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David, Excellent for a single frame
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David, you have my sympathy and I totally agree with your last line. I do wonder what we would do with limitless fusion energy - power limitless (in)security lights I suspect!

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By Jove. Lovely image.
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Nicely done!
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Nice image Brian. Do you upscale your images in processing?

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Passing cloud and a milky sky reducing contrast meant that my first sight of Venus was at 10.55UT when well clear of the Moons dark limb using binoculars.

Nice image, Jeff

Super!

Thanks Cliff.

It seems rather strange to see spots numbered as low as AR486, now we are used to seeing AR3000+. Time flies!

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Todays Spaceweather.com recalls the Halloween Solar Flares of late October 2003 which significantly affected Earth satellites. The culprit was AR486 , I recall I imaged this beauty (beasty) with my 102mm refractor and Toucam webcam : Sun 20031026_AR484-AR486 composite.jpg (The main image was recorde...

Lovely image Jeff.
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Rain!

"Don’t worry, aliens haven’t landed – the sky’s pink because of some tomatoes. Honestly"

https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/20/pink-sky ... -19694720/

"Burned-up space junk pollutes Earth's upper atmosphere, NASA planes find"
from:
https://www.space.com/air-pollution-ree ... k-detected

50 years ago I said that if I were a young man at a time when Mars was being opened up for colonization then I would want to go

Hi and Welcome! Over the last 30years I have used 3 different setups for (mainly) solar-system astro imaging. Each of these use a polar-aligned EQ mounting with a motor drive in RA . I have a 102mm f5 refractor on an EQ-1 with simple motor drive to RA and a manual adjustment to Dec. I have used a 20...