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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.

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.

 

The Phantom Frisbee galaxy.

Lying at about 50-60 million light years away, NGC 3079 can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear).

It is an edge-on spiral galaxy that has what looks like a bubble for a core. This bubble is driven by intense star formation within the core.

Also visible are NGC 3073, a dwarf lenticular galaxy thought to be interacting with NGC 3079 and a small spiral galaxy PGC 28990.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 aplanatic coma corrector. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount. Altair 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.

60 exposures of 180s each.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

It's real fun to take photos of bowling. So many options!

 

View on black.

 

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.

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.

   

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!!

 

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Bellissaria fun exploring on our ridable Sharks mix of Culprit Sharkipoo and Jian sharks

 

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.

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)

Hey, is that a camera?

"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)

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.

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.

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.

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Min Skin. BRABOS

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Min Blushes and Freckles. BRABOS

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After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42

  

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.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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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!

View On White

 

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

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.

Often referred to has the little dumbbell nebula, M76 lies approximately 3,400 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.

M76 is a planetary nebula, expanding gas clouds being shed by the dying star at the core.

 

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" with 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.

40 exposures of 180s each.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked and processed in PixInsight.

 

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.

Futaba retreats into the beats.

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Created for the #FlickrFriday theme, #MUSIC.

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.

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

civic center plaza - san francisco, california

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.

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.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

  

I wonder if a techie from SJ will use AI to hijack my photo.

Nathan blitzes the techie rock garden

DAP Golden Age

3 of 4

 

к 105-летию папы:

1950 год, папа - заведующий производством.

Кроме красивого лица моего молодого отца на этой фотографии, которое я не помню, потому что была слишком мала, как технаря меня привлекает здесь телефон того времени. /

 

pour le 105e anniversaire du père:

1950, papa - directeur de production.

A part le beau visage de mon jeune père sur cette photo, dont je ne me souviens pas car j'étais trop petit, en tant que technophile, je suis attiré ici par le téléphone de l'époque. /

 

to the 105th anniversary of the father:

1950, dad - production manager.

Except for the handsome face of my young father in this photo, which I don't remember because I was too small, as a techie, I'm attracted here by the phone of that time.

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

Its definitely moving and shaping into something...I sort of capture all of them at incremental instantances. This one does look alive like Farl put it. i captured it while morphing. I love the expansion in this one. But more the lite blue/Topaz color. X-D)

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.

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I was in San Fran a couple of weeks ago for the "A Slice of Time - SF Bay Photowalk 2013". This image is from the Saturday morning when I co-led the Architecture workshop with the awesome Steve Landeros, Brian Day and Nathan Wirth.

 

This is an image of the less famous Bay Bridge and Pier One, along the Embarcadero in San Francisco looking towards Yerba Buena Island.

 

It was an amazing day and a joy to see so many photographers lined up along the waterfront. I loved every minute of being there and the fact that I got an image or two that I'm really happy with is a huge bonus.

 

I used a 10 ND filter, and stacked a 3 and 1 stop hard grad ND filter, to get the right level of contrast in the the clouds, water and around the pilings.

 

The techie stuff:

 

Sony A850 D-SLR

Zeiss 16-35mm Lens

ISO: 200

Aperture: f/8

Exposure: 193 seconds

Focal Length: 16mm

Filters: Lee Big Stopper ND filter, Lee 3 stop and 1 stop hard grad ND filter

 

© Grant Murray Photography Copyright

 

All thoughts and comments welcome.

 

Please visit my website to view more of my images: www.createwithlightphotography.com/

It was first discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.

It's believed that there are over 500,000 stars within this cluster!

That's over half a million Sun's packed together! Can you imagine living on a planet orbiting one of them? You'd need some serious sunblock!

 

May is the best time of year for observing this jewel of the night which lies some 34,000 light years away from us.

Taken on 23/03/2022 Newhey, Rochdale.

 

Boring techie bit below for those interested:

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

60 exposures of 102 seconds at ISO 800

Stacked together with 20 each of Flats, Darks, Dark Flats & Bias calibration frames.

Processed with Deep Sky Stacker & StarTools.

I got my dad the mocha version of the n-series n7370 phone - the gold one is mine and the brown one's his. He's not exactly a techie, and while he's pleased with his new toy, has no idea what to do with it. Am going to have to explain to him how to bluetooth once he settles into its interface.

Not personally being very techie with photography .. does anyone know what caused that blue edging on the petals, or how to avoid it ?

"The Poet's Apprentice" - www.createwithlightphotography.com

 

On rare occasions you meet someone by happenstance that has a profound effect on your life. Nathan Wirth is one of those people and my life is all the richer for it. Nathan took me under his wing as his Long Exposure apprentice in early 2011 and has played an instrumental role in the development of my art. His limitless patience, support, constructive feedback and friendship have been life changing for me and I cannot truly express my gratitude. Than you again my dear friend, you are a beautiful soul and this humble offering is dedicated to you!!

 

This image was captured on the evening before the San Fran Photowalk started. I spent an amazing evening on the side of this hill in Novato with my great friends John Kosmopolous , Athena Carey and Cameron Siguenza , staring in wonderment at Nathan's "Poet's Tree". What a treat that was!! It was great to finally meet John, Athena and Cameron in person...you guys and gal are the best!!

 

The techie Stuff:

 

ISO: 125

Aperture: f/8

Exposure: 75 seconds

Focal Length: 24mm

Filters: Lee Big Stopper 10 stop ND filter, Lee 3 and 1 stop hard grad ND filter

 

All thoughts and comments welcome.

 

Please visit my website to view more of my images: www.createwithlightphotography.com

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Davenport Pier 3 - www.grantmurrayphotography.com/

 

I am working my way through the images I created in California back in August this year. I injured my shoulder, slipping on some rocks when I was there and it is only now coming right...fun times.

 

There are a small handful of folks in this world that I categorize as kindred spirits and lifelong friends, with boundless amounts of kindness and patience. Steve Landeros (maxxsmart on Flickr) and Nathan Wirth (nlwirth on Flickr) are two such incredibly talented individuals. They were such amazing hosts and gave up a loooot of their personal time to hang out with me and drive me all around California. I get to know them better every time I'm out there and our friendship deepens with each visit. Words cannot express my gratitude for your kindness, friendship and artistic inspiration, Steve and Nathan, I feel truly blessed!!

 

This image was created in Davenport. Steve kindly chauffeured us around all day and we arrived at this spot, which had great potential. The sun was high in the sky and created more dramatic contrasts, which as you well know, I'm a huge fan of :-)

 

The techie stuff:

 

Sony A850 D-SLR

Zeiss 16-35mm Lens

ISO: 100

Aperture: f/16

Exposure: 158 seconds

Focal Length: 16mm

Filters: Lee Big Stopper 10 stop ND filter, Lee 3 stop hard ND filter and a Lee 3 stop soft grad ND filter

Processing: 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

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