Welcome dhumpie

[westsky]

Darren, you finaly made it good to see you here.There not a bad bunch , just a couple to watch out for (striker) :-))
Iceman you better start a new section for astro sketches, Darren has some beauties.

David.

[astro_south]

Finally convinced you to join hey

Welcome aboard

[rumples riot]

Welcome dhumpie, hope you like our site.

[[1ponders]]

:welcome: dhumpie

[iceman]

Welcome to the site Darren, thanks for joining up. Your site is very nice with some great sketches!

Please feel free to post them here, for now just post them in the relevant solar system/deep space forums, but if there's enough other pencilators contributing then we can create a sketching forum too.

Hope you enjoy your time and come back regularly!

[RAJAH235]

Welcome Darren. Enjoy. :D L.

[CosMos]

:cheers: Welcome Darren

[ving]

hey hey!
welcome aboard :)

[acropolite]

Greetings earthling! (dhumpie) or should that be dhumpling? :ship2:

[dhumpie]

Thanks guys. In fact I though I had joined much earlier but somehow I did not. Anyway great topics being discussed here. And David looks like you are really going places with the DSI imager ;)

Darren

[dhumpie]

Guys,

Was just telling Andrew how I will be embarking on a new project, sketching DSO's in color. Yup got myself a black sketch pad and some color pencils. Will be doing most of this from home (as in suburbia) as I try to get out as often as I can (dark sky nights once a month are not enough....). Anyway enough ranting.

Cheers,
Darren

[ving]

cant wait to see some scetches :)

gotta be better than kens jobs :P

[iceman]

Do you see much colour in DSO's? Most of them are grey or maybe a little green..

Some open clusters would make for lovely colour sketching targets though!

Welcome again and i'm sure you'll love participating in the monthly challenge project we'll be launching soon.

[dhumpie]

Depends on what you are looking at. Planetary nebula's show color in a 6" scope (mostly greens and blues). I find some globulars have green and blue and even yellow tints to them and bright nebulae like M42 and Eta Carina sometimes appear green if the transparency is good. In open clusters, some of the cluster members have different colors.

Also I am constantly coming up with different observing programs to keep myself occupied when observing from the suburbs. I made a list of some globulars that I have not seen (now done except two) and I also like the challenge of hunting tiny planetaries by blinking with the UHC. I think I sent Andrew a list of globulars and my list of planetaries. I plan to try an exhaust the capabilities of my 6" before moving to a larger aperture and there are still so many objects within the reach of a 6". So far I have only logged slightly over 500 DSO's (not including double stars).

Darren

[xrekcor]

Hey Darren,

Good to see you here!!!!:)

[dhumpie]

Hi Rob,

Yup thought I had joined earler but apparently not...but I finally made it. How has the imaging been going?

Darren

[xrekcor]

Darren,



After scoring the UO HD's in December and recently aquiring my first Pentax XW I haven't gotten the LPI out for months lol. Although the new DSI Pro is looking like a possibility. But at present II'm stricten with EP fever :D

You back in Oz yet?

regards

[dhumpie]

I hear ya Rob! Ep collecting is infectious. After getting the 24.5mm SWA, I am thinking of selling my 32mm GS Super Plossl, my 15mm Expanse clone and the 6mm Expanse clone to raise funds for a 8mm Radian....but I am still undecided :) Anyway where you are, the DSI sounds like a good investment. Just look at the shots David is taking now (but he has got heaps of experience ;) And yes I am back in Brissie.....

Darren

[xrekcor]

Darren,

Well you did end up inspiring me and last weekend I finnally got the o'l LPI out. I posted the results here in the Images and Photography section under the following titles.

Solar System:
Mars in the Distance
Jupiter: Io & Shadow Transit 15/04/05
Jupiter: Europa Shadow Transit 14/04/05

Deep Space:
Jewel Box 14/0405

I tried to email them to you but that addy you were using had died.

I guess I'll see you up in Leyburn sometime after september lol:ashamed:

regards

[dhumpie]

Hey Rob,

I will e mail you some alternative e mail addresses so you won't have problems with the e mail again. Will have a look at your works and give feedback ;)

Will be going out to a collegues property some 3 hours from Brissie come the end of next week (labour day weekend). Should be pretty dark as they don't have electricity out there ;)

Darren

[xrekcor]

Hey that sounds great! I'm sure you'll be taking a scope or two out with you. I have been getting some mad looks at mars in the mornings. Now that it is starting to get above the murk of the horizon. Have you seen it this time around?

regards

[dhumpie]

Hey Rob,

Just found out that it is on the Sunshine Coast towards Esk and further. Spoke to her in more detail and she said it is approximately 3 hours or longer. As for scopes, my C6 will be out there as will my other buddy John's 6"f/5. Might also bring my superb RFT Orion 80ST and my 15x70's. Its going to be fun, fun, fun. Hopefully the weather cooperates though.

And no I have not seen Mars as yet :( From my balcony which overlooks to the west and the north, I get obstructed views of the south and east (unless I am on my second balcony which is connected to the masterbedroom where my wifey sleeps :)

Darren