Here's the Draco Triplet from a couple of nights this week.
I captured almost 6 hours of LRGB but blinked it down to 2 hours 36 minutes by the time I got rid of the clouds, the condensation and the satellites.
There's 10 to12 galaxies in the image so possibly 5 to 10 trillion stars! Blows my mind!
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Cheers Hans
It was a bit of a practice run. In May I'm going camping for a couple of nights in the middle of nowhere, central East Sussex, where the night time skies are a dark Bortle 3.
The plan there is to capture a similar but more so cluster of galaxies known as Coma B, or the Coma Cluster in the constellation Coma Berenices. An event I'm quite looking forward to.
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It was a bit of a practice run. In May I'm going camping for a couple of nights in the middle of nowhere, central East Sussex, where the night time skies are a dark Bortle 3.
The plan there is to capture a similar but more so cluster of galaxies known as Coma B, or the Coma Cluster in the constellation Coma Berenices. An event I'm quite looking forward to.
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Great images, Graeme. The more I learn, the more I learn that I need to learn more.
Including Not all your atoms are stardust.
Also that every Hydrogen atom was created at the Big Bang. I find it most unexpected that significant parts of my body are some 15 billion years old.
Also (15m 24s) that Neutron stars contain 1057 Neutrons, and that anyway, neutron stars aren't really stars at all, at all.
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ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024, 11:05........ and that anyway, neutron stars aren't really stars at all, at all.
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Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs are stars that have run out of hydrogen to burn at their core and fusion energy is no longer being produced, so they collapse under their own gravity and explode. Remanent is probably a good word but I still tend to think of them as stars, but dead stars.
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yes; "remnant" was a term used in the video, with a caution that "star" means different things to different levels of knowledge.
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Beautiful, stunning and well done, sir!
I only wish I could blink out the clouds forecast for next Monday in Texas. Although I have used long exposure to make clouds disappear during a lunar eclipse, but I don't believe the same technique will work for the eclipse....
I only wish I could blink out the clouds forecast for next Monday in Texas. Although I have used long exposure to make clouds disappear during a lunar eclipse, but I don't believe the same technique will work for the eclipse....
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PJ_in_FL wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024, 17:10Beautiful, stunning and well done, sir!
I only wish I could blink out the clouds forecast for next Monday in Texas. Although I have used long exposure to make clouds disappear during a lunar eclipse, but I don't believe the same technique will work for the eclipse....
Cheers PJ
Good luck for the 8th. Are you heading West for totality?
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Superb image, Graeme! Thank you.
Here's wishing you clear skies on your trip.
Here's wishing you clear skies on your trip.
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Wot!??!!! Is Graeme house-sitting in Florida?
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My apologies to BobH: I had not realised that we were lending part of the eclipse to the south-west corner of The British Isles. "The partial eclipse will last from 19:52 BST to sunset. About 47% of the Sun is expected to be blocked by the Moon but to see it requires clear skies to the west."
Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... It looks like even money on a cloudless sky late afternoon here at The Centre Of The Known Universe.
Cheers, Chris
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