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My friend and I explored a new site for visual astronomy and astrophotgraphy.
Toy's Hill Car Park in the South Downs, just a few miles outside the M25.
My main desire was for visual astronomy and enjoy the luxury of darker skies than in my usual light polluted London abode.
As we were setting up our equipment, we were startled to see a string of satellites equally spaced apart moving across the sky, each one as bright as the ISS. When we reported our sighting to our society astro guru, Mike Meynell, on the followiiing day, he knew exactly what we saw and it aint good news! What we observed was a batch of Elun Musk's 184 Starlink satellites with a further 2000 yet to be launched! Oh oh...!
Anywyay, after I enjoyed a session of visual astronomy with my 80mm refractor, I finished off the evening with a short astrophoto shoot of Orion Nebula.
So this is a 9 minute total exposure capture of Orion Nebula M42 (and M43) using an 80mm Apochramtic refractor (Equinox 80) on an Alt Az computerised mount (Nexstar 8SE).
I want to show that its possbile to do deep space astrophotography with an Alt Az mount which is largely unfavoured by astrophotgraphers because of field rotation and of single frame expoasure limited to around 10 seconds average.
But thanks to the clever coding of stacking software, Deep Space Stacker, those restrictions can be overcome.
I do have an equatorial computerised mount, so why do I persist with carryiing this alt az mount? Well the Nexstar mount is a considerably lighter weight system to carry around, with no need for counter weights and the setup is considerably quicker with no need for the painful polar alignment stage! Thats why!
Toy's Hill is just outside the M25 with considerably darker skies than in London. However, despite being listed as a dark site it's not really dark enough to reveal the Milky Way. Open clusters such as the Hyades, and Lambda Orionis can be seen with the naked eye but Andromeda was barely visible.
Equipment:
Camera: Canon 650D (unmodded)
Telescope: Equinox 80 APO
Mount: Celestron Nexstar 8SE
Other components: Flattener, Dell Laptop tethered to camera for easier focussing and EOS Utilities to control camera. 12V hairdryer to combat dew which built up occasionally.
Capture method:
189 frames each being 3.2 seconds - 10 minutes total exposure time.
ISO 1600
50 Dark frames
20 Bias frames
Post Processing:
Stacked with Deep Space Stacker,
Levels and curves adjustment in PS to bring out colour an details. No masking done, all adjustments applied globally.
A series of assemblages and mixed media paintings by Chiew Sien Kuan (Singapore) displayed along the Esplanade Tunnel during A Little Love Story in Singapore.
LIGHT YARDS: A Two-Week-Long Installation Melding Light, Sculpture and Music to Create Wonder!
The innovative art installation spanning two weeks and three weekends at The Yards Park will kick off on Saturday, February 20 from 7pm to 10pm with a large-scale projection mapping visual display set to the beat of a live DJ set. The event’s focal point and medium for the light display will be a 48 x 24 x 20 foot Point Cloud, and 12 x 12 x 12 foot Cube, constructed of industrial steel with illuminated white cubes designed by New York based light artist and architect John Ensor Parker. These light sculptures will remain throughout the two weeks
any unusual visual expereiences recently.
A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. The latter definition distinguishes hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control. Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted genuine perception is given some additional (and typically bizarre) significance.
Hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality — visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, thermoceptive and chronoceptive.
A mild form of hallucination is known as a disturbance, and can occur in any of the senses above. These may be things like seeing movement in peripheral vision, or hearing faint noises and/or voices. Auditory hallucinations are very common in schizophrenia of the paranoid type. They may be benevolent (telling the patient good things about himself) or malicious, cursing the patient etc. Auditory hallucinations of the malicious type are frequently heard like people talking about the patient behind his back. Like auditory hallucinations, the source of their visual counterpart can also be behind the patient's back. Their visual counterpart is the feeling of being looked-stared at, usually with malicious intent. Not infrequently, auditory hallucinations and their visual counterpart are experienced by the patient together.
For those who never saw the Visual Graphix releases from the 90`s....You can watch vol.2,4 & 5 here...Be sure to check the Brighton sections...
Vol.2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQmto0PqB68
Communication is very important. Obviously without it we're isolated individuals without an outlet to be heard or to comprehend what we hear. Communication exists regardless of how we intent it to be received. Verbal or visual, we all communicate. Just some of us are more clear about it.
I have a problem with words. Not necessarily with what words to use, but more with the frequency and amount of words to use. I go out of my way to be understood — probably to the annoyance and frustration of everyone around me. There's nothing worse than leaving the scarcity of your communication "open" to interpretation. This is how marriages fail. Friendships disintegrate. And the premise of every "Three's Company" episode for seven years. The problem isn't that I communicate too much, but that others anticipate that you will automatically have the same understanding of what they mean as they do. Sadly, this is hardly ever the case.
Language and communication are hard enough from region to region within the United States. Sack/Bag. Pop/Soda. It varies from family to family, business to business, school to school. Man to woman. We all have a vernacular (I know, I'm already breaking the rules of my own argument! If you don't know what it means, I can't assume that you do, you can find the definition here) that we fully adopt into our everyday palett of words; and expect everyone else to know their meaning.
Right now I'm stuck in the middle of 40 years of poor communication. Of implied meaning. Inferred intent. The end outcome is bitterness. Dishonor. Hurt. Confusion. Anger. When one said "That's ok" they meant "I don't like this but I'll suffer through it because I don't want to get into an argument about it". Ultimately we can't avoid conflict and we can't assume understanding. It's to the determent of everyone to take short cuts with words — and can end quite literally in a disaster.
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This is my collage for the month of February, 2012. The left side is the back of a 6x9 manila envelope that I taped in to my journal. I will use it to keep receipts and other tidbits from the month.
This will go in my daily writing/smashbook style journal. Thanks for looking!
When you look at someone who just had an inspired thought, what does it look like to you? Can you see the thought manifesting into reality?
recommend the current exhibition!
www.imma.ie/en/page_236799.htm
www.visualcarlow.ie/exhibitions/info/patrick-scott-image-...
Patrick Scott Exhib Pt2
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será bajo la primera luminiscencia introspectiva que desvelaré mis primeros pasos inconscientes, difusas zancadas para revueltas gigantes. y en el momento oportuno ahuyentaré el ruido interno; atrevido y benévolo.