.....but you have improved so much since retiring!
Telescopes (NFR)
- Thread starter SpeyrodGB
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Only because I invested in good binoculars to watch how you're catching all those fish across the lake.
wanderingrichard
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This popped up in my news feed. Thought of this thread and all the star gazers here.
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BTW, what happened to the Stuff In The Sky thread ?
Dwarf 3 Review: A $600 Smart Telescope for Astrophotography Beginners
Whether photographing wildlife or the night sky, here's my review of the high-tech Dwarf 3.
www.cnet.com
BTW, what happened to the Stuff In The Sky thread ?
This popped up in my news feed. Thought of this thread and all the star gazers here.
Dwarf 3 Review: A $600 Smart Telescope for Astrophotography Beginners
Whether photographing wildlife or the night sky, here's my review of the high-tech Dwarf 3.
BTW, what happened to the Stuff In The Sky thread ?
Gonna resurrect this over here, well because I can and because this is the only social media I'm on and can post stuff.
I'll start with our old friend, the Orion nebula (Running Man at about 10 o'clock), it is just so stunning. You can actually see the this nebula with a good pair of binoculars and get decent photos with a telephoto (anywhere from 200 to 600 mm) and tripod - this was taken with a Zenithstar 81 559 mm refractor scope with 0.8x reducer, so the equivalent of about 450 mm, Sony Alpha 77II (ISO 800; 30 x 180 second exposures):
And my latest visit to the...
I'll start with our old friend, the Orion nebula (Running Man at about 10 o'clock), it is just so stunning. You can actually see the this nebula with a good pair of binoculars and get decent photos with a telephoto (anywhere from 200 to 600 mm) and tripod - this was taken with a Zenithstar 81 559 mm refractor scope with 0.8x reducer, so the equivalent of about 450 mm, Sony Alpha 77II (ISO 800; 30 x 180 second exposures):
And my latest visit to the...
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Thanks. For some reason it didn't pop up in the search function.Gonna resurrect this over here, well because I can and because this is the only social media I'm on and can post stuff.
I'll start with our old friend, the Orion nebula (Running Man at about 10 o'clock), it is just so stunning. You can actually see the this nebula with a good pair of binoculars and get decent photos with a telephoto (anywhere from 200 to 600 mm) and tripod - this was taken with a Zenithstar 81 559 mm refractor scope with 0.8x reducer, so the equivalent of about 450 mm, Sony Alpha 77II (ISO 800; 30 x 180 second exposures):
And my latest visit to the...
Those things take pretty amazing images for the price point.This popped up in my news feed. Thought of this thread and all the star gazers here.
Dwarf 3 Review: A $600 Smart Telescope for Astrophotography Beginners
Whether photographing wildlife or the night sky, here's my review of the high-tech Dwarf 3.
BTW, what happened to the Stuff In The Sky thread ?
Unfortunately, the folks at the Canuck Observatory are on furlough, not associated with any of Elon's layoffs, but on extended leave since the Observatory moved to the forest land of the Poconos, so "Stuff in the Sky has been relatively silent of late. We hope to find a higher elevation clearing, but we would have to go mobile.
cheers
wanderingrichard
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Ok.
Well, add this to lunar anomalies. And I don't think it's SpaceX doing it.
www.iflscience.com
Well, add this to lunar anomalies. And I don't think it's SpaceX doing it.
People In North America Will See A Giant X On The Moon This Thursday
For a few hours, you can see the X along the terminator line.
www.iflscience.com