Starry Starry niiiiiight

Jogort

Here’s one of the Pinwheel Galaxy from a couple of nights ago from the garden. It’s taken with a 70-300mm lens at full zoom. Un-edited as yet just zoomed and cropped. I was quite surprised I could get it without a telescope to be honest.

Gammerz

That’s very clear. Only 22 million LYs away! I’ve never seen that one, even though it’s in Usra Major, so should be quite easy to find. The Whirlpool galaxy is in the same constellation..

I think I once found the Andromeda galaxy with a very small telescope, but it wasn’t as clear as this.

Did it look like this through the viewfinder or has this been made clearer with a long exposure?

Jogort

Yeah I was quite happy with it, I took a few shots at 2 minute exposures but haven’t gotten round to stacking them yet, that can help get rid of noise, will see how it looks after that. Unfortunately not gonna have a chance to do any snapping for a while, going to China for a 4 month job 😭😭😭

Gammerz

Jogort They have stars in China 😉 According to “figures”, it should be safer than UK!

Jogort

I’ll be on a ship and won’t have my camera gear with me. Not easy trying to get a steady image while the boat’s rocking 🤣🤣

Gammerz

No partying on your sub!

Jogort

No drink on our boat when on project anyway

Gammerz

Here’s one I took earlier. That Deep Field image of the galaxies really drives home the enormity of the universe. Total Perspective Vortex stuff.

Jogort

Gammerz hah yeah I was just reading that, insane pictures and does truly show how insignificant we are.

Jogort

quick wee shoot tonight, 3 minutes between shots

Gammerz

Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were all visible lately.

Jogort

Gammerz yeah they still are, can see them from early evening quite easily

Gammerz

Mars is at its closest (and brightest) too. If you use bins or tele, you can see the 4 moons of Jupiter (Io, Calisto, Ganymede and Europa) as stars in a straight line around the disc of Jupiter, that change position from evening to evening.

Jogort

Still looking at scopes that will fit my mine Equatorial tracker for a decent budget and hopefully getting some decent bins soon.

Gammerz

Jogort Will you be able to take pictures with this new equipment?

Jogort

Not the binoculars but the scope I will but that’ll be in the new year before I get it I think.

Jogort

Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight, should be quite a few visible if you have a clear sky, thick cloud by me though 😭😭

Brave

Sleeting hard here. Nae chance 🙁

Gammerz

Very good extended Sky At Night episode, reviewing last decade’s discoveries.
Plato exoplanet space-based telescope will increase the number of cameras to 26 from Tess’ 4.
Also, the ground-based Very Large Telescope (VLT) will have a mirror of 39m, compared with the current largest of 10m!

Jogort

Must still be getting the trail end of the gemenids, seeing a few small ones and 1 absolute cracker, good size and proper greenish trail to it. Never seen one like that IRL before.

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