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This one's good:

https://starhuggers.com/

Not getting anything for this link or a Google search for the name

Not getting anything for this link or a Google search for the name

I think Oliver is making a joke.... lol

To be fair, I was hopeful myself and clicked on it

Yes, it was just a joke at ChainBreaker's expense.

That he clicked on it has just made my day, obviously. :)

Looking outwards through the Orion arm of the galaxy for ten minutes last night

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Great pic 👍🏼

And Orion setting behind neighbour’s apple tree, lit with a bike light

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Mooon

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Lovely image. Single exposure?

Extraordinary.
How, please?

Wow

Two exposures, one to catch the sunlit part of the moon, then inverted and superimposed on a longer exposure to show features on the night-time part of the moon. Pleased to see stars showing.

Would love to have a go at comping that slightly differently if you were happy to share the separate images?

Happy to share when I get back to the relevant PC. I am not clever enough with image manipulation to make this really work, but the raw material (the moon) really helps by just being great to look at.

Aah, the inversion caught me, I love the effect. I was in Camden market yesterday, I reckon I could have flogged a few prints!

Here’s one I made earlier (30 Dec 2019 at about 6.38pm)

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Like it. Rocket moon.

I just had an interesting effect while taking a timelapse of the sun. I don't think it's actually from the sun since the images are only 1 second apart.

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mystery solved, it's the refraction from the hot air of jets flying past. That view was in the direction of Heathrow and it happened a couple of times.

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Brilliant shots! When do we see the finished time-lapse?

apart from the jets flying past there is not much happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSBQGmmsZM

Cool image, and yeah, a solar flare of that magnitude would make headline news! That second image shows a streak around 10 times the diameter of the Earth. Which would be something truly ominous!

Ooh love a good timelapse. What sort of filters did you use to get a proper exposure?

I don't have any ND filters large enough for this lens. This was just f20 at 1/1600sec.

Wow

Cool!