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The current mess in my home studio. Did a quick session on Tuesday night before leaving for the concert and haven't gotten around to straightening up yet.
360° panorama of a messy scene, repeating over most of Hokkaido right now as the snow from the previous blizzard yesterday and the day before is melting quickly in the early March heat wave (our temperatures are almost at April levels right now). Someone plowed in front of our house last night meaning I got some extra snow shoveling duties to clean up the snow and ice in front of our house but it was worth it as driving was a lot easier.
My time aboard the Rhum Runner is always fun. I often take the opportunity to add some beautiful images to my collection. This year was no exception. I managed to pull this one out from what was a quite messy scene.
I am really enjoying life with my this new camera.
This is a stack of 3 individual 30-second images of globular star cluster, Messier Object M22 taken at ISO 1600 from Malibu, California on August 6, 2005. The individual images were manually aligned in Photoshop CS. I was using an "Alt-Az" fork-mounted 10" Meade LX200 GPS on its regular field tripod, and a Canon 10D was coupled in prime focus configuration to an Orion Short-Tube 80mm (ST-80) telescope mounted with a Losmandy bracket on top of the LX200. In prime focus photography, the camera lens is removed, and in this image, the ST-80 was the actual 400mm "lens". The final images were cropped from the 3 single, unguided exposures. Because I was not polar aligned on a wedge, or using a German Equatorial Mount such as a Losmandy G-11, I ended up with some field rotation. This required slightly rotating each image to eliminate the field rotation and align all the stars.
M22 is 9,600 light years from Earth.
Image processing was done in Photoshop, and the star diffraction spikes and frame were added using Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools plug-in for Photoshop. This software is available at www.ProDigitalSoftware.com.
Sacred Heart University hosted An Evening with Mark Messier, former NHL hockey player and current Kingsbridge National Ice Center CEO. The event was part of the Student Affairs Lecture Series. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/17/18
Hokkaido, Japan
I really don't know how to take landscape, what I do is just capture everything in the frame..... It looks quite messy indeed..
Sacred Heart University hosted An Evening with Mark Messier, former NHL hockey player and current Kingsbridge National Ice Center CEO. The event was part of the Student Affairs Lecture Series. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 1/17/18
Double Crater Messier and Messier A in the plains of Mare Fecundidatis.
44cm Newton, 742 IR pass filter,
f = 6 m, Imaging Source DBK 21AF04
Messier 35 and NGC2158 (the small one upper left corner) in constellation Gemini.
Camera: Canon 550D + Synta Coma Corrector.
Exposure: 5x105s, ISO 3200
Telescope: Newton 130/650mm
Mount: NEQ6 Pro
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a transiting spiral galaxy in the constellation of the Hunting Dogs. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is about 22 to 25 million light years away from Earth. M106 contains an active core classified as a Seyfert type 2, and the presence of a central supermassive black hole has been demonstrated from radio wave observations of the rotation of a disk of molecular gas orbiting in an inner light-year diameter region around the black hole.
NGC 4217 is a possible companion galaxy to Messier 106.
Equipment: SkyWatcher NEQ6Pro, GSO Newton astrograph 200/800, GSO 2" coma corrector, QHY 8L-C, SVbony UV/IR cut, Optolong L-eNhance filter, FocusDream focuser, guiding QHY5L-II-C, SVbony guidescope 240mm.
Software: NINA, Astro pixel processor, GraXpert, Siril, Pixinsight, Adobe photoshop
169x180 sec. Lights gain15, offset113 at -10°C, 94x360 sec. Lights gain15, offset113 at -10°C via Optolong L-eNhance, master bias, 180 flats, master darks, master darkflats
20.4. until 30.4.2024
Reworked version
Belá nad Cirochou, Slovakia, bortle 4