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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:06 pm
by balon!
What a beast! Man. So cool.
I also the sword in the background in pic. 1.
Heh.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:50 pm
by Prebe
Guns wrote:macho. What have you named her?
Charlene?
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:41 pm
by stonemaybe
check out the drool thread in TC discussion - or even better - go straight outside and check out the moon - total eclipse tonight woohoo!
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:21 pm
by I'm Murrin
Only in our half of the world, Stonemaybe. Still, it is pretty cool.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:24 pm
by stonemaybe
upside down crescent moon posted in the KW album!
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:32 pm
by Loredoctor
Thanks, Stone.

Nice picture.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:14 pm
by stonemaybe
have taken loads more pics, but with a crappy 2 year old dig camera, don't know if they'll come out.
I love you rusmeister
edit - all the pics (LOTS!) of the red moon didn't come out
but believe me it was great!!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:07 am
by Avatar

My pics didn't come out either. Not of the moon anyway. Was awesome though.
--A
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:45 pm
by Mad Hatter
Lepus, The Hare!

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:07 pm
by Loredoctor
I used my digital camera to take pictures of the sky before I used an image compositor to stack the images together. This is the product:

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:09 pm
by Loredoctor
The best part about it is that one can see the Coalsack nebula (just to the lower left of the Southern Cross), and Alpha Centauri (bright star to the far left).
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:18 pm
by Prebe
Awesome image Loremaster!
What are the brown wavy lines?
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:22 pm
by I'm Murrin
Looks like trees, Prebe. I like the effect it gives.
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:23 pm
by Prebe
Trees? In the sky? What gives????

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:03 pm
by Loredoctor
Prebe wrote:Trees? In the sky? What gives????

Thanks, guys.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:31 am
by Loredoctor
Spent another hour looking at stars and planets. The view of Jupiter was almost perfect after I collimated the mirrors on my newtonian telescope, and managed to sight a double star system, Rigil Centaurus. Rigil contains Alpha Centauri and Alpha Centaur B.
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:39 am
by Loredoctor
During the lunar eclipse, I took this exposure of the milky way:

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:29 am
by Loredoctor
I just purchased a CCD Deep Space Colour Imager for my telescope. It has exposures between .001s to 100mins. I cannot wait to use it.