Astronomy, Astrophotography

[RRoller123]

Just checking to see if any of our members are into Astronomy, Telescopes and/or Astrophotography? Picked up a tele and have been having a lot of fun. There is an amazing amount of educational material on youtube, (The Hubble "Deep Field Study" material is truly astounding) and the vastness of the solar system and beyond is truly humbling.

Just wish it would warm up.... it is terrible outside at night here.

Pete

[fiat218]

I seen Jupiter ones.

[Jimb]

Astronomy is far out!



Jim

[RRoller123]

The ISS just passed over Boston, visible to the naked eye. Quite humbling to think that we have people living up there. It passed from Left to Right in about 2 minutes.

Absolutely download the FREE Planetarium software from http://www.stellarium.org if you are interested in Astronomy! It is amazingly good, gives you a real, accurate, real time Planetarium right on your laptop, with a database of thousands of objects, including the Messier and Deep Space items, Globular Star Clusters, Various galaxies of interest, as well as the planets, their orbits, 100's of satellites, etc etc. All this stuff is viewable with a reasonably priced telescope, and you can actually find it with the help of this software. It is unbelievably good, and free.

Pete

[fiat218]

Astronomy is far out!



Jim

Oh lol

[81SPIDERMATT]

[81SPIDERMATT]

more night sky photography but this is my homemade star chaser ..... taking long exposure of the sky you will start to get trails after 30 seconds ... wanting more milky way and less trails .... found on the interweb this contraption ..... the whole thing screws to the tripod .... camera mounts on bolt coming out of the ball that is held fast with a plumbing fixture .... point the hinge at the north start and spin the handle 1 revolution per minute and it slowly lifts the top plate and compensates for the rotating earth ...this allows you to take a pic of the sky for longer periods of time without the tails ... lets more light in and much more impressive pics in the end ..... kinda cool little toy .... but quite tedious and delicate procedure to not make it wiggle ..... enjoy ...Matt

[RRoller123]

A home made German Equatorial Mount, That is unbelievable! Hahahah! Excellent.

"Ah. but a Man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a Heaven for?"
Robert Browning.

[81SPIDERMATT]

A home made German Equatorial Mount, That is unbelievable! Hahahah! Excellent.

"Ah. but a Man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a Heaven for?"
Robert Browning.

hahaha indeed ... thought you would enjoy that ... Matt

[brackie1]

My bought me a large telescope several years back. Really enjoy it, but a lot of the interesting viewing is in the winter and it's too cold for me to drag it out and set it up. Been thinking of building a small out building to house my scope and use it.

[bobplyler]

Years ago when I was working in an Air Force test facility, I got to use
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRec ... =AD0909032

[RRoller123]

That is very cool! Hubble has IR, UV and Visual scopes, the IR has shown the stars being born inside the Orion Nebula, that were not visible earlier, and many other previously hidden features under Venus' atmosphere, on Saturn, etc.

[RRoller123]

My bought me a large telescope several years back. Really enjoy it, but a lot of the interesting viewing is in the winter and it's too cold for me to drag it out and set it up. Been thinking of building a small out building to house my scope and use it.

Agreed, the cold does put a damper on it, but there is plenty to look at in Summer too. Build a shed like this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yYseL0Q1bo