Image Credit: Ripley Entertainment Tonight will feature two talks. The first poses the question ‘What does the 1982 TV series ‘Believe it or Not’ and Gamma Ray Bursts have in common? Dan’s talk tonight will reveal all. The second is ‘Globules and Elephant Trunks’ Nick analyses an image he took back in 2020 and explains what’s happening to a number of the features seen within the image.
ISS transit of the Sun: 29, July
Mark Godwin captured an extraordinary image of the ISS crossing the Sun on July 27, 2024, at 15:24:46 UT using his new ZWO Seestar S50 Smart telescope. The impressive still was extracted from a 4-second video sequence….
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Multiple milestones in astronomy have reshaped our understanding of the universe: from Apollo 8’s Earthrise photo to Copernicus’ heliocentric model, Galileo’s observations, Hubble’s expanding universe, and Penrose’s cyclic cosmology theory….
Next Meeting: 18th July Summercourt
Image Credit: SockPuppetForTomruen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tonight kicks of with a ‘What’s Up’ for the next 30 days and a short overview of our club trip to the NLO last month. The main talk for the evening will be Frank on the subject of ‘Historical Transits’ . After the tea break Roy will give us his 10-Minute talk on ‘Mars Missions’
Comet Alignment and Processing in PI
Dean Ashton discusses his two-month exploration of a new approach in PixInsight for comet processing, combining the PI Comet Alignment and StarNet2 processes. He explains his workflow and details the composition and colors of various comets captured with a Nikon Z6 camera….
Cygnus Rift Widefield
Last night I tried a widefield approach with the camera gear I already have. I used the Laowa macro lens at 100mm and F4 capturing 2 hours at ISO 800. The EQ mount was an Explore Scientific Iexos 100 PMC Eight. No calibration frames used in WBPP in PixInsight. There was plenty of coma creeping towards the middle for quite a distance, A little of this has been cropped but the remainder has been…