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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Mike Johnson]

Just in cast you guys don't know it's a super size moon tonight, have a look it really is bigger than normal due to its elliptical orbit it is about 50,000Km closer than normal in real terms about 7% bigger.

 

[ruston]

I have been watching it on and off for a few hours now. I love the moon, especially in winter.

 

[Julie.]

Just in cast you guys don't know it's a super size moon tonight, have a look it really is bigger than normal due to its elliptical orbit it is about 50,000Km closer than normal in real terms about 7% bigger.

Are you in to astronomy, or just a casual thing?

I really want to move to astrophotography, but overall it is just too expensive to do it properly, so I just observe with a 130mm newton in the garden.

 

[ruston]

Are you in to astronomy, or just a casual thing?

I really want to move to astrophotography, but overall it is just too expensive to do it properly, so I just observe with a 130mm newton in the garden.

I had a 500mm lens with a 3x converter when I was a lot younger . I used to love to scan the moon . It stemmed back from my upbringing on a farm, especially in the winter nights in the days of the heavy snow searching for missing livestock.

 

[freddo]

Went back to the place with the dodgy conduit alterations. Wish I could have taken some more photos of the newly installed electrics. They keep mentioning 'their electrician' but its bloody obvious they are DIYing everything. I did manage though to get a photo of their DIY attempt at installing a fire alarm system that they put in last week:

While we were there found more stuff while correcting the conduit bits I posted a few weeks back. The singles were joined in behind the plasterboard and totally crushed between the woodwork and the wall at the top and couldn't be pulled out:

We did sort the conduit though:

 

[Dartlec]

I had a 500mm lens with a 3x converter when I was a lot younger . I used to love to scan the moon . It stemmed back from my upbringing on a farm, especially in the winter nights in the days of the heavy snow searching for missing livestock.

I still have my Tamron 500mm mirror lens I bought in about 1987 - managed to get it adapted to my Olympus digital last year and it worked quite well on the moon. I lack the patience to set it up properly though.

I would set up a time lapse, but the cat would likely have it over before I left the room!

 

[ipf]

How to install emergency lighting, flex 13A plug and lay on the radiators. View attachment 83859

I was searching for any sign of the 'emergency' on the white board, at first.......design wise. ?

 

[ipf]

I have been watching it on and off for a few hours now. I love the moon, especially in winter.

Wow!......The moon's a balloon!!! ?

 

[ruston]

I still have my Tamron 500mm mirror lens I bought in about 1987 - managed to get it adapted to my Olympus digital last year and it worked quite well on the moon. I lack the patience to set it up properly though.

I would set up a time lapse, but the cat would likely have it over before I left the room!

Yes it takes a lot of time , but it is worth it.
I was using Minolta SRT 303 at the time. (memory might be faded) . You need a fast shutter speed or the Moon is a rugby ball lol.
My mirror lens was just a cheap one , If Tamron made converters , it was a Tamron as I had a few Tamron lenses, but most of them were Rokker.
For a cheapish mirror lens the prints were good. I did them in black and white and developed and printed them myself.

 

[telectrix]

Just in cast you guys don't know it's a super size moon tonight, have a look it really is bigger than normal due to its elliptical orbit it is about 50,000Km closer than normal in real terms about 7% bigger.

i prefer The Dark Side.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Are you in to astronomy, or just a casual thing?

I really want to move to astrophotography, but overall it is just too expensive to do it properly, so I just observe with a 130mm newton in the garden.

One of my many hobbies, I have a 250mm maksutov-cassegrain on a motorised polar mount set up in an observatory, I say observatory, but its really the workshop with a lift off lid pointing South, the prism mount eyepiece allows my Minolta to be used for Astro, quite satisfying, but pictures of star clusters leave me a bit cold, have some good photo's of the planets, the moon below taken 8th March 2007, if I remember correctly its 250 images taken over three hours, black and white on 1st Jan 2007 as a set up.

 

[Julie.]

One of my many hobbies, I have a 250mm maksutov-cassegrain on a motorised polar mount set up in an observatory, I say observatory, but its really the workshop with a lift off lid pointing South, the prism mount eyepiece allows my Minolta to be used for Astro, quite satisfying, but pictures of star clusters leave me a bit cold, have some good photo's of the planets, the moon below taken 8th March 2007, if I remember correctly its 250 images taken over three hours

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Ah,

It's actually DSO's that I am more interested in, my screens background image is m51, I bought some time on a telescope took several images, stacked and blended R,G,B,Halpha, OIII, AND SII (plus all the darks etc) and got a half decent result.

It's soo expensive though, I ended up throwing away around 40% of the images as satellites etc passed during the exposures.

I would love a decent refractor plus dedicated camera and filter set up on a GEM, but haven't really anywhere to set it up, so both not practical and too expensive for me

 

[telectrix]

It's actually DSO's that I am more interested in, my screens background image is m51, I bought some time on a telescope took several images, stacked and blended R,G,B,Halpha, OIII, AND SII (plus all the darks etc.

I know it don't ake much to confuse me but that does it in Spades. confused.com. ??

 

[Julie.]

It's actually DSO's that I am more interested in, my screens background image is m51, I bought some time on a telescope took several images, stacked and blended R,G,B,Halpha, OIII, AND SII (plus all the darks etc.

I know it don't ake much to confuse me but that does it in Spades. confused.com. ??

DSO = deep sky objects, usually other galaxies
M51 = The catalogue number of a DSO in this case the whirlpool galaxy

To create this sort of image you take loads of photos with a b&w camera with filters for the colours
R, G, B = Red, Green, Blue filters
Halpha = a narrow band filter based on the alpha line emissions of Hydrogen.
OIII = narrow band of Oxygen
S2 or SII = narrow band of Sulphur

These images are all blended together using colours, and so on to give an image.

The last bit is a type of telescope, camera, and mount

 

[telectrix]

bloody expensive hobby. to do all that I'd be getting through at least 6 cases of beer.

 

[Julie.]

bloody expensive hobby. to do all that I'd be getting through at least 6 cases of beer.

Yup, that's the problem!

Last year I decided to buy time again, this time I did m27 (dumbbell nebula)

(Not my image)
But made a complete b***s of it and used time with the wrong telescope - ended up with a field of view too large, and such a tiny image that it was all completely worthless!

Around 8 hours ($140) thrown away.

Took my ball in and sulking since then!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Brilliant images Julie the M51 is one of the best I'v seen, I have no doubt you know but for others the Space station goes across tonight: Time: Tue Mar 30 10:14 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 79°, Appears: 10° above WNW, Disappears: 79° above ENE

 

[telectrix]

surely if we were meant to see all these nebulae and stars and things, god would have stuck them a lot closer. bad enough paying £170 for a pair of specs that allow me to read number plates at more than the prescribed distance.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Tel that's the thing we where never meant to see them, they are moving further away as we speak, so to get there by the time we develop warp drive we will need Warp 20.

 

[telectrix]

maybe they were put so far away so that the Catholic Church could believe that the earth was the centre of the universe, then along came copper knickers with his telescope and almost got himself burnt at the stake for heresy.

 

[Julie.]

Tel that's the thing we where never meant to see them, they are moving further away as we speak, so to get there by the time we develop warp drive we will need Warp 20.

Ah...

But moving away at what rate??

Latest hubble "constant" anyone...

 

[telectrix]

Ah...

But moving away at what rate??

Latest hubble "constant" anyone...

a bit faster than my van at present. clutch being replaced as we speak.

 

[Julie.]

surely if we were meant to see all these nebulae and stars and things, god would have ....

Do you mean Musk and his cluster f*** of satellites that are being to block the sky preventing astronomy from the earth's surface, both amateur and professional

 

[Julie.]

a bit faster than my van at present. clutch being replaced as we speak.

The latest "crisis in van" vs "crisis in cosmology"?

 

[brianmoooore]

........... from my upbringing on a farm, especially in the winter nights in the days of the heavy snow searching for missing livestock.

Been there, done that, although probably not quite so often in my neck of the woods.

 

[Mike Johnson]

The latest "crisis in van" vs "crisis in cosmology"?

One far more important that the other.?

 

[Julie.]

One far more important that the other.?

Obviously...

The question is which one....

 

[telectrix]

my van must be...... a crisis many light years away , I'll be long dead before it gets here.

 

[DPG]

My cheap Aldi telescope can just about make a half decent quality image when I point it at the bedroom window across the road.

 

[Baddegg]

Oh dear
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That is f@&king awful! ?