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I agree. Spring Grove Pop anyone?
It will be a GNfA (Glorious Night for Astronomy)!
This one’s for you Dean! Miss you buddy!
Duane
I’m awaiting confirmation that Eagle Bluff is available to the RAC for tomorrow and Saturday.
Tomorrow is not looking good as clouds go, but Saturday is potentially a GNfA (Glorious Night for Astronomy)!
I will post throughout the day as I find out more.
Happy Observing!
Duane
Friday is looking decent before until 1AM. I’m going to be at a retreat (bringing my scope to show a bunch of kids Jupiter) so I won’t be around. But, I wanted to give a heads up that I think the first half of Friday night will be a glorious (half) night for astronomy!
It will also be about 8° out there. If you go out, keep warm!
Duane
Nice one, Bob.
I hope that sungrazer survives its trip around the Sun. If it does we’ll have another comet to focus on before the end of the year.
The comet was barely visible last night. I was wondering if it had faded that much or was it this thing’s fault?
This was a few shots, a couple exposed for the Moon and a couple exposed for the silhouetted land.
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Thanks. I got out last night too. Went west of town to avoid city-glow, but the Moon was in full force. Here’s a few shots I took, although they aren’t as good as previous nights. I do like the one over farmland for its composition. It’s tricky to align land, comet and stars in one photo. All three are out of registration and that means I have to select each of those constituents independently, align them, and bring them back together. It has been an interesting process.
Nice. Keep ’em comin’. :). The last shots I took last night was 8 shots with my iPhone. I stacked those tonight, aligned and stacked them, corrected the horizon, and stretched the image with curves to get this.
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This comet shot is from a mix of exposure times. I was tracking on stars, but registered the comet. I fixed the horizon but did not correct the stars (so they are trailing). Look how long that tail is. The saturation in the sky is the way the camera saw it. I actually desaturated and corrected out some of the blue.. and it’s still rather saturated and blue.
The frames were a mix of exposure times (some more, some less). Mainly because my phone quit controlling my camera at the end of the night so I just clicked away in bulb mode.
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So glad to see several of you out there tonight.
I processed my first comet images from tonight (Oct 15th 2024) and got a surprise. M5 is up and to the right of the comet! In this image you can also make out the other tail (pointing forward). I’m so glad I got out!
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Thank you Bob, for spotting it first. Once you directed my eyes to the right spot I could see it. Before that it was invisible.
Nicely done, Josef. We were at Root River Park. It’s a dim naked eye comet, but longer exposures can pull it out nicely. Here’s a vertical image with it a bit higher up in the sky.
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
2024-Oct-12 194mm 2sec f22 ISO3200
If you’re already heading there then I will try to get out there as well.
darn cloud situation has changed quite a bit in the last 2 hours.
