random pics that YOU have taken.......

[Baz]

First space shuttle launch - STS-1 - the Columbia

First of several in a sequence pics taken from roof of my parents RV on April 12, 1981

[Baz]

Pic #5....

[wswartzwel]

hwy 50 along the Arkansas river?

Originally Posted by Baz

From my Colorado trip in August of 1982.....

[jmaxwell]

Looks like the D&RGW Narrow gauge train along the Animas river between Durango and Silverton.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by wswartzwel

hwy 50 along the Arkansas river?

Originally Posted by jmaxwell

Looks like the D&RGW Narrow gauge train along the Animas river between Durango and Silverton.

Very picturesque.....especially the water and RR tracks....

Must have been somewhere along the way from our travels from Estes Park up through Roosevelt National Park, down to Grand Lake, and then south to Taos, NM. Guess that covers a lot of ground but maybe that helps....

Couple more from that trip....

[Baz]

Didn't take the pic but I'm scanning old photos and found this one of my Mom and I while we were still living in Norfolk....

[Geary]

On the road to Durango:

[p911dad]

Park Guell, Barcelona

[tcar]

Originally Posted by p911dad

Park Guell, Barcelona

Antoni Gaudi Architect.... also see Sagrada Familia...

[Eric Hahl]

My first attempt at deep sky imaging. Andromeda Galaxy.

[Baz]

This time of year in Florida we routinely get afternoon thunderstorms....here's one from yesterday - pic taken looking west at end of my street......

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

My first attempt at deep sky imaging. Andromeda Galaxy.

Thanks for posting this pic. I saw Andromeda for the first time through a set of high-power binoculars at an amateur astronomer's private observatory in El Dorado County. I was 17 then. Yeah, amateur........right.

On of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

Cheers

You can see the excitement of a two hour drive for surgery


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[Racerbvd]

[1979-930]

Woodland, CA


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[Baz]

Life's a Beach.....





Billabong and Winkipop....

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

My first attempt at deep sky imaging. Andromeda Galaxy.

Spectacular image of M31, M32 and M110. You must have had some nice dark skies to get that.

It looks like you could do with some more post processing and maybe getting rid of some gradient, but that's a really great image.

What are the specs? lens, ISO, aperture and shutter?

[Eric Hahl]

Originally Posted by masraum

Spectacular image of M31, M32 and M110. You must have had some nice dark skies to get that.

It looks like you could do with some more post processing and maybe getting rid of some gradient, but that's a really great image.

What are the specs? lens, ISO, aperture and shutter?

Taken from my back yard, fairly dark skies. Still get a light bubble from nearby portland. For sure on the processing. I've a lot to learn. I strapped my Fuji xpro 1 on top the telescope with an old canon fd 75-210 manual lens. I so was highest it could go, maybe 125000. I'm not sure on the exposure though.

Anyway, I had another go at after some reading. This time with a nikon d800, sigma 70-200 @f3.2. Multiple exposures taken from 30 seconds to 5 minutes and stacked in deeps stacker for 22 minutes of total exposure. We weren't quite in focus but are pleased with the progress.

[island911]

Wow!

Out of this world?

Random

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

Taken from my back yard, fairly dark skies. Still get a light bubble from nearby portland. For sure on the processing. I've a lot to learn. I strapped my Fuji xpro 1 on top the telescope with an old canon fd 75-210 manual lens. I so was highest it could go, maybe 125000. I'm not sure on the exposure though.

Anyway, I had another go at after some reading. This time with a nikon d800, sigma 70-200 @f3.2. Multiple exposures taken from 30 seconds to 5 minutes and stacked in deeps stacker for 22 minutes of total exposure. We weren't quite in focus but are pleased with the progress.

Wow, nice improvement over the first which is impressive. Great stuff, I'm jealous.

Deepskystacker is what I've tried using before. It worked really well for me. Yeah, the focus is tough. I had created a focus mask for my old camera to make it easier. Stacking multiple images is key.

This guy used to have a bunch of images on his website that you could download in multiple sizes up to really big. Some of his images are amazing. I think his image of "Orion head to toe" is something like 8 hours of exposure and many, many images not only stacked, but also stitched together.

Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Premium Astrophotography - DeepSkyColors.com
Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Premium Astrophotography - Collections - Deep Space

I don't have anything nearly as nice. I was taking mine on an old Rebel XT under Houston's light polluted skies. Someday I'll make it out to some place dark, and I'll try some more, but I'm unlikely to end up with a good tracking mount with a guide scope, etc... which is the kind of gear that's required to end up with that sort of image (besides lots of time and experience and not a little bit of money).

[Eric Hahl]

Originally Posted by masraum

Wow, nice improvement over the first which is impressive. Great stuff, I'm jealous.

Deepskystacker is what I've tried using before. It worked really well for me. Yeah, the focus is tough. I had created a focus mask for my old camera to make it easier. Stacking multiple images is key.

This guy used to have a bunch of images on his website that you could download in multiple sizes up to really big. Some of his images are amazing. I think his image of "Orion head to toe" is something like 8 hours of exposure and many, many images not only stacked, but also stitched together.

Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Premium Astrophotography - DeepSkyColors.com
Rogelio Bernal Andreo, Premium Astrophotography - Collections - Deep Space

I don't have anything nearly as nice. I was taking mine on an old Rebel XT under Houston's light polluted skies. Someday I'll make it out to some place dark, and I'll try some more, but I'm unlikely to end up with a good tracking mount with a guide scope, etc... which is the kind of gear that's required to end up with that sort of image (besides lots of time and experience and not a little bit of money).

Wow! His photos are incredible. Thanks for the links!