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Observing Report 10th – 11th October 2024 (Aurora borealis)

Posted by on October 16th 2024 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Over the years we've been to Iceland, The Faeroes, Norway, Denmark, the far NW of Scotland and various dark-sky locations... each time we've had reasonable expectations of seeing the aurora borealis... and each time we didn't see it. Who would have thought that we'd get our first ever view of it from our back garden?

Here you go. ~3 hours condensed into a few minutes. Canon 1000D, 10mm, ISO 800, 15 second subs. 600 subs converted CR2 > tif in PS, resized to 1620x1080 in Irfanview, 4fps avi created in MakeAVI. It's best viewed in full-screen as it's 1080px high. Enjoy.

Note to self: clean the lens next time.

 

Observing Report 30th January 2023 (ISS Lunar Transit)

Posted by on January 31st 2023 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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https://transit-finder.com/ flagged this transit a few days ago. I wasn't too confident that it would happen, as the ISS sometimes gets boosted or gets redirected at short notice to avoid space debris, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.

Everything turned out well - the ISS was there as predicted, and the weather-gods were on my side. The ZWO ASI174MC camera on the 80mm refractor scope captured 27s of full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS. I reprocessed it 30fps and then hacked out this 10s clip which covers a mere 1.7843s of real-time. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p:

 

Observing Report 22nd October 2019 (Once in a Lucky Blue Moon)

Posted by on October 22nd 2019 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Here you go - an ISS Lunar Transit from 22nd October 2019. Lucky because the weather has been, and is forecast to be, crap. Blue because it was a daytime transit.

ZWO ASI174MC on the C80ED-R refractor, 1936 x 1216 px raw .avi data at 160 FPS converted to 16 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.

 

Observing Report 18th August 2019 (a better ISS Solar Transit)

Posted by on August 18th 2019 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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I thought that my recent unscheduled stay in hospital would mean missing this morning's ISS Solar Transit, but I was let out yesterday after only 10 days.

There were hardly any gaps in the cloud cover, but I got set up anyway. Luckily, a small gap appeared at just the right time and for just long enough to get the job done. The recently-acquired ZWO ASI174MC made light work of capturing full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS.

Here's a clip, slowed to 4 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.

 

And here's a cropped stack of the ISS. I think that it's a reasonable first effort:

 

Two shades of grey

Posted by on April 19th 2019 in In the garden, My vids, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Black(ish)bird:

Boing

Posted by on December 17th 2018 in In the garden, My vids, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)
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Not quite a Flying Fox, but kudos for effort:
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