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SPAAACE

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 5:12 am
by Dinosawer
Flatfingers wrote:
Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:20 pm
BFett wrote:
Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:04 am
I would be happy with a thread dedicated to images from our solar system and beyond.
+1
FIRE

I'll start with this gorgeous shot of the Veil Nebula
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from APOD:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170919.html

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:09 am
by Cody
Excellent! I'll follow with a ghostly starship:

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Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:10 am
by Talvieno
Oooh, I like this thread idea. :D I'll need to conjure up some images to add.

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:02 pm
by Flatfingers
Yay for space images thread! \o/

There are other images (from far better sources) that I like but I'll start out with three that I captured myself.

Jupiter and three of its four Galilean moons:
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The Great Nebula in Orion:
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M31, the Andromeda Galaxy:
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None of these are particularly high quality. M31 in particular is barely recognizable. But I like them because they were taken with a simple DSLR camera from a somewhat light-polluted suburban front yard.

Next?

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:36 am
by Vivacia
SPAAAACE :D <3

*throws flowers everywhere*

this is my wallpaper:
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and another wallpaper:
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(my fave wallpaper :3)

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:06 am
by Dinosawer
I was more thinking of actual photos of space rather than art, but okay.
Flatfingers wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:02 pm
But I like them because they were taken with a simple DSLR camera from a somewhat light-polluted suburban front yard.
Wait, without a telescope? How did you get that quality? :shock:

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:11 am
by Cody
One of my favourites - the Sombrero Galaxy (M104):

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Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 9:26 am
by DigitalDuck
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Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:43 am
by Flatfingers
Dinosawer wrote:
Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:06 am
Flatfingers wrote:
Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:02 pm
But I like them because they were taken with a simple DSLR camera from a somewhat light-polluted suburban front yard.
Wait, without a telescope? How did you get that quality? :shock:

1. A good 250mm zoom lens.
2. A Polarie polar tracking mount (which never quite worked, but did occasionally allow tracking shots of more than a few seconds).
3. Some post-processing techniques. The Jupiter shot was stacked, and the Orion Nebula and M31 images used contrast stretching to deepen the blacks without losing too many details.

I've got some other camera shots -- the Double Cluster in Perseus, and the Ring Nebula (M57) in Lyra -- but the quality there is not quite good enough.

One day (night, that is)....

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:21 pm
by BFett
You can't go wrong with the Eagle Nebula:
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Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 7:50 am
by Cody
Galaxies like grains of sand:

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Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:47 am
by Dinosawer
Todays APOD of Massive Shell-Expelling Star G79.29+0.46 is pretty damn nice:
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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170925.html

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:58 am
by BFett
Is that picture of a star going supernova? That explosion is huge! It must be light years across.


Here's one of my favorite globular clusters (Lots of stars in one spot)

m13
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Some people claim that there's no life in the universe besides what's here on earth. Globular clusters like these suggest otherwise. I love space!

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:37 am
by Cody
BFett wrote:
Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:58 am
Some people claim that there's no life in the universe besides what's here on earth. Globular clusters like these suggest otherwise.
Never having seen other stars, the inhabitants of Lagash had come to believe that their six-star system contained the entirety of the universe.

Re: SPAAACE

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:57 am
by Dinosawer
BFett wrote:
Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:58 am
Is that picture of a star going supernova? That explosion is huge! It must be light years across.
As I understand it's not going supernova but in the stage of "violently throwing stuff around" that comes before going supernova. So, will prolly go supernova in the future. And, it apparently is about 3 ly across.