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Tonight’s been the first in over 3 weeks where we’ve not had a cloud in the sky! Despite near freezing temperatures it was a good night. I tried my 3rd attempt at deep space stuff, and failed miserably again, but given conditions were reasonable I got a couple of nice shots of Saturn. 2,000 frames, top 20% stacked in AutoStakkert2, color combined in Photoshop, no further processing. Taken on a Celestron EdgeHD 9.25″ using a ZWO 120mm on an NEQ6
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It’s been about 3 weeks since we’ve had clear skies in Melbourne and I tried to make the most of it. Here is my first attempt at Mars, which I’m told reaches opposition tomorrow, and is the closest for 11 years. This was taken with 3X1000 frames video using RGB filters, stacked in Autostakkert with the top 25 frames. I then used Photoshop to merge the RGB into a single image – my first attempt at that too. Thanks +Dylan
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A collection of some of the best kids riddles that will get your kids thinking out of the box. (read this one out) Question: One night, a king and a queen went into a castle. There was nobody in the castle, and no one came out of the castle. In the morning, three people came out of the castle. Who were they? Answer: The knight (aka night), the king, and the queen! Question: A cowboy rode into town on Friday.
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Tonight I completed my beer bottle cake as an entry for the Annual Julie Schalken bake off at RMIT. Here’s my chocolate Bailey’s beer barrel cake using Pure Blonde bottles made from sugar glass. Everything you see in this picture is edible (except the board of course).
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This was my first attempt at getting some lunar photography done. Captured on my D200 using BackYardNikon. Some cropping in photoshop. Gear I used:
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My first half decent shot of Jupiter, and I have so much to still master – colors, layering, proper stacking. Gear I used: [Show slideshow]
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This is one of my first good images of Saturn. Gear I used:
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Finally got my two rain tanks joined up. I had one on each side of the house, but only really needed/wanted it on one side. So the challenge was to join them up from a single source – the patio roof and have as little piping connecting the two. Tank A maintains the inlet & overflow, with the connecting pipes at the base maintaining an equilibrium between the two. Now I have about 5,000 litres of water!
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Stumbled on this by pure accident. Camping in Port Macdonnell one night, I looked up and saw the moon dissapearing to reveal a blood moon. Grabbed my Nikon D200, a 50mm 1.8 lens (the fastest I had on hand) and took a 4-5 second exposure. Gear I used:
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I rented some time on iTelescope.net to photograph the IC434 – the Horse Head Nebula. This is a single 5 minute exposure, with some very minor touch up post processing. Taken with Telescope 12 from the Sliding Springs Observatory with Telescope 12 Aperture 106 mm Focal Length 530 mm (f/5.0) Gear I used from iTelescope.net was telescope 12
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I also played with LightRoom to bring out the Magellan Clouds. While it’s a bit OTT in terms of contrast, I like it nevertheless 🙂 Gear I used The above images are in the public domain. You’re welcome to use them for anything.
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Took this picture, my first of the NGC300 spiral galaxy using a rented telescope on iTelescope.net. It was a 300 second exposure on a PlaneWave CDK700 telescope, a $200,000 scope! Aperture 700 mm Focal Length 4540 mm (f/6.5)
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Thanks to a dear friend I bought a copy of Minecraft for the PC so I could understand it a little. I’m busy building some stuff including our home, the Eiffel tower and the Petronas Twin Towers.
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I decided to open source it. Check out the code on https://github.com/oldfoot/pollme It’s described in detail on my wiki here
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