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#876 LukaszLu

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Posted 17 June 2022 - 11:24 AM

A very moody photo. Unfortunately - in my case, the moon also scrubs its belly on the horizon near this phase...


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Posted 23 June 2022 - 05:13 PM

Waning crescent with the '85 C8. Click for Astrobin.

 

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Posted 23 June 2022 - 05:15 PM

Moonkiller also does DSO occasionally.

 

This was only 37 minutes of integration at the wrong exposure. Still a cool galaxy:

 

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Posted 23 June 2022 - 05:17 PM

M27. 4.3 hours at the right exposure this time, although it was pretty windy.

 

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#880 LukaszLu

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Posted 23 June 2022 - 05:28 PM

Waning crescent with the '85 C8. Click for Astrobin.

 

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perfetto :-)


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Posted 23 June 2022 - 07:01 PM

Thank you, Lukasz.
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Posted 23 June 2022 - 07:59 PM

M27. 4.3 hours at the right exposure this time, although it was pretty windy.

 

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This is just great!

 

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Posted 24 June 2022 - 09:33 PM

Thanks, deSitter. Much appreciated.



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Posted 26 July 2022 - 12:43 AM

From few minutes ago. Wss imaging M12 and captured an interesting meteor in one of the frames.  This is cropped and reduced by 50 percent from original.  No darks or flats (with noise on this hot humid evening in Joshua Tree, CA.  A simple brightness applied, which shows the vignetting at the corners of the Panasonic Lumix full frame chip.  Taken with a Televue Renaissance 102mm f/8 brass refractor.  30 seconds at ISO 6400

 

 

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Posted 26 July 2022 - 09:13 AM

Very interesting trail!! Does that mean it had an asymmetrical heterogeneous composition and was tumbling? Or was it "skipping" on the upper atmosphere? Or was it an orbiting satellite that was rotating? Or was it an incompetent UFO pilot executing a poor landing?

 

Hmmmm.  Can't wait to hear what Terra says about this one! As a Geologist I am sure she will have some insight.


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 09:24 AM

Well, I'm a geologist, too!  But I've had a similar thought:  What if it's a tumbling satellite?  But it seems it would have to be tumbling rather rapidly for it to change brightness that radically.  But who knows?


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 09:26 AM

I will note that last month, while I was looking for Neptunian satellites just before dawn, I must have had 4 or 5 satellites cross the narrow field while watching the live view.  Starlink, I suspect, as they were faint (but annoying).


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 09:43 AM

I see a few trails in my astrophotos as well. Most are obvious and easy to explain; not like this one. I throw away about 1/4 of my exposures for one reason or another; many due to periodic error in my mount. One of the great advantages of our modern stacking technology is that such problems do not completely ruin our shots. In the bad old days of film, such a meteor track would be fatal to a half hour or longer exposure. Nowadays, it's just a little irritation... or an interesting conversation piece. 


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 09:47 AM

Even worse, from the film days, is guiding a 1/60th second exposure for an hour.  I've done that!


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 09:56 AM

M57 using my 1985 Meade 2080 LX3 OTA (admittedly mounted on a newer EQ5 mount) and taken with a Canon EOS M50:

 

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Focal Len: 1280mm, ISO: 6400, Duration: 6 secs
 
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Posted 26 July 2022 - 10:02 AM

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 10:51 AM

That’s a pretty typical satellite track for an object that is tumbling, usually a spent upper stage. Very cool. :)


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 06:04 PM

Even worse, from the film days, is guiding a 1/60th second exposure for an hour.  I've done that!

I was at the Texas Star Party in the 1980's and shot an entire "roll" of exposures with no film in the camera. Those would have been world-class publishable shots!! I can laugh about it now after all these years. :-)


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Posted 26 July 2022 - 08:09 PM

I was at the Texas Star Party in the 1980's and shot an entire "roll" of exposures with no film in the camera. Those would have been world-class publishable shots!! I can laugh about it now after all these years. :-)

Ouch!


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Posted 29 July 2022 - 01:30 PM

I had to laugh.....I have done that too!!!   Back in the film days we did not have auto guiders so it was much labor lost. )^8

 

I have also shot 4 hours of subs before I noticed I did not click the auto save button !   8^P


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Posted 03 August 2022 - 03:33 PM

Here's an image of tonight's Moon taken with my Tasco 8V, Zwo asi224mc and Svbony 685nm Pass Filter all on a Celestron SE Mount.

22,000 images captured, best 10% used.

 

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Posted 04 August 2022 - 10:15 AM

22,000 images... WOW! How long does it take to collect such huge amount of frames, and how long does it take to process them? I usually collect some 1,500 frames for the Moon - and it seems a huge challenge to my computer, especially if I try do apply 1,5x drizzle while stacking...



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Posted 04 August 2022 - 11:15 AM

22,000 images... WOW! How long does it take to collect such huge amount of frames, and how long does it take to process them? I usually collect some 1,500 frames for the Moon - and it seems a huge challenge to my computer, especially if I try do apply 1,5x drizzle while stacking...

 

Hi, the video was 14 minutes long, 31Gb, 25k frames, 22k useable frames.

 

It actually didn't take too long to process, I had made Autostekkert AP boxes' size to 104 and no drizzle. In the summer, I generally do the stacking as I continue to do visual and can do the sharpening / post-processing after coming in 


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Posted 04 August 2022 - 01:23 PM

Very interesting trail!! Does that mean it had an asymmetrical heterogeneous composition and was tumbling? Or was it "skipping" on the upper atmosphere? Or was it an orbiting satellite that was rotating? Or was it an incompetent UFO pilot executing a poor landing?

 

Hmmmm.  Can't wait to hear what Terra says about this one! As a Geologist I am sure she will have some insight.

Te way that the brightness seems to smoothly modulate along the path, I would guess it’s a tumbling satellite.



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Posted 06 August 2022 - 09:27 AM

Moonkiller. Click for Astrobin. Had to reduce by 50% because of some sensor tilt I have to tune out.

 

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