Showing posts with label Acrux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acrux. Show all posts
December 26, 2011
Seasons Greetings, and more love and joy
Hot off the CCD this morning, some better shots of Comet Lovejoy in the south-eastern sky. Also I expect I should do a big shout out to everyone for the holidays eh? Happy Solstice celebration all, whatever form it takes for you, from 1200mm.
April 27, 2011
Holy Haleakala!
To coin a phrase from one of my heroes!
I did it, I got a star!! Well 2+ stars, binary system.
I have honestly spent years with this no-budget Astro-odyssey trying to get one, tonight I did.
For my single digit readers .. this is Acrux, one of my favorite stars, one of the brightest in the southern sky, a complicated binary star system. 11 shots, stacked in Photoshop - one of the first shots to utilise my new stacker tool set I am writing - and 321 light years. It's noisy, fuzzy, flared and a boring shot but gorram it, it's my first star!
Enough rambling! Get to the picture!
I did it, I got a star!! Well 2+ stars, binary system.
I have honestly spent years with this no-budget Astro-odyssey trying to get one, tonight I did.
For my single digit readers .. this is Acrux, one of my favorite stars, one of the brightest in the southern sky, a complicated binary star system. 11 shots, stacked in Photoshop - one of the first shots to utilise my new stacker tool set I am writing - and 321 light years. It's noisy, fuzzy, flared and a boring shot but gorram it, it's my first star!
Enough rambling! Get to the picture!
Next attempt: M42!
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