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From a moor to my back garden

Spad
Posted 08/03/2023 - 16:57 Link
Yesterday I took advantage of the nice weather, and headed to Warslow Moor. At tea time I then shot back home to stand in my back garden gawking upwards!

I shot colour, B&W, IR, and Astro... Kind of a busy day fannying with cameras!

Colour and B&W

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IR

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And finally.... Astro!

This is Betelgeuse. Shot thru a 150mm Newtonian Reflector.
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The Moon shot thru a Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope
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The Moon shot thru a 150mm Newtonian Reflector
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All images PP with PS and LR. Astro stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, Registax and PS
The Legendary Terry Pratchett once said:
At the beggining there was nothing....

Which exploded....
Edited by Spad: 08/03/2023 - 16:59
LennyBloke
Posted 08/03/2023 - 17:26 Link
That's a real QV set Spad

Betelgeuse is simple and beautiful, and that first image is simply beautiful


p.s. Quality and Variety if you're wondering
LennyBloke
Lubbyman
Posted 08/03/2023 - 19:19 Link
A stunning set, almost too much to take in at one viewing. I particularly like the tree pictures - the straight trunk turning into twisting branches and the sunburst through the tree with backlit cloud above and patch of light below with shadows as subtle leading lines. Really nice .

The astro shots are interesting. It's the starburst that makes the Betelgeuse image work for me. Take it away and it's just a lot of bright dots on a black background. Well done for getting a stunning picture from an optical effect rather than insisting on reality. And the moon - was it really rotating between shots? Better tell NASA before they send a man to it only to find that it's not where they thought it would be .

Steve
Spad
Posted 08/03/2023 - 19:53 Link
Steve....

The Cassegrain Telescope acts like a massive mirror lens... the reflector takes a mirror image.

Thank you both for your kind words

PS... I do have a better one of Betelgeuse but not sure I can put it in here. It was taken with a Lumix GF1!
The Legendary Terry Pratchett once said:
At the beggining there was nothing....

Which exploded....
Edited by Spad: 08/03/2023 - 19:55
Posted 09/03/2023 - 15:30 Link
I love these shots, all are very good - best viewed large and when done so numbers 6 and 12 (panoramic ones) they just blew me away!
Edited by loadoftripe: 09/03/2023 - 15:31
Nakedgun
Posted 12/03/2023 - 00:41 Link
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Some very nice land (sky) scapes, here.



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- David

"A republic, madam, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin

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