Last Night's Astro Image

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QyRPrax9MJU

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 19/09/2018 09:20:27

and modifying MichaelG's comment - I think MickB1 takes the award for beechcombing.
DaveD

And he's left Paul McCartney wondering where one of his gold records has gone...

FANFARE :

Let's hear it for Neil Wyatt, folks ...

http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/feature/how-guide/how-build-simple-solar-finder-telescope?

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 26/09/2018 21:48:33

That appeared in S@N about a year ago - they are worse at updating their website than me!

Goodness knows what they've done to th colour balance on those images, it looks like they must have scanned a paper issue.

The original was bit of mountain bike suspension fork with interference fit knurled aluminium end caps but that was probably beyond most readers.

I've since taken it apart and anodised the end caps gold

Neil

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But it actually made the BBC website AND Apple's News Feed, Yesterday

... Which is why I linked it.

I think you have just had your Andy Warhol moment.

MichaelG.

Good grief!

On-topic, these were from the evening of the 24th. Not brilliant:

This is 4 hours of DSLR colour and 2 hours of narrowband DSLR Ha on the veil nebula, taken with my homemade scope over the last month, final session was last night.

That is spectacular!

A moon, yesterday. Right click and view image for full size (this is about 1/14 full size):

Uranus is supposed to be very easy to see tonight (Oct 26 UK) to the left of the moon apparently.

No smutty schoolboy comments please!

Hope not, or you'll get a hernia.

It's a day or two past opposition so it was close to the moon yesterday when it was full. A good handspan to the right of it tonight.

I should have tried imaging it this evening it was pretty grim for anything else although I've had a go at M15 and the Double Cluster.

Stretching the topic a little : **LINK**

https://news.sky.com/story/mystery-of-dark-matter-may-have-been-solved-by-oxford-scientists-11572089

MichaelG.

Anyone planning to look at the comet that is set to pass by earth on the 16th of Dec (  Comet 46P/Wirtanen ) not sure if will be visible worldwide though .

I started reading that in the news Michael but it just made my head hurt !

Edited By XD 351 on 06/12/2018 04:14:38

Edited By XD 351 on 06/12/2018 04:16:53

I plan to take a peep

From a couple of nights ago:

Mars and Neptune conjunction this evening, I tweeted my preliminary imaging results:

Some folks may have heard about Comet 46P/Wirtanen:

Nicely done, Neil

MichaelG.

Thanks Michael.

The slight elongation of the core is how much the comet moves in two minutes. Not everything happening in the heavens is slow!

Looks like as usual the clouds have descended on Sydney for the next few days so I won't get to see anything !