G'day all I just had a call from Sam Engle at the Mint. She asks us to be there around the 6:30pm mark so that we can unload, set up telescopes and move our...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
Nov 6, 2008 12:58 am
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... Vince/Kim I am going to be there, and I will get there early so I can unload and put the car back out in the car park. My only query is will the scopes be...
to all that have committed to attending tomorrow night at The Mint. I attach the invitation again as a reminder to bring it with you if you would like to take...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
Nov 6, 2008 12:13 pm
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Sorry guys, crossed wires due to unclear communications. The state of play: CAS to arrive around 6:30 to set up and clear the cars to the carpark before the...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
Nov 7, 2008 4:22 am
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To those who braved the elements to provide the Astronomy at the Mint........... thanks heaps!!! The public were happy, the Mint was happy so we should be too...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
Nov 7, 2008 11:17 am
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Hi to all Here's a fairly deep hydrogen alpha image of the NGC 2070 area taken under fairly average seeing conditions. I hope to get more data in coming weeks...
Hi to all For those that don't like narrow band images, I suggest not opening this link <g>. I finished this one off last night under the almost full moon....
People, POAC (Planetarium and Observatory Association of Canberra) are to be featured on TV! Interviews conducted with Peter Williamson, Michael Nelmes and...
Hi to all I've been playing around with this image a lot because I didn't like my earlier versions much. I think this one shows the best detail without being...
You look to have sharpened the image a bit Steve? Lots of detail visible now. Not sure if the overall colour scheme works for me all that well but still, a...
Thanks Mike. A bit of high pass filtering and local contrast enhancement mainly. The colour scheme doesn't work well for me either but under a full moon...
Hi Everybody, The remains of the 50" telescope are being dismantled and transported to Melbourne by a team from the Museum of Victoria and the ASV. Preliminary...
Rawlings and Ford
kimvince@...
Nov 25, 2008 4:50 am
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Is anything being put in its place at Mt Stromlo?...
Been a bit bored without imaging since start of October grrrr... Soooo, I've revisited a few data sets from last season and earlier this year and improved on...
Hi to all During the approximately 3 hours it was clear last night I managed to get some RGB data for the Tarantula. The result looks different to Mike's and...
For those interested in very thin lunar crescents, the youngest Moon visible from our region this year will occur on Friday evening 28 Nov. At 8:22 pm, 20 mins...
... and on Monday night the crescent Moon sits a couple of degrees below Jupiter and Venus, which will be at their closest point. (Thanks to the shop assistant...
Michael Nelmes
gliese581b@...
Nov 26, 2008 11:47 pm
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Spotted Venus at 3:20 pm today from work, with the sun shining brightly! Forgive the excitement, as I've always wanted to spot Sirius or Venus during broad...
Congratulations. It is often assumed that you can't see anything other than the sun and moon in daytime - quite wrongly. However I think you will find Sirius a...
... Agreed. I remember seeing Jupiter with the naked-eye in the mid-afternoon (about 15 years ago), but I only managed to find it because of its close...
I'm sorry to keep boring everyone with various iterations of the Tarantula nebula but here's another one. To compensate for rather thin blue data I blended in...
Well done. Sirius will be a different proposition though, being 10 times dimmer. High altitude, with the sun low and Sirius high, would help. Michael N ... ...
Michael Nelmes
gliese581b@...
Nov 27, 2008 1:01 pm
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Hi to all Apologies for posting yet another version of this but I tried an experiment where the narrowband image was used as a luminance layer for the RGB...
Thanks, Steve. As the image was set up on a Mac, which knows about colour profiles, and most will be viewing on Windows PCs (which usually don't know about...
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