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46 minutes ago, tony b said:

I have to say that that's one weird ass song! Trust me, I listen to a lot of outside stuff, but the dude is seriously messed up! 

 

LOL - Cake is one of my radio stations on Pandora. Great group. 

 

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1 hour ago, Pequod said:

Yep! Have a Dobsonian reflector and some nice eye pieces from my first go at it and always wanted to do astrophotography, but put that on hold until I could move somewhere dark. 

But that first attempt wasn’t a total loss. My daughter was a preschooler at the time and apparently loved those nights out so much that now she’s a physics and astronomy major, planning on an astrophysics Ph.D. I’ll give her the Dob if/when I acquire a new setup.

 

Here is my very first picture. Done with a standard telescope and a high end webcam. Took a video of saturn then used special software to convert it into a picture. After that i was hooked. 

 

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Soon after saturn I did some major upgrades. Taught my son how to do all this years ago. At this point in his college career he couldn't care less. 

 

My son and a friend out by the telescope many years ago. 

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It was remote controlled from inside the house. Much nicer on the colder nights. Here he is doing his thing. 

 

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He actually had a good understanding of what was needed to produce a good astrophotography picture. Here is one of his better images. 

 

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I could talk for hours about astrophotography. 

 

 

 

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That looks like one fun hobby.  Happily, I am not planning to move anywhere dark anytime soon so no KK shopping channel effect here. :shock:

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1 hour ago, ckreef said:

This is sort of kewl. Years ago I requested (and got approved) for a clear sky chart to be generated for my front yard.  This is the current chart. Also if you're super geeky check out the link to read about these charts. Super useful for astrophotography. 

 

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http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/CCK1GAkey.html?1

 

 

Love it! Where I live, the darkness line is always white...in effect anyway.

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Well it’s done.

Putting my 23 up for sale. Question is where to post on this forum? Want to post it here first for a week before listing elsewhere.

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Yep! Have a Dobsonian reflector and some nice eye pieces from my first go at it and always wanted to do astrophotography, but put that on hold until I could move somewhere dark. 
But that first attempt wasn’t a total loss. My daughter was a preschooler at the time and apparently loved those nights out so much that now she’s a physics and astronomy major, planning on an astrophysics Ph.D. I’ll give her the Dob if/when I acquire a new setup.
Don't have a telescope but have been up north in the middle of Western Australia .no light pollution just a billion stars .amazing

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