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1978 Lancia Beta 1600 coupe.
Last MoT test expired in September 2008 (SORN, now MoT exempt).
It failed a test spectacularly in September 2019 -
Stop lamp(s) all not working (4.3.1 (a) (iii)) - Dangerous
Parking brake efficiency less than 50% of the required value (1.4.2 (a) (ii)) - Dangerous
Offside headlamp not working on dipped beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Offside front direction indicator not working (4.4.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Offside front position lamp adversely affected by the operation of another lamp affected when indicator switched on (4.2.3 (c)) - Major
Horn not working (7.7 (a) (ii)) - Major
Nearside rear position lamp not working (4.2.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Offside rear position lamp adversely affected by the operation of another lamp affected by the indicator (4.2.3 (c)) - Major
Nearside rear direction indicator light intensity significantly reduced (4.4.3 (a)) - Major
Offside rear direction indicator light intensity significantly reduced (4.4.3 (a)) - Major
Windscreen wiper not working (3.4 (a)) - Major
Windscreen washer not working (3.5 (a)) - Major
Nearside steering rack gaiter missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.1.3 (g) (ii)) - Major
Offside steering rack gaiter missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.1.3 (g) (ii)) - Major
Offside front integral body structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced inner sill (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 pan not attached to sill (6.1.1 (c) (i)) - Major
Offside rear integral body structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced inner sill (6.1.1 (c) (i)) - Major
Nearside front integral body structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced inner sill (6.1.1 (c) (i)) - Major
Nearside rear integral body structure corroded to the extent that the rigidity of the assembly is significantly reduced inner sill (6.1.1 (c) (i)) - Major
Offside front suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength forward subframe mounting in front cross member (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Offside front suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength rearward subframe mounting (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Front registration plate missing (0.1 (a)) - Major
Nearside front upper suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength shock mount (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Offside front upper suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively damaged significantly reducing structural strength shock mount (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Nearside front service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f)) - Major
Emissions not tested due to overheating (8.2.1.2 (d)) - Major
With a nice SEAT Ibiza parked behind and that Carina E estate again.
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
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
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
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I'VE FINALLY GOTTEN AROUND TO PROCESSING THIS IMAGE!
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Photographed 40 km south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, between 04.27 and 04.35 CAST (Central Australia Standard Time)
* Observing site: Long. 133.69° E. | Lat. 23.98° S. | Elev. 612m
* Altitude of centre of frame at time of exposures: ~21°
* Total exposure time: 7 minutes
* 200 mm focal length lens
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Description:
NOTE: This is a wider angle view of much higher magnification image of the Eta Carina Nebula made with a 660 mm focal length telescope 8 nights earlier near Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Ayers Rock), which you can see here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/49141569982
One of the most intriguing hydrogen gas clouds in the entire sky is this giant object in the far southern constellation Carina (the Keel). This nebula and the associated star clusters are located only 13 degrees from the centre of the Southern Cross, which is the well-known star pattern in the constellation Crux (the Cross).
The hydrogen gas in this nebula is excited into an ionized state by the nearby star Eta Carinae, which lies at a distance of 7,500 light years from our solar system. Eta Carinae is one of the most massive, luminous stars known, with a brightness more than 5 million times that of our own Sun.
Eta is a cataclysmic variable star, which has brightened and faded remarkably over the last two centuries. In 1843 Eta briefly became the second brightest star of the sky, before fading well below naked eye visibility after 1856. In recent decades Eta has brightened noticeably, so that now it can be seen easily from a moderately dark sky location, at magnitude 4.2. For more information about this star, click here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
This nebula is a nursery of new star formation, which accounts for the many embedded open clusters of stars that are shown in this image. One of them (Trumpler 14), which is the small cluster just slightly to right of and above centre in this view, is extremely young; only half a million years old. It contains about 2,000 stars, and is ~6 light years in diameter.
Apart from the prominent nebula, this region of the Milky Way is strewn with open star clusters that are cosmologically very young, and typically consist of bluish (hot) stars.
For a version of this image with labels and showing constellation boundaries, click on the RIGHT side of your screen, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/54779207955
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:
Nikkor AF-S 70-200 mm f/2.8 G ED VRII lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on iOptron CEM40 equatorial mount
Seven stacked frames; each frame:
200 mm focal length
ISO 5000; 1 minute exposure at f/4.5; unguided
Subframes registered in RegiStar;
Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance, colour desaturation)
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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.
Merviller, France
Der Bahnhof in dem kleinen Dorf hat keine Gleise mehr, die Schule keine Schüler und viele Häuser stehen leer.
A late model Coupe which is the non-turbo model registered on the final day of 1999.
Fun fact about this car, it has failed every single MOT since 2006, or at least that far that records are kept online. Usual wear and tear items it must be said. The last MOT required front subframe welding to pass. But manages to still secure loving faithfull ownership, and now has over 140,000 miles on the clock. I really like these, definite future classic.
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
between 23.30 and 23.50 EDT
* Total exposure time: 10 minutes
* 660 mm focal length telescope
* Field of view: ~2.8° wide x 1.7° high
* Altitude of galaxy at time of exposures: 22.5°, declining to 20.4°
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Description:
This was my first attempt at photographing this magnitude 8.8 galaxy, which is famous in the history of astronomy, as you will see from reading the description below:
From Wikipedia:
"NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard's Galaxy, IC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884, with a six-inch refractor telescope. It is the closest non-satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, but lies just outside its virial radius. It is similar in structure and composition to the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is about 7,000 light-years in diameter.
Edwin Hubble, in the paper N.G.C. 6822, A Remote Stellar System, identified 15 variable stars (11 of which were Cepheids) of this galaxy. ... Hubble's detection of eleven Cepheid variable stars was a milestone in astronomy. Utilizing the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relationship, Hubble determined a distance of 214 kiloparsecs or 698,000 light-years. This was the first system beyond the Magellanic Clouds to have its distance determined. (Hubble continued this process with the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy). This distance to the galaxy was way beyond Harlow Shapley's value of 300,000 light-years for the size of the universe. In the paper, Hubble concluded the "Great Debate" of 1920 between Heber Curtis and Shapley over the scale of the universe and the nature of the "spiral nebula". It soon became evident that all spiral nebulae were in fact spiral galaxies far outside our own Milky Way."
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Technical information:
Nikon D810a camera body on Tele Vue 127is (127 mm - 5" - diameter) apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R PRO SynScan mount
Ten stacked subframes - each frame:
660 mm focal length
ISO 3200; 1 minute exposure at f/5.2, unguided, with long exposure noise reduction
Stacked in RegiStar 1.0.10
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, colour balance)
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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.
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
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
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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
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
As a kid I read the book and saw the movie of the Day of the Triffids. Could be where those alien creatures were from although the spelling differs slightly.
Seestar S50
329 ten-second subframes.
1994 SAAB 900 S convertible.
Registered in August 1996.
Last MoT test expired in August 2020 (SORN).
It failed a test on 22nd April 2021 -
Offside front headlamp aim too low (4.1.2 (a)) - Major
Nearside front side repeater not working (4.4.1 (a) (ii)) - Major
Nearside front service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f)) - Major
Offside front subframe mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength near lower arm. (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Nearside rear suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength close to rear suspension mount. (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
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
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 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
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
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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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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.
A few shockers in this one for me - the colour for a start - this colour became "fashionable" not that long ago? Certainly not something I would expect to see on a scrapped car anyway. Looking up the history of SL12 NRO, it amazes me to see that it failed an MOT in March 2021 for corrosion to the subframe - it did get repaired and still has a current MOT, with only 58k recorded - but as you can see, it was scrapped. I can happily report that my old Corsa is still on the go, now with 144k on the clock and no serious issues in it's MOT history - how could two cars starting out from the same point have such different histories?
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
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, between 22.58 and 23.09 EDT
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
* Temperature 17° C.
* Total exposure time: 6 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 lower right.
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@N06/28589630170
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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
Six stacked frames; each frame:
135 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, colour desaturation)
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