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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #59 from previous page: February 07, 2007, 09:38:29 PM »
Hum,
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #60 on: April 03, 2007, 12:03:42 AM »
Hum,
You are cordially invited to join or upload to my Astronomy video site astronomy.magnify.net.

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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #61 on: April 03, 2007, 03:27:36 PM »
coolio!

aside: did anyone observe the total lunar eclipse ?

a good one from where I was. really deep reds - I tried taking some piccies but ... have we covered this in another thread ?!
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #62 on: April 03, 2007, 05:54:19 PM »
> aside: did anyone observe the total lunar eclipse ?

I watched most of it, for once the weather was on my side and it was clear throughout. It normally rains or is thick fog when these events take place.
 

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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #63 on: April 03, 2007, 08:18:45 PM »
@BillE
you`re in the northeast? (land of tyhe Picts?)

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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #64 on: April 03, 2007, 10:27:29 PM »
@Agafaster .. Yes, but only visually. How do you take your pics?
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #65 on: April 04, 2007, 10:21:47 AM »
Meega - nice avatar ! transit of Venus in '04 isnit ?
that was the first astro obbo I did after moving into me new house that summer.

pictures - I used to use a Praktika MTL5B, and got some reasonable shots of the '89 (IIRC) eclipse.
I was experimenting with my Kodak DC3400 that night. the results were .... disappointing.
however, my visual only observations through my scope were very nice !

I intend to do the webcam hack at some point (ie: when I get available funds!) maybe even try to get the A1 involved !



@BillE,

yeah, we were all inCREDibly lucky with the weather that night !
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #66 on: April 04, 2007, 10:42:42 AM »
@Agafaster

>Meega - nice avatar ! transit of Venus in '04 isnit ?
> that was the first astro obbo I did after moving into
> me new house that summer.

That was one thing that was very poor up here. I caught some of it in between the clouds and only got a coupe of photos. I had planned to make an animation but with only two images it wouldn't have been very long ! Most of the transit was clouded out.

I still saw more of that than the annular eclipse though. For once the totality path was so I would not have to travel anywhere and all i got to see was thick fog, you couldn't even tell where the sun was supposed to be :-(

I have much better luck when I leave the UK for such things !


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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #67 on: April 04, 2007, 11:25:53 AM »
@Agafaster. You are observant. Ricoh KR-10 straight on the end of the 'scope, Baader film in a cardboard hat on the objective. It was a scorcher here, BillE, I turned quite pink!
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #68 on: April 07, 2007, 10:56:34 PM »
@BillE, and anyone else interested, this was quite early in the morning.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/3145/103800do9.jpg
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #69 on: April 11, 2007, 11:23:58 AM »
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@BillE, and anyone else interested, this was quite early in the morning.


Nice !
it was early wasnt it ! 6am start IIRC. I took one or two photos using the old eyepiece projection into an A4 box (we had loads around having just moved ;-)) and an APS camera... I'll have to dig 'em out, and put 'em online if theyre good enough - I also tried that for the '99 partial solar eclipse (well it was here !) but that wasnt awesomely successful...

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..scorcher...


same here, though I had to go to work at some point, so I tried to follow it online. I did manage to catch the 1st contact and tear drop effect, so that was ok.
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #70 on: April 11, 2007, 03:11:47 PM »
>>so I tried to follow it online.

Hum,
i seem to remember i did too

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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #71 on: April 13, 2007, 02:06:51 PM »
looks like you had more luck than I did !
I think our firewall/notwork was playing up that day - can't think why !

-for some reason, our firewall blocks your pics ! gaahh!
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Re: Amateur Astronomy
« Reply #72 on: June 29, 2007, 05:18:27 PM »
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JaXanim wrote:
'Digital Universe'? What happened to that?


A demo of v1.5 has just been released on OS4Depot and Aminet.

Read the News sections of most of the Amiga related web sites including this one, for more info :-)


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