Put the 5D MkII on the back of a TS80 refractor together with a 5X Barlow (not really called a Barlow then, but the name sticks).
Took 17 subs at 1/200th second and ISO800 which I stacked in Maxim. This is the result.
See in higher resolution here https://flic.kr/p/oSq5uA
Only 4 x 10-minute subs at ISO 800 from last night – but – I was amazed at how bright the blue-green parts of the Veil came out (and not at all surprised at the lack of red 🙁 )
The whole of the Veil nebula easily covered and a nice open cluster NGC6940 thrown in as well.
AS I mentioned a while back, and this image confirms it, it has got to be worth putting an OIII filter on the front, going for much deeper subs, and using the massive FOV of this combo to scan for planetaries.
Managed to capture a few 5-minute subs of comet Jacques when it was close to Epsilon Cassiopeiae on the evening of 22nd August 2014.
Last night was one of those very rare nights. Completely clear, Moonless, and the Milky Way like I’ve never seen it before from here – magic.
Put the 200mm lens and M26C onto Kemble’s Cascade. 31 subs at 5-minutes per sub, all subs good 🙂
The smudge on the bottom of the image (which I initially processed out) is in fact a planetary nebula.
Here is a Noel Carboni process of the recent Delphinus data taken from the New Forest Observatory.
The Canon 5D MkII/Canon 200mm prime lens combo gives a field of view that can grab the whole of the constellation Delphinus in one go!
I started imaging around 11:15 p.m. on 02/08/2014 and finally packed up at 2:00 a.m. on 03/08/2014. As I was coming indoors I saw the Pleiades low down in the NE, winter is not far away.
The data for this Delphinus image comprises 26 x 4-minute subs at ISO400 and f#4. Lodestar guiding with everything piggy-backed on a C11.
Noel Carboni produced a stretched version of the Altair data to better show Barnard’s “E”.
Altair (centre), Tarazed (with Barnard’s “E”) top and Alshain (bottom) – the main stars in Aquila. Imaged using the Canon 5D MkII and the Canon 200mm prime lens at f#4. ISO 400, 4-minute subs, 24 subs in total – 22/07/2014. Expertly processed by Noel Carboni.
Very interesting. Did a very quick and simple IQ test I found on the Internet (expecting it to be completely useless) and it came up with the same number from a “professional” test that took well over an hour. Obviously worth a go if you want to know and you’re short of time.
We are it seems surrounded by trouble and strife. What I have written below came into my head almost complete – in one go. I don’t believe it came from God 🙂 But it might have 🙂 🙂
I live in the south of the U.K. and I am defined by the Government of the day as English. Do I, together with the millions who live with me in England actually “own” this land? Already I hope you can see what a stupid question this is, and where it is leading. Of course you do not “own” the land. For the moment you are a mere squatter on the piece of dirt where you were dropped by your mother and that’s about it. If you are extremely lucky you might be allowed to squat on your patch for around 80 years or so, not much more, and the way most of you go about business, it is likely to be a helluva lot less. But don’t you at least “own” the house you live in, the one that you have bought and paid for? Well you might think so, but does the house? When you peg out and the house belongs to someone else will they now “own” the house, or will they like you just be squatting there for a short time?
You do not own the patch of land you and your neighbours are squatting on, you are (very) temporary custodians, and to be frank, you’re making a pretty shit job of it on the whole. No land, country or house within a country actually belongs to you – you are simply a temporary squatter, get used to it.
Second in the list. We have a group of Philosophies that create anything but the peace and goodwill they claim to champion, we come to Religions. Don’t know if you’ve managed to work this one out for yourself yet (personal observation says that you haven’t) but every Religion on the planet is man-made. Do you get that? Every faith that you follow has been cobbled together by a man or a group of men. There is NOTHING that can be pointed to that has come “directly from God”. A man writes down words that he says God spoke to him. There’s a name for people that hear voices. A man claims that God has written “His thoughts” in stone, in metal sheet, on papyrus – you name it, God has written on it. You actually believe that? You don’t think for a nanosecond that the bloke that produces these wondrous relics actually wrote the stuff himself? Let me have your name and address – I’d like to do business with you. There may well be a God, but if there is, He does not intervene in your everyday life and He does not count the fall of every sparrow. It is now long overdue for you to start growing up – you need to start taking responsibility for your own actions – and that’s very painful.
Lastly, your ever so finite lifetime. Your one glimpse through the extremely narrow window to have a peek at what’s going on around here. The full window stretches to 4.5 billion years into the past, and quite a few billion years into the future, with or without Homo Sapiens treading the Earth, almost certainly without I would say the way things are going. You have this infinitesimally small window of a few decades (at best) that you are allowed to glimpse through and yet you act on a daily basis as if you have an infinity of time stretched out in front of you. Sorry but you don’t. The afterlife is something made up by the people in charge that don’t want their workforce going nuts on them. There are Indians in the Amazonian rain forest who on their deathbed will wail and scream before just death, Christians think this is atrocious and attempt to placate them with their Religion. Bloody right you should wail and scream before death because that’s the end of your all too brief time on this wondrous world, your allotted span has come to an end and you will not be around to see how things turn out. A finite lifetime is a stinking trick, a pretty sick joke, and we’re all the comedians.
Now tell me again what exactly you are fighting about and what you are so ready to lay down your (very short) life for.
POSTSCRIPT:
You come into this world with nothing, and you leave it likewise. The only thing you do have any control over is how much harm, or good, you do during your watch.
