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Woof Dogz.
I've been getting into astrophotography during the last few months, on a budget. I don't have a telescope but that doesn't mean I can't shoot a wide array of objects with the cheap but sufficient 18-55mm and 75-300mm Canon lenses. So far I only have pictures of the moon and four deep space pictures, becuase I rarely have access to sufficiently dark skies where light pollution isn't a problem for imaging faint nebulae or galaxies. The crucial part of the gear which I bought used is a motorized equatorial mount which tracks the movement of the night sky as the earth rotates, without which long exposures which are necessary in astrophotography wouldn't be possible due to star trailing. So you take many exposures of up to 3 or 5 or 10 minutes, depends on the conditions and sky tracking accuracy (the longer the exposures the more room for tracking error to become apparent in the photos), and then stack them all into a single photo using a program.
Anyway, here's what I managed to get so far:
Orion nebula at the bottom, Running Man nebula drectly above it, Flame nebula top left by the star, and directly under the same star a VERY faint Horsehead nebula (the slightly reddish area, the horse head itself is the faint black bulge on the middle of it).
A zoom of the Orion and Running Man nebula from the above picture.
Widefield shot of the Milky Way in the Cygnus constellation. The big red nebula near the bottom is the North America nebula, right by it the Pelican nebula, and the red stuff a bit ways to the upper right of these is the Gamma Cygni nebulosity. You can also see a lot of dark dust along the milky way itself which is called the Rift and obscures large parts of the inner Milky Way from view.
Widefield shot towards the galactic core in Sagittarius constellation. Since it lies in the direction of the center of the galaxy this is where the Milky Way is most prominent on the sky. Can see the huge Dark Horse dark nebula on the right, along with many small star clusters and other nebulae. Black on the bottom is a fence that got in the way, I was in hurry as dawn was near do I didn't want to reposition my rig (would have to polar align it again which takes some time to do).
This is a single 3 minute exposure of the Leo Triplet galaxies at 300mm. I only managed to take this one exposure before one of the two tracking motors on my mount died (a connector issue I think, which I'll either fix or buy a new motor for about 30 pounds). I planned on at least an hour of total exposure which would make this look like something, this three minute picture is pretty dim and s**tty, but it's still awesome to know that with a cheap lens like the Canon 75-300mm I can still get distant galaxies to show up in only three minutes.
And here's a widefield shot the entire Leo constellation (nothing special, my first widefield of the night sky). The brightest orange "star" is Mars.
Crescent moon and dark part visible due to earthshine, and on the left is Jupiter with two of ITS moons visible.
Hope to be able to post more and better pictures soon...
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The moment I read the thread title without even seeing the article I wanted to be him.
Lol @ hippie shirt, kinda out of place there
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Wow Fen, kickass posts.
Wait, that P-47 flew 150 miles with THOSE PROPS?
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Gec, this may come a bit late but
is THE airsoft store in Croatia. And for best buy I'd definitely recommend Jing Gong brand. It's a chinese brand but unlike what you may think it's VERY good quality and people swear by it, yet it is less expensive than overpriced Japanese and western brands, many say it's better quality as well.
I myself have not done airsoft but I've read about the subject a lot because I was interested in it at one point a few years back.
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Well, I can actually see both sides in this. It's not hard to understand why someone would want to physically kill the crews of bombers which have destroyed their cities and possibly killed family members. I don't support it but I can understand it. Then again if I was in that P-51 I'd do the same as well...
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This is where I live!
Wow, this is a beautiful video.
I guess he's using the updraft from the wind hitting the cliffs?
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Happy new year all
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Some glider love. You can install sound mods in the cockpit if you miss them
There was an amazing video of very low level ridge soaring somewhere in a rock desert (probably the US) but I can't find it now :/
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Merry Christmas all, have a pleasant holidays
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Hah, SKS. Probably every other household in former war affected areas of my country have one lying around.
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Ow!
Thoguh I must say it looks rather weird how the outer side of the door just got broke off like that.
Basically I see that you caught a small part of the truck that sticked out and when it got stuck in the gap between the doors is when the real party started.
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Guy has a Hero of the Soviet Union medal as well.
Always makes me shiver from excitement when they restore a first plane of its kind to airworthyness again. It's really strange how out of the two most produced warbirds like the IL-2 and 109, only a couple can actually fly today.
Does anyone know what kind of powerplant pulls that IL-2?
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Holy shit is all I have to say
Looking at it now it's fortunate the debris all flew away from the crowd, it could have been much worse.
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This is absolutely incredible
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Seriously I can't help to wonder how many more undiscovered wrecks there are in the channel sands, and burried around fields and forests in general. Would be the most epic thing ever to take a stroll along the beach and discover a damn Spitfire being unearthed by the waves! I would selfishly haul it away under cover of darkness and not share it with anyone, occasionally mummering something along the lines of "my precious" in its presence.
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Yes, that's indeed awesome! Old stuff with wings needs to fly, there should be a law about that.
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~ Salute Jim, see you in the skies...
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This has actually been done before, with more serious consequences
http://en.wikipedia....wiki/David_Hahn
Darwin award candidates both of them if you ask me. They obviously know a lot about radiation so the fact that they're still doing this and putting their health and that of others in danger speaks for itself. I there is absolutely no way one can do these things in a non-laborotory setting without irradiating themselves and everything around them.
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Hey Jim...
Not really good with this sort of thing, but as everyone said, thank you to the warm welcome to the ubizoo coops and later the Dogz, and for being a clockwork constant in our squad by providing the hosting which connected so many of us from around the globe and eventually culminated with many of us meeting in real life, in my case making the pilgrimage to Duxford to see all these dogz in person, have a great time and enjoy the things we love together at the airshow.
As I said once before I hold you in the utmost regard, you have demonstrated patience and selflessness, for example didn't hesitate to restart a mission for the 5th time of some of us didn't make it, and your conduct on the ubi forum as well has been the textbook example of good and sensible moderation. But above everything else, your persistence and good humor even after your condition became apparent, your commitment to the Danger Dogz, and the positive energy you radiated over teamspeak even in the days in which your condition must have been dire, were something that only someone of the highest quality of character could do.
I can say nothing more but that I really wish you spend the time you have left in as pleasant a condition as possible. I only wish I got to shake your hand in person.
~S~ BG
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looking up the second mountain to climb after Tryfan
mordor indeed
3 peaks in 6 hours
And after the limo that fruitbat rented broke down...
...we got a worthy replacement
Awesome trip, wish I could have stayed in wales a bit longer.
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I think this confirms my theory that the Welsh language is based on someone randomly punching the keyboard.
Tryfan, someone is up there on the left rock
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We're from the internet.
this one is awesome
We don't say "Rakija - connecting people" for nothing
Feels good man
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Here's a sheep, the markings are RAF I think...
Awesome pics Kev, I'll post mine tomorrow, because it's just too much work posting them at 5:30 am with too little blood in my alcohol right now...
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Really would like to, but I won't be around at that time :/
Someone record a track please...
A Sky Much Further
in Jim's Place
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Swep, yes I imaged the moon with venus and jupiter but kinda overdid it with noise removal and screwed up the image, and of course deleted the original beforehand because I'm just that stupid
so it's lost for good.
Jedi, its a Canon 500D with the lenses I mentioned, and the mount is a used Celestron ADM mount with external motors included, cost me some 120 pounds.
I also use Deep Sky Stacker program for stacking the photos and basic post processing, and then Photoshop for the majority of post processing since the raw files show only the few brightest stars and you need to play with curves a lot to bring out certain data (like dust/nebulae) and filters to subdue other data (like overexposed stars). There's a lot to post processing and I'm only getting the hang of the basic stuff.