Welcome dhumpie

westsky · #1 05-04-2005, 07:35 PM

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 (Andrew) · #2 05-04-2005, 07:43 PM

Finally convinced you to join hey

Welcome aboard

rumples riot · #3 05-04-2005, 07:56 PM

Welcome dhumpie, hope you like our site.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #4 05-04-2005, 08:20 PM

dhumpie

iceman (Mike) · #5 05-04-2005, 08:31 PM

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 · #6 05-04-2005, 10:01 PM

Welcome Darren. Enjoy.

L.

CosMos (Rich) · #7 06-04-2005, 06:17 AM

Welcome Darren

ving (David) · #8 06-04-2005, 07:39 PM

hey hey!
welcome aboard

acropolite (Phil) · #9 06-04-2005, 08:11 PM

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

dhumpie · #10 07-04-2005, 01:04 PM

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 · #11 07-04-2005, 01:07 PM

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 (David) · #12 07-04-2005, 01:15 PM

cant wait to see some scetches

gotta be better than kens jobs

iceman (Mike) · #13 07-04-2005, 02:06 PM

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 · #14 08-04-2005, 03:52 PM

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

#15 11-04-2005, 05:49 PM

Hey Darren,

Good to see you here!!!!

dhumpie · #16 13-04-2005, 03:55 PM

Hi Rob,

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

Darren

#17 13-04-2005, 04:18 PM

Darren,

Quote:

Originally posted by dhumpie
Hi Rob,

How has the imaging been going?

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

You back in Oz yet?

regards

dhumpie · #18 19-04-2005, 05:12 PM

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

#19 19-04-2005, 05:41 PM

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

regards

dhumpie · #20 20-04-2005, 01:09 PM

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