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Captured 26/01/2023 just before 3am
The bright red star to the far right is RR Ursae Minoris a 4.7 magnitude binary.
-Magnitude is used to measure the brightness of stellar objects, the higher the number, the fainter the object.
-A binary star belongs to a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound together and locked in orbit around each other.
Boring techie bit,
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
104 exposures of 120 seconds each with the best 50% stacked together with calibration frames. 2 images were produced from the data. One stacking on the comet, one stacking on the stars. Separately processed then combined together.
Software used, PHd2, DeepSkyStacker, StarTools, Affinity Photo.
Also known has the Cocoon Nebula. Lying close to the constellation Cygnus the cocoon nebula is about 15 light years across and roughly 3,300 light years from us.
Inside this nebulous cloud is a group of young stars blasting out so much radiation that they create this wonderful floral looking emission nebula.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 90% of 44 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Better known as the Jellyfish Nebula.
IC 443 can be found in the constellation of Gemini.
The Jellyfish nebula is a supernova remnant some 5,000 light years away from us. I have captured this not to long ago, but this time I didn't use the reducer and I had the pleasure of the dark sky of kielder
Data captured at Kielder Forest, UK. 25_03_2025.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+
Best 25 light frames from 30, 120 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using DeepSkyStacker
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2 & PixInsight.
The little pinwheel galaxy in Ursa Major. A face on unbarred spiral galaxy some 40 million light years away.
First discovered on the 18th of March 1787 by William Herschel. It's 2 main spiral arms are predominantly blue, which suggests mostly young hot stars inhabit them.
Many fainter more distant galaxies can be spotted in the background.
All data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
21 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Another shot from our Christmas stay in Wales. Reminds me of the film Brigadoon:-)
Recovery disks turned up Monday but unfortunately I had no success with them. Techie guy reckons my new hard drive is a duff one:-( Engineer is coming out on Friday to hopefully fix it, so we are still without our home computer - boo hoo. Mind you yesterday I would have found it difficult to focus on anything after a very 'merry' New Year's Eve party - lol. Spent the day vegging on the sofa watching TV.
This is a planetary nebula around 2,600 light years away.
Planetary nebula is formed after a star very much like our own Sun burns through all it's fuel. The star swells up in size and then rapidly shrinks right down to become a white dwarf. As it shrinks, it's gaseous outer layers are left to just simply drift outwards continually expanding. This particular one is approximately 2 light years across.
It gets it's name the Owl Nebula from the two dark patches that kind of look like big beady eyes.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
60 - 2 minute exposures with the best 70% stacked in DeepSkyStacker with calibration frames.
All other processing done with StarTools.
It could be but it's not.
It's my new fitness watch.
Like many others, we have gained a few "pandemic pounds" we need to get rid of. We thought fitness watches might provide some motivation to get off the couch more often. My wife did the research and our son (the resident techie) helped us figure them out.
It incorporates more features than I can understand but learning how to use it has been a fun project.
It even vibrates every hour to suggest I get up and move around. It's surprising how quickly a sedentary hour passes these days.
Tracking my activities (steps taken, flights of stairs climbed, kilometres cycled or walked, etc.) really has provided motivation to be more active. It has been too easy to spend time indoors (and close to the refrigerator).
I know... we shouldn't need another digital assistant to get us off the couch, but so far this gadget has given us the boost we needed.
It's real fun to take photos of bowling. So many options!
This ended up explored, with a highest position of 72. Yay!
If you want to see other versions of it, here it is SOOC. And here, cross-processed (too gritty!). Did this for 365 Community's Monthly Techie Challenge.
Look for it 27,000 light years away in the constellation of Hercules. Also known as NGC 6341 it is one of the oldest star clusters in the Milky Way and was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1777.
With an estimated 300,000 stars 100 light years across it should be quite easy to find in a pair of 10x50 binoculars, the best month for observing it is July.
Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair Starwave 50mm & ZWO 120mm mini.
Best 90% of 120 light frames 60 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using DeepSkyStacker.
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Also known as Caldwell 3.
A barred spiral galaxy found in the constellation of Draco close to the dragons tail.
First discovered by William Herschel in April of 1793.
NGC lies 11.7 million light years away.
Data gathered on 5th of March 2025 at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
40 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias
Stacked and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
As I was leaving an office yesterday, I noticed this book on a table in the waiting room. At first I thought it was.a new issue of National Geographic magazine. Then I realized it is a book.
Time And Navigation is an unlikely subject for a waiting room. I thought - how wonderful, all the visitors must be techies!!
IMG_2953 - Version 2
Found in the constellation of Cygnus, the veil nebula lies about 2,100 light years away and spans a distance of roughly 110 light years.
It is the remnants of a star that died about 8,000 years ago.
The blast wave is still expanding out and as it comes in to contact and interacts with cooler gases we get the lovely colours.
This is a 4 panel mosaic captured from the Astronomy Centre close to Todmorden, UK.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400 with 0.7x reducer.
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+
Each panel is made up of twenty 2 minute exposures, gain 101, temp -10c.
Processed in PixInsight and Affinty Photo.
The 4 panels were combined using Microsoft ICE.
I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher
He wears dark glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing alright, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I've got a job waiting for my graduation
Fifty thou a year'll buy a lot of beer
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing alright, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise
I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing alright, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
Timbuk3.
I found a place to download some fonts, found the one that I thought would work, downloaded it and managed to install it. It only works with photoshop, but that's what I wanted it for today. Then I coloured the letters and set up the shot using a macro ring. If I wasn't busy the rest of the day, I'd re-set it up, and shoot it on my lightbox rather than the kitchen counter - I didn't 'see' that the pattern of the countertop made the white paper look off... I was needed in the kitchen, so yada yada yada... Have a great day everyone!
About 9,000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus lies a stellar nursery known as The Northern Lagoon Nebula and designated 7538 in the New General Catalogue.
So far at least thirteen of the newly forming stars within this nebula, known as proto stars, are estimated to have the mass 40x that of our Sun!
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
He picked up his first controller before he was even one year old... hahahaha
Tiger Woods of the Gaming World...hahahahaha
(Sorry son you Dad is a techie geek)
34,000 light years away towards the constellation of Canes Venatici lies the impressive globular star cluster Messier 3 (NGC5272). It contains upwards of half a million stars and is actually heading our way. M3 is moving towards our solar system at approximately 147.6 Kilometers per second!
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
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Bellissaria fun exploring on our ridable Sharks mix of Culprit Sharkipoo and Jian sharks
My friend David Barnes has been following my Black Rock/Brighton Marina series and has sent me some images he took in late 60’s/early 70’s showing the construction of the marina. For the techie’s amongst you the image was taken on Ilford HP4. Brilliant quality.
"Casual and Techie"
Jacket: Barbie
Top: Barbie
Pants: Barbie (Hunger Games Katnis)
Shoes: Barbie
Bag: Bratz Boyz
Eyeglasses: Barbie
iPad: Integrity Toys (Dynamite Girls Accessory Pack)
Sunset light gently highlighting the skyline across the Riddarfjarden water, taken from the city hall but needs viewing large to appreciate all the detailed buildings.
Techie info :- Nikon D750 with 14-24mm f/2.8 lens at f/7.1, Lee Super Stopper ND grad filter giving a 213 second exposure at 24mm, ISO 125. Taken at 20:34 pm as sun set.
A barred spiral galaxy often called the Vacuum galaxy.
Found in the constellation of Ursa Major some 60 million light years away, it's estimated to contain around 1 trillion stars.
Several other galaxies are also visible.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair 60mm guide scope & ZWO 585mc.
88 light frames 180 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias using WBPP in PixInsight.
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Nothing trashy about this at all, just a catchy name. In fact, I would love to park my RV here for the winter ... right in Juno Beach in Southeast Florida, and just steps away from the sand and Atlantic Ocean.
Techie Stuff: This 20-second exposure was taken in near pitch-black light at 6:43 am. f/8 22mm ISO 200.
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Referred to as Bode's Nebula, it is however, a spiral galaxy located close to the Big Dipper or Plough asterism in Ursa Major. It has a close companion galaxy M82 the Cigar galaxy, so close together, they are often imaged as a pair.
Lying about 12 million light years from Earth and about 90,000 light years across. Binoculars will pick up M81 as a faint fuzzy patch of light under reasonable sky conditions.
First discovered by a German astronomer by the name of Johann Elert Bode in 1774, hence Bode's Nebula. At the time no one had any clue it was a whole other galaxy.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 110, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
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Min Skin. BRABOS
Event Harajuku 原宿 → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Intimacy/119/65/2514
After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42
Min Blushes and Freckles. BRABOS
Event Harajuku 原宿 → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Intimacy/119/65/2514
After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42
Min Eyes. BRABOS
Event Harajuku 原宿 → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Intimacy/119/65/2514
After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42
.Altered State. // Baggy Puffer
JAKE / LEGACY M / KAIRO
MAITREYA / LEGACY F / EBODY /KUPRA
21 TEXTURE HUD INCLUDED
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.Altered State. // Techie Necklace and Earring Set
NECKLACE & EARRING SET
NORMAL AND ELF EARS
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Duck!!!!! (yeah I know it's not a duck....)
Techie info: Nikon D200, 300mm F2.8 VR, hand held, 1250/sec, f4.5, ISO 320
This diffuse emission nebula also designated SH2-86 in the Sharpless catalogue is the home of the young open star cluster NGC 6823, visible in the centre of the image.
The nebula is estimated to be just under 6,000 light years from us and can be found in the constellation Vulpecula.
Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
120s exposures.
Best 80% of 57 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Darn, this is how I am feeling: I just spent a very frustrating hour trying to figure out how to make layers in Adobe Elements 6, and how to merge two photos. Absolutey no success, unless elevating my blood pressure and learning several new swear words can be called success! SH...!!!! My book doesn't give basic info, and the web online advice does not either. I could not even get the layers palette to open or figure out how to see which photos I had already opened...grrrrrr..I need a tutor! Hug a Horse showed me once and made it look so easy (well, for her..she's the sister with the techie brain!)
Note :This is revised: I cropped the door window frame out as suggested by mississaugapictures
I also found some good BASIC info on About.com and printed it all off so I can try to follow the steps...wish me luck..!
Tied with MissyV110 as winner of "Our Memories Our Times" group, Domestic cat contest Feb/09
BRAT CAT OF THE WEEK, JANUARY 24, 2011
Apparently this was viewed over 37,000 times somewhere on reddit.com on Feb 2, 2011...wish I knew the actual source!
From the Sharpless catalogue, this is an emission nebula about 5,600 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 110, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
Melanie, me and Christina! I remember this very well, I think it was 1989. Recently back in touch with Chris - am so glad there's a picture of us from that time. Melanie (Christina's sister) now works as a fashion designer, Chris is a computer techie and does a lot of climbing and surfing in her free time. Both are very glam these days. I don't know what I do, really... but I still co ordinate my tops and accessories.
We're in my garden holding guinea pigs Pearl & Barney's babies. I'd forgotten about the rope ladder.
27,000 light years away in the constellation of Hercules, M92 is one of the brightest and oldest globular clusters we know.
Tightly packed together it contains a mind bogglingly 330,000 stars, you know, give or take.
The German astronomer Johann Elert Bode is credited with the discovery of M92 in 1777.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
70 exposures of 90 seconds at ISO 800 stacked together using DeepSkyStacker along with calibration frames.
All other processing done with StarTools.
One more tier up Proxy Falls. At 226' high, its easier to capture the nuances of the falls up close - by focusing on one section of the falls at a time.
Techie Stuff: 1 minute exposure at f/8, ISO 200 with Lee Big Stopper.
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NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula.
The open star cluster to the upper left is M52 the Salt & Pepper cluster.
Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, the Bubble Nebula lies within the boundaries of the constellation of Cassiopeia at a distance of 7,100 light years away. The bubble itself spans some 7 light years across. For perspective the nearest star to our Sun is only 4 light years.
The bubble is expanding at a phenomenal rate. There is a super massive star that is creating the 'stellar winds' causing the bubble to expand. It can be seen in the image to the upper centre within the bubble. These 'stellar winds' are moving at upwards of 4 million miles per hour!
The star is estimated at 4 million years old, so it's just a baby really. Though because it's so massive, it will burn through it's fuel much more quickly. NASA estimate just 10 - 20 million years before it goes BANG as a supernova.
The open star cluster M52, contains over 100 stars and is a little closer to us than the Bubble Nebula. Discovered by Charles Messier in 1774 it's distance is estimated to be somewhere around 4000-5000 light years away.
Image captured on Saturday 24th of September 2022 at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
35 light frames 5 minutes each at ISO 800
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias in DeepSkyStacker.
All processing done with StarTools.
Located in the constellation Cepheus and probably better known as the Wizard Nebula. I have to say, from the perspective we see it from 7,000 light years away here on Earth, it does look like a wizard wearing a pointy hat in a robe with baggy sleeves.
The NGC number 7380 is actually for the young 5 million year old open star cluster that has formed within the nebula.
Do you see the wizard in the image?
All data gathered on the 01/08/2024 at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
120s exposures.
Best 80% of 75 light frames.
Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
This edge-on spiral galaxy is found 50 million light years away in Draco. Nicknamed the Knife Edge galaxy it was first discovered by William Herschel in 1788.
Data was gathered at my bortle 7 back garden in Rochdale, UK.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair 60mm guide scope & ZWO 585mc.
150 light frames 180 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias using WBPP in PixInsight.
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Also known as The Crescent Nebula.
When you see some of the amazing widefield views of this nebula shot with triplet & quad refractors and narrowband filters it almost looks like a brain in space!
Found in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan, the Crescent Nebula is approx 25 light years across.
Around some of the edges you can just make out some faint bluish hue, these are oxygen atoms, these look really awesome in good narrowband images. One day I may have the money to go down that path.
Data gathered at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 110, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools
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Astoria Bridge 1 - www.grantmurrayphotography.com
I was in Oregon for two weeks over August into September this year for a family getaway. My wife took pity on me and encouraged me to go out and spend a bunch of time doing my photography. For anyone with a baby, you will know that free time and "me" time isn't in abundant supply.
I have seen so many images of Astoria Bridge, so trying to create something unique isn't easy...anyhoo, this is my contribution to the burgeoning supply of Astoria Bridge images...I hope you like it.
I used a 10 stop and 3 stop ND filter, plus a 3 stop hard grad ND filter, to get the right level of contrast in the sky, water and around the bridge and pilings.
The techie stuff:
Sony A850 D-SLR
Zeiss 16-35mm Lens
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/8
Exposure: 130 seconds
Focal Length: 16mm
Filters: Lee Big Stopper ND filter, Lee 3 stop ND filter and Lee 3 stop hard grad ND filter
Software: Photoshop CS6 and Google Silver Efex Pro 2
All thoughts and comments welcome.
Please visit my website to view more of my images: www.grantmurrayphotography.com
NGC 1499
Also known as the California Nebula.
Found in the constellation of Perseus, this emission nebula is about 1,000 light years away and roughly 100 light years from end to end.
Boring Techie bit:
Captured with an Askar FRA400 telescope
Mount used was an EQ6r Pro
Camera, ZWO ASI 533mc pro with an Optolong L'Enhance filter.
Altair 50mm guidescope with a ZWO 120mm mini guide camera.
All controlled with an Asiair plus.
Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo.
Today I was spinning at this club called Absinthe's Dive Bar & Afterhours located in Nightmare city. LGBTQ+ friendly, awesome techie design with a whole bunch of neon! Home for a wide variety of electronic music genres. This picture was taken at this very special - surprise - set presented by "House of Pandora".
So in case you are interested in hearing my tunes we have enjoyed just follow this link: www.mixcloud.com/PanziePandy/live-at-absinthes-dive-bar-and-afterparty-07052023...
I invite you to meet the club (and the city). Just search for "Lucid Dreams" and you will be there! and if you wanna check out my music live I will be back at the venue on July 12, 2023. For notices and more informations (as well as a free cab for the parties itself) you can join my very own DJ Group inworld, at the link: House of Pandora
This set of star trails just tickles me, on an eve when I had more or less decided I'm saturated with the challenges of such exercises. (1) I wasn't sure if I was going to get North, because I had some restriction on where I could put the tripod. This cool old stone structure was actually on a curve on a dirt road - to get any further away from it would put my tripod in the road (not that I expected anyone to be driving a rough old dirt road after dark) and I wanted to show the corner to get two sides of the structure, which meant pointing NE in this case. And I wanted to be low so the stars would show through the openings. (2) There are 3 - count 'em, 3 Iridium flares from satellites in this image. Two are really bright and longer than the 3rd, which is over the left side of the structure. Amazing stuff.
Techie notes: Canon 5D Mark III with 14mm F2.8L, ISO 2500, 30 sec @ F2.8 x 154, or about 1 hour 20 min. I also lighted the interior with a blue neon glow stick at the end but decided it took away from the stars so I dropped that image.
M106 can be found in the constellation Canes Venatici. Binoculars will show it as a smudge in a dark enough sky. However, an 8 inch telescope will start to reveal some detail. It's a wonder we see it at all, given that it's almost 24 million light years away from us. Maybe it's the light of the estimated 400 billion stars it holds within that helps us to see it.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
Containing around 500,000 stars M3 (Messier 3) can be found in the constellation of Canes Venatici. Given it's distance of 34,000 light years away, surprisingly you should be able to pick out M3 with a pair of 10x50 binoculars from say a bortle 6 or 7 sky.
Data gathered at Kielder Forest, UK.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong UV/IR.
Guiding Altair Starwave 50mm, ZWO 120mm mini & asiair+.
60 light frames of 120 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using WBPP in PixInsight.
Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2 & PixInsight & Affinity Photo.