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January 2008Stars and such like
On 20/01/08 at 22:36 cobaltfish wrote:
I've re-ignited my interest in astronomy again. Its been a while since I've done much in the way of serious observing. I did see a few shooting stars while camping this summer (when it wasn't raining!) but haven't done that much else.
I have got myself a new camera and a equatorial mounted telescope, which should mean longer exposure pictures aren't quite so hard, and wont result in huge star trails. However, I have just spotted that my web based auto-resize image script doesn't like my image files-it something about 10 megapixel files being to large....
Some of my pictures are loaded onto the web albums in picasa, but I intend to get them up on here too.
I came across on sourceforge a little tool that looks like it could be useful. Its called Observation and is designed to help amateur astronomers log their observations. Its java and xml based, and can output html, so I intend keeping some kind of archive of what I see online.
Finally, here is one of the many pictures I've taken of the orion nebula and surrounding area of sky:
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