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Old 02-25-2014, 06:43 AM   Topic Starter
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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.

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

Or here's a couple screen captures from my iPad app
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Old 02-25-2014, 06:44 AM   #2
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Old 02-25-2014, 06:51 AM   #3
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Old 02-25-2014, 06:53 AM   #4
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Pretty cool indeed. How did you get a picture that clear?
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Old 02-25-2014, 08:49 AM   #5
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Pretty cool indeed. How did you get a picture that clear?
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
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Old 02-25-2014, 08:54 AM   #6
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So you've been published by NASA. I guess that's pretty good.

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Old 02-25-2014, 03:33 PM   #7
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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
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.
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Old 02-25-2014, 04:30 PM   #8
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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.
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.
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Old 02-25-2014, 04:40 PM   #9
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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.
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.
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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.
If it's convenient to do so, I wouldn't mind seeing it.
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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.
Jesus..
what kind of ball bearings with that thing?
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