[QUOTE=techtuts0;45554418]More images from the LT
M51 30x90"
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/M51-11.jpg[/t]
If you want to try processing this one, PM me and I will send you the FITS files
Centre of M51 46x90"
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/M51_core-6.jpg[/t]
Probably getting an Orion XT10 in a few days[/QUOTE]
What program do you use for processing?
[editline]1st August 2014[/editline]
1 sub of Andromeda at 300mm
[t]http://4st.me/5mRx6.png[/t]
Only got like 25 good subs or so, gotta take more until stacking.
[QUOTE=Hattiwatti;45558220]What program do you use for processing?
[editline]1st August 2014[/editline]
1 sub of Andromeda at 300mm
[t]http://4st.me/5mRx6.png[/t]
Only got like 25 good subs or so, gotta take more until stacking.[/QUOTE]
What I normally do is stack using DeepSkyStacker then convert to tiff using FITS liberator, then use Photoshop to tweak the colours and sharpen the image
[QUOTE=LarparNar;45557469][img]http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/07/comet_on_29_july_2014/14682189-1-eng-GB/Comet_on_29_July_2014_node_full_image_2.png[/img]
Closing in!![/QUOTE]
When does it officially enter orbit?
[QUOTE=Pelf;45562276]When does it officially enter orbit?[/QUOTE]
On the 6th I think.
Saw the summer triangle a few days ago.
The stars are coming back
Noticed a small streak in one of the subs tonight, possibly a meteor?
[t]http://4st.me/Y00s9.png[/t]
Also SERT 2 passing the sub while I was searching for Andromeda
[t]http://4st.me/w8O2a.png[/t]
[editline]4th August 2014[/editline]
Also managed to take another 40 good subs (played CS:GO, dew got the rest). Gonna take even more, though the current stack result makes me feel satisfied already.
[t]http://4st.me/rE03X.png[/t]
Decided to stack it with 135 subs. I like the result, although there's some annoying trailing visible on the left side. Could've probably taken care of it in Photoshop, oh well.
[URL="http://astrob.in/111490/0/"][IMG]http://astrob.in/111490/0/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[img]http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/08/comet_on_3_august_2014/14707891-1-eng-GB/Comet_on_3_August_2014.png[/img]
From 3rd August.
[IMG]http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable_height/public/pia18419_main_updated_1.gif?itok=m-A15eRm[/IMG]
67P in 3d
Presumably that's an asteroid, and not some weird attempt to render Yoshi in 3D.
Yeah we've all seen Joel's attempts.
[QUOTE=ironman17;45608559]Presumably that's an asteroid, and not some weird attempt to render Yoshi in 3D.
Yeah we've all seen Joel's attempts.[/QUOTE]
Actually, it's a comet.
Closeup on the Bubble Nebula from the LT
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/NGC-7635_close-4.jpg[/IMG]
[URL="http://www.astrobin.com/111869/"]Astrobin[/URL]
I tried to stitch together some moon pictures. Getting it to look good is so hard. The pictures themselves are quite blurry, I figured it's probably because there's so much warm air in the sky.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/njaKhT4.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=techtuts0;45620821]Closeup on the Bubble Nebula from the LT
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/NGC-7635_close-4.jpg[/IMG]
[URL="http://www.astrobin.com/111869/"]Astrobin[/URL][/QUOTE]
Pretty cool, my favourite nebula is the Horsehead nebula
[IMG]http://astro.nineplanets.org/twn/img/b33.jpg[/IMG]
First light from my xt10i by pressing my phone against the eyepiece
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/moon1.jpg[/t]
Not sure which part of the moon this is
[B]Edit: [/B]Turns out it is the region around the Clavius crater
[B][U]It's Supermoon day![/U][/B]
[QUOTE]It’s supermoon Sunday! We in astronomy used to call them perigean new moons or perigean full moons, that is, new or full moons closely coinciding with perigee – the moon’s closest point to Earth in its orbit. But, like almost everyone else, now we enjoy calling them supermoons. The name supermoon was coined by an astrologer, Richard Nolle, over 30 years ago. It was popularized and came to be the accepted term for most people only in the past few years. Are supermoons hype? In our opinion … gosh, no, just modern folklore. And they can cause real physical effects, such as larger-than-usual tides. The year 2014 has a total of five supermoons. They are the two new moons of January, and the full moons of July, August and September. Follow the links below to learn about the supermoons of 2014.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/12/perigean-spring-tide-new-full-NOAA-e1388335934325.jpg[/IMG]
[URL="http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-supermoon"]Source[/URL]
[QUOTE=SpaceX Facebook]Earlier today, in McGregor, Texas, SpaceX conducted a test flight of a three engine version of the F9R test vehicle (successor to Grasshopper). During the flight, an anomaly was detected in the vehicle and the flight termination system automatically terminated the mission.
Throughout the test and subsequent flight termination, the vehicle remained in the designated flight area. There were no injuries or near injuries. An FAA representative was present at all times.
With research and development projects, detecting vehicle anomalies during the testing is the purpose of the program. Today’s test was particularly complex, pushing the limits of the vehicle further than any previous test. As is our practice, the company will be reviewing the flight record details to learn more about the performance of the vehicle prior to our next test.
SpaceX will provide another update when the flight data has been fully analyzed.[/QUOTE]
[editline]22nd August 2014[/editline]
Image from here: [url]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/08/spacex-static-fire-asiasat-6-test-failure/[/url]
[IMG]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-08-23-03_13_13-gray-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com_ftpupl_kwtx_839c12f5211f48bea0bddacf61f246ac_Space-350x240.jpg[/IMG]
[editline]22nd August 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE]Elon Musk @elonmusk · 2h
Three engine F9R Dev1 vehicle auto-terminated during test flight. No injuries or near injuries. Rockets are tricky …[/QUOTE]
[editline]22nd August 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE]The loss should not come as a major surprise, given SpaceX had already admitted they intended to push their test vehicles to the limits.
“So we’re 5-for-5 testing on this Grasshopper. But, but that means we’re not pushing hard enough. We’ve got to tunnel one of those vehicle into the ground by trying something really hard,” noted SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell just over a year ago.[/QUOTE]
Video [url]http://www.kwtx.com/video?videoid=2913715[/url]
[quote]We’ve got to tunnel one of those vehicle into the ground by trying something really hard,” noted SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell just over a year ago.[/quote]
well i mean you gotta learn how not to land a rocket at some point that way you can understand what happens when things do go wrong (which they inevitably do)
[editline]23rd August 2014[/editline]
they did blow it up because of range safety reasons though
A couple of images from the Liverpool telescope that I processed recently
Wider view of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/NGC-7635-11.jpg[/t]
Stephan's Quintet
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5527081/Stephan%27s-quintet-5.jpg[/t]
Some long exposure pictures I took of the ISS:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/YHkbd[/url]
Bonus: [url]http://i.imgur.com/2VyPYWo.jpg[/url]
You can see the ATV as a faint line to the right of the ISS
[video=youtube;-MmWeZHsQzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs[/video]
not sure if this has already been posted in this thread but this is cool as shit
[QUOTE=TheKingofBees;45837183][video=youtube;-MmWeZHsQzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs[/video]
not sure if this has already been posted in this thread but this is cool as shit[/QUOTE]
Aren't these edited to hell sounds of receivers on probes picking up signals from solar wind hitting the bow shock of the magnetospheres around the planets or something. Sorry to burst your bubble
But anyway, it's so fucking cool when it's actually dark outside, finally
Been trying to take a decent picture of Andromeda, it's hard to get out the details. I think I'll head out tomorrow and take more pics:
Result after 39 pictures and Adobe Lightroom.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pV0aV7F.jpg[/IMG]
Auto contrast option with Photoshop .
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OqdgRZt.jpg[/IMG]
Got my first picture of the Milky Way band a few days ago.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/PvYaA32.jpg[/t]
I bring a sweet pic of a comet:
[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t31.0-8/10687469_10152246192220667_3967642677419191380_o.jpg[/img]
a truely amazing view, i wonder if they would risk an orbit right through the center, probably not since its already in an amazingly complicated orbit now
bumping with even better stuffs
[img]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/042/053/i02/rosetta-mission-selfie-comet.jpg?1410385882[/img]
someone's been getting on the selfie bug
[editline]11th September 2014[/editline]
i don't think hollywood could even make a more convincing picture
The reason why we struggle to get a few tons of payload into orbit is because is because the thrust also has to lift the fuel. If we didn't have to account for lifting the fuel, we could lift a lot more payload. Imagine if the Saturn V didn't have to lift 5.6 million pounds of fuel, but instead 5.6 million pounds (2800 tons) of extra payload ([I]every aerospace engineer in the world would cream their pants)[/I].
To me, this means the fuels we have right now are INCREDIBLY potent if they can provide so much thrust as to lift in excess of 2800 tons. But if we want to get serious about colonizing space, we're gonna need to develop fuels far more potent if we want to put enough tonnage into space. That is if we don't develop more elegant solutions to putting stuff in space besides exploding thousands of gallons of fuel.
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