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Post by chech on Apr 16, 2018 22:01:10 GMT
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Post by chech on Apr 16, 2018 22:12:12 GMT
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Post by solaria on Apr 17, 2018 3:44:00 GMT
Fantastico! thanks for taking us with you and showing us the sights . I doubt we will be able to do such a trip in person. We are older than you and just recently Eddie has been diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rhuematica. He's slowly getting to grips with what he can and can't do and we thought at first we'd have to cancel our tours! But the Doc assured him that the trips we are doing will be OK as they are slower paced. He told Eddie his rock climbing days are over! Mornings can be worse for him but he improves as the day progresses and the tablets kick in.
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Post by chech on Apr 17, 2018 11:04:08 GMT
Yeah, there's tours out there for just about anyone which is nice. I'm doing these type of tours while I can. Granted, this one took a lot out of me. Almost a week home and I'm still wasted. LOL And I leave for storm chasing in just over 3 weeks.
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Post by californian on Apr 17, 2018 16:28:38 GMT
Wonderful tale! thank you Chech The photos are amazing, not sure what happened when you missed your night pic of the sky?
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Post by chech on Apr 17, 2018 16:59:42 GMT
On Day Twenty? There's a pic there with the Milky Way. The skytracker is a contraption I can use to lengthen the exposure time from seconds to minutes and that way I could get more light, more stars. Only so much I could do with 20 second exposures.
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 20, 2018 3:21:46 GMT
Great tour tale, Chech. I'll comment further after I've read more. Please forgive the indulgence here, but your Milky Way photo had me intrigued. That's a great outcome with your Olympus and the f/2.8 aperture captured it well. I copied it into Lightroom and altered the exposure a bit to allow more of the stars to pop out. At 7mm I expected a fair bit of fisheye effect and that's very apparent when the trees become more visible. I suspect that the following is closer to what you remember seeing on that night..... The dark patch in the middle of the yellow light is the Coalsack Nebula (dark gas that obscures stars), nestled into the Southern Cross constellation. You have to be well down into the Southern Hemisphere like I am, to see this each night.
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Post by chech on Apr 20, 2018 16:02:15 GMT
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 20, 2018 21:13:25 GMT
That blob is the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest galaxies. I've overexposed it as it is really not that level of brightness.
But you should be looking just above it. Did you realise that you captured a meteor trail in those 20 seconds?
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Post by chech on Apr 20, 2018 23:44:01 GMT
Oh wow....I can't see it from up here. It's in all my pics of the Milky Way and we were all wondering what it was. Too freaking cool. I'm still trying to find which photo that one is so that I can look closely at the streak - meteor or pesky satellite?
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 20, 2018 23:52:19 GMT
Only a meteor could travel that distance in 20 seconds. A satellite wouldn't move fast enough for that. You may be surprised that your meteor was probably no larger than a grain of sand or small pebble. The streak across the sky is not the object burning up; it's the glow of superheated air that's affected by friction of matter travelling at over 3000km per second. Pretty cool, huh?
I was looking at the same region of sky last night; it's very clear from our beach house.
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Post by marielouise on Apr 21, 2018 18:19:44 GMT
Thank you for a great tale. You seemed to have done a lot of walking, which could be hard at that altitude. I thought Lake Titicaca was super high but your tour went a lot higher.
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Post by chech on Apr 23, 2018 13:46:06 GMT
Thank you for a great tale. You seemed to have done a lot of walking, which could be hard at that altitude. I thought Lake Titicaca was super high but your tour went a lot higher. Yeah, I had a few issues at the altitude but mostly only when I would bend down and come back up. My lungs didn't like getting compressed at that altitude. Just straight walking wasn't hard overall. Some people had issues sleeping and the one woman who came on tour with the chronic cough skipped some of the higher altitude activities. At least now I know I can do the Everest base camp visit in Tibet. The bus takes you up to the camp which is at 17000 feet.
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Post by chech on Apr 23, 2018 14:02:58 GMT
Only a meteor could travel that distance in 20 seconds. A satellite wouldn't move fast enough for that. You may be surprised that your meteor was probably no larger than a grain of sand or small pebble. The streak across the sky is not the object burning up; it's the glow of superheated air that's affected by friction of matter travelling at over 3000km per second. Pretty cool, huh? I was looking at the same region of sky last night; it's very clear from our beach house. I caught a nice pic of a Leonid during the storm in 2001. I went out at 5 am and the sky was lit up. I took four pics and my battery died in the -11 temp. It was my old Minolta X-GA 35mm. I had to get a copy from Spaceweather's page. I can't find my original: Oh....my Dell just shipped!
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Post by Pauline on Apr 25, 2018 2:53:56 GMT
An excellent read and fabulous photos check. Thank you for taking us on your journey. I'll never get there in person, so it's lovely to see it through your eyes.
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Post by chech on Apr 25, 2018 11:35:11 GMT
Thanks! I'm slowly getting the photos up on flickr and the colours are really popping on this screen.
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Post by Pauline on Apr 26, 2018 8:14:14 GMT
I'll have to go and have a look.
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Post by purvis on Apr 29, 2018 21:42:41 GMT
Chech: Thanks for a wonderful tour tale. I will never get to any South American country so was in away tagging along with you via your tour tale. Purvis
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