haha, love it! love it! love it! Stephen
Hey what would be really cool (would it work?) is doing the same selfie but with a laser pointer to it .
Thanks Suzy! Yes, I've been thinking of getting a good green laser pointer for that kind of image (I've seen other examples of it being done, and it looks great!). Unfortunately I don't have one yet...
Stephen, I got my laser pointer on ebay, something like $13 incl. postage (it was def. no more than $15) from a a top rated seller in Sydney. I had it delivered & sent very well packaged in under a week. It's a 1mw which is legal and I find it bright enough even in the suburbs. I guess it depends on how critical one is- some think it's a bit dim. It has a 5,000 hr life. It even has the party lights feature, cats love it and are mostly responsible for the wasted batteries in it .
Psycke777- apologies, I feel like I've taken over this thread. The excitement of the event just took over.
We haven't heard from you since you started it- so, have you seen the nova yet? How did you go?
Wondering if you guys would be able to help me identify if I caught the Nova or was too early with the shots. The attached is some test shots I was shooting on the 13/8 @ 9:11pm so I think this may have been a little early?? My astronomy is not great and using astrophotography to expand it.
The shot was taken on the 6D ISO up at 6400 with a 14mm lens @ 2.8 so its not the best but I've included a crop of where I believe it should be. I'm not seeing the Nova but that maybe because I was early (struggling some of the UTC conversion). Excuse the noise on the crop I wanted to show an unedited version on here for clarification
Anyway any help would be appreciated. I have other shots from the night but all within a 30 min period.
Oookaaayyy !
First clear night we've had since .... dunno when so I just got out with the binos for a quick look.
Followed down the line from Sagitta and found a small pair of stars, slid up a gnats whisker and found a Nova ! Not quite visible naked eye between a slightly hazy sky and a nearly full moon but I can now tick that one off. It's not in my best point in the sky, low NE over the CBD and it's LP but definitely it. Thanks for the pix you guys, helped me confirm I was on it. If weather holds over the weekend might try throwing the big scope at it. We've had some serious downpours here last night and the outlook is not promising.
Guys !!!
Remember a few posts ago I said to watch it that it just may turn pink (as a nova sometimes does it seems) ?
Blow me down with a feather- it's changing colour!
John Chumack, a brilliant & well respected American imager, noticed the colour change going towards red as he was he was imaging it yesterday. At first he thought there was something wrong with his colour balance on the image and so the next time he had a look with his own eyes- he couldn't believe it. And then he said it had reddened even more since he last saw it.
If tonight's clear and the moon doesn't interfere too much, I hope to have a look thru the 4" dob- only looked at it thru binos so far.
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