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The North End Diner and Best Western North Des Moines appear to be a playground for anyone keen on wrecking everything in sight. I am thinking the diner closed sometime in 2009 or late 2008 and the hotel was closed before with no intention on reopening. The hotel a former Ramada was refurbished in 2004 but all the reviews I read have this place listed as a dump. I guess that could be one portion of why it closed. It was a sprawling hotel with 4 separate room units, a huge pool, and entrance with the North End Diner all attached by a long walkway that was never heated or cooled. My wife had posted her pictures on FB and a local fire fighter had commented that they used the hotel portion for training and now it is so full of mold that it is unsafe to enter. I guess that is no reason for vagrants and kids to enter looking for something to smash as almost every window and door are make for an entrance now. The place will be gone at some point the hotel is a ehh who cares in my book but the Diner was a cool place to eat. And there seem to be less and less of the old school diners around to get the 50’s feel for your burgers.
series of photos from a messy hotel room, after the guests have left the room; and believe me: rooms in worse condition have been seen
Practice picture. I'm taking pictures to practice composition and lighting. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Messy party to celebrate graduating from 8th grade
A tub of "milk" with cereal. They fished out coins as prizes - first with their toes, then with hands.
After the picture I took last time with all the stacks of handbound books on it I actually cleared my worktable completely. Two books, an art pendant and some origami later the mess is back in it's full glory
M63 Sunflower Galaxy
Location: Eifelsternwarte/Germany
frames (-25°C):
Luminance:
26 x 600 sec (1x1 binning)
R: 12 x 300 sec (2x2 binning)
G: 10 x 300 sec (2x2 binning)
B: 10 x 300 sec (2x2 binning)
made with
Astrondon true balance filter
All images are bias, dark, flat calibrated (15 images each)
Camera: QSI 540wsg
Telescope: russian 7" Intes Alter Maksutov Cassegrain (180/1800) f/10
Mount: Losmandy G11
Webcam autoguiding @
Vixen ED81 + 2x barlow
Processing: ImagesPlus, Photoshop
A barbers in Bristol that has a rather contradictory advert above it. Will it encourage people to ask for messy haircuts? Doubt it!
Was up all night working on things when the sun decided to show his face by blasting through my window. Picture was taken from the corner of my bed.
Open Cluster
Exposure Details
Lens Celestron Nexstar 6SE
Focal Length 1500mm
Focal Ratio f/10
Mount Alt Az fitted with wedge
Camera Nikon D5300 (unmodified)
Exposure ISO1600, 42x30sec
(total exposure 21min)
Calibration 40 darks, 40 flats, 40 bias
Date 16th March 2021
Location Southampton, UK
Sky Bortle 5
*A quick "grab the camera" kind of shot. I will try again, but maybe next time without the ironing board and honeysuckle vines. Yet, i think it worked.
Messier 39 (also M39, NGC 7092, Collinder 438, Melotte 236 and OCL 211) is a magnitude +4.6 open star cluster located 824.4 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.
The first discovery was made by Aristotle 325 BC.
With good observing conditions the 30 stars comprising the cluster can be seen with the naked eye. The cluster appears as a triangle with a bright star on each corner. The brightest star is at +6.8
The open cluster was observed by French astronomer Charles Messier using a 8.38 cm (3.3-inch) refracting telescope at the Hôtel de Cluny (now the Musée national du Moyen Age), in Paris, France on the 24th October 1764.
Position (J2000): R.A. 21h 31m 42.0s | Dec. +48° 25' 30"
Untracked tripod capture, 10 seconds, ISO 1600, f5.6
Clear sky. Bortle 5.5