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Very late tonight, I added the last few odds and ends from my drive SW of the city three days ago.
On 28 July 2020, it was so hot and we were under a Heat Warning! My place was unbearable and I just had to get out for a short drive so that I could be in an air-conditioned vehicle. The weather forecast was for sunshine. While I was driving along the country backroads, the temperature was 31°C. When I got back to the city, it was 33°C (91.4°F). The Heat Warning remained for the following day, too, but has been lifted since then, though we are continuing to have hot days.
My hope was that maybe it would be cooler in the forest. However, it didn't seem to make any difference and my walk left me feeling exhausted for a while. Not far into the forest, I thought I heard what sounded like very quiet thunder, but then I thought it might have been a small plane flying over. When I was almost at the point where I was going to turn around, it started to rain, fortunately only lightly. Once parts of the trail get wet, they turn muddy very quickly.
Though it is still early for the mushroom season, I thought I would check to see if anything was growing. There was very little to be found. The leader of our small fungus group had recently said that he was finding practically nothing anywhere, other than Boletes. He reckons that the very cold winter that we had has probably caused this. As far as rain goes, we have had almost endless rain this spring and summer, so I was feeling hopeful. Maybe things will improve - last year, 2019, was absolutely amazing fungi-wise.
There were very few birds to be seen, but they were probably trying to shelter from the heat.
M53, due north of our galaxy core, this is the most northern galactic globular cluster; it is approximately 60,000 light years away. I made this image by using DSS to stack 99 of the frames that I captured yesterday using a Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200 reflector
The Double Cluster (also known as Caldwell 14) is the common name for the open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884, which are close together in the constellation Perseus. Both visible with the naked eye, NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of 7500 light years.
A cluster of grapes on an old vine are enlarging and soon turn purple as they ripen. Delicious ! taken with a CanonPower ShotSX40HS
M5 is a globular cluster about 24,500 light-years from Earth seen in the constellation Serpens. It spans 165 light years and contains between 100,000 and 500,000 stars depending on different estimates. Not only is it one of the larger globular clusters known, at 13 billion years old it is also one of the older globulars associated with the Milky Way Galaxy. Taken on 9th March 2015 - 57 x 15 second exposures at 6400 ISO plus 10 dark frames and 8 flat frames.
Explored at#493, thank you
A shot from my weekend at Aston Rowant.
I like this one because it has no antennae out of focus.
I was told that it was Chiltern Gentian, but Tico has put me right, and I've looked in
my flower book to check. Tico wins again.
NO GROUP INVITES PLEASE
Second night of the 2013 Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival (March 9-16, 2013 in Winnipeg, MB). Featuring TSAWORKS, Ensemble Paramirabo, James O'Callaghan, Gordon Fitzell, Jessica Mays, and David Storen.
Dionysus cluster earrings are fun and flirty. Each gold earrings has a cluster of 15 black beads which hang 1.5 inches down.
Saw this cluster of cherry blossoms on my way to work yesterday. Totally unedited; light source was the overhead lights at the "Kiss & Ride" and the rising sun (wasn't over the horizon yet).
Photo taken with my iPhone.
There used to be lots of this beautiful flower on our limestone verges, now I only know one site which thankfully is protected from mowing.
September 24, 2018 - As I was leaving work this afternoon I noticed this group of leaves on the ramp. My wife suggested that I make it my photo today.
Second night of the 2013 Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival (March 9-16, 2013 in Winnipeg, MB). Featuring TSAWORKS, Ensemble Paramirabo, James O'Callaghan, Gordon Fitzell, Jessica Mays, and David Storen.
M7 (mid right) open cluster & the Butterfly cluster (lower mid) through the light polluted skies of melbourne taken on my homemade equatorial mount
Location: Simi Valley CA
Optics: WO FLT 110mm
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Camera: QHY9M
Guide: Meade 80mm – Orion SSAG
Time: LRGB -304 minutes - 5.07Hr
I'm still practicing here, in particular (1) Guiding with MaximDL - this time SBS, (2) Shooting RGB through a Hutech IDAS LPS filter to combat difficult skies last night (the local beer festival decided to have those sky floodlights going right at this location) and (3) Image processing in MaximDL.
So now I'm getting used to MaximDL it seems very powerful and I love the way it helps frame and align the shots with Astrometric processing. The guiding I had last night is probably the best I've achieved. I'm using an x-y adjuster on the guide scope to put a bright star right in the center of the chip. Errors of less than a pixel consistently.
I love the colors I was able to produce clearly showing the different star classes in view (you may have to zoom in).
According to CCDInspector I need to work on my collimation a little. I'm ~12" off and showing slit tilt.
L - 4x10min (2x2), RGB - 2x10min (2x2)
Imaging scope: AT8RC
Imaging Camera: Atik383+ Mono (capture with MaximDL)
Filters: Astronomics NB and LRGB set (par-focal)
Extras: Astro-tech field flattener (no reduction) used.
Guiding: TMB92 w/Orion DSCI2 using MaximDL
Mount: Celestron CGE
Processing: Calibrated, stacked and processed in MaximDL.
Recent studies of M12 have revealed that this cluster has lost nearly one-million of its low-mass stars to the Milky Way's gravitational influence. M12 can be found just two degrees N and W of another globular cluster, M10.
Canary Islands 1 High Mag | 26 Mar 11 02:50:04 UTC
This image was captured by me using the real-time online telescopes at slooh.com