Astronomy: Astrophotography

What's your fav image from the Jodcast archive?

Mine is this from the September 08 edition - Interview with Dr Debbie Mitchell (NATS) -
Smoke Angle http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060822.html
I know its not Astrophotography but I like it...
Heres one I did earlyer in the August extra edition of a partial solar eclipse
http://flickr.com/photos/44514359@N00/2722463448/

EarthUnit what do you think of this fo a solution?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spiral

Having a quick look through the archive page I think the one for the November 2006 edition:

http://www.jodcast.net/archive/200611/cover.jpg

Stuart that would make an awsome poster - what's the copyright like on getting it printed?

Well done odatheoak, the golden spiral (spirals in nature) / Mandelbrot, it’s a lot more scientific then the way my thoughts were going. I was thinking more along the lines of remembering when I was a little kid and watching the water go down the plug hole in the bath :- ~

Cheers for that, you have renewed my faith in science lol

And thanks to Leloup, now that’s more like the one I was looking for, I knew I had seen it somewhere. It was a galaxy taken in I think 3 different filters and you can see the halo objects. Finding it will be my project for the weekend :- )

I'll do some testers on a an a4 printer first and send you the best one...A3 would be the perfect size.
Cheers Stuart

Stuart the prints are on there way to you - Here's the link to the flickr image
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44514359@N00/3361885137/

Cool! Thanks. You've got me thinking about how it would look if all the cover art was grouped by subject with the telescopes at the bottom and the most distant things (the cosmic microwave background) at the top.

This is quite good for the dates!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_astronomy
Are you going to have the telescopes dated also?

yodatheoak, thanks for the cover art sheets! They arrived this morning. I've given copies to Nick, Roy, Ian and Tim.

Stuart I've been having a think about your Jodcast images, telescope to distance...i don't know how skillfull you are at webmastering but...if you use sliding images that change with the telescope at the bottom that would be damn Cool to view.
I will have a look around to see if there is anything similar...or just ask one of the guys I know about it...
Mark :-)
This one looks interesting -
http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html

Hi All, - blind astrometry solver -
There is a new group on Flickr that takes your astophotography images and then adds notes to the image of stars, clusters, NCG and lots of other data about the image, check it out... ;-)
one of my images...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44514359@N00/3494812397/
The group page
http://www.flickr.com/groups/astrometry/pool/

Nice shot, Jodatheoak!

Sorry Joda I can’t help with any help, but looking forward to seeing some of your photos
PS have you tried having a look on google, you may get some info from there.

Most Newts, unless specifically designed for astophotography don't have enough "IN" focus to reach focus at prime. So you usually have to us a barlow of some sort to reach focus. If you aren't motorized, the best you'll be able to do is fast (1/250th and faster) shots of the moon or sun (with the right filter).

I tried taking some shots a couple of years ago with my 10" F/5 dob and digital DSLR - the only thing that came out was the moon. They came out really good (once I got focus nailed) but without a tracking mount, you are really limited.

G'Luck!

Got it and its bigger that I'd thought I'll post some images when I get a chance to set it up and start to use it ;-)
If the clouds ever move away from where I live...

Nice picture of Jupiter and moons Jodatheoak! If you took many over the course of a night you could make a really nice animation. Here's one I made with my friend Chris Wareing from the middle of Manchester on November 8/9 1999: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~slowe/optical/images/jupiter_moons_large.gif

That's great Stuart, I'll give it a go when I'm in a postion I can see it better I have a limited view from the backyard...I will venture out next time I get a chance...possibly Mam Tor

First images of the moon with the 10" mirror telescope http://www.flickr.com/photos/44514359@N00/4069172744/
What do you think Joders?

Just made my own contribution to the Jodcast Flicker Pool =-)

Thanks for joining RapidEye I hope to see some more images soon.
;-)

Wow fantastic picture joda

Thanks :-)

Great to see some pictures from the live event at Jodrell! Thanks for posting those.

have a look at this one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30613086@N04/4137077526/

I managed to finaly get out again to do some more phototgraphy and I've posted them to the Jodcast flicker group...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1230704@N24/

I was completely wowed by Orions nebula and Mars looked great, but the images are a out of focus and hold little detail.
I can appreciate other amature astomomers work on images of the heavens, now nowing all that's stacked against you getting a good set of images to combine and tweak.
The techical know how was great to understand and use. I only hope that I can get a eqitorial mount for my camera in the future to continue.
Its funny how some basic equipment can also give you great results.