Your Own Photography
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
RobXIII
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M74 is a large spiral galaxy 32 million light years from earth.
This is the result of 924 10 second exposures stacked and processed using Siril, Starnet ++, & GraXpert. Captured by a ZWO Seestar S50.
Funny thing about this one, in one of the 10 second stacks and airplane flew right through the picture, and now it's gone!
Found the one that had the plane in it. You can also see how much I cleaned it up vs the seestar app.
This is the result of 924 10 second exposures stacked and processed using Siril, Starnet ++, & GraXpert. Captured by a ZWO Seestar S50.
Funny thing about this one, in one of the 10 second stacks and airplane flew right through the picture, and now it's gone!
Found the one that had the plane in it. You can also see how much I cleaned it up vs the seestar app.
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Hateyou
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lurker
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I know, right?
Where were you 30 million years ago when the light for that image was transmitted so that it could be seen here and what has happened to that galaxy since that time?
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I'm confused...are these compliments? A friend of mine told me I should sell this pic it looks so good. I don't think so but I did take it as a compliment.
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lurker
Vyemm Raider
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It’s a compliment. I love seeing those photos.
Many, many years ago, when I was playing in an orchestra in AZ, and after a rehearsal of some of the prettiest music ever written, a friend of mine, the Concertmaster, who was also an amateur astronomer, took me out into the desert one night and he pointed a very large reflector telescope he had built, at various objects in the sky one after another. It was the most impressive demonstration I had ever seen. He knew where all these galaxies and stars and objects were and swung that telescope around for hours telling me all about the various things I was seeing; what they were, where they were, how they might have formed and when and all the while I was still hearing Mozart and Beethoven. If you didn't believe in God after that show, you just weren't paying attention.
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I have a very different take on that but you do you man.
Get a SeeStar, it's only $500 , the hardest part of astrophotography is made piss-easy and it does decent pics. I started processing my own pics but the app does an 'OK' job too and they are always improving it.
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Various pictures of my outdoor adventuring in 2024. Mostly taken from National Parks or Forests.
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Top of Medicine Bow Peak in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. 30-45 minutes outside of Laramie, WY.
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Bandwagon
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That's the pic you latched on to out of all of those? That'd be my last pick out of the bunch.
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The rolling roundness of the rugged hills is just gorgeous to me. I'm not looking to climb the highest mountains, but views like that just speak to me. The rolling, open land with hills and mountains and lakes and forest. Love it.
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Few more from Medicine-Bow for
lurkingdirk
. It really is a beautiful area. I had planned on just driving through for a day hike and ended up staying for a couple of nights. Went the week after Labor Day and, while there were other people there, it wasn't anything like the zoo that a lot of National Parks have become since Hoax Flu.
lurkingdirk
. It really is a beautiful area. I had planned on just driving through for a day hike and ended up staying for a couple of nights. Went the week after Labor Day and, while there were other people there, it wasn't anything like the zoo that a lot of National Parks have become since Hoax Flu.- 8