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Observing Report 17th-18th November 2017 (Leonid meteors session 2)

Posted by on November 20th 2017 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Over 650 pics... plenty of clouds and more than a few planes, but only two Leonid meteors.
I'll post separate pics of them later, but for now here's a time-lapse of 45-second frames compiled to play at 2fps.
Leonid meteors at UTC 03:05:12 and at UTC 05:00:15
It's best viewed in full-screen after it has finished buffering.

Canon 1000D, 10-18mm zoom @ 10mm, F5.6, ISO 800, captured with APT v 3.33 (http://www.ideiki.com/astro/)
Post-processing with PS CS3, Irfanview, K3CCDTools3 and VDub.

 

Observing Report 16th-17th November 2017 (Leonid meteors session 1)

Posted by on November 19th 2017 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Over 650 pics... more than a few planes, but few meteors.
I'll post separate pics of them later, but for now here's a time-lapse of 60-second frames compiled to play at 2fps.
One Leonid at 02:33:24 and one sporadic at 06:26:04
It's best viewed in full-screen after it has finished buffering.

Canon 1000D, 10-18mm zoom @ 10mm, F5.6, ISO 800, captured with APT v 3.33 (http://www.ideiki.com/astro/)
Post-processing with PS CS3, Irfanview, K3CCDTools3 and VDub.

 

Where once there was a big tree…

Posted by on November 6th 2017 in In the garden
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... there are now small forests:

 

 

confused@november.uk

Posted by on November 4th 2017 in In the garden
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Some of this autumn's new strawberry plants, grown from this summer's runners, have decided that it's already springtime:

 

 

Astro Imaging – Works in Progress from October 2017 Observing Sessions

Posted by on November 2nd 2017 in Astrostuff, Pics

I've managed to get out for a few observing/imaging sessions recently. So far I've only stacked four sets of sub-frames in DeepSkyStacker, I've yet to throw any Photoshop Actions at them.

Here's what I'll be fiddling with when there's nobody looking:

 

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion.

 

The Double Cluster in Perseus.

 

IC1848 Soul Nebula in Cassiopeia.

 

M45 Pleiades in Taurus.

 

I'll post the finished articles as and when.

 

A sign of the times

Posted by on October 30th 2017 in LMAO!, Lost in translation
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Looks like I've fallen behind again. There's plenty to post about, but not always plenty of time to post.

I'll start at the stagnant end of the gene-pool and work my way across to cleaner waters.

Here's your starter for ten:

 

 

 

It's heartening to see that someone else tried to apply a suitable spelling correction.