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Comet Photography Contest for Apr/May/June!

Started by Tom L , Apr 15 2004 04:40 PM
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#26 QiuHY

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Posted 13 May 2004 - 11:30 AM

2001Q4 May 12,2004 Beijing China
QHY 3.3mega cooled CCD + Russian 135mmF3.5 Lens
HYGP mount autoguided
Exposure 270 sec.Gain=166
at a mag. 5 sky (30km from Beijing City)

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#27 synner

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Posted 17 May 2004 - 01:47 AM

Here's Q4 NEAT and M44 from the 15th of May, 21:05UT.

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Taken from light polluted Harrow in the UK.
75x10s unguided exposures with a ToUcam Pro SC3 and a 52mm SLR lens,
piggy-back mounted on a GM-8. Recorded with Keith's AstroImager, aligned and stacked with Keith's Image Stacker, final tweaks with the Gimp.

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Posted 17 May 2004 - 01:56 AM

Here's another one of the comet Q4 NEAT from 040516 21:40UT
Nick King
Taken from light polluted Harrow in the UK.
60x20s unguided exposures with an 80mm short tube refractor and a 0.5x focal reducer, mounted on a GM-8. Recorded with Keith's AstroImager, aligned and stacked with Keith's Image Stacker, final tweaks with the Gimp.

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#29 Gary BEAL

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Posted 18 May 2004 - 05:26 AM

Nice to see you guys joining in.
First time I have spotted Linear T7, and in the twilight morning sky.
D100 Nikon, at ISO1000, 105 seconds, 300mm Nikkor lens.
Hamilton, New Zealand. 17th May, 2004, 1758UT. ()557 local time). Then after rising early I found I was able to see it in the evening sky as well, but the elements were against me getting any successful shots. Maybe tomorrow.
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#30 Gary BEAL

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Posted 18 May 2004 - 05:33 AM

And to show the Neat Q4 with the Beehive this one from a few nights previous.
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#31 Gary BEAL

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Posted 21 May 2004 - 08:19 PM

Hi Guys,
last night LInear was better than ever.
Same equipment as before, with 120 seconds exposure at ISO1000.
More to come in the next few days.
Regards,
Gary

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#32 Charles

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Posted 23 May 2004 - 08:35 PM

Very Nice Gary!

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Posted 23 May 2004 - 10:29 PM

Charles,
I have produced (from 12 images taken last night) an animation of the comet's movement. It is about 600kbs, and I can't get it any smaller. In a week or so I will have the webpage updated and it will be there, but until then I am stuck with this sized file. Any way I can post it here?
Gary.
 

#34 Charles

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Posted 23 May 2004 - 11:03 PM

I guess you could post it if you made it into an animated Gif File. If that does not work post a link to the file in here so we can see. I can't wait to see it.

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#35 Gary BEAL

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Posted 24 May 2004 - 02:37 AM

Hi Charles,
it is an animated gif file, but still a biggie.
I will give it a crack, and if that doesn't work I will post a link, once the link is actually done. Nothing spectacular, but nice just the same. Most of the credit goes to the 19 year old slave who turned the 12 tiffs into an animation.
Gary

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#36 Gary BEAL

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Posted 24 May 2004 - 02:40 AM

Hey Charles,
by George, it worked,
More hopefully to follow,
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#37 synner

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Posted 25 May 2004 - 12:00 PM

That's wonderful Gary! Excellent work.

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Posted 27 May 2004 - 09:27 PM

May 22, Neat
QHY 3.3mega pixel cooled CCD+ Russian 58mm standard lens

big image at
http://qhy.lamost.org/pic/stack1s.jpg

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Posted 27 May 2004 - 09:31 PM

May 23, Neat
QHY 3.3mega pixel cooled CCD+ Russian 135mm lens

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#40 Gary BEAL

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Posted 28 May 2004 - 02:27 AM

Hi All,
as promised the dust off with the website is done, try it at www.2fdesign.co.nz/zeissnut
For the animation freaks there are four in total.
Regards,
Gary
 

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Posted 08 June 2004 - 04:16 PM

Neat Buzzing The Beehive
Merseyside UK. 22.10pm
7X30s with the 300D iso 1600 at prime focus of the Skywatcher 80mm f5 piggy backed on the Lx90 in Alt/Az
Aligned and stacked in ImagesPlus and finished in PS8 with artificial flat subtraction, levels and curves.
Cropped and re sized to 33%.

Steve Jones

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