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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 12:00 am
(July 7, 2015 at 11:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (July 7, 2015 at 11:12 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Thanks, Min. Considering the competition I had, I was very satisfied with my result. In fact, after seeing my image, Alan, the one with the rig in the first picture, e-mail me with compliments, as did Felix. Alan's was very good, but the magnification of his scope is so powerful that it only got a fraction of the field of view my image has. I've always said that magnification isn't everything in astrophotography, and neither is it important to the most expensive optics on the market.
Nature did a great job.
Better than any god.
We were lucky. Skies were bad until about 13:30 A.M. If you are going to do astrophotography you have to be patient and take what you can get. Considering the conditions that night, I think it came out very well.
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 12:07 am
Better than any god "we know of"
Besides, gods are in the construction business, not sales.
 excellent pictures man!
Do us a favour and show us a real closeup "moon" pic!
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 12:26 am
(July 8, 2015 at 12:07 am)ignoramus Wrote: Better than any god "we know of"
Besides, gods are in the construction business, not sales.
excellent pictures man!
Do us a favour and show us a real closeup "moon" pic!
Thanks. Here is probably the highest resolution image of the Moon I have taken. My scope isn't really set up for lunar photography, But I sometimes take images of it anyway to see how they come out.
![[Image: Moon_10_4_2011_cropped_Southcentral_zpsj54q6cqr.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2FMoon_10_4_2011_cropped_Southcentral_zpsj54q6cqr.jpg)
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 12:31 am
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Common man, that's just a grey golf ball! You're not fooling anyone!
He he, love it! Ta.
That poor moon's been beaten around huh?
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 12:37 am
Here are a couple of color images of the Moon I've taken.
The first is at totality during the lunar eclipse last October:
![[Image: blood%20moon_zpsvipdgjeq.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fblood%2520moon_zpsvipdgjeq.jpg)
This next one is one of the first Lunar image I took, back in 2007. I exaggerated the color so you can see what the lunar colors actually are. Those colors also tell you the composition of the lunar surface. The orange-red color is iron-rich basalt, the blue is titanium rich basalt, while the pinkish colors of the lunar highlands is mostly silicates:
![[Image: moon_zpsvivzv3au.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i132.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq9%2Fjryates%2Fmoon_zpsvivzv3au.jpg)
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 12:56 am
Thanks for sharing. I'm flabbergasted that anyone can take an image like the first one without a mountain top observatory.
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 1:02 am
(July 8, 2015 at 12:56 am)whateverist Wrote: Thanks for sharing. I'm flabbergasted that anyone can take an image like the first one without a mountain top observatory.
I just point the scope and shoot. It tracks in lunar mode so the mount keeps the scope steady, though at 1/400sec, it isn't going to have much instability in the image anyway. the Moon is a pretty bright object, particularly when viewing through a scope.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 1:20 am
Those are some amazing photos, thanks! 
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 5:06 am
wow O_o
so jelly now, great photos!
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RE: My latest Astrophoto
July 8, 2015 at 5:10 am
I wish the Chinese would hurry and go to the moon so I can buy some moon rock on ebay for $3.99 with free delivery!
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