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#21
Astrophotography / Re: Test
Last post by Carole - Jun 24, 2025, 16:57:16Well done Michael you have mastered uploading and posting.
It's a good image from a Smartscope, Not sure how long the exposures were or how long you exposed, but post-processing with Pixinsight will make a lot of difference, though I appreciate that is another kettle of fish and needs to be learnt, but as you work in IT I am sure you will make good headway.
Roberto can best advise on PX, I only use Photoshop.
It's a good image from a Smartscope, Not sure how long the exposures were or how long you exposed, but post-processing with Pixinsight will make a lot of difference, though I appreciate that is another kettle of fish and needs to be learnt, but as you work in IT I am sure you will make good headway.
Roberto can best advise on PX, I only use Photoshop.
#22
Astrophotography / Re: Test
Last post by Dave A - Jun 24, 2025, 16:56:52Michael
well done - nice image
well done - nice image
#23
Astrophotography / Re: M8 Western portion
Last post by Dave A - Jun 24, 2025, 16:55:11Paul
That's a lovely image with great colours too
I am not keen on all Seestar images being taken in Portrait but I thought we were able to change the image to Landscape
That's a lovely image with great colours too
I am not keen on all Seestar images being taken in Portrait but I thought we were able to change the image to Landscape
#24
Astrophotography / Test
Last post by MGriffiths - Jun 24, 2025, 16:48:23Just testing that I can create a link to my first image in the gallery here:
#25
Astrophotography / Re: M8 Western portion
Last post by Carole - Jun 24, 2025, 15:27:57Great job Paul. NIce lot of info on the gallery too.
QuoteIt would be nice to orient the sensor in the SeeStar S50Was thinking th same thing. Guess you'll have to do a Mosaic. I must say I do dislike the Smartphone orientation of these smartscopes, shame they could not have made a Square sensor.
#26
Astrophotography / M8 Western portion
Last post by Whitters - Jun 23, 2025, 23:47:59It would be nice to orient the sensor in the SeeStar S50.
Messier 8 taken with the #seestar S50 in a 5h 27m 20s exposure, 20s subs.
Processed in PixInsight. More details in Gallery entry.
Messier 8 taken with the #seestar S50 in a 5h 27m 20s exposure, 20s subs.
Processed in PixInsight. More details in Gallery entry.
#27
Astrophotography / Sh2-92
Last post by Carole - Jun 20, 2025, 15:51:20This was challenging as I imaged it on a dual rig over three nights from Bortle 7/8, but unfortunately my cameras were both suffering from dew (one worse then the other) having not imaged for a while and left in the observatory. So had to changed the dessicant and binned much of the data. (I don't mean binning as in capture/processing, I mean binning at chucking it in the bin lol)
Atik460EX and ED80 * ED72 on HEQ5 (dual rig)
Ha 44 x 600 (3h 30m)
Oiii 44 x 300 binned (3h 10m)
Sii 41x 300 binned (3h)
Total imaging time (after chicking data away) 14h 50m in Bortle 7/8 almost Summer solstice 9 hours 40mins
Atik460EX and ED80 * ED72 on HEQ5 (dual rig)
Ha 44 x 600 (3h 30m)
Oiii 44 x 300 binned (3h 10m)
Sii 41x 300 binned (3h)
Total imaging time (after chicking data away) 14h 50m in Bortle 7/8 almost Summer solstice 9 hours 40mins
#28
In the Media... / SpaceX's Starship explodes aga...
Last post by Rick - Jun 19, 2025, 17:03:56SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground
Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero
SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth.
The latest setback happened just before a planned static fire this morning. The rocket was fueled ahead of a test firing of its Raptor engines, but abruptly exploded.
The explosion occurred on a test stand, and it is unclear how much damage the facility sustained. According to SpaceX, "a safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for."
More: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/spacexs_starship_explodes_again/
Also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1k87l7nre4o
Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero
SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth.
The latest setback happened just before a planned static fire this morning. The rocket was fueled ahead of a test firing of its Raptor engines, but abruptly exploded.
The explosion occurred on a test stand, and it is unclear how much damage the facility sustained. According to SpaceX, "a safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for."
More: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/spacexs_starship_explodes_again/
Also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1k87l7nre4o
#29
In the Media... / ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge fi...
Last post by Rick - Jun 19, 2025, 16:25:52ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter
Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works
Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "missing" matter might be lurking.
A third of "normal" matter in the universe is "missing." It's needed to make scientists' models of the cosmos operate as postulated, but has proven difficult to find. The material is the ordinary stuff known as baryonic matter (baryons include protons and neutrons and other subatomic particles that make up the visible universe – not to be confused with dark matter or dark energy.) Physicists put the mass ratio of dark matter to baryonic matter at 5 to 1, meaning only approximately 15 or 16 percent of matter in the universe is normal matter. And according to a recent Nature Astronomy paper, only a "small fraction of baryons are in stars and the interstellar medium within galaxies."
More: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/esas_xmmnewton_finds_filaments/
Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works
Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "missing" matter might be lurking.
A third of "normal" matter in the universe is "missing." It's needed to make scientists' models of the cosmos operate as postulated, but has proven difficult to find. The material is the ordinary stuff known as baryonic matter (baryons include protons and neutrons and other subatomic particles that make up the visible universe – not to be confused with dark matter or dark energy.) Physicists put the mass ratio of dark matter to baryonic matter at 5 to 1, meaning only approximately 15 or 16 percent of matter in the universe is normal matter. And according to a recent Nature Astronomy paper, only a "small fraction of baryons are in stars and the interstellar medium within galaxies."
More: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/esas_xmmnewton_finds_filaments/
#30
In the Media... / Re: Asteroid as wide as 886 ca...
Last post by Dave A - Jun 13, 2025, 12:34:37Good article Rick
perhaps in a couple of years the chances of hitting the Moon will increase more
as long as it does not hit the Moon and bounce towards Earth
perhaps in a couple of years the chances of hitting the Moon will increase more
as long as it does not hit the Moon and bounce towards Earth