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Post by Boop on Mar 6, 2015 21:23:15 GMT
Finally scanned my pics from Egypt in 1994. My camera was a piece of crap. LOL oh....kinda looks like the pictures my piece of crap takes
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Post by Tonnet on Mar 9, 2015 22:40:56 GMT
Moon Rising 1365mm Lens Hand Held
7pm Competing with Sunset
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Post by Tonnet on Mar 9, 2015 22:44:10 GMT
Moon Setting 1365mm Lens Hand Held
7am Competing with the Dawn
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Post by Tonnet on Mar 9, 2015 22:48:54 GMT
Finally scanned my pics from Egypt in 1994. My camera was a piece of crap. LOL Not too bad for a piece of 'crap'!!
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Post by chech on Mar 9, 2015 23:01:24 GMT
LOL...yeah, that photo had a little modern digital help. Love moon shots! We have an eclipse happening in 10 days but it's starts here at dawn and it's for the last 15 minutes of the eclipse. Not worth waking up for. There's another in 2017 that will be mucho better.
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Post by 1jhwks on Mar 10, 2015 23:45:17 GMT
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Post by chech on Mar 11, 2015 14:33:48 GMT
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Post by 1jhwks on Mar 11, 2015 21:01:57 GMT
She is a cutie!!
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Post by Oz-T on Mar 13, 2015 0:20:41 GMT
LOL...yeah, that photo had a little modern digital help. Love moon shots! We have an eclipse happening in 10 days but it's starts here at dawn and it's for the last 15 minutes of the eclipse. Not worth waking up for. There's another in 2017 that will be mucho better. You will probably have more luck with the 20 September lunar eclipse, Chech. That'll be visible from North America. I'm better placed for the 4 April (Easter Saturday) eclipse as it's visible throughout Australia. And like all lunar eclipses, it'll be at a reasonable time - starting around 7pm and reaching totality around 10pm. If there isn't any cloud cover, I'll try to take some photographs in my telescope and post them here. There's a total solar eclipse coming up next week on March 20 (solar eclipses occur two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse) but few people will see it. You'd have to be on the ocean between Greenland, Iceland and the UK and the Norwegian Sea.
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Post by chech on Mar 13, 2015 1:07:50 GMT
There's a total solar eclipse coming up next week on March 20 (solar eclipses occur two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse) but few people will see it. You'd have to be on the ocean between Greenland, Iceland and the UK and the Norwegian Sea. That's the one that will be visible here at sunrise, but I'd have to go on the coast 20 km away to see it and it's not enough to bother at that hour. It will only be the last 15 minutes of the eclipse.
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Post by Oz-T on Mar 13, 2015 1:35:36 GMT
It won't be a total solar eclipse though, because you're in the wrong location. Only a partial eclipse is possible, and you wouldn't usually even know that one is happening unless you heard about it on the news.
A total eclipse usually has only about 4 minutes of darkness, although this could theoretically be 7.5 minutes at most if the conditions were 100% perfect.
Lunar eclipses last a lot longer because the earth's shadow is wider than that cast by our moon.
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Post by chech on Mar 13, 2015 1:42:45 GMT
Yup...that's why I won't bother. It would only be a nip on the edge and not worth the effort. Only being on tour, a decent celestial event or a lot of chocolate gets me out of bed before 9 am.
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Post by chech on Mar 13, 2015 13:07:31 GMT
Speaking of celestial events...this is a Leonid from 2001 storm. I woke at 5 am for it and it was -11 out. My camera took four pictures before the cold killed the battery and I spent an hour watching hundreds of meteors streak across the sky and nothing to record it with.
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Post by chech on Mar 15, 2015 14:38:33 GMT
We're expecting between 30 and 50 cm of snow over the next three days. The sun knows how to tell us something is up.
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Post by 1jhwks on Mar 15, 2015 18:35:08 GMT
It has been in the upper 70s here the last few days and will get up to 80 tomorrow! I have already seen people wearing shorts and flip flops. And it's 5 more days till spring!!!!!!!
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Post by chech on Mar 20, 2015 18:38:37 GMT
Happy Equinox! Gorgeous day out!
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Post by Oz-T on Mar 21, 2015 3:46:47 GMT
Here's nature at its best: A bee draws nectar from a flower in Monet's Garden; Giverny, June 2014.
I've reproduced this as a full image so if you have a large screen you can zoom in and explore the fine detail.
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Post by Oz-T on Mar 21, 2015 4:16:15 GMT
Happy Equinox! Gorgeous day out!
The sun crossed immediately above the equator for the first time this year, just seven hours ago. This is unusual to happen on the same day as a total solar eclipse and won't occur again until 2034.
Happy Equinox to everyone in the northern hemisphere (who will be pleased to know that their days will be longer than their nights, although not immediately if you're too far north of the equator).
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Post by 1jhwks on Mar 21, 2015 12:25:48 GMT
Happy Equinox! Gorgeous day out!
The sun crossed immediately above the equator for the first time this year, just seven hours ago. This is unusual to happen on the same day as a total solar eclipse and won't occur again until 2034.
Happy Equinox to everyone in the northern hemisphere (who will be pleased to know that their days will be longer than their nights, although not immediately if you're too far north of the equator).
I have already seen longer daylight these past couple of weeks. There was still a little bit of light, not great, at 7:30pm. And it will be 71 today and 78 tomorrow. Next Wednesday's forecast calls for a few flurries. We have seen snow here in May last year.
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Post by purvis on Mar 21, 2015 15:21:35 GMT
Last weekend it was 17C and today it's -4C and snowing. "OH CANADA"
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Post by chech on Mar 21, 2015 15:43:35 GMT
Happy Equinox to everyone in the northern hemisphere (who will be pleased to know that their days will be longer than their nights, although not immediately if you're too far north of the equator).
I see it! I see it! For the next six weeks...it moves really quick. You know...as I walked down my street, I realized that it's barely wide enough for one car...and in summer, it's easily wide enough for three side by side. Must be nice to go year round living on a street that doesn't shrink in size....LOL
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Post by chech on Mar 21, 2015 15:51:47 GMT
Oh, just took a peek at that camera. It has the 4x optical zoom. Is that yours? Is it the only one you use? Do you have anything with a longer zoom? If not...do you miss it...find yourself thinking...damn I wish I had more zoom? I carry two - the Olympus Tough (water/shock proof) is very much like that Canon with the 4x zoom (but it can take two lenses - a wide and a telephoto that increases zoom to 8x). It takes kickass pics...especially in sunlight. My other is the hybrid superzoom Sony with 30x zoom. As much as I love the Olympus, I still feel naked if I were to go on tour without a good zoom. Then again, it depends on the tour. I used it a lot in Patagonia and New Zealand and Peru...but not as much in Panama or on the Bohemian Highlights. And since the Yucatan is so flat, I'm thinking I won't use it as much. I'm half tempted to pick up the telephoto for it (I have the wide) and seeing if I can do the whole tour with the one camera. The only time I can see me using the superzoom is if I make it to the top of a pyramid and can see another in the distance. Oh my...I seem to be convincing myself! LOL
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Post by Oz-T on Mar 22, 2015 4:54:46 GMT
The camera has a digital zoom of 4X, although that can extend to 15X in combination with the optical zoom. As with all compact cameras, you'll never get the zoom capability of a full SLR - my old one has a 300mm lens that weighs much more than the camera body, but I never use it anymore.
I get by fine without needing greater zoom capabilities and never really regret not having it. I used to overdo the zoom on my old SLR and I've since learned that magnification isn't as necessary as I once thought. Usually I'm close enough to my subject to never need anything other than my compact camera. In my telescope (that's far higher magnification than a camera), I can see the wing structure of a fly sitting on a leaf across the street - but it's really just a party trick. I never need that sort of thing when I'm on a holiday, taking photos of the usual things of interest. And as you'd know, some photos at high mag will require a tripod or at least a monopod that I'd never want to carry overseas with me.
The 3200 ISO setting is one of my favourites, as mentioned a few times on forums. On guided tours I get clear images of city buildings at night or ceiling murals in dark cathedrals when nobody else can get anything decent with their standard cameras.
Being a few years old now, my camera would now be replaced with a newer model.
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 2, 2015 4:38:01 GMT
Here's my photo of the planet Jupiter two nights ago.... Unfortunately, the planet's brightness obscured its surface detail, mainly the bands (cloud belts). If I had changed the telescope settings to make them visible, it would have turned the moons into fuzzier blobs. The four moons you see here are from left to right: Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto (to the right of the planet), although they change their order as they orbit Jupiter. The moons are a similar size to our own moon so I'm always amazed I can see them from my front yard, 800 million kilometres away.
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 2, 2015 4:41:47 GMT
And here's our own moon. Not the best conditions for viewing, but my image came out reasonably well.... The dark areas are ancient lava flows when the young moon had seismic activity billions of years ago. To the eye of ancient astronomers, they thought they were oceans or seas so they named them accordingly (Ocean of Storms, Sea of Tranquility etc). If you look at the huge meteor crater (Tycho) at the bottom left you can see lighter lines or rays emanating from it. This is dust and rock that spewed out of the blast zone. Without any wind or weather, things like this stay exactly where they fell on the moon, and haven't moved an inch over billions of years.
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Post by 1jhwks on Apr 2, 2015 12:56:36 GMT
Wow, OzT!!! Always have been fascinated in astronomy.
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Post by Tonnet on Apr 2, 2015 23:49:10 GMT
Excellent photography, Oz!
I wish my 6" telescope had the capability of accepting a camera - a mistake that I made many years ago. I have to be satisfied with direct viewing only but that is great when I escape the light pollution of the city!
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Post by solaria on Apr 3, 2015 1:23:50 GMT
Hello everyone & Happy Easter!! As an Easter treat we went to our Local gardens to look at the ones newly developed. These are a couple of photos taken of the Tudor Garden by my HTC phone as I didn't take my camera - I thought they turned out quite well and the gardens are amazing! Always something new to admire and the older gardens such as the Japanese & Chinese Scholar gardens are always a joy to revisit.
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 4, 2015 11:25:49 GMT
This is a live photo of the eclipsing moon....
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Post by Oz-T on Apr 4, 2015 13:12:53 GMT
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