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  1. samir_ansari

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    Spoken word is not usually a format I would go out of my way to find but I was dragged along to a live performance of this by an ex girlfriend and was completely blown away:
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    I raise you
  3. samir_ansari

    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Thanks chaps! That was taken with the following: Skymax 127mm 2.5x APO barlow HEQ5 mount toUcam 740k with IR blocker Astronomik L filter for Luminance and combined with RGB data The effective focal length of that combination was 3750mm
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    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Here was an attempt at Saturn from last Season:
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    The dubbing that makes him sound more like a clown than a big bad copper in the end.
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    The "Post your pictures here" thread.

    Just got back from South Africa, these were a few of my favourites:
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  9. samir_ansari

    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Yep that motion trail is due to the fact that I had never aligned to the South Celestial pole before and it's extremely hard to find so I think my alignment was off by a fraction. The light pollution filter is just a 2" Astronomik CCD filter that I simply placed ontop of the camera lens as...
  10. samir_ansari

    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Thanks guys, the picture is a mosiac made up of 4 panes. Each pane was with the following setup: Canon 450D on a portable motorised table top tripod 10 x 30 seconds (with about 10 dark frames) 50mm @ f1.8 + 2" Astronomik light pollution filter
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    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Just got back from South Africa and managed to get this while I was out in the bush: https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/53683_10151060402361268_1625990379_o.jpg ***Please resize image to no more than 1280 wide.*** My lens filter wasn't on straight hence the star...
  12. samir_ansari

    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Took this the other night, I can never get over how much everything in space just looks like an enormous puppet show:
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    Restoration amateur ruins fresco

    Sorry I didn't realise. Mods please close :rolleyes:
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    Restoration amateur ruins fresco

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19358906
  15. samir_ansari

    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Cheers Mik, took a good couple of hours to capture everything. I did the same tile twice a few times because I wanted to be extra sure I caught everything this time (last mosaic I did I missed a spot!) I used QG Video which should come with the QHY5, and a little trick I found is to turn off...
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    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Thanks mate, that was with a skymax 127 and QHY5 camera. It's a mosaic made up of 19 panes
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    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Also another attempt at Jupiter:
  18. samir_ansari

    *** The Official Astronomy & Universe Thread ***

    Thought I would work on the Moon a bit last week. Here is the link to a full sized mosaic, takes a little while to load: http://www.samiransari.co.uk/moon_mosaic.jpg And some smaller crops:
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