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A male great horned owl flew in for a drink at Ayer Lake at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. But only the paranoid survive so he took the time to scope things out between drinks.
This from the BioSpere in Potsdam, Germany just outside Berlin. It's a great place of reptiles, butterflies, birds and an absolute array of plant and flower species. As I mentioned in another posting from the BioSphere this was a challenge with no flash but I think this worked out.
I cannot wait to get back there at some point.
Belated HNY to everyone and I hope everyone's 2019 is going to be great.
I've been so busy recently I can't post as much and I haven't been able to get out as much with the camera, but anyway, much love to everyone and as always, thank you! :)
I was checking out the Cimarron River area in prep for aspen color season. It's especially pretty, from the pics I've seen.
Mein erster Versuch durch ein Spektiv zu fotografieren. Mit einem richtigen Adapter wird's wohl noch etwas besser.
My first try to take a picture through a spotting scope. With the right adapter it will be a little bit better I think.
A little bit more of a horizontal stretch instead of a vertical stretch but I have to say that these little greenies have a bag of tricks that will rival any bird in the world!! Saw a number of these little characters on the bayou today but none of them were very cooperative!
I'm a bit late to the party this evening but I will get there!!
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Object: Cederblad 214 (2024) (SHO Palette)
Ced 214 or Cederblad 214 is an emission nebula contained within the larger star forming complex called NGC 7822 in the northern part of the constellation of Cepheus. It contains the star cluster Berkley 59 whose stars illuminate the nebula. It is estimated to be about 3000 light years away from Earth. The area also contains many dark nebulae listed below.
Lynds Dark Nebulae (LDN):
- LDN 1267
- LDN 1269
- LDN 1270
- LDN 1271
- LDN 1272
- LDN 1275
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/12/2024 to 10/24/2024
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 11 Celestron 11" Edge HD @f/7
- Focal reducer: Celestron .7x Focal Reducer, for 11 HD
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
- Astrodon SII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 40x 10min. (400min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):20 x 10min. (200min) bin 1x1
- Sulfur II (SII):20 x 10min. (200min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:800min. (13.33hr)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
A male Pileated Woodpecker scans the area for what was making the noise before resuming his work on the cavity at Boyd Hill.
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Revelation 13:18 “Here is scope for ingenuity. Let people of shrewd intelligence calculate the number of the Wild Beast; for it indicates a certain man, and his number is 666.”
“WHO Member States conclude negotiations and make significant progress on draft pandemic agreement” – World Health Organization
“Proposal to be submitted to World Health Assembly in May for consideration”
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The United Nations is working towards expanding their powers yet again. If you fail, try again: write and rewrite, package and repackage, until it’s accepted. This is another step towards world governance.
The trail continues above the lake on the opposite shore. When I first arrived in the basin, I took a snack break on those rocky outcrops middle right of frame, and scoped out this spot for camp when I realized the light and views were probably going to play out better on this side of the lake.
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Solar Prominence imaged in Ha from London on the 9th January 2021.
Lunt LS60THa Scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ASI174MM camera.
I'll be driving to Glacier this weekend to spend some time eye level with the mountain gods. Most of the logistics are pinned down, but I am left with one nagging question: which panoramic pinhole to take? I know for a fact that my bag will have one, and only one, pano pinhole in it. Glacier is too appropriate a place for such cameras to leave them all at home. Likewise, it seems way too redundant to take more than one. My choices are between three: the 6x12 Holga WPC, the 6x12 curved plane Reality So Subtle (with filter thread) or the 6x17 curved plane Reality So Subtle with two pinholes. Between those I think the 6x17 is at the bottom of the list. It has already been to Glacier, after all it made this image. The 6x12 Reality So Subtle is my newest pinhole addition and the one I have used the least. But looking back through my Holga WPC images lately I am reminded at just how capable a camera the WPC is. Plus it is so compact and light... and I do plan to get some miles in so every ounce counts.
Thankfully I have just under 36 hours to make up my mind. Not a bad decision to have to wrestle with.
Reality So Subtle 6x17
Kodak Ektar 100
After a string of 4 clear nights in late March, it's been a long time since we have had a stretch of clear moonless nights. So no astrophotography for me…
In the meantime, I had upgraded one of my astro cameras to a new camera known as the ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro. This is a mono camera based on a new generation of larger APS-C size sensors. It offers much higher resolution, a full 16-bits of dynamic range, outstanding noise characteristics, and a much deeper well capacity (which means I can overexpose bright areas of the image - stars - much more before I saturate the sensor). This was also a bigger and heavier camera and I needed to rework my rig to balance things out. I have been eager to test this out.
Recently I had that chance. Choosing Messier 63 - the Sunflower Galaxy as my target I took over 15 hours of exposures through Luminesce, Red, Green, Blue and Hydrogen-Alpha filters over the nights of May 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th. I thought I had clear nights but it turns out that thin clouds passed through on EVERY night - enough cloud to mess-up my exposures but not enough to shut things down. I inspected every single frame and I ended up throwing out 5 HOURS of data due to "Cloud Pollution". I got to tell you - that HURTS.
So about our Target…
I have captured M63 before and I wanted to see what difference I could make with a new camera and a bit more experience under my belt. I am very pleased with the result of my first effort with this camera. Good detail, excellent color.
Located 29.3 Million Light Years away, this is what Wikipedia has to say about M63:
Messier 63 or M63, also known as NGC 5055 or the seldom-used Sunflower Galaxy,[6] is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.[7] M63 was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, then later verified by his colleague Charles Messier on June 14, 1779.[6] The galaxy became listed as object 63 in the Messier Catalogue. In the mid-19th century, Anglo-Irish astronomer Lord Rosse identified spiral structures within the galaxy, making this one of the first galaxies in which such structure was identified.[8]
The shape or morphology of this galaxy has a classification of SAbc,[5] indicating a spiral form with no central bar feature (SA) and moderate to loosely wound arms (bc). There is a general lack of large-scale continuous spiral structure in visible light, so it is considered a flocculent galaxy. However, when observed in the near infrared, a symmetric, two-arm structure is seen. Each arm wraps 150° around the galaxy and extends out to 13,000 light-years (4,000 parsecs) from the nucleus.[9]
M63 is a weakly active galaxy with a LINER nucleus – short for 'low-ionization nuclear emission-line region'. This displays as an unresolved source at the galactic nucleus that is cloaked in a diffuse emission. The latter is extended along a position angle of 110° relative to the north celestial pole, and both soft X-rays and hydrogen (H-alpha) emission can be observed coming from along nearly the same direction.[10] The existence of a super massive black hole (SMBH) at the nucleus is uncertain; if it does exist, then the mass is estimated as (8.5±1.9)×108 M☉,[11] or around 850 million times the mass of the Sun.
Here is the detail around this image:
*Number of frames is after bad or questionable frames were culled.
71 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II L Filter
81 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, 0 gain, ZWO Gen II R Filter
67 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II G Filter
79 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II B Filter
27 x 300 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, Astronomiks 6nm Ha Filter
Total of 9.7 hours
25 Darks at 300 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
50 Darks at 90 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 Dark Flats at Flat exposure times, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 R Flats
30 G Flats
30 B Flats
30 L Flats
30 Ha Flats
Capture Hardware:
Scope: Astrophysics 130mm Starfire F/8.35 APO refractor
Guide Scope: Televue 76mm Doublet
Camera: ZWO AS2600mm-pro with ZWO 7x36 Filter wheel with ZWO LRGB filter set,
and Astronomiks 6nm Narrowband filter set
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290Mini
Focus Motor: Pegasus Astro Focus Cube 2
Camera Rotator: Pegasus Astro Falcon
Mount: Ioptron CEM60
Polar Alignment: Polemaster camera
Software:
Capture Software: PHD2 Guider, Sequence Generator Pro controller
Image Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop - assisted by Coffee, extensive processing indecision and second guessing, editor regret and much swearing…..
Milkyway - Scopion
Camera: Nikon D810A
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/1.4
Data: ISO1600, f/3.2, 120sec x 60
May 5 2016,1:00-3:15 JST
Mt.Myohgi,Gunma,Japan
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This photo is taken just opposite to the last photo, and it is of the same two extinct volcanoes.
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Ultra wide lens was used (15mm) here, which tells you something about the wide scope of this scenery. Because of the wide-angle effect, the mountain in the distance seems much smaller than it really is.
The ISS just before transiting the Moon as seen from my London back garden on the 22nd January.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope & ASI174MM camera
Hickson Compact Group 68 is like a little box of assorted galactic chocolates. There's a lenticular galaxy, an elliptical, a couple of S0's and a pretty barred spiral Seyfert galaxy. My favorite in this field is the "little" spiral galaxy, UGC8841, at the top left.
Captured at SRO, in California 8-24 June, 2015
Objects in image include:
NGC5350, NGC5353, NGC5354, NGC5355, NGC5358, PGC49480/UGC8841
Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/9 = 2720mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Astrodon Gen II
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 0.68 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 22x600s R, 22x600s G, 18x600s B, 29x600s L (~15 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
Acquisition credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Leonardo Orazi, Rob Pfile, Rick Stevenson and Jerry Yesavage.
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson
SHO (Hubble Palette) Processed in PixInsight / PS CC
SII - Red Channel
Ha - Green Channel
O3 - Blue Channel
Tech details:
SII - (Sulfur) 5nm
300s x 39 subs
Ha - (Hydrogen Alpha) 5nm
300s x 77 subs
O3 - (Oxygen III) 3nm
300s x 72 subs
Equipment:
Mount - Losmandy G11
Scope - ES 127mm CF w/ .7x FF/FR
Camera - ZWO 1600MMC
The final pic of this series finds Phil still winding his way down Scope End near the end of an excellent walk. October 1994.
did a shoot with my best friends justin and draytons band "collide and scope" im probably going on a winter/new years tour with them should be fun.
i put my foot in my mouth when i said i was really loving shooting at night hahaa we had to use justins suv lights on high so i could get my camera to focus
-ab1600 boomed thru octa in front little right
-ab800 back left for rim
-ab800 in side and high top of the stair well full power shooting to make the window light up all erie
-canon 5d mark 2
- 17-40mm f4 usm L
Abell 79 is a bright unusual planetary nebula in the constellation Lacerta. It is small (59 arc seconds) but with an assymetrical morphology which results in it being named "The 6 Nebula". The Ha signal is much stronger than the OIII signal, and with a more intricate structure. Some estimates put it's distance at 11, 360 ligght yrears, whereas other estimates are 5,900 light years.
It was originally discvoered in 1947 by Rudolf Minkowski, althouhg he didn't realise that it was a planetary nebula (presumably because of the lack of obvious OIII signal), Subsequently George Abell classified it as a planetary nebula in his 1955 catalog.
Superresolution techniques (also known as drizzle) were used to capture the maximum detail in this small object.
Image captured on my remote dual rig at Fregenal de la Sierra in Spain between 23-30 July 2021.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS
A total of 18 hours image capture (HaOIIILRGB)
More details at: www.imagingdeepspace.com/abell-79.html
Testing the view of prominences with my Orion SSAG Planetary 3Mp CMOS camera at Astrocamp in Cwmdu this year where I had the chance to sample a Daystar Quark on my Altair Lightwave 72 ED-R scope, courtesy of Nic at The Widescreen Centre on the afternoon of 11 May. Generally speaking I would not image the sun after 11am in the morning due to atmospheric turbulence, this was taken around 3pm. I have not messed with this, it is exactly the view/colours you see when moving the scope to view the limb instead of the surface as in the previous image.
And the second month of adjusting to living with a pandemic.
As I look back over March, which saw the beginning stages, and now April which has seen the new 'normal' emerging .... this is a maybe moment to pause and take stock. It looks increasingly likely that COVID-19 is not going to be an easy virus to adjust to, or to tame sufficiently for us to live comfortably with it. The more we learn about it, the more damaging it seems to be to us humans! The landscape of our lives is likely to be very different and for a very long time to come. Rather naively I thought of epidemics, and quarantines over our history ... but given our global interconnections, it is proving to be almost impossible to isolate and contain this virus. As soon as we start moving around, either within a country or between countries, it flares up again. It is so strange to think of the outside world as a hostile and potentially deadly place!
So life as we know it, or rather knew it, is looking increasingly remote! Visiting my photo archives, and seeing what I was doing in April in previous years just shows me how different 2020 is proving to be! I still have the garden to shoot, and very local views within the village - but the scope lies within still life work, and Photoshop, and maybe even picking up my watercolours and pastel paints again!
Once again, thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves. I hope the collage gives an enjoyable look back through the month ;o)
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