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Not looking good for tonight... 😐

Apparently 4-5am Monday morning absolute peak. If it’s clear I may get out too. Time to start setting alarms for early morning and sleeping in the spare room…

I am out on a reclining garden chair watching them shooting stars. V satisfactory. Edit: ooh, that was a good one!

Pretty dark skies where I am in Normandy. 22 degrees lying on a deckchair at 1am.

Really last minute decision to take some snaps as I was shattered from the travel, so just aimed and took photos with around 10 - 40 seconds.

Not critically sharp, but a nice evening watching the skies and pointing the camera at them.

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Very nice! We have had a family gathering rounded off with watching meteors and I am now watching the northern lights

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hope everyone is doing well I can't quite believe I'm saying this but I saw the aurora borealis/northern lights in suffolk last night

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Wow

Got extremely lucky last night, aurora and perseids. Still sifting through hundreds of images, but this one popped out.

Single exposure, Sony a7 w/28mm Minolta prime lens. 10s exposure.

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^great capture! I failed to get the meteor/aurora combo last night

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Cheers. I think this the only combo I managed to get out of about 300 shots.

Not sure if I got an meteor here (middle) - looks quite different to satellites (top right) or aeroplanes

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Wow! Great pics, everyone, very jealous!

Seem to be being rained off tonight on the shooting star and northern lights front so here's another one from last night

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I love this one!

We had clouds here… now I just feel like y’all rubbing it in: https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2024/aug/15/most-amazing-thing-ive-seen-readers-photos-of-the-perseid-meteor-shower

What was the ISO?

Love these

Amazing thread, thank you all: I've just caught up the last few monthly - amazing photos and fascinating discussion.

https://darksky.org/

(not sure if i got this from here, probably did, but worth re-linking it... So, heres something interesting)

Still hoping to get out tonight for the Saturn/moon occultation but weather is poor at the moment.

I have a decent moon/jupiter conjunction pic and I wana make a series of them.

Popped out to the beach for a quick look tonight, clouds rolled in before I could get enough raw video to stack so only managed this one frame.

I just missed a jet departing Brisbane airport flying through the disc of the moon while my system was updating, so bloody annoying. I need to be better prepared and bag that shot sometime.

Lovely night for it, just starting to warm up down here.

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Lovely.

Does anyone have recommendations for printers? I have a 54mp image on the conjunction of the moon and Jupiter.

The image has Jupiter as a dot, but when zoomed in you can see the lines across it, and I want to print at a level of detail where you get the same effect in print.

I've been out of the photo lab/reprographic game for a very long time but do places like Metro still exist? They'll knock you up a very fancy print in whatever size you want. Quality only limited by what you give them, tho' I'm sure their post guys and gals will do a fabulous job of tarting it up should you need some help?

Took some pics of the moon tonight from the back garden, suing my D500 and a Sigma 100-400mm lens. This is just a single image, slightly adjusted in Affinity Photo. Tried stacking a few images, but they turned out worse.

Been thinking about getting a telescope, but thought i'd have a bash with what i've got before I think about spending more. Will try a milky way shot sometime this week with a fast prime lens maybe.

We're camping on Brownsea Island over the long weekend, so should have some decent dark skies there to try some more.

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