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Oil pickup moved along to clear the new shape sump which in turn will clear the car's subframe crossmember
The Car: 1969 Camaro with a Mast LS7 and a T-56 Magnum Transmission
The Project: The Camaro will be receiving our DSE Hydroformed Subframe, QUADRALink™, 4 point DSE Roll Cage, Mini Tub Kit and Subframe Connectors. The car will also be receiving Baer Brakes, a DSE Super Tank 1000 Series, C&R Radiator, DSE SS Headers and a full custom 3” exhaust system.
The Owner: This is Ronnie Buhr’s first project with DSE. He chose Detroit Speed to transform his car into a Pro-Touring Camaro that will ride and handle better than he ever imagined.
www.detroitspeed.com/Projects/ronnie-buhr-1969-camaro/ron...
The Car: 1969 Camaro with a Mast LS7 and a T-56 Magnum Transmission
The Project: The Camaro will be receiving our DSE Hydroformed Subframe, QUADRALink™, 4 point DSE Roll Cage, Mini Tub Kit and Subframe Connectors. The car will also be receiving Baer Brakes, a DSE Super Tank 1000 Series, C&R Radiator, DSE SS Headers and a full custom 3” exhaust system.
The Owner: This is Ronnie Buhr’s first project with DSE. He chose Detroit Speed to transform his car into a Pro-Touring Camaro that will ride and handle better than he ever imagined.
www.detroitspeed.com/Projects/ronnie-buhr-1969-camaro/ron...
The Car: 1969 Camaro with a Mast LS7 and a T-56 Magnum Transmission
The Project: The Camaro will be receiving our DSE Hydroformed Subframe, QUADRALink™, 4 point DSE Roll Cage, Mini Tub Kit and Subframe Connectors. The car will also be receiving Baer Brakes, a DSE Super Tank 1000 Series, C&R Radiator, DSE SS Headers and a full custom 3” exhaust system.
The Owner: This is Ronnie Buhr’s first project with DSE. He chose Detroit Speed to transform his car into a Pro-Touring Camaro that will ride and handle better than he ever imagined.
www.detroitspeed.com/Projects/ronnie-buhr-1969-camaro/ron...
Another night of data added, bringing the total number of subframes up to 29.
This larger number of lights has helped smooth out the background. It's also helped identify the problem areas with other lights and the library of darks. The amp glow in the northern section of the frame comes from bad darks. I'll have to make a few new ones that match the temperature range of 14-17 C. Also, there were light leaks getting in on some of the subs, causing large arcs to streak across the field.
I did a little different processing on this image to try to get more from the better data. I applied a curve to the image after DBE and masked stretch. There were two curves - one for RGB and another for L. The L curve was a little hotter, bringing up some lightness of small stars. I also added some passes of sharpening and better noise reduction.
As usual, I brought the tif files into LR for a final tweak before uploading.
Here's the output from the PI image solve:
Referentiation Matrix (Gnomonic projection = Matrix * Coords[x,y]):
+0.000024749075 +0.000225128501 -0.276575132022
-0.000225173446 +0.000024803937 +0.373822748842
+0.000000000000 +0.000000000000 +1.000000000000
Resolution ........ 0.815 arcsec/pix
Rotation .......... -96.275 deg
Focal ............. 1365.93 mm
Pixel size ........ 5.40 um
Field of view ..... 48' 13.2" x 28' 5.5"
Image center ...... RA: 18 53 23.314 Dec: +32 56 18.62
Image bounds:
top-left ....... RA: 18 52 03.888 Dec: +33 18 42.78
top-right ...... RA: 18 52 29.592 Dec: +32 30 47.60
bottom-left .... RA: 18 54 17.556 Dec: +33 21 48.19
bottom-right ... RA: 18 54 42.072 Dec: +32 33 51.34
Its an Innocenti Mini, which I think came along round about 1985. It was basically a BLMC Mini upon which the Italian Innocenti company placed their own body designed by Bertone (or was it Bert and Tony!). It comprised front and rear mini subframes, floorpan, but the mechanicals were all mini. It also came with two sizes of engine 998cc or 1275cc Leyland "A" series. Although I bought mine already converted to RHD, they were fairly easy to do. You needed a RHD Mini Mk2 steering rack and had to move the pedal box and brake master cylinder to the RHS of the car. This was fairly easy also as the body had identical holes on both sides of the front bulkheadb to facilitate this The fascia was symetrical, so you could swap instrument pod and glove box to either side of it.
I bought mine from a dealer who specialised importing RHD Metros from mainland Europe to the UK, which was quite popular at the time. They had seen these Innocenti Mini's running round in Belgium, brought three back to the UK and converted them to RHD to see how they sold.
Mine had the 1275cc engine with the biggest SU carbuerettor I have ever seen. I had assumed it was a Mini 1275GT engine, but was actually told later by an expert, that it was a Mini Cooper engine. Be that as it may, I took it onto the A64 bypass and floored the throttle. It got up to about 102mph, which is a bit disconcerting when your backside is only about six inches off the road.
The door locks were surprisingly of Alfa Romeo manufacture, phew, that was a surprise, but a relief when I eventually realised this, after losing my keys. It only had one niggling fault and that was the fact that the engine would run on after switching off. I fiddled around with ignition timing and fuel mixture, to little avail, so in the end I decided to live with it. Rather than switch the engine off, I used to stall it on the clutch.
With the birt of our third child in 1988, it was obviously too small, so I sold it to a Mini Cooper enthusiast, who lived in Malton.
Front subframe is now fitted. Full refurb on upper arms, etc
Front subframe is now fitted. Full refurb on upper arms, etc & new steering rack
Front subframe is now fitted. Full refurb on upper arms, etc
Front subframe is now fitted. Full refurb on upper arms, etc & new steering rack
This is my first look at this nebula with its many star forming regions. It is part of a larger nebulous region. This is an image in H Alpha, total image time 2 hours, made from 24x5minute subframes.
Peter
M27. Stack (subframes and calibration frames) of ISO100 30sec exposures taken with a Nikon D810a on Takahashi Epsilon-180 ED/Skywatcher EQ8.
Captured 8 Dec 2021, 20:00-22:00 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 7 skies, Stellarvue SV80/9D doublet achromat refractor at f/5.68 (eff. fl 454mm), Orion Atlas AZ/EQ-G Pro mount. Mallincam DS10C camera, bin 1, exposure 60 seconds, gain 20, stack of 84 subframes, dark/flat/bias frames subtracted. Optolong LeNhance filter. Reprocessed using Siril and Photoshop on 24 May 2023.
Clouds: partly cloudy
Seeing: good
Transparency: good
Moon phase: ~40%
FOV: 2.16 x 1.62 degrees before cropping.
Resolution: 2.1 arcsec/pixel.
Appearance: Red circular nebula (Bubble) inside larger molecular cloud (Sh2-161), at center of FOV. Magnitude +10; size 15 x 8 arcmin. Messier 52 (open star cluster) is at the 1 o'clock position and emission nebula LBN 537/544 (Lobster Claw) is at 8 o'clock.
From Wikipedia:
NGC 7635 (also known as the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11) is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central star, SAO 20575 (BD+60°2522). The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow. It was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel. The star BD+60°2522 is thought to have a mass of about 44 M☉.
With an 8 or 10-inch (250 mm) telescope, the nebula is visible as an extremely faint and large shell around the star. The nearby 7th magnitude star on the west hinders observation, but one can view the nebula using averted vision. Using a 16 to 18-inch (460 mm) scope, one can see that the faint nebula is irregular, being elongated in the north south direction.
Messier 52 (also known as M52 or NGC 7654) is an open cluster of stars in the highly northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It was discovered by Charles Messier on 1774. It can be seen from Earth under a good night sky with binoculars. The brightness of the cluster is influenced by extinction, which is stronger in the southern half. Its metallicity is somewhat below that of the Sun and is estimated to be [Fe/H] = −0.05 ± 0.01.
R. J. Trumpler classified the cluster appearance as II2r, indicating a rich cluster with little central concentration and a medium range in the brightness of the stars. This was later revised to I2r, denoting a dense core. The cluster has a core radius of 2.97 ± 0.46 ly (0.91 ± 0.14 pc) and a tidal radius of 42.7 ± 7.2 ly (13.1 ± 2.2 pc). It has an estimated age of 158.5 million years and a mass of 1,200 M☉.
The magnitude 8.3 supergiant star BD +60°2532 is a probable member of the cluster, so too 18 candidate slowly pulsating B stars, one being a Delta (δ) Scuti variable, and three candidate Gamma Doradus (γ Dor) variables. There may also be three Be stars. The core of the cluster shows a lack of interstellar matter, which may be due to supernovae explosion(s) early in the cluster's history.
Quaife ATB LSD | VRSF FMIC 5" | M3 Rear Subframe Bushings | M3 Lower Guide Rods/Upper Wishbones - Rear, Control Arm/Tension Arms - Front | Ohlins R&T Coilovers, M3 front strut brace, M3 front sway bar, CDV Delete, RB PCV Valve, BMW Performance Brakes, VRSF Chargepipe, Tial Q BOV | Cobb ProTuned @ 15psi (Cobb Plano) - Mustang Dyno @ 332WHP/400ft-lbs
This lovely E46 M3 came in for a subframe reinforcement (welded), AKG bushings, Vanos rebuild, Status Gruppe coilovers & headers!
The Car: 1969 Camaro with a Mast LS7 and a T-56 Magnum Transmission
The Project: The Camaro will be receiving our DSE Hydroformed Subframe, QUADRALink™, 4 point DSE Roll Cage, Mini Tub Kit and Subframe Connectors. The car will also be receiving Baer Brakes, a DSE Super Tank 1000 Series, C&R Radiator, DSE SS Headers and a full custom 3” exhaust system.
The Owner: This is Ronnie Buhr’s first project with DSE. He chose Detroit Speed to transform his car into a Pro-Touring Camaro that will ride and handle better than he ever imagined.
www.detroitspeed.com/Projects/ronnie-buhr-1969-camaro/ron...
The Car: 1969 Camaro with a Mast LS7 and a T-56 Magnum Transmission
The Project: The Camaro will be receiving our DSE Hydroformed Subframe, QUADRALink™, 4 point DSE Roll Cage, Mini Tub Kit and Subframe Connectors. The car will also be receiving Baer Brakes, a DSE Super Tank 1000 Series, C&R Radiator, DSE SS Headers and a full custom 3” exhaust system.
The Owner: This is Ronnie Buhr’s first project with DSE. He chose Detroit Speed to transform his car into a Pro-Touring Camaro that will ride and handle better than he ever imagined.
www.detroitspeed.com/Projects/ronnie-buhr-1969-camaro/ron...