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I just took the photo when I came from yoga by bike. The 7.5 miles are fun if you can take your time and enjoy the nice weather
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I just took the photo when I came from yoga by bike. The 7.5 miles are fun if you can take your time and enjoy the nice weather
1AM July 12, 2022
https://i.imgur.com/JqHlLxb.jpg
holy cow. That is amazing. I was looking at the same moon last night, but certainly would not have been able to capture it on my iPhone this way.
Not to get all metaphysical, but there's something about all of us sharing the same moon every night that binds us together. It's almost if we are sharing one big backyard, looking up at the same sky.
I'd say give a copy to the neighbor, but that would be a been there, done that, had the space suit thing.:laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
I received via UPS today a long-awaited new camera lens purpose-designed for deep-sky astrophotography.
This guarantees at least two weeks of overcast weather, typically.
So I decided to test it for shipping damage at sunset today, shooting at some islands far far away on the horizon:
https://i.imgur.com/MntlmyW.jpg
Ya :-). I have a photo he gave me that he took of the Earth-rise over the moon, during his Apollo 8 mission. It will take a while to meet that standard.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Lovely shot; no apparent shipping damage.
Beautiful, bae! Seems to have arrived in good shape!
I like that idea. Beautiful image of the Moon, bae.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
These photos are all wonderful, people!
Somewhat clearer skies tonight, North America Nebula from my driveway, single 3.2 second exposure.
https://i.imgur.com/j9lDnJE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n3Wy1ri.jpg
Dog got me up in the middle of the night. Northern Lights with night mode on iPhone.
Wow. I might use that photo as an inspiration for a watercolor exercise.
Here's a rotated and cropped inset of the nebula photo there, so you can see where they got the "North America" part of the name from:
https://i.imgur.com/Fev4qMS.jpg
I just love the northern lights photo!!! Seeing them live is the only thing (currently) on my bucket list.
Tonight, an experiment with an old-timey Petzval lens - it has incredible distortion built-in, which makes for sort of an artsy effect without bothering with an Instagram filter :-)
https://i.imgur.com/WBVn12K.jpg
Another experiment from last night. 1840s-style astronomy :-)
https://i.imgur.com/v7D9X1M.jpg
bae, thank you for these photos. I've enjoyed them immensely.
I was setting up a small telescope last night to make some observations, and as is my practice I was assembling and testing the rig before my real target was even visible. It was 10:30PM, and not dark enough yet for any deep sky targets.
So, I pointed the thing at the Tsawwassen cargo terminal, 27.5(!!!) miles away from my deck here, across the border into British Columbia.
https://i.imgur.com/QutrAf3.jpg
Bigger telescope tonight.
20 minutes of tracked exposure.
The Dumbbell Nebula, Messier 27. 1:30AM, July 24, 2022
A nebula surrounding a white dwarf star, 1360 light years from my driveway. Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
https://i.imgur.com/UZGLPUl.jpg
Beautiful pictures, Bae. I am surprised that the cargo terminal looks so lovely.
(2:45AM, July 24 2022, Orcas Island Code Compliance Office)
A long long time ago, someone had a very bad day!
The Little Ring Nebula. There's a bit of the star's core in the center, surrounded by, well, the rest of the star and what used to be the neighborhood before the Vogons put in the freeway bypass.
Don't skip those local Planning Commission meetings!
https://i.imgur.com/aTyjaeT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IvCIV6L.png
Those damned Vogons! And their horrible poetry! :laff:
2AM, July 26, 2022
Looking right above Patos Island early this morning from Mt. Constitution:
Bode's Galaxy (M81) and its nearby friend the Cigar Galaxy (M82).
They are gravitationally interacting with each other, causing the Cigar Galaxy to be forming lots and lots of new stars. Much akin to how proximity to Seattle causes more homes to be built here on Orcas Island ��
https://i.imgur.com/B1YTkLx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/fdyHg1u.jpg
Madrona Point, Orcas Island, 11:40PM July 26, 2022
Photo taken with just an iPhone(!), while out playing with the bioluminescent dinoflagellates on the dock.
https://i.imgur.com/ol88tqi.jpg
The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946)
3AM, July 28, 2022
https://i.imgur.com/ZVjiHoj.jpg
Last night, from my driveway:
Saturn
https://i.imgur.com/MCWoxQ6.png
Jupiter, Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto
https://i.imgur.com/qZWfgCq.jpg
Both single exposure images.
OMG.. your lens must be an upgrade from my iPhone X camera :).
BTW, a couple of weeks ago, we witnessed Musk's Starlink satellites in the sky. We initially thought it was a meteor, but the next day, we learned that the lights were over Seattle and Portland and Ontario, too! We just happened to catch them!!
Jupiter and the moons was with a 500mm lens in a crop-sensor body, so basically an 800mm lens.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Saturn was an 800mm lens, with a 2x teleconverter, making it a 1600mm lens. Then I used the crop-sensor body, giving me the equivalent of a 2560mm lens.
Luckily both planets are quite bright, so short exposures with the fairly slow lenses I was trying worked, as a test.
The observing conditions were with some moisture, heat, and wispy clouds in the atmosphere, which makes things a pain. My plan once I get the gear dialed in is to take about 3000 images of each planet, then have the computer throw out the 90%+ that will be blurry due to atmospheric conditions, then have the computer stack up the "good" images.
The initial single-frame experiment shows promise.
BTW, a couple of weeks ago, we witnessed Musk's Starlink satellites in the sky. We initially thought it was a meteor, but the next day, we learned that the lights were over Seattle and Portland and Ontario, too! We just happened to catch them!![/QUOTE]
Those are some amazing shots, bae!
So is Bae trying to make the point we wasted money on the James Web telescope?:laff:
Tonight here. AQI is 150+ from mainland wildfires blowing this way.
https://i.imgur.com/MsYIpLV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/D3B9UCZ.jpg
Yep. That's it. Was working on a project this afternoon out on the deck & had to go in. My eyes were bothering me.
Boy it makes for pretty colors tho!
I ignored my cell messaging me, and I finally checked it "This is Sky Valley Fire--Disregard evacuation alert sent 315PM on Bolt Creek Fire. This alert was for part of index only." Good thing I wasn't in imminent danger. I only have a vague idea of where Index is, and fortunately, it's not nearby. A friend's sister-in-law and her husband have been evacuated from Clackamas County, east of Portland. It's nerve-wracking for people in the area. This seems to be a re-do of 2020's wildfires.
Somehow I managed to delete my post. I meant to correct the name of the fire down in Oregon--- the Cedar Creek fire.
Our air quality is 209. There’s a fire about 100 miles away in California.
Experiencing heavy rain…. told if water standing in road to turn around so as not to drown….. Crazy world we live in!
Can't believe I'm saying this, but I wish it would rain. So much.
Wow, just checked the air quality index for where I live and it is 3.