Ok I'm not gonna lie. This is probably bragging
 

Lots of people on here have great things happen to themselves and to their kids. Having no kids and only a couple dogs that are unlikely to win any awards I did get this today. I think it's kinda cool and screw anyone if repost.

It's nice when family and friends like your work but when NASA picks your photo out of the 100,000 they get a year it's pretty amazing.

Anyway Go to

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Or here's a couple screen captures from my iPad app

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Very cool!

Pretty cool indeed. How did you get a picture that clear?

Space nerds are the hottest nerds! Yay you babe.

Congratulations! That is a cool pic, and very bragworthy!

Very cool!

Congrats!

Not gonna lie, that's pretty badass.

Grats

Thanks guys (and gal) I got about 3 hours of sleep last night but still walking on clouds

Yep. Cool as hell.

Very cool.

Good job, Dave.

You do realize a meteor crashed into the moon last night , Right !

Nice work man - that's very cool.

Sweet. It ain't braggin' if you can do it...

That is a sweet shot.

Awesome work. I check that page daily, neat to see your name there before I saw this thread.

Be sure to thank God in your acceptance speech.

Its 45 hours of camera exposure. You can get tons of detail with that kind exposure length. I'm skipping like 3 million other things that have to be done but thats the main thing :thumb:

Bravo Zulu Dave.

truly bad-ass. You're 'kind of a big deal' now.
:thumb:

So you've been published by NASA. I guess that's pretty good.

Very nice.

LMAO

How do we know that isn't a different person? It says David Lane, not Dave Lane. :D

Meh. I have done that...twice/CP

Very cool.

Congrats!

That is pretty cool stuff Dave Lane! Congrats!

If you could zoom in, imagine all the other stuff that's going on inside that picture. Meteors are striking, quasars are pulsing, Zylrokians are giving birth, rebel soldiers are blowing up death stars...all sorts of stuff is going on inside that picture.

Cool, but that website looks like it was designed with a potato.

Praise Science!

Congrats & great job!

Okay so I planned to make fun of you CP style. I just can't...cool stuff.

Tl;dr
Too fat
Not fat enough
Looks shopped


Really though, kinda neat and all that.....

So is this one of those deals where you have to rotate your camera at the speed of the universe or something?

I see shit like this from run of the mill Instagram posters on any given day.

Wow that's very cool, Dave. Congratulations.

Every weekend I see a kid down at Astrotelephoto Center doing stuff like this.

Look at you....all smart and stuff. Congrats bro.

Yeah. This.

Dave McLane

CONGRATS! Great stuff!

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I could draw that picture in my sleep

with a Spirograph!

Very cool pic. Congrats!

That is an amazing pic ( peckerhead ) Dave.


Bravo, it's bragging when you get something that awesome and the recognition from NASA.

Mostly at the neighborhood Guitar Center

:)

Badass photo. Congrats.

And, you win the intranets.

Fantastic photo and well deserved recognition. Congrats!:thumb:

You don't have to go into 3 million other things, but would you mind giving us the cliffs notes? For example...

1. What type of telescope and camera did you use?
2. When you say 45 hours, I assume that's spread out over a very long period of time. I assume there's some sort of computerized system to keep it pointed in the right direction all that time?
3. I assume you did at least some post-processing to clean it up, but can you expand on how much was required?

Really fantastic work for (I assume) a hobbyist.

Also, they completely screwed up your email address at the link you posted.

VERY COOL pic. Nice. Congrats on the APOD.

Nice work man. Glad to see you're getting some accolades for it.

Awesome ! Great pic .

Actually yes you do. I have a timelapse I did of it tracking things in the nite sky. Its freaky at hyper speed. When you are watching it in real time there is no apparent motion.

Ill give you more of the details. This was actually shot with a QHY 12 which is a One Shot Color camera. There is just over 45 hours of exposure. Since this is a OSC camera its really the equivalent of 135 hours of RBG data. There were about 10 hours of 20 minute exposures and 10 hours of 15 minute exposures I think that really helped with the dust. The rest were 5 and 10 minutes exposures. I gathered them from mid November till early January. The telescope was a Williams Optics GTF refractor of 81mm aperture.

I just happen to love M45 and really wanted to get as much detail as was humanly possible from down here on earth. The imaging was taken about 80 miles south of Kansas City in a pretty remote area. No towns over 100 population for 20 miles. It has very favorable skies.

This is pretty much what I've been sending to inquiries today. And yes it does track the sky on an odd looking mount. If you want I'l put a video up so you can see how it looks in fast motion.

Awesome work, Dave. I've always admired your accomplishments. You're a driven guy. You deserve it. It's so amazing that all that stuff in your photo came from a single explosion at random. ;) Heh. I'm not trying to offtrack your thread with passive aggressive BS. We're friends so you know what I mean.

Yes, please. Also, I want to do a little press thing in my newspaper if you're willing. Pls send that info to phil@greensummitdispatch.com when you get a chance. I can obviously grab the photo and the letter here.

Cool Ill shoot it over to you tonight.

That is pretty friggen amazing Dave. Very cool

If it's convenient to do so, I wouldn't mind seeing it.

Way cool.

Jesus.. :eek:
what kind of ball bearings with that thing?

I think I have enough, actually. Already put it out there. I'll tag you in a minute. https://www.facebook.com/GreenSummit...type=1&theater

Your comment intrigues me. Why are you asking about ball bearings? Do they have to be especially smooth or round or something in a case like this?

Check your Fetzer valve...

The camera is analog. Obviously

Congratulations!

In High Def this is pretty good...

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Dude, awesome shot.

I remember loving one of your night desert landscape shots you did. Great stuff.

Hand crank :)

Very cool!

Congradulations. You are the CP astrologer in my opinion.

Congratulations!

That's a lot of driving to bum-****, KS. I admire your dedication to your craft.

Gratz dude.

Great to get some recognition... and from NASA no less! Awesome.

FYP

a fantastic example of the majesty and beauty of God's creation.
Thanks for sharing

LMAO

Yup. Zeus achieved something majestic for sure when he transformed the seven sisters, Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope, into the beautiful stars in the night sky we know as the Pleiades.