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Dr. Astro (OP)Senior Forum Moderator  User ID: 10132005  United States09/20/2013 06:53 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good go this morning. Thanks. Maybe. You could tell me why the stream here looks out of focus. It was doing that intermittently during the Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26749853 You tube broadcast of the America's cup yesterday. Don't know, it looked fine on my end but of course I'm not seeing what the stream compression looks like. I'm also connecting to the internet and webcasting through my phone, so if the cell reception drops off a bit it's going to impact the image quality of the stream.  |
| Reality420 User ID: 41799758 United States09/20/2013 06:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Astro, Quoting: Reality420 41799758 Just wondering why you are taking Biases. Aren't they essentially included in your Darks? Anyway, I spit coffee when you slewed to Mars and it was a giant honking Nibiru!!!!! Good lord, can you imagine what the Anomalytards would do with that? Anomalytard - "How can a pinpoint Mars show up as a frame filling giant ball of light?!!!!!!!???? That's the Orange Katchina!!!!!!!!" Have fun. R. LOL! Tell me about it. I collect every kind of calibration file I can. Technically read noise is in the dark frame, but when you can quickly grab 100 or more bias frames it makes for much smoother cancellation of read noise than 10 or so dark frames. This is especially important when I'm running off the power inverter; it induces some kind of electronic interference in the read noise of the CCD even though the only part of the CCD connected to the inverter is the fan. Ah, OK. Thanks for the insight re - Darks/Biases. And whatta' know. ISON is exactly where it is predicted to be. I hope it survives perihelion and puts on a good show. I got to see Hale-Bopp which was a great show but there are a lot of people who were not alive or too young for HB so it would be nice if they get to see a good comet too. Have fun. R. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44329723  United Kingdom09/20/2013 07:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A comet with 3 separate distinct perfectly looking fluorescent bright luminous light sources inside the comet? Mmmm... perhaps the landlord of this planet, God, has ordered contract engineers to shut down the Earth for repairs, they'll be here soon. Hope they don't evict us of here..!!! God won't be giving us back our deposit back, that's for sure.. & renting a space on this planet is sure to go up! |
| Reality420 User ID: 41799758 United States09/20/2013 07:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A comet with 3 separate distinct perfectly looking fluorescent bright luminous light sources inside the comet? Mmmm... perhaps the landlord of this planet, God, has ordered contract engineers to shut down the Earth for repairs, they'll be here soon. Hope they don't evict us of here..!!! God won't be giving us back our deposit back, that's for sure.. & renting a space on this planet is sure to go up! And who are these "they" you speak of? Annewnookies? Are you mixing Christianian and Sumerian/Babylonian pagan theology? What would Jesus say about that, I wonder? The End-Times Bibletards never miss an opportunity to live down to their reputation and embarrass sane Christians around the world. Well done. R. |
| Éireann User ID: 33918997 United States09/20/2013 07:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A comet with 3 separate distinct perfectly looking fluorescent bright luminous light sources inside the comet? Mmmm... perhaps the landlord of this planet, God, has ordered contract engineers to shut down the Earth for repairs, they'll be here soon. Hope they don't evict us of here..!!! God won't be giving us back our deposit back, that's for sure.. & renting a space on this planet is sure to go up! And who are these "they" you speak of? Annewnookies? Are you mixing Christianian and Sumerian/Babylonian pagan theology? What would Jesus say about that, I wonder? The End-Times Bibletards never miss an opportunity to live down to their reputation and embarrass sane Christians around the world. Well done. R. I think the poster was joking, R :) Down boy :) Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 47112340 United Kingdom09/20/2013 07:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not sure but space is teeming with all sorts of life forms,small and large,here is the bottom of that food chain. 'Alien Bugs' Discovered In Earth's Atmosphere [link to news.sky.com] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21666560 United States09/20/2013 08:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ASTRO your about as real as pot of gold at the end of a rainbow I ask u will ison pick up speed and u said no WELL GUESS WHAT IT IS ya my ass how is king Obama . is he paying u well . that's right its our money paying u for the sht . you tell ppl . well soon your lies will not help u . and u know this don't .u, and ps this is SOON Quoting: SOON 44954402 OP is clearly a liar. Wonder how the same puppets still support him... wut? |
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| Éireann User ID: 33918997 United States09/20/2013 09:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it's beautiful. I can't wait till she gets closer. I only have a 2" refractor and she's going to need to be a lot brighter if I'm going to be able to see it. Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
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| Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States09/20/2013 10:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think it's beautiful. I can't wait till she gets closer. I only have a 2" refractor and she's going to need to be a lot brighter if I'm going to be able to see it. I'm quite happy with it, didn't have any issues with flat field calibration this time, which is always good. You can see the tail a bit. Still, I had some issues stacking some of the frames due to noise in the image being mistaken for stars. I'll have to go back later today and try to eliminate the spurious detections so that they stack. |
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| Dr. Astro (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States09/20/2013 02:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Astrometry of the image reveals the coma width to be about 33.19 arcseconds in the image. At the comet's distance of 2.455 AU that corresponds to a coma size of about 59,000 km. It's possible the true size is a bit larger as I may not have captured the faintest regions of it. |
| Éireann User ID: 46704606 United States09/20/2013 08:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ohh... I love that observatory smilie :) Too cute! Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
