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Those are cute photos/cute children!
30 seconds' worth of the ISS's flyover ca. 9:18 pm tonight -- just as it disappeared into the trees.
022 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
Beautiful night for stargazing in Northern New England.
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@mhardy6647,
Are you going to try to catch the meteor shower tonight?
My wife and I tried last night between midnight and 1:00am, but I saw only four meteors and Lisa only one. We were a bit disappointed because it had been billed as a more spectacular "shower".
I suspect your night sky is much darker in the north country. Night glow of Hampton really affects our sky.Family Room, Innuos Statement streamer (Roon Core) with Morrow Audio USB cable to McIntosh MC 2700 pre with DC2 Digital Audio Module; AQ Sky XLRs to CAT 600.2 dualmono amp, Morrow Elite Speaker Cables to NOLA Baby Grand Reference Gold 3 speakers. Power source for all components: Silver Circle Audio Pure Power One with dedicated 20 amp circuit to main panel.
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Yeah, we saw a few Weds and Thurs night; wasn't really that great in terms of numbers; which is really too bad because the viewing conditions -- 'specially last night -- were superb.
We did see one pretty bright and long lasting one Wednesday night, which almost made up for the low numbers.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Those are cute photos/cute children!
30 seconds' worth of the ISS's flyover ca. 9:18 pm tonight -- just as it disappeared into the trees.022 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
Beautiful night for stargazing in Northern New England.
Is that headlights or flash or what on the right? I used to do astro stuff through a 8" scope on film and hope to use the digi on some night stuff soon. What was the aperture on that one? Thanks both mom and dad are very attractive. I'm not into guys but as a photographer you respect the ones that are easy to photograph. Mom is just hot after 3 kids.HT/2Channel: Emotiva MMC-1, Adcom GFA-555II, Polk SDA 3.1's, Teac TN-300 TT, Polk Center and Sub.
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It's the motion-detector lights on the garage. I was too lazy to go out through another door and procrastinated too long goin' out for the lights to have had a chance to turn off before I started shootin' :-P
I took some of the earlier photos of the set with the camera panned a bit more to the west. I actually didn't need to move it at all with the super-wide angle lens I was using (Sigma 10 - 20 mm zoom on a DX format Nikon DSLR) :- )
021 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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You certainly have a lot more stars in your sky than we do up here. But then again, we're walking distance from our small town and there is some light pollution.
I suppose some of that is also your exposure, no? More time, more light(s)?
Rick, just how much Viagra/Cialis are you taking? lolCurrently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!
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yes, longer exposure time will reveal dimmer objects. The exposure is cumulative; eventually enough photons strike the sensor (or film!) to result in a signal (image).
... but, yeah, the night sky here on a clear, moonless night is pretty darned good. Last night was a good "Milky Way night" as I like to call 'em.
This isn't from last night (it's from last summer, in fact) -- but it illustrates the point :- )
DSC_9741 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
(the Milky Way is visible more or less above that line of trees on the left of the frame)
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mhardy6647 wrote: »yes, longer exposure time will reveal dimmer objects. The exposure is cumulative; eventually enough photons strike the sensor (or film!) to result in a signal (image).
... but, yeah, the night sky here on a clear, moonless night is pretty darned good. Last night was a good "Milky Way night" as I like to call 'em.
This isn't from last night (it's from last summer, in fact) -- but it illustrates the point :- )DSC_9741 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
(the Milky Way is visible more or less above that line of trees on the left of the frame)
When we moved to New Hampshire's seacoast region in 1997, we had night skies like the one in your picture from last summer.
I had not realized how much things have changed till my wife and I went out to view the Perseid meteor shower on Wednesday night/Thursday morning.
As a member of our town's planning board, I've tried to promote a "dark-sky standard," but that doesn't help much when the light pollution is from neighboring towns.
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The past week flew by here in sunny sw Florida, back to Ohio in the morning. Photo of a storm over Ft. Myers.
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Is it as hot theah in Noo York as it is up heah in New Hampsha?
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Was enjoying the Sunday morning stillness when all of the back yard birds scattered in a flurry of wings.
Then one, then TWO sharp skinned hawks flew in to perch in the neighbor's tree.
I managed to get a semi-decent shot of one of them from the kitchen window.
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That's sharp-shinned :- )
Also -- FWIW -- that's a juvenile hawk; the adults have a very different color scheme (as you probably know).
Actually, I cannot tell if that's a sharpie or a Cooper's Hawk -- they look just about identical, but the sharpies are smaller. The male sharpie is just a little bigger than most songbirds. Way more attitude, though. :- )
Here's a male sharpie -- a photo I took through my wife's spotting scope with a little digital point and shoot at our old house in MA many years ago. The adult female looks the same, but is larger. The male & female (adult) Coopers also look like this, but are larger still (and there are some other differences, but they're fairly subtle).
sharpie120104 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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I posted my pic on a birder forum - most 'expert' opinions are that these are a sharp 'shinned' (my bad) hawk.
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They'd know! :- )
It's all about the size (well, as I said, there are things like the shape of the tail & how much of a "neck" one species has vs. the other) -- I am perfectly willing to believe it's a sharpie.
Somewhere I have some photos of juveniles -- we had both species in MA; mostly we have Coopers' here.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Is it as hot theah in Noo York as it is up heah in New Hampsha?
Man, you have the lingo down pat. I love it. HT SYSTEM-
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Rick,
It looks like you beat the rush at the Soaring Museum. Timing is everything.
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Went fishing last week, the dog got to hike with her backpack and I snapped a few pictures.
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Rick,
No, I just got a sense of loneliness from your photos and was being a bit of a smarta** because of it. I fly, but have never strapped into a glider.
I have never been to the East coast unless you count Chicago or Minneapolis.
Plan on doing a run to the Northeast come fall time one of these years.
Nathan
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I picked up a camera for my telescope, it is smaller then 2 of my eye pieces, though my 2 eye pieces are really huge
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oooh, are those 2" eyepieces? :- ) They look very -- purposeful.
Going to do some astrophotography, then? Looking forward to some photos!
We have a 6" Newtonian here (well, and a couple of other scopes) -- this is pretty good territory for stargazing and I keep kind of meaning to spend some quality time doing it.
DSC_9562 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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@mhardy6647,
Remarkable night sky!
I haven't seen a sky like that since camping out in northern Minnesota just south of the Canadian border in the 1970s!
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It was very nice last week as the moon was just starting into its first quarter (i.e., thin crescent and setting early). Having grown up in B-more :- I don't associate August with good night sky viewing -- but it's often pretty good here.
I'm less than 90 minutes from where (I think!) you are -- if you catch my drift :- ) C'mon over some time!
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great shots Doc! I love the shot of the Milky Way thru the gap.
those eyepieces I have have 85* FOV compare to most having 55%. so instead of using a 40MM for wide angle and really low power I can use the 26MM Nagler with a lot of more power but same FOV! but its super heavy and cost almost $500.
The Camera is for solar system & bright objects only, as my house has bad light conditions for deep sky stuff. but now instead of taking a pic for 30min to hours...you take video at 60 fps for 10 seconds, grabs 1200-1500 frame ...run it thru a histogram to pick best 200-500 frames then stack them to make 1 great pic.
Think I made of my mind to sell my house and find another out in the country with better deep sky views there is a nice gap in the flint hills of Kansas I'm looking over.
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Is that the lookout at Leonard Harrison State Park. I used to ride the trail from Darling Run to Blackwell a couple times a week when I lived up that way. Go back in about 3 weeks. The fall foliage should be showing some beautiful colors. I'm gearing up for a ride in September or October(it's been about 4 years). Get down on the canyon floor and you can see the waterfowl in migration soon. Absolutely beautiful time of the year.
