the right hand edge

of the frame.

This is an integration of 18 hours total exposure shot in multiple 180s and 240s subframes on a QHY168C camera. The scope was a WO Zenithstar 103. Image capture was managed with SGP and PHD2, post-processing was done in PixInsight.

Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand

 

Rationalisation at NCS HQ yielded the Modular MQB platform (Modular, Quick-change, Basic) with a common body mated to a wide range of powertrain subframes.

 

Here we have an MQB body mated to Boston Dynamics 4x4 'Iron Horse' Walking platform.

This is a close look in Hydrogen Alpha at the central part of Sharpless 2-112, a nebulous region in Cygnus.

 

This image is a stack of fifteen five-minute subframes taken through my 12inch f/10 SCT.

 

Peter

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

* Temperature 11° C.

 

* Total exposure time: 8 minutes.

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Description:

 

The familiar "W" shape of the bright stars in the constellation Cassiopeia rides high in the northern hemisphere autumn and winter sky, with our home galaxy, the Milky Way, running through it and down into the constellation Perseus.

 

Many large and bright nebulae (hydrogen gas clouds) appear in this area of the sky, along with numerous gravitationally bound open clusters of stars.

 

Above centre are the bright red hydrogen gas clouds known as the "Heart" and "Soul' Nebulae. For a close-up view of the Heart Nebula made with a 540 mm focal length telescope on the same evening, click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/31079231531

 

For a version of this photo WITH labels, click on the right side of your screen, or click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/30406597543

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Technical information:

 

Sigma 50 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

 

Eight stacked frames; each frame:

50 mm focal length

ISO 2500; 1 minute exposure at f/4; unguided

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

 

Subframes registered in RegiStar;

Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance, colour desaturation)

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Reflection og turist boat

I took an image of the Heart Nebula back in the autumn of 2013. While working on that image I was struck by the beauty of IC 1795, the appendage protruding from the "point" of the heart. At that time I acquired a few Ha subframes of IC 1795, but didn't get enough for an image. It's been on my unfinished business list since then.

 

This year while I was tuning the 16" I thought I'd use some of the time I was testing tracking accuracy to try to check IC 1795 off my todo list. This is the result.

 

The Heart Nebula itself is IC 1805/SH2 190. The gorgeous center of this nebula is a complex structure that I interpret as being a typical dust pillar, but seen from above rather than the side. If this is the case, then Melotte 15, the star cluster powering this entire complex, must be in front of the central pillar complex. Perhaps the Heart Nebula isn't so heart-shaped at all. It's a more typical hollow cavity, with an incredibly dense pillar on its far inner wall.

 

There is a considerable amount of oxygen and sulfur in this nebula. This indicates that it is older and much more evolved than most starbirth regions where these elements are much more rare. This is supported by the relative sparseness of Melotte 15. Perhaps many of its original members have been gravitationally ejected from the system and have entered the general population of the galaxy.

 

Sometimes when I take an image, I ultimately end up rather unimpressed by the result. Not too many people see those results. This one, though... I'm really pleased with this one. This goes into my picture book, and maybe even on my wall :)

 

This is 28x900Ha, 12x900OIII, and 13x900SII for a total of 13,25 hours of imaging on the Twin City Amateur Astronomers - TCAA.16" AG Optical Systems imaging Harmer-Wynne.

1997 Citroen Xantia 2.1 TurboD VSX.

 

Scrapped.

Last MoT test expired in October 2019.

It failed a test that month -

 

Offside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

Offside front anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.3.4 (b) (ii)) - Major

1999 Ford Fiesta Finesse 3-door.

 

1299cc.

Scrapped (last MoT test expired in March 2020).

It failed a test in April 2020 -

 

Offside front suspension arm ball joint likely to become detached (5.3.4 (a) (ii)) - Dangerous

Nearside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

Offside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively damaged significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

Nearside front anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.3.4 (b) (ii)) - Major

Offside front anti-roll bar ball joint dust cover no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (5.3.4 (b) (ii)) - Major

Nearside front integral body structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced floor (6.1.1 (c) (i)) - Major

Offside front integral body structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced floor (6.1.1 (c) (i)) - Major

This image is mainly in Hydrogen Alpha, mixed with some green subframes to create a colour image and bring out detail in this faint nebula. It is the sharpest I have managed with my largest telescope following a much needed collimation session. It consists mainly of seventeen five-minute subframes in H Alpha taken through my 12inch SCT, lightly cropped to allow the image to be centred.

 

Peter

 

Watch out! Fire truck in a hurry to help!

 

I present to you my version of the fire truck of the 60s. Its distinguishing feature is a nice design, detail, a fairly simple but intricate design and rich functionality.

 

The machine is equipped with everything necessary, there is a water monitor, hoses, ladder, tool holders, boxes. There are two taps for water supply.

 

In detail even the bottom, deploying the machine you will notice the imitation of the subframe and the drive system.

 

Inside you can place a minifigure.

 

The fire engine blends well with the modular building 10197 and fits in the garage.

 

Assembled from 322 existing parts.

Shot with an STC duo-narrowband filter on a QHY168C OSC camera, this is an integration of 240 x 5 minute subframes. The scope was a WO Zenithstar 103 mounted on a Skywatcher EQ6R Pro. Image capture was managed via SGP and PHD2, all post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.

Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand

1999 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Club 4-door.

 

Last MoT test expired in December 2021 (SORN).

It failed a test in November 2021 -

 

Nearside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

Offside rear subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major

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