Polls

[grave totem]

real

weird bc cumulus congestus can become cumulonimbus, and if they start rotating, supercell, 🌪️, may 3rd all over again

[halcyon kettle]

still its fun to see a thunderstorm in the distance and tryna identify all the parts lol

[grave totem]

that and cirrus uncinus looks so nice

example

(not my img hehehjhe)

[royal yarrow]

I LOVE YORU NAME

[grave totem]

cloufs

lmao everyone hates stratus clouds
i do too but sure ig

[grave totem]

also thnaks (ive used this format for a bit now, before it was onism. with no emojis on outisde)

[royal yarrow]

For some reason, cumulus congestus used to be my favorite cloud

[versed sundial]

Dark gud

[grave totem]

real (it's also my favourite)

[grave totem]

i don't mind dark chocolate, just a little uhh. idk how to describe it, metally, almost?

[potent mango]

the what the what

[primal kite]

this used to be an astrophotography server

[royal yarrow]

where Cirrus vertebratus

[grave totem]

idek anymore (to be fair we had polls on ice cream a few days ago)

[grave totem]

thats a subtype of one of the main ones, e.g. cirrus uncinus vertebratus is curly hooks arranged like vertebrae

[spare cape]

ثللل ثلثلثل ثصهثيص ثيصاب٩٨٠٣بغعقابهصثبعخد حصخذيسختذدني؟؟؟؟؟؟

[grave totem]

"Three-thirds-thirds-this-this-this-this-is-9803-with-a-punishment"

[spare cape]

Did this enlighten you

I lobe teaching the generation of the humans on fun games that I have never seen before and I am so proud of it

[grave totem]

i must learn more on the 9803

[spare cape]

Daytime

[grave totem]

death now

https://tenor.com/view/ending-time-octet-dust-sans-four-arms-evolution-gif-10160719277882085190

[royal yarrow]

oh wow, u have even more rainrot than me

Cloudpilled

Vapor-wave

[grave totem]

i have taken a sudden interest in meteoriligy (idk how to spell meterorly), including tornadoes

🌪️

[spare cape]

That’s a new one

[royal yarrow]

You should watch Swegle Studios

[spare cape]

A true one would spell is as Meteorology

[royal yarrow]

Finally another astrophotographer who likes clouds n stuff???

[spare cape]

I exist

[grave totem]

i got bored so im making some altocumulus out of paper and clingfilm

[royal yarrow]

Noice

[grave totem]

yes how could you tell?

[royal yarrow]

lucky guess xd

[grave totem]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1258357173331824745/1261443818201419918/roach-dancingroach.gif

[spare cape]

If you a true Meteorologist, what cloud is this?

[grave totem]

mammatus?

[spare cape]

Damn

You might not be able to spell but You sure know what a mammatus cloud is

That is whole swag uncle

[grave totem]

ok my tuen

turn*

me not being able to spell is true l,mao

[spare cape]

I documented this after a small storm happened over head for me

[grave totem]

what is this

[royal yarrow]

Do you happen to exhibit an interest in phenomena like this?

[grave totem]

ive seen the left one (sun halo, was it uhhh 22 degrees?)

[royal yarrow]

Fallstreak cloud

[spare cape]

Fallstreaks

[royal yarrow]

yessir

[spare cape]

Seen a few of them

[grave totem]

close enough, fallstreak hole

[royal yarrow]

ohhh cause the hole

[grave totem]

yeah, theyre also called hole punch clouds (never seen one tho)

[grave totem]

i think there was another at 40something degrees too

[spare cape]

Sun halos and iridiescence ?

[grave totem]

oh yeah thats what it was called

[royal yarrow]

First is a 22° halo, second is a circumzenithal arc

[grave totem]

ok anyways , what is thsi

[grave totem]

have you seen a sundog

[royal yarrow]

Ive seen a couple here and there, but none with rainbow stuff Nacreous or Polar Stratospheric clou

d

[grave totem]

ah yes

clou

d

my favourite cloud

[grave totem]

they can be made of nitric acid too apparently

[spare cape]

Love these

[grave totem]

cumulus something, maybe congestus?

[royal yarrow]

Oh man, I've seen plenty

That last one is a reflection of the Sun and sundog, called a Subsun and Sub-sundog

[potent mango]

a cloud

[grave totem]

ive seen one, but i couldnt get a picture of it bc of the angle it was at (nearly due west, hard to see from my north facing window)

[spare cape]

Yep around that ball park

[grave totem]

(sundog)

[royal yarrow]

wait no this is the one with a subsundog

[royal yarrow]

girl. That's not just any cloud

[spare cape]

Prob my favorite photograph ive taken of a storm

[potent mango]

a rainy looking one

[grave totem]

im thinkin uhhh either cumulus congestus or a big cumulus mediocris, maaaaybe the top bit of a cumulonimbus calvus

[royal yarrow]

cumulonimbus calvin klein

[grave totem]

incus!!!

[spare cape]

I love that anvil man

[grave totem]

real

[spare cape]

Yep you can see that beautiful anvil with lower mammatus clouds under it

That shot was my magnum opus of storm shots

[grave totem]

ikr
wait lemme get my phone i have some cloud pics

[royal yarrow]

One of my fav. The dark is normal clouds, behind it are noctilucent rocket clouds through my telescope

[grave totem]

i saw some really good cirrus yesterday , but my phone was on 2% it couldnt last long enough for a picture ujdedhre#

but cirrus warm the earth up tho so idk

[spare cape]

My most recent imaging of a storm, saw a few distant lightning strikes in it, never shot them but i heard and saw them

[grave totem]

fallstreak lines on cirrus

[spare cape]

It was a weak storm, lasted like 30 minutes, no anvil i believe

[royal yarrow]

neat

[spare cape]

Just cumulus stuff

[grave totem]

lemme see what else I have

oh yeah these (cumulus fractus)

[spare cape]

What are these called again

I know they have a name

[royal yarrow]

also, Im so into crepuscular rays

[royal yarrow]

Pileus

[grave totem]

definitely an accessory cloud

[royal yarrow]

Oh

[grave totem]

pileus is an accessory cloud

[royal yarrow]

Dang I didn't even know that😭wow

[spare cape]

They are these small accessory clouds you see atop a cumulus quite cool id say

[grave totem]

there's also velum (sheet clouds along a congetsus or storm)
uh
arcus, volutus (roll clouf)

[royal yarrow]

ohh yea, they only form with colmunobimbus

[grave totem]

pileus remind me of lenticular clouds

[royal yarrow]

Are fallstreak holes an accessory cloud of cirrocumulus?

[grave totem]

I think?
all the pics I've seen have cirrocumulus surrounding the hole

wait no they can appear in altocumulus as well

[royal yarrow]

ohh whatthe

[grave totem]

feels very nimbostratus and some uhh scud clouds too I think

[royal yarrow]

scud fs

[grave totem]

(bottom left is darker)

so dvdndgdhfbf

anywqgs

[grave totem]

scud clouds
wonder why they called them that

what did they do

to deserve that name

[royal yarrow]

Have you ever seen aspertatus clouds or whatever

[grave totem]

asperitas?

(I had to look this one up lmao)

[royal yarrow]

yeah, or at least bits of it

[grave totem]

does this Count

bottom of the pic

[royal yarrow]

slay

basically what I've seen too

[potent mango]

guys should i get mods involved

this is no place for cloud lovers

[royal yarrow]

yes, show them that clouds are coolsies

[grave totem]

the only clouds I'm fine with are during the day/sunset and sunrise

unless its a solar eclipse

[spare cape]

Need to see a tornado

[grave totem]

I want to as well
problem is I live on the edge of the uks tornado alley. we don't get tornadoes for shi-

[spare cape]

Captured many phenomena

Tornado is my last one before i die

[grave totem]

on a more relevant to the server lne
noctilucent

[royal yarrow]

Biggest one on my bucket list is Tricker arcs. They're beautiful ice crystal phenomena that have only been photographed so many times

[grave totem]

my bucket list has tornado, nacreous and the really funky asperitas ones

and mammatus too

[potent mango]

public enemy number 1

[royal yarrow]

like who wouldn't be in awe of this

[grave totem]

if its in the day (excluding solar eclipses) then i can tolerate them
night clouds can go drink a bottle of sodium perchlorate

[royal yarrow]

fr for real

[grave totem]

hehehehwgwgwdgfehdgfsgaddsthrhe tirnado

[potent mango]

need it on my dragons

[gleaming totem]

Remember that 4x better SNR is like having 16 times more integration time…

[grave totem]

i don't know what any of these are (I only have these birdwatching binoc things that are unusually good at stars too, I managed to get small Sagittarius star cloud on them in a B7)

[potent mango]

he gone

[spare cape]

Didn’t watch that did you

[grave totem]

whar

[spare cape]

Good

[potent mango]

it took too long to load

dm

[grave totem]

i saw bits of it

[spare cape]

What was it

[gleaming totem]

I watched some of it but I’m on my phone and horrible sound so I didn’t understand anything

[grave totem]

ai generated something
equipment manager
uhh some ppl and a idk

ı

[potent mango]

just praising volunteers

[gleaming totem]

I saw some bbq stuff happening inside of a hospital

[grave totem]

yea whatever he said idk

[gleaming totem]

I think 💀

My brain is not braining today

[grave totem]

me nearer

neither*

[spare cape]

Lucky you didnt get up to the egg part

[gleaming totem]

WAIT I COULD DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO OMG IM SO DUMB

[grave totem]

WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT

😭

[spare cape]

Why do you guys care about a wholesome video its too wholesome for thsi server’

[grave totem]

d

[potent eagle]

the edge of brownies is the worst part

[halcyon kettle]

whichever one I see first

[latent vapor]

Southern ring nebula

[grave totem]

UK ring nebula (its a cloud)

(don't tell them tho they're gonna be so mad)

[grave totem]

the entire brownie

[delicate pier]

I’ve been out in much colder than 14°F

[latent vapor]

I‘ve been out in 1K

[north fractal]

is there someone here who constantly lives in less than -10c? ☠️

[grave totem]

never had higher than 40 so hehehygdyge

[delicate pier]

Just realized I read that wrong 💀💀💀

[west sonnet]

how could one even read that incorrectly

[delicate pier]

I skipped a word or something I dunno.

My brain decided to go “one, two, skip a few.”

[west sonnet]

fair

[potent eagle]

its so over

[grave totem]

I read it as "lowest temperature survived"

[grave totem]

not all cumulonimbus have anvil
capillatus and calvus have rounder tops, incus has anvil top

[grave totem]

;;

[royal yarrow]

I choose Secret third answer: cat

[delicate pier]

Cats will never be better.

[potent mango]

manbearpig, half man, half bear, half pig

[royal yarrow]

ye it's a little hard to compare them. Like comparing a pet bird to pet fish

[gleaming totem]

I do it without water completely

[rotund prawn]

proof?

[potent mango]

i love raw bristles on my gums, no water or toothpaste

[west sonnet]

yeh same, dont see the point

i need scientific proof that I need water before I do use water

[latent vapor]

You are both psychos

[versed sundial]

bird

[versed sundial]

eat-shit-sleep-meow
repeat

[versed sundial]

water -> paste -> water

[grave totem]

I feel like I've done this while sleep deprived

[gleaming totem]

I heard from my dentist that using water hurts the hygiene because toothpaste contains slightly abrasive material (kind of like very weak sand paper) which is supposed to sort of brush of the bad stuff away, and water ruins that process.

[versed sundial]

aight, my challenge starts

ping me everyday reminding me to not use water

for a month

i wanna see what happens

i start august 1

end august 31

[gleaming totem]

i feel like the fact that you're going to consciously know that you are brushing your teeth without water will cause you to brush better, or at least differently, so I don't think it's a very scientific test...

but sure

[versed sundial]

nah fam, i got muscle memory for brushing, i will do the exact same

[gleaming totem]

remember to do a control test today, but like how are you going to mesure the performace...

[versed sundial]

take a picture today (i got slight yellow teeth)

and also im gonna scrape my teeth and collect any residue if i can and store that

[gleaming totem]

bruh

[versed sundial]

and compare to 1 month later

[versed sundial]

any other ways?

[gleaming totem]

I think the best way would be how style theory did a few months ago, chew disclosing tablets after you brush your teeth and take a photo, the plaque will be much more visible

apparently these tablets are sold over the counter in many countries

[versed sundial]

more purple more plaque?

[gleaming totem]

yep...

[versed sundial]

aight

gonna start my experiment over the winters then

gonna buy the tablets when amazon gib sale in october

[gleaming totem]

blud is using windows 10 💀

[versed sundial]

so?

atleast i dont use windows xp...

which i was 2 years ago...

[gleaming totem]

it will stop getting security updates in about a year, so better swich up to that point

[grave totem]

toothpaste should be a little watered down imo
only a little
it's like using bleach neat

[grave totem]

red is new plaque
blue is old stuff

[versed sundial]

you know anybody who makes concentrated toothpaste?
i mean like, powder
or i could just chew sandpaper idk

[grave totem]

wait.
TOOTHPASTE GUM

[gleaming totem]

and what's the reasoning behind that? Your saliva will moist everything up in like 20 seconds or so either way, and because of my argument not putting any water still makes it better

[grave totem]

water cold
saliva warm

cold feels better with ming

mint

[gleaming totem]

...I'm talking about how clean you want your teeth, not how it feels...

[grave totem]

but still
I want it to feel nice while im cleaning my teeth too

[royal yarrow]

yup I do that a lot

[west sonnet]

Backstory, I don't use the bike that much. Maybe a couple times a month. Getting a new, proper mount will push my images so much further. Then I can spend my extra money on guiding and narrowband filters. Then my rig will be complete, until another upgrade comes to mind lol.

[delicate pier]

who cares about exercise, as long as you can take cool pictures of space.

[royal yarrow]

🔛🔝

[full gulch]

Says someone who has never had a cat

[full gulch]

The correct answer is actually both

[potent eagle]

i just eat the can of toothpaste like a normal person

[versed sundial]

Where do you get canned toothpaste 😭

[potent eagle]

soup section of grocery store

[lucid vessel]

You dont know what you are talking about

[royal yarrow]

@full gulch

[rotund prawn]

might aswell post a pic of my cat

[latent vapor]

orange cat activities

[tropic pendant]

big brain poll

[plucky isle]

Best nexstar celestron telescope i should say

[latent vapor]

I dont know any of these

[delicate pier]

I was really confused as to why you only had the nexstar series of telescopes for a moment.

[sleek inlet]

I use a stock dslr, so I was surprised to find blue in this

[plucky isle]

What dslr

[sleek inlet]

canon 700d. This is 2h of data

[plucky isle]

Nice i got a 450d 👍

[full gulch]

That nebula indeed has blue

[latent vapor]

Its you. YOU

[primal kite]

oops

[grave totem]

biscuit

[lucid vessel]

Whoever votes get immediately reported to the moderators

[potent mango]

i'm,proud of this server

[rotund prawn]

mods1!!!1 🤓👆

[gleaming totem]

M0DS

[full gulch]

Rizz isn't brain rot, it's just slang

Even my dad has incorporated rizz into his vocabulary. The word just works

[grave totem]

i live in the uk
we arethe clouds atp

[gleaming totem]

I have a Panasonic Lumix GX85 (4/3 sensor). My dad bought the camera for himself a few years ago before I got into astrophotography, now I do use it and it’s fine, but strictly for Astro I wouldn’t recommend it since it’s one of the few cameras from Panasonic that you can’t fully control from your PC, so things like platesolving or dithering are impossible, since you don’t have control over when the camera takes exposures.

[gleaming totem]

The fact that brian rott has exactly 69% votes is such a coincidence…

[tulip light]

Olympus OM-D EM1

[wind fiber]

Astro channel (Russian astrophotographer)

[potent mango]

damon scotting or ab

[full gulch]

How have you mentioned svbony but not player one?

[potent eagle]

c30

[lucid vessel]

Very interesting target! Thx for the suggestion

[versed sundial]

I was unaware, sorry

[wind fiber]

M102

[pallid garden]

Small optics is so goated

[lucid vessel]

Ahem, i cant do 3 targets per night

M51 ig

[west sonnet]

yeah where’s player one

[delicate pier]

W

[serene slate]

It's not stealing; it's lost.

[serene slate]

An item that's dropped on the road with no sight of the owner has no owner.

BUT. Say that a few weeks later, someone dropped by and asked me if I had seen such a thing, "I must have dropped it somewhere but didn't notice because it's been all clouds," and properly identified it then yes, I'll hand it back, with assurances it was treated well.

[eternal hemlock]

compact is so bad

[versed sundial]

Agreed

[potent eagle]

anyone?

a single compact user that isnt me?

[versed sundial]

Moxxi is a compact user

[grave totem]

what do this mean

[west sonnet]

compact is horrible

[lucid vessel]

Agreed

[forest aurora]

I guess you chaps like a lot of superfluous crap which makes everything look cluttered. This is me -

[potent eagle]

why did you add kiwi but not strawberry

[tropic pendant]

Oh ya

Too late to edit just pretend other is strawberry

[potent eagle]

theres no way a kiwi is more relavant fruit

[tropic pendant]

Lol yea

[tropic pendant]

Bluebery?

[potent eagle]

crap i cropped it out

[tropic pendant]

Blueberry should won

[tropic pendant]

If I search blueberry up enough times. Can I skew the data?

[potent eagle]

no

[delicate pier]

Shoulda had banana on there.

[potent mango]

Dingleberry

[pallid garden]

No mango‽

[twin osprey]

Now add banana

[potent eagle]

i dont get the apple people

apples are so mid

[river hazel]

@potent eagle strawberry 🍓 normie

[plucky isle]

Overrated ass fruit

[plucky isle]

Fr

[west sonnet]

banan

[drowsy knoll]

and looks like no one uses discord light mode

good

[delicate pier]

In what world would color be better than mono???

[twin osprey]

Simpler, cheaper

[primal kite]

Varies from person to person and how many clear nights you get

[delicate pier]

True.

[west sonnet]

wel depends what kinda fov u want lmao

[primal kite]

IMX411

[full mural]

IMX533 is nice

[west sonnet]

just has a poo fov

imx585 is good but it makes fov a lot lot smaller

i wish i just got a 533 and not a 585, stupid decision

[primal kite]

poop square sensor

i like the tight fov of the 585

[full mural]

Either you like the square or you don't. That's personal preference

I think the square sensor is quite nice

[primal kite]

its just really wierd. like you want to see more of your image and you just cant. prolly bc im used to a rectangular APS-C sensor

[west sonnet]

well 533 kinda my only option, everything else is so expensive

[full mural]

You can't go wrong with the 533 as long as you don't mind the shape of the sensor. Also, astrophotography is expensive

[mystic rampart]

can't you just crop a 533 to be the same size as the 585?

[north fractal]

can just do mosaics with 533 for a rectangular fov

[full mural]

yes but the resolution would be different because the 585s pixels are much smaller, no?

[mystic rampart]

oooh didn't consider that yeah

the 533 is 3008px square while the long edge of the 585 is 3856px

[north fractal]

you sure about that?

nvm, my thought process was borked ☠️

[dense talon]

"general","share your data" and "do it yourself" imo

[potent eagle]

i am a professional general chat gremlin

[twin osprey]

Also the 585 has smaller pixels

[mystic rampart]

well yes, close to the same sensor size (in 1 dimension) but higher res

[full gulch]

IMX455..

It's the upgrade to the 571

[primal kite]

thats sampling, not so much of resolution

[full mural]

I meant like arcseconds/px

[primal kite]

yea thats sampling

[full mural]

Oh okay, thanks

[west sonnet]

i do as the server says

[sleek inlet]

What is your favorite object to shoot?

[primal kite]

[primal kite]

SNR

[full mural]

i will probably have the chance to collect 15+ hours of exposure time over the next few days. Bortle 4, Moonless. should i go for a dark nebula like barnard 150? any recommendations/suggestions?

[full mural]

honestly, B150 probably my best bet

[versed sundial]

Goldfish

[lucid vessel]

how

[versed sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/cheeky-fishe-goosey-goldfish-goldfishe-gif-20789899

[potent mango]

bream

[lucid vessel]

you cant call that goldfish bruh, thats ballfish to me

[lucid vessel]

Forgot to add that lol. Bream is pretty fun

[potent mango]

flathead

kobia

salmon

dewfish

[lucid vessel]

my pb

[potent mango]

pb for largest fish?

[lucid vessel]

Kinda

Pretty much

I dont fish often

[potent mango]

my pb

i was fishing for 4 hours with no hits before this bucko got snagged

[lucid vessel]

Nice

[potent mango]

it was on like 4 or 5 kilo line with a 20 dollar kids rod and a 5 gram lure

[lucid vessel]

Rudd is fun

death grip

[river hazel]

TBF if you have a fat telescope you can see some galaxies....

[full gulch]

There's no bread

[potent eagle]

nebula with a big scope:blob
galaxy with big scope:blob but maybe theres some dust lanes if your in like a b-53 or something
glob:hundreds of stars immediately visible once you zoom in. even in something like a b7

[full mural]

Maybe I had bad weather conditions that day but last time I looked at M51 through my 12" in a bortle 4 region, I couldn't even see the spiral arms. So I would go with Globular clusters too. Bright nebulae are also quite nice

[twin osprey]

You could try the Gemini eaf

[lucid vessel]

Ppl who voted for the zwo eaf are wrong

The qhy eaf has barely any backlash and it connects to the fine focusing knob, which makes the focuser miles more precise

[lucid vessel]

Irregular galaxy

[primal kite]

@potent eagle bad news

[grave totem]

76000

[fallow scroll]

SMC?

[potent eagle]

my my name is actually calling a random guy named bob jones the best

[river hazel]

Is @potent eagle getting full of himself?

[potent eagle]

no i dont think so lol

[river hazel]

When are you planning to do a second t Coronae Borealis?

[stark fiber]

Depends, frog?

We should do a meganerd tier list

Nah nah

Mod tier list 💀

[potent eagle]

twenty one

[daring sparrow]

Since it's allowed, what's everyone's favorite kind of cookie? Mines Chocolate chip

[potent eagle]

this joke may have gone too far

[river hazel]

No

[potent mango]

Coming in at S tier we have no other than badunkie

[river hazel]

Mono is the way

[wind fiber]

B5 is not bad

[plucky isle]

I think im b6/7

[plucky isle]

In that case it came in

Or

In the tub

[plucky isle]

Ima keep it in the case

[grave totem]

i tried

[river hazel]

Rest in peace @grave totem try

[grave totem]

https://tenor.com/view/hognose-hognose-death-play-dead-deadpool-dying-gif-4586269755107399738

[river hazel]

Oh hoho humour

[grave totem]

https://tenor.com/view/clouds-gif-12328696

[fallow scroll]

no

clouds in early nighttime allow for a warmer climate

then once the big guns arrive in the sky, the clouds should dissapear

[lucid vessel]

ok, cool

[fallow scroll]

look

when the stars slowly come out and clouds are still there, it will stay warmer

then when you can actually photograph without it being bright as shit

they should dissapear

[twin osprey]

But warmer air is less stable

[north fractal]

shouldve asked if a sauna counted towards this

[fallow scroll]

ah shit

[primal kite]

this is the best thread made by bobjones

well, the most active

[halcyon kettle]

spud jhonson approved

[potent eagle]

jesus ive made a lot

[grave totem]

you have no idea what i could do to get anything darker than a b7
like
even tho i can technically see stuff liek andromeda and even m103, theyre so hard and i need infared to see m103 anyways

[versed sundial]

clouds should poof, vanish as soon as an astrophotographer is detected outdoors

[lucid vessel]

Yes

These people:

I hope both sides of their pillows are warm

[serene slate]

Hey now

[primal kite]

They use glass so personally, yes.

Glass refracts light. Hence its a refractor

[west sonnet]

well lenses refract light

[serene slate]

that was actually my line of thought as well.

[primal kite]

Yes it surprises me that people think they aren't

[versed sundial]

I hope they get glitter sprinkled on their hair

[river hazel]

Hi

[versed sundial]

*sprinkles glitter on your hair

[river hazel]

Baldness is a hell of a drug

[versed sundial]

*sprinkles glitter on your bed

[plucky isle]

What did i do

No nightime cloud no climate

Heat = mirror expansion

Mirror expansion = bad images

[mystic rampart]

clouds = no images at all

[plucky isle]

Fair enogh

My answer is now a no even tho the poll is finished

[full gulch]

Total eclipse: Yes

Annular eclipse: No

Annular eclipses arent really much different from a partial eclipse

A total eclipse is the most spectacular astronomical event I've ever seen, and worth any struggle or travel to get to see it

[versed sundial]

well theres a total eclipse in my country 3 years after the annular, so i thought an annular would be good practice for shooting eclipses

[full gulch]

Eclipse imaging has many tools to help you with exposure time and such

If you think its worth traveling for an annular eclipse then go for it

Just make sure your expectations are set right, it's still a cool event but it's not totality

[wind fiber]

Coma/Distorsion

[rotund prawn]

erm why are starspikes there?

[fallow scroll]

i saw people who say they hate starspikes

i wanna prove them wrong

[lucid vessel]

Star flaring

[lucid vessel]

bruh

[plucky isle]

Depends

B4 is solid imo

[rotund prawn]

mate i made that poll mostly as a joke

[plucky isle]

Oh😂😂😂

[rotund prawn]

tho like seriously b4 is pretty much the start of true dark skies

[plucky isle]

Fr

[rotund prawn]

the jump between 4 and 5 is insane

4 is like 3 seconds while 5 is double

2 and 1 pretty much no difference

[rotund prawn]

ive been to b2 and live in a decent b4 and i can say that there is an absolutely massive difference

when fully dark adapted in b2 the sky is pretty much black while in b4 its a lil grey kind of blueish

i can tell a bit of details in the mw from b4 while in b2 i remember it being bright and having quite a lot of detail all the way to the horizon

[river hazel]

Hey @rotund prawn I have this graph from the nebula photos server which someone there has made

[wind fiber]

Why b4 and b5 have too big difference in time?

[river hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/friends-joey-i-dont-know-shrugs-idk-gif-10947874

[river hazel]

I really don't know what's happening there. So I'm not the one to question

[twin osprey]

It’s not a scientific scale, some guy just made it while looking at the stars from different places. A better way to quantify darkness is with sqm

[river hazel]

I asked him but he's to bored to be bothered to make such an endeavour

[west sonnet]

so u can get this in one hour in b1, crazzy

[river hazel]

Tbf I think in bortle 3 and below it's more important the height and the humidity than darkness

[river hazel]

Crazy pic for 1 hour tho

[west sonnet]

nah this is 6 hours in b5

[river hazel]

😈

[north fractal]

where polaris

[potent eagle]

where deneb

[north fractal]

or sadr

[lucid vessel]

where dubhe

[pallid garden]

Rigel🤠

[north fractal]

ive used nearly 200 on 1 image ☠️

[dense talon]

forgetting to add a solar filter.

[lucid vessel]

forgetting to enable the meridian flip setting

[fallow scroll]

nah if that happens

oh boi

[potent eagle]

wheres forgetting a tripod

[lucid vessel]

thats not a mistake, thats a crime

[river hazel]

If I need more than 10 I'm doing it wrong.

[lucid vessel]

You are a criminal

Arrest him

[lucid vessel]

You need atleast 40

[river hazel]

This is for weak minded.edit for the deleted message

[north fractal]

accidentally leaving cam on jpeg instead of raw..

[wind fiber]

Antares🦂

[full mural]

Imaging a target near the meridian, having meridian flip turned off, start taking exposures and go to bed

[wind fiber]

Bad tracking

[potent mango]

imaging wrong section of sky

[wind fiber]

M31, because it's not nebula and filters in camera don't block signal

[potent eagle]

your ignoring how much easier to find orion is

*im assuming this is like for beginners

[plucky isle]

Idk much cuz im new but m42 looks easier over all the videos ive watched

[potent eagle]

it took me like a year to find andromeda

m42 is naked eye*

*i think the stars in it are naked eye, nebula isnt

*but any telescope binoculars camera can get the nebula

what?

[lucid vessel]

what

tf did i just say

[potent eagle]

wtf does that mean

[lucid vessel]

im tweaking

[potent eagle]

lol

[full gulch]

oops

purged a little too much there

it's clean now

[potent mango]

ty pooks

[rotund prawn]

lo

lol

[potent mango]

rookie

i dont have the screenshot but i almost had a million

[potent eagle]

huh weird the thread didnt get deleted

[primal kite]

what happened

[potent mango]

. see this sword, they were all messages saying the poll was closed

[mystic rampart]

sqm doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely i feel like

[twin osprey]

But the accuracy tho. Bortle is so random

[mystic rampart]

I feel like bortle isn't meant to be accurate though

[twin osprey]

Everyone uses the same site with data that’s almost 9 years old

[twin osprey]

For clarification, with sqm I mean mag/arcsec2

[rotund prawn]

problem with bortle is that at zenith you can be in b2 but there could be a massive light dome thats making a part of the sky say b6

[twin osprey]

And also a bortle 2 with full moon is like a bortle 5 or higher

[rotund prawn]

nah i think its actually closer to b8

i read some things on cloudy nights a long time ago and just from my experience

tho there is a clear difference between b8 without any moon in a city and b8 in b2 when its full moon

[full gulch]

Bortle is accurate if you use it properly

Bortle is a visual scale, based off the dimmest object the observer can view with the naked eye

[primal kite]

introducing the jimmy scale

[full gulch]

But instead of treating it for what it is, many will refer to light pollution map or other sources that will be plain wrong about the bortle scale of a location

There is no direct translation between SQM and Bortle

But in theory you could make one

[spare cape]

Who deleted my poll i spent a while on it

[full gulch]

It was @rotund prawn

[primal kite]

ban him

[spare cape]

Dont Deete this

[potent mango]

i just want clear skies

[primal kite]

man m31 and MW collisions gonna be slow

over several million years

[spare cape]

Nah but i mean you witness the peak of it

[primal kite]

oh right

[spare cape]

When the sky lookin like this

[full gulch]

But you must remember

It wouldn't actually look like that

[spare cape]

Yeah ik it wouldn’t look liek that

[full gulch]

It would look like the milky way but with weird shapes

[spare cape]

Like the mw getting warped

[full gulch]

I'm sure it would be spectacular but G5 b1 would be insane

It was already insane from B9

[potent mango]

any g from anywhere would be great at this point

[potent eagle]

i do not think the m31 m0 collision would be as cool as yall think it would be

[river hazel]

Betelgeuse thread when @potent eagle ?

[potent eagle]

nah not doing that joke again lol

i like being able to use this server

[jovial quest]

If Betelgeuse goes supernova, it wouldn't be bortle 1 anymore 🧠

[full gulch]

That's what I'm saying

[mystic rampart]

it would be cool if I got to do a timelapse of it

[rotund prawn]

lol even when its like 7C im in my flip flops, shorts and a shirt nothing else

idk why but even when im like outside for 1 hour i dont feel really cold

[versed sundial]

did you unknowingly eat a heater by any chance?

[rotund prawn]

no

[versed sundial]

oh aight

[rotund prawn]

also most of the time i stay awake till 0:30 and go to sleep, then wake up at sunrise and get my rig inside

and go back to sleep lol

[versed sundial]

quick question

what if it rains when your rig is outside

[rotund prawn]

quick question, did you know about weather forecasts

it did rain on my rig once but it was like 0.1mm for 5 minutes

[versed sundial]

nah like just, what if

[rotund prawn]

in the middle of the night with somehow barely any clouds idk how that happend

[versed sundial]

so not much

[rotund prawn]

yeah 0.1mm is like the minimum forecasts show

[versed sundial]

might be god shaking his hands dry

[rotund prawn]

lol

[rotund prawn]

i just like gambling my rig

[versed sundial]

yeah im too broke to even think of that

[lucid vessel]

I would never gamble my rig

[mystic rampart]

SAME

many times where I'd go out in just a hoodie, unzipped too, and be like "why is everyone dressed so warm today?", only to check the temperature and find it's like 3C lol

[latent vapor]

Do this in -15C

I think I nearly got hypothermia like three times imaging in those temperatures

My fingers were nearly unmovable 💀

I literally had to hold them in hot water for like a quarter hour, just too feel them again

[mystic rampart]

wtf

you're gonna get frostbite at some point 😩

[latent vapor]

I will be more cautious next winter, trust me

I hope

[mystic rampart]

you should

[west sonnet]

fr it would happen over so much time u wouldn't notice the 'collision' its more of a 'mix'

[potent eagle]

what?

[plucky isle]

Wdym

If ur not from uk u probs dont understand

[potent eagle]

am i too american to understand this

[plucky isle]

Ofc u are

These are cookies in ur goofy ahh ahh what you call english

[potent eagle]

we will fight you again and finally win this time

[plucky isle]

No offence but its true

Imo american english should be a whole different language

[potent eagle]

war

[plucky isle]

I will take off your solar filter!!!!

Fine ill buy a dodge challenger to make u happy

I bought the srt hellcat

@potent eagle

Time to tune it up

Now a spoiler

[river hazel]

Yoooo @potent eagle next poll when?

[latent vapor]

Everyone who isn’t from the UK won‘t understand this

[plucky isle]

Ik

Lol

Just for the uk guys/gals

[latent vapor]

Go tell them they should brush their teeth

[plucky isle]

-1000000 aura

[lucid vessel]

neq 5 is a myth

[royal yarrow]

Wdym

Bad ?

[lucid vessel]

say eq5

[royal yarrow]

Lol ok eq5

[lucid vessel]

or neq 5

whats the difference

lol

[royal yarrow]

Bruh

Apparently it moves a bit more smoothly

Didnt check personnaly so idk

[lucid vessel]

the neq 5 is just a motorless eq5

get onstep for it

[royal yarrow]

Still have problems with astro in english, is onstep=motors ?

[lucid vessel]

yeah, and a controller

its its own goto system

Terrans Industry OnStep V4 kit for EQ5

https://www.terransindustry.com/en-lt/products/skywatcher-eq5?variant=42553929826497

i would get the pro, not lite

[royal yarrow]

Im not in the us tho

So shipping prices will be high

[lucid vessel]

neither am i. i bought my cameras from the us for 500 euros

160 was just shipping

[royal yarrow]

Damn

Idc about goto anyway

This good enough ?

[lucid vessel]

no

this is not good bro

the onstep is miles better than that

[royal yarrow]

Ik it is

[lucid vessel]

get onstep

this will cost 250eur max

[royal yarrow]

Yeah ill do that i think, also paying a big delivery fee and miss on the best one for 20$ would be dumb

[royal yarrow]

Man what ? Thats with my exact adress filled in

[lucid vessel]

what the

[royal yarrow]

Sigma is the word you are looking for

What country are you from

[lucid vessel]

hey, i want free shipping too!

[lucid vessel]

baltic states, largest one ( geography quiz)

[royal yarrow]

Idk what the neighbouring countries are

[lucid vessel]

lithuania, whatever

b3

[royal yarrow]

Thought abt it but couldn't get the name right sorry

[royal yarrow]

Thats worth the shipping fees

[lucid vessel]

i have a cheap scope option, you will love it

https://www.teleskop-express.de/en/telescopes-4/rc-ritchey-chretien-telescopes-75/ts-optics-20-inch-f-8-ritchey-chr-tien-astrograph-carbon-truss-tube-7545

[royal yarrow]

Man you keep sharing valuable info even tho that may lead to you not getting the good stuff

Such a pure soul

[royal yarrow]

Crop coma

CA is everywhere if you pay attention

[latent vapor]

• • • • • • • • • • • • -1000000 aura

[royal yarrow]

@drowsy knoll @wind fiber @potent eagle may i know your reasoning behind that vote ? (Really sorry abt the ping)

[potent eagle]

i just went with that the meganerd said i have no reasoning of my own

[mystic rampart]

i swear everyone says something else dude

[lucid vessel]

huh

[mystic rampart]

last time someone mentioned NEQ5 in here it was said to be just a refresh of the eq5, later rebranded back to just eq5, identified by the green details for example around the polar scope

[full gulch]

all EQ5s are replicas of the Great Polaris from Vixen

[mystic rampart]

the astro shops here in poland seemingly call the tripod the NEQ5 because there is plenty of offers listed as "eq5 + neq5 tripod" or smthn and you indeed get the mount with the green detailings

maybe the real NEQ5 were the friends we made along the way

[full gulch]

Vixen got their mounts stolen and cheaply made

[royal yarrow]

Ikr

[drowsy knoll]

i just think the roki has a higher skill ceiling than the 72ed
plus i also think you need a corrector for the 72ed in the first place

[royal yarrow]

You mean there is more room for improvement with a Roki ? (Not enough sleep theses days so i dont understand half of what i read sorry)

[drowsy knoll]

yeah

[royal yarrow]

Thanks for the comments guys

[drowsy knoll]

also, compare the astrobin awards for the roki (samyang) 135 to the evostar. people have gotten a whole lot more out of the roki compared to the evostar

[royal yarrow]

Mine is quite good not the best but good

[royal yarrow]

Good thinking, thinking of a MG i see

[drowsy knoll]

nah. like you can do well with both, i just think you can continue to improve with the roki instead of moving to another scope. its a hobby tho, so do whatever you find fun ^^

[delicate pier]

I just got the 72ed, it’s a great scope. You just need to have at least 2” of space for it to focus. I just use a field flattener and it works great.

[royal yarrow]

Keeping the roki is a good idea tbh, i just needed someone to give me good arguments im lost these days idk what to do/use

[royal yarrow]

Yeah but the field flattener costs an organ

[mystic rampart]

pretty sure getting the 72ed without the flattener isn't very useful

[drowsy knoll]

unless you want to do solar

[delicate pier]

I use this one https://a.co/d/9dRw7nr

[primal kite]

well thats an easy one. i live in bortle 6 so ill just be going down 1 bortle

[river hazel]

It's always nebula season in southern hemisphere

[primal kite]

yea its not during september-november

[potent mango]

yeah itllbe depressing

andromeda if im lucky

[wind fiber]

if 1° north latitude is considered the northern hemisphere, then the choice is obvious

[river hazel]

Yooooo I didn't though of that.

[vapid spruce]

people use blankets while doing astro? oh

[delicate pier]

You should try it.

[vapid spruce]

i run hot i dont like it 😅

[delicate pier]

Maybe you should stop running while doing astro

[bitter spade]

Maybe you should stop doing astro

Just kidding please dont ban me

[vapid spruce]

nah i stay still i just like the cold

i hate hot weater

weather

[potent eagle]

yall are underestimating just how cool a comet of that brightness would be in a b1 (this is like approaching hale bopp levels of size) (i understand how old this poll is)

(im not sure theres many other ways to get a -3 or brighter comet high in the sky, i guess you could have a stupid close earth approach)

[vapid spruce]

ig its more about the rarity of seeing the collision two galaxies in one

[potent eagle]

id be more excited about the new nebulas that would prolly form than the milky way becoming all funky lol

[graceful arch]

But it's just a fast rock

[graceful arch]

Is it really so rare considering how many galaxies are in the universe

[potent eagle]

yes but its a really big rock

[graceful arch]

Considering there are multiple colliding galaxies we can see with a simple telescope

[graceful arch]

Galaxy cooler

U get to see like the nebulas of the other galaxy and stuff

I think that would be awesome

[potent eagle]

dan the comet would be like another (much brighter) milky way

[primal kite]

ask you parents how comet hale bopp/halley looked like in the sky

[potent eagle]

as the creator of #1160693147521777715 i will not stand for this level of slander

[graceful arch]

Galaxy > rock

[potent eagle]

dan did you see comet neowise

[graceful arch]

Nah

[potent eagle]

planning to see c/2023 a3 in october?

[graceful arch]

I'm not meaning to say comets are lame they're just like not as good in comparison to a galaxy colliding

[graceful arch]

Yeah

[potent eagle]

hell yeah

[graceful arch]

Or whatever comet is coming

Idk the name

[potent eagle]

c/2023 a3 tsuchinshan atlas is the next one

[graceful arch]

I recently made a newt that some call the comet catcher so I guess it'll be pretty good for comets

Low focal legnth fast f ratio

[potent eagle]

comets are basically just moving galaxies lol

*in terms of seeing them visually

[vapid spruce]

i meant our own and being in it

[west sonnet]

rich tea with a cuppa on top

[plucky isle]

Nice

[golden storm]

Can someone make a poll if milkyway channel should be or not be a forum?

[twin osprey]

^

[golden storm]

Thanks

[potent mango]

yes could be in response to be or not be

this can be interpreted any way you want

[twin osprey]

Yes

[delicate pier]

They do what a normal scope does, just easier. I don’t see why not.

[golden storm]

Expensive and do the job for you

[pallid garden]

I LOVE SOLAR SYSTEM PICS!

[golden storm]

Me too

[pallid garden]

Who doesn't?

[golden storm]

Fr

[potent mango]

op nick 100%

[twin osprey]

You missed Ben

[pallid garden]

Like Ben Dover?

[twin osprey]

No.

[pallid garden]

ʷʰᵒˢᵉ ᴮᵉⁿ?

[potent mango]

bens pasty snaps

[primal kite]

wheres me

you getting a downvote

i saw that

[pallid garden]

Pssst

[primal kite]

im filling a complaint

[pallid garden]

I'm not putting "knife that smells of sage" on there

[rotund prawn]

live view of the mw from alma btw

im guessing an exposure time of 200 ms looking at the fps

[vapid spruce]

https://youtu.be/lFIKk45_WJk?feature=shared

[vapid spruce]

on cloudynights.com ive heard of people that brought their scopes to b1 but only used their eyes cause it was just so amazing so i guess this is a no brainer

[rotund prawn]

imagine that but at an altitude of 5km

crazy

[vapid spruce]

yea the atmospheric transparency is the most important

[wind fiber]

No. I hate smart "telescopes"

[royal yarrow]

Idk if id ever use one but they allow handicaped people to enjoy astrophotography so i acc like them

I mean if someone cant stand up to polar alignment carry the scope etc

How would they be able to enjoy imaging or evn looking at the stars ?!

[plucky isle]

Fr

Like if u cant use a manual/goto telescope then fair enough but if ur doing it to be lazy and pretend u did the work the get the image then i hate em

[potent eagle]

yall are just salty

because so am i

i am also salty

[rotund prawn]

im sour

[twin osprey]

Where Thomas???

[pallid garden]

He's an npc

Never even takes pictures

🤦‍♀️🪴

[lucid vessel]

wait until i ping him and you get timed out for breaking rule 4

i wont do that tho

i am not a douche

[twin osprey]

Do you read the photography channel?

[twin osprey]

Also Stefan rarely posts images

[primal kite]

What

He went to Australia and did MW landscape

[twin osprey]

Ah I never watch Milky Way thingies, my bad

[primal kite]

mineral moon photos suck

[wind fiber]

Mineral moon photos is cool

[pallid garden]

You have the rules memorized‽

What did I do?

[rotund prawn]

ermm actually 🤓🖕

[pallid garden]

That's hubble

He stole it

[rotund prawn]

https://tenor.com/view/tweaking-wegeekinghard-blud-tiktok-animatronic-tweaking-gif-18331326635054461479

[pallid garden]

Same with solar system pics

[rotund prawn]

"the old solar system pics/dso pics"

[pallid garden]

Uhh

Um

That's awkward

[rotund prawn]

i need to stop my rotted ahh brain from posting these gifs

[rotund prawn]

.

.

i cant hold it anymore