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@davehigginsnaples
Good shot. Very wide field.

Here's my best comet shot of the same era, #HaleBopp in 1995.

#comet #astrophotography #StarGeezer

@davehigginsnaples
Good shot. Very wide field.

Here's my best comet shot of the same era, #HaleBopp in 1995.

#comet #astrophotography #StarGeezer

@davehigginsnaples
Good shot. Very wide field.

Here's my best comet shot of the same era, #HaleBopp in 1995.

#comet #astrophotography #StarGeezer

@davehigginsnaples
Good shot. Very wide field.

Here's my best comet shot of the same era, #HaleBopp in 1995.

#comet #astrophotography #StarGeezer

@davehigginsnaples
Good shot. Very wide field.

Here's my best comet shot of the same era, #HaleBopp in 1995.

#comet #astrophotography #StarGeezer

I only have old (but decent) #telescope gear. I have a decently mounted 6 inch f/5 #Newtonian for example. The mount is a motor driven but manually controlled #EQ.

From what I'm seeing, to get to a point to get digital photos through an #AutoTrackingMount, I'd need a new electronically controlled mount, an #autoguider, and a #DigitalCamera capable of time exposures. Right?

That would easily cost 2k or more from what I see.

Am I seeing this right?

#StarGeezer

@noom
Nice image. I was just reading about your scope. Sounds like a flexible package.

I have just about the opposite type of refractor, a #60mm f/17 long (very long) focus refractor. It, like your scope, can deliver fine images, though I've only tried lunar/planetary photography. And I certainly cannot do the wide field photography you do.

Here's a shot of #Tycho through my 60mm using a stack of around 50 frames.

#StarGeezer

A very informative tutorial on #leptons.

#StarGeezer

Leptons: The elementary particles explained | Space https://www.space.com/leptons-facts-explained

A very informative tutorial on #leptons.

#StarGeezer

Leptons: The elementary particles explained | Space https://www.space.com/leptons-facts-explained

A very informative tutorial on #leptons.

#StarGeezer

Leptons: The elementary particles explained | Space https://www.space.com/leptons-facts-explained

A very informative tutorial on #leptons.

#StarGeezer

Leptons: The elementary particles explained | Space https://www.space.com/leptons-facts-explained

@catherineryanhyde
That's a terrific photo.

I tried the #RosetteNebula with the #MicroObservatory, and barely got an image. Their photo equipment is beyond most amateur astronomers' equipment, but is old. Plus the web site allows a max of a 60 second exposure. That just isn't sufficient for that target.

#StarGeezer

@photo
Clear atmosphere always helps. So from what I'm reading the objective lens is about 90mm in diameter?

You did better than my #M42 effort using the publicly available #MicroObservatory 6 inch Mak-Newts.

#StarGeezer

I tried for a couple of days to use the publicly available Micro Observatory to get a color image of the Andromeda galaxy. But during the times my request was enacted weather was always poor.

So I did the next best thing and went to their image archive for the last few days and found a time when the weather was clear, and found an r, g, b set of Andromeda images. I processed and aligned the components and was able to get the following color image of M31.

#M31 #MicroObservatory #StarGeezer

@jake_snowflake
I put to you a challenge. Here's my best #ETX90 photo of Copernicus crater. Have you taken one with your 80ED? It would be interesting to compare a 90mm #Maksutov #MoonPhoto with central obstruction to a clear #aperture #80ED.

#StarGeezer

@dabertime
Yes, #bygone days. I grew up in the 50s, highschool in the 60s. Grew up in a little Kansas (<300) town.

I recall remnants of a #WoodenSidewalk between the grocery store and soda fountain store.

I remember a couple of #HitchingRails outside the grocery store. We kids didn't know they were old hitching rails, just something to climb on.

For a time there was also an old fashioned dry goods store, with wall shelves around the store and #CrackerBarrels.

#Stargeezer

@beatrice
That is a magnificent presentation. The music fit the presentation well too.

#softwate
#computerprogramming
#computerlanguages
#StarGeezer

@beatrice
That is a magnificent presentation. The music fit the presentation well too.

#softwate
#computerprogramming
#computerlanguages
#StarGeezer

@beatrice
That is a magnificent presentation. The music fit the presentation well too.

#softwate
#computerprogramming
#computerlanguages
#StarGeezer

@beatrice
That is a magnificent presentation. The music fit the presentation well too.

#softwate
#computerprogramming
#computerlanguages
#StarGeezer

@beatrice
That is a magnificent presentation. The music fit the presentation well too.

#softwate
#computerprogramming
#computerlanguages
#StarGeezer

@claras_universe
You need a telescope that has a motorized drive, preferably one that has an equatorial mode.

There are a few nebula that you can get with just a piggyback mounted camera.

Beyond that you don't need a really big telescope, 4 inch or better, but a good tracking mount. You'll need some astro-camera that can look through the telescope.

Consider a Unistellar, expensive but all inclusive.

Heres' a piggyback image of Cygnus.
#piggyback
#AstroPhotography
#StarGeezer

@alrouen @AlexSanterne
That's a great shot.

Do you have some kind of auto-guider, as your tracking is spot on?

I don't have any way to take "through the scope" star images because of tracking. When I get the urge, I sometimes use the #MicroObservatory, a publicly available collection of about 6 Mak-Newts. They will send you a raw image through email, and you must reduce it.

A good option if you don't have astro-equipment, but have computer.

#DumbBell, #AstroPhotography, #StarGeezer

@nuncio @profoundlynerdy
True, perl doesn't compile down. But the regular expression processes are very fast, themselves being compiled.

I include the PDL, PGPLOT, and TriD routines, giving fast matrix math, 2D, and 3D plotting ability.

I use perl for sumulation and data analysis. I also use perl to do things like align and stack astro-images, like the one below of the Lunar Hyginus region captured with my NexStar 5SE.

#perl, #PDL, #PGPLOT, #TriD, #moon, #StarGeezer

@catherineryanhyde
#StarGeezer

I cannot compete with you on small field #AstroPhotography. I have only have #PiggyBack star photography capability.

To get your quality of images, I've used the publicly available #MicroObservatory. The half dozen or so telescopes are 6 inch Mak-Newts. One can schedule targets and get emails of raw images. I process them with a Yorick program.

It's a solution for those lacking equipment but having computer.

Here's my best #M15.

@catherineryanhyde

That's a very nice image of #M15. Your tracking was spot on. Can you describe the #AstroPhotography equipment used for this shot?

#StarGeezer