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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th 18:13 - Aug 15 with 8962 viewsRyorry

Anyone know what it was please? Seemed too big & bright to be Venus. Just after midnight, about 90 degrees up from horizon. The top right quadrant seemed to be missing, as though someone had gobbled up that portion of pie!

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 18:51 - Oct 8 with 2200 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 18:41 - Oct 8 by Charlie_pl_baxter

Do you use a tracking motor or adjust by hand? I've got an equatorial mount but unfortunately the axle for the horary axis got bent so I can't attach one.


I've got an Alt-Azimuth Go-To mount, although I don't often setup the go-to calibration in London. I do however use the "point and track" functionality whereby I just point it at Jupiter and then say track Jupiter and it will track it across the sky.

To be honest, for the Moon and the planets you can get by without tracking (it's handy for Saturn but not absolutely required). For DSO objects you probably want tracking and better tracking that what my mount provides (a good tracking equatorial mount ideally).

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:28 - Oct 11 with 2117 viewsCharlie_pl_baxter

https://ibb.co/DwkjGN3

Had a go at the moon last night just aiming my phone down the lens. It's a little grainy but not bad I think. I'm looking into an adapter for my DSLR which might help a bit,
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 21:17 - Oct 11 with 2067 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:28 - Oct 11 by Charlie_pl_baxter

https://ibb.co/DwkjGN3

Had a go at the moon last night just aiming my phone down the lens. It's a little grainy but not bad I think. I'm looking into an adapter for my DSLR which might help a bit,
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That's a great shot, especially considering it's been done with the phone down the lens without even an adapter.

I think you'll get a better shot with a mobile adapter but you'll get an excellent shot with a DSLR, just need to make sure on the focal length so that it's not too zoomed up. With my astrocamera I can't get the full moon in shot with my larger telescope without a focal reducer.

Keep them coming!

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 08:55 - Nov 5 with 1976 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 21:17 - Oct 11 by StokieBlue

That's a great shot, especially considering it's been done with the phone down the lens without even an adapter.

I think you'll get a better shot with a mobile adapter but you'll get an excellent shot with a DSLR, just need to make sure on the focal length so that it's not too zoomed up. With my astrocamera I can't get the full moon in shot with my larger telescope without a focal reducer.

Keep them coming!

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Had my first stab at an object outside of the Solar System last night. It's not great and after some more reading on exposures and deep sky stacking I think I'll get it much better. I do think it's not bad given it's a first attempt and from central London and I thought some posters on this thread might like it.

The Orion nebula is ~1444 LY away and is ~24 LY wide. For reference, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to us and that is ~4 LY away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula



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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 19:08 - Nov 5 with 1897 viewsmutters

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 08:55 - Nov 5 by StokieBlue

Had my first stab at an object outside of the Solar System last night. It's not great and after some more reading on exposures and deep sky stacking I think I'll get it much better. I do think it's not bad given it's a first attempt and from central London and I thought some posters on this thread might like it.

The Orion nebula is ~1444 LY away and is ~24 LY wide. For reference, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to us and that is ~4 LY away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula



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Very cool!

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 00:43 - Nov 13 with 1723 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 19:08 - Nov 5 by mutters

Very cool!


Thanks!

Managed to get the Great Red Spot on Jupiter this evening before the fog rolled in. Also one of Jupiter's Galilean moons is in the picture in the top right corner.





Certainly some improvements from my first attempts on the first page of the thread.

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 14:04 - Nov 24 with 1527 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 08:55 - Nov 5 by StokieBlue

Had my first stab at an object outside of the Solar System last night. It's not great and after some more reading on exposures and deep sky stacking I think I'll get it much better. I do think it's not bad given it's a first attempt and from central London and I thought some posters on this thread might like it.

The Orion nebula is ~1444 LY away and is ~24 LY wide. For reference, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to us and that is ~4 LY away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula



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Amazing what a difference a bit more knowledge and a few weeks more practice makes.



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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 15:07 - Dec 29 with 1295 viewsStokieBlue

All the planets of the solar system will be visible tonight:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64082159

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 16:28 - Dec 29 with 1238 viewsArnoldMoorhen

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 15:07 - Dec 29 by StokieBlue

All the planets of the solar system will be visible tonight:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64082159

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Great to catch up on this thread every once in a while. Your most recent photos are great!
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 18:25 - Dec 29 with 1183 viewsjeera

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 15:07 - Dec 29 by StokieBlue

All the planets of the solar system will be visible tonight:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64082159

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Why aren't they all in a nice straight line like they are in the picture?

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 14:47 - Jan 4 with 1051 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 16:28 - Dec 29 by ArnoldMoorhen

Great to catch up on this thread every once in a while. Your most recent photos are great!


Thanks.

I've changed telescopes now to a fast refractor but am still figuring out the best way to use it and the planetary camera isn't very good for deep space objects.

Managed to grab one of the moon a few days ago though.



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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:05 - Jan 10 with 944 viewsStokieBlue

Latest attempt at M42 (Orion nebula) for any who are interested. This one has a much larger field of view so you can click on the image and zoom in and it'll still have decent clarity. There is also a smaller blue gas cloud to the NW of the nebula which is easier to see zoomed in.



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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:13 - Jan 10 with 929 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:05 - Jan 10 by StokieBlue

Latest attempt at M42 (Orion nebula) for any who are interested. This one has a much larger field of view so you can click on the image and zoom in and it'll still have decent clarity. There is also a smaller blue gas cloud to the NW of the nebula which is easier to see zoomed in.



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Are you related to Patrick Moore?

Great photo's by the way.

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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:31 - Jan 10 with 914 viewsKievthegreat

Always massively impressed by these sorts of photos. They always look magical to me.

One that probably doesn't deserve it's own thread that I saw recently saw someone snapping the ISS as it passed in front of the moon.



It's doubly impressive when you see how quickly it actually transited across the moon in realtime. Great work.
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 13:39 - Jan 10 with 882 viewslongtimefan

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:31 - Jan 10 by Kievthegreat

Always massively impressed by these sorts of photos. They always look magical to me.

One that probably doesn't deserve it's own thread that I saw recently saw someone snapping the ISS as it passed in front of the moon.



It's doubly impressive when you see how quickly it actually transited across the moon in realtime. Great work.


Been following him for a while. Takes some great shots, all from the pavement outside his home.
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 10:29 - Jan 13 with 766 viewsStokieBlue

V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 11:13 - Jan 10 by StochesStotasBlewe

Are you related to Patrick Moore?

Great photo's by the way.


Not that I know of, although Gamesmaster was good and his monocle was also excellent.

I'll not post anymore pictures of M42 after this as people must be bored but here is a zoomed up new capture.



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