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Further Images: September 2012
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Sunday, September 23, 2012. This picture was taken along the Chama river near the Christ in the Desert Monastery in Northern New Mexico. The pinhole camera was placed on a wooden beam that supports the bridge railing. My friend Iain kept track of the exposure time as I supported the camera (I was afraid of it falling off to the river below) and operated the shutter (a piece of tape). The wood grain from the support beam is the foreground - only inches from the pinhole. Labels: black and white. 120 film, ...
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Photon Shot Noise: The M87 Chain and the Pixinsight Zone System
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Sunday, June 10, 2012. The M87 Chain and the Pixinsight Zone System. One of the greatest euphemisms in the world has to be the phrase `learning experience'. How often do we sugar-coat our mistakes by calling them `learning experiences'? I'm sure I've done it many times. This image provides an example, but in this case there's a bit more to it than that. Data Acquisition: Making the best of a bad situation. Called Markarian's Chain. It's a standard target, since it comprises a pretty, arc-ing chain of...
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Photon Shot Noise: February 2013
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Saturday, February 16, 2013. 2012's M33, at last. Sometimes I think M33 is my Great White Whale. I'll probably keep shooting this thing every autumn - or nearly so - for as long as I can operate a CCD camera and telescope. I don't have the same vengeful feelings toward it that Ahab had towards Moby-Dick, but I am somewhat obsessed with it. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of amateur imagers are, too. M33, the Triangulum galaxy, distance about 2.5 - 3 million light years. Get the L out. The most ...
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Photon Shot Noise: 2012's M33, at last
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Saturday, February 16, 2013. 2012's M33, at last. Sometimes I think M33 is my Great White Whale. I'll probably keep shooting this thing every autumn - or nearly so - for as long as I can operate a CCD camera and telescope. I don't have the same vengeful feelings toward it that Ahab had towards Moby-Dick, but I am somewhat obsessed with it. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of amateur imagers are, too. M33, the Triangulum galaxy, distance about 2.5 - 3 million light years. Get the L out. The most ...
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Photon Shot Noise: Making `Adaptive' progress with Pixinsight noise reduction
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Sunday, July 15, 2012. Making `Adaptive' progress with Pixinsight noise reduction. Here's a short technical article for my fellow Pixinsight. Noise can also be reduced somewhat in post-processing by using software routines, such as those in Pixinsight. This post is a journal entry of sorts, to record how I managed to smooth the noisy background areas of an image of a galaxy cluster. It allowed me to go from this:. As I described in an earlier post. Ideally, I'd have liked to get at least several hours of...
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Photon Shot Noise: Globular Star Cluster M3
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Globular Star Cluster M3. Harbinger of Summer - that's how I always think of the globular star cluster M3. A little less than a hundred years ago, Harlow Shapley measured the distances to the globular clusters,. Globular star cluster M3. 8-1/3 hours total exposure time. Evenly split between unbinned R, G, and B, shot in 4-minute subexposures. Click the image for larger version, or click here for full size. To my amazement, Bruce Jensen set up an 18" Starmaster dobsonian. M3 is o...
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Photon Shot Noise: December 2011
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Sunday, December 25, 2011. A major event for California observers is the yearly California Star Party. Or `Calstar'. My Bay Area buddies and I look forward to it each year. In 2011, I worked on M31, the Andromeda galaxy. M31 is a classic autumn object, rising in the evening and riding high for much of the night. I'd spent previous Calstars observing it in detail visually, and this year I wanted to get the best possible RGB imaging data that I could. Happily, I'd just taken delivery of a new SBIG ST-8300M.
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Further Images: North Lightning
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014. This lightning illuminated scene was taken using tripod mounted iPhone 5s from my patio. North end of the Sandia Range in the distance. IPhone 5s, using Long Exposure app. approx 3min accumulated exposure time. Taken in Corrales, New Mexico July 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For my astrophotography and night sky images please see. Everything else goes here. Scientist. I like taking pictures . of the night sky most of all. View my complete profile.
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Further Images: August 2012
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Friday, August 3, 2012. Taken on the first day of vacation, July 2012. Espanola, New Mexico. Canon T2i, Canon 24mm EF-L @ f2.8, 1/800s, ISO200. Processed in Lightroom 4. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). For my astrophotography and night sky images please see. Everything else goes here. Scientist. I like taking pictures . of the night sky most of all. View my complete profile. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Further Images: Chimney Rock Sunset
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The sunsets over the iconic Chimney Rock at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico rarely disappoint. Canon T2i, Canon 10-22mm EF-S @ f4.5, 1/1000s, ISO400. Processed in Lightroom 3. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For my astrophotography and night sky images please see. Everything else goes here. Scientist. I like taking pictures . of the night sky most of all. View my complete profile. If you wish to use one of my images you may do so under the following conditions.
