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I may be switching to four 10 hour shifts...
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Haven't done one of these in a while. Tonight's ISS transit, from central Virginia. And what an auspicious transit it is, seeing as how 40 years ago today this little film called "Star Wars" opened.
[Kenobi]That's no moon, it's a space station![/Kenobi] First visibility over Des Moines, IA. The middle of the arc is over the very tip of of the "mitten" of Michigan. It passed into shadow over Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec, Canada. Total visible transit was 1,155 miles and took 313 seconds. Single exposure, then processed to darken the sky and bring out the arc. Some damn airplane almost ruined the shot (that's the higher thin line on the left side of the image) and a few fireflies were still out looking for love in all the wrong places. ISS Transit 20170525 by FredMan, on Flickr ISS Transit Path 20170525 by FredMan, on Flickr |
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And tonight's transit. Same basic path as last night, just a little higher in the sky.
ISS Transit 20170526 by FredMan, on Flickr |
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Not a particularly good shot, but here's the International Space Station (or maybe a TIE Fighter, not sure which).
ALMOST had a Moon/ISS conjunction but the moon was a little slack in getting out of bed. If the ISS transit was about 20-30 minutes later would have had an opportunity to get the station silhouetted by the full moon. Ah, the vagaries of orbital parameters and celestial mechanics. ISS by FredMan, on Flickr |
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So how many of you are planning on doing some eclipse photography in August?
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I sure am. I'll be on my regular spray run, but our head guy just happens to live in Columbia, SC (right in the totality path) and we've had the discussion about road-tripping if the weather looks right.
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I sure am. I'll be on my regular spray run, but our head guy just happens to live in Columbia, SC (right in the totality path) and we've had the discussion about road-tripping if the weather looks right. View Quote |
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I've seen some of his stuff; great channel.
Will have to look it up. First thing I need to do is get a solar filter; anyone have suggestions? Thousand Oaks keeps popping up in my searches but I know nothing about them or their products. |
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I've seen some of his stuff; great channel. Will have to look it up. First thing I need to do is get a solar filter; anyone have suggestions? Thousand Oaks keeps popping up in my searches but I know nothing about them or their products. View Quote |
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I've seen some of his stuff; great channel. Will have to look it up. First thing I need to do is get a solar filter; anyone have suggestions? Thousand Oaks keeps popping up in my searches but I know nothing about them or their products. View Quote |
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Its been a long time since I researched this stuff, but about 5 years ago when I was heavily into Astronomy I ended up picking these guys.Omega Filters I believe they make other applications.
I've heard of thousand oaks in the telescope community but have no first hand experience with them... Could always try facebook messaging a company that sells their products and ask, they may steer ya in a better direction. |
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I'll post up some good filters when I get back in town, been getting a ton of emails from all the manufacturers
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This is the filter I have. A thousand oaks 77mm solar filter. It does odd stuff to the colors, though. I never did quite figure out the proper balance setting to get it right. It does the job though, you should like it. View Quote Which is "better"? |
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I took off the week of the eclipse, and I'm hoping after next week I will have my own time again (long story) and hope to get out and do some work.
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Last night was the first night in a while with low cloud cover, so I tried taking advantage of it. First, a photo with the DSLR. The winds were high enough that I was getting blown around a bit while trying to hold still for the exposure... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/203937/-DSC8062Az---1080-238524.jpg This next photo is from a GoPro. The nighttime timelapse didn't turn out like I had planned, so I superimposed the images. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/203937/20170624-Star-Trails-01Az---1080-238525.jpg View Quote |
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I love both shots, that second one is sweet View Quote But, I've done enough of this to know how prone I am to screwing stuff up - like sleeping through an alarm, or under/overestimating twilight and light pollution effects - so I have an immense appreciation for the piecemeal, post processing approach. The beauty of it all - or horror, depending on one's viewpoint - was that I was in my bivy sack, in and out of sleep, during most of it. When I saw the brilliant way the clouds were being lit by the rising sun, I thought to myself, "gee, I hope one of the cameras got that," and one of them did - the GoPro. The D800 stopped just short of the good lighting because I made a math mistake in setting the intervalometer. I'll post the net result of evening's work in the timelapse photography thread. |
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Rokinon 12mm, F/2.0, 10s, ISO 3200 Long Branch State Park (MO) (Brand new to the photography game) http://i.imgur.com/RIknlV4.jpg View Quote |
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Rokinon 12mm, F/2.0, 10s, ISO 3200 Long Branch State Park (MO) (Brand new to the photography game) http://i.imgur.com/RIknlV4.jpg View Quote |
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Can't wait to see what you capture after you've been at it a while! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Rokinon 12mm, F/2.0, 10s, ISO 3200 Long Branch State Park (MO) (Brand new to the photography game) http://i.imgur.com/RIknlV4.jpg |
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Fair amount of light pollution, and some errant clouds, but...
11mm, f/2.8, 13 secs, ISO 5000 Milky Way 20170627 by FredMan, on Flickr |
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Fair amount of light pollution, and some errant clouds, but... 11mm, f/2.8, 13 secs, ISO 5000 https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4212/35581245785_07e33681f1_h.jpgMilky Way 20170627 by FredMan, on Flickr View Quote |
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Here's my out-of-camera version of that last. Some fiddling with contrast, vibrance, levels, sharpness, etc. but no radial or gradient filters.
Milky Way 20170627 From Camera by FredMan, on Flickr Here's one I used hella adjustment brush on; I think I overdid it. House Milky Way by FredMan, on Flickr This one's not quite as overdone. Milky House Vert by FredMan, on Flickr |
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No idea if this is a good one or not, but passing on a deal.
This telescope camera goes on sale around 22 hours from the time of this post, as an Amazon lightning deal. No idea on discount, but is $299 now.
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nice, I love when I get to see the ISS fly over. I wish it would stop fucking raining here so I could get out again. It was clear where I camped last weekend, no astronomy gear and not even a great lens for doing wide field but here is one shot I did. http://i.imgur.com/8wAKIvU.jpg View Quote That is a beautiful photo |
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I'd love to buy a solar scope, but they get pricey really quick. Having looked through the Ha scopes its unbelievably beautiful to see the prominences on the sun, its unforgettable View Quote |
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A decent h-a scope is on my list of stuff I want to own some day. Some of the h-a solar images blow my mind. I want to be able to do that. View Quote I did find a ha insert that I can buy for one of my scopes, its about $1200, if I do buy anything it will probably be that |
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part of the reason I haven't bought one is I'd rather spend the money on regular astronomy gear, solar gear is only good for one thing. I will never run out of things to shoot in the night sky. I did find a ha insert that I can buy for one of my scopes, its about $1200, if I do buy anything it will probably be that View Quote Once we get rich from all that youtube money ...it'll totally happen. Just take a while. |
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The GF eventually wants to have us a place on a remote island with access to a nice mountaintop and put several different scopes up there. She's as interested in the telescopes thing as I am. Once we get rich from all that youtube money ...it'll totally happen. Just take a while. View Quote |
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So I ordered a 95mm threaded solar filter from Thousand Oaks, but with their backlog I'm not confident it will arrive on time.
Getting ansty, I discovered Amazon had sheets of the Thousand Oaks solar film, so I ordered up a sheet. That came the other day. I then built a frame out of some cardboard I had laying about (actual they're dividers to separate 2.5 gallons jugs of herbicide within an outer box for shipping); good heavy corrugated; triple layer. I cut holes the size of the my hood in two of them, glued them together, then cut a third sheet with a hole a wee bit smaller and mounted the film to that. Glued that to the first two and Presto! Field expedient solar filter! Solar Filter Top by FredMan, on Flickr Solar Filter Front by FredMan, on Flickr Solar Filter Back by FredMan, on Flickr Solar Rig by FredMan, on Flickr Solar Rig by FredMan, on Flickr And the results: 600mm, f/9, 1/13 sec, ISO 400 Looks like I'm ready for the eclipse! Sun 20170722 by FredMan, on Flickr |
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