little_old_man Posted December 29, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Beautiful pictures Bill. Astronomer and wildbill72 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 30, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) This is a crop from a hand-held shot taken with an image-stabilized zoom lens at 250mm, sharpened and contrast enhanced in PhotoShop. It's a 747 at 34-36,000 feet. Based on what I could make out of the logo, tail markings, and a ton of research from there, it's a cargo flight owned by CargoLux, the biggest cargo carrier in Europe based in Luxembourg. http://www.cargolux.com/. I'm totally fascinated by aircraft and take every opportunity to catch a shot of a passing flight. SW Ontario, Canada, is one of the busiest air corridors in North America. At any given time (given light and atmospheric conditions conducive to contrails), I can count up to a dozen aircraft in view at most times. I've attached the full file as well as it's sharper and shows more detail. Edited December 30, 2014 by Astronomer hxtr, little_old_man, JohnnyDos and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 30, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) A regional first-generation Dash-8 turboprop at 20,000 feet, flown by Air Canada Jazz, a partner airline to Air Canada. Also hand-held at 250mm. The original image is much sharper than this compressed version. I'll post the full version. Edited December 30, 2014 by Astronomer hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 30, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 Original version of the dash-8 attached. Click on thumbnail to view. BigD0g and JohnnyDos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blaze Posted December 30, 2014 Member ID: 2702 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1057 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 918 Achievement Points: 8385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/27/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 11/26/1978 Device: Android Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) Astronomy photography can get very expensive and very quickly. I have a nikon d3000 which is the entry level dslr but a handy piece of kit. My next purchase will be a lens, hopefully a VR 55-300. Can't post any pics on my phone so will just have to link to Dropbox or something. .. Edited December 30, 2014 by {MFF}Blaze{GS} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blaze Posted December 30, 2014 Member ID: 2702 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1057 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 918 Achievement Points: 8385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/27/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 11/26/1978 Device: Android Share Posted December 30, 2014 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zf9sjoieo6z3evb/AABCkhoQhfD7RHB6vcOuvr_Ga?dl=0 Some of these were just my old camera phones, but I think they work just as well sometimes. BigD0g and Astronomer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Olive Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 69 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 227 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2660 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 4123 Achievement Points: 22968 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 19 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 12:14 PM Birthday: 05/07/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 Louisiana : Sf.Petru, WeednFeed, P!nk and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zf9sjoieo6z3evb/AABCkhoQhfD7RHB6vcOuvr_Ga?dl=0 Some of these were just my old camera phones, but I think they work just as well sometimes. Very nice shots! Yeah, cameras on phones are getting better and better. My LG G3 has a 13mp camera, and I can choose focus points on the touch screen, plus many other features that used to be only on high-end cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8260 Content Per Day: 1.55 Reputation: 5968 Achievement Points: 53575 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 42 minutes ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 Here's a couple I do for facebook story time LOL WeednFeed, BigD0g, JohnnyDos and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sweatnbullets Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 213 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 61 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 819 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 517 Achievement Points: 5644 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 12:33 AM Birthday: 06/06/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 Great Shots, I would like to see some of Astronomers shots from telescope, My tele I had could barely see the rings of saturn. Also some of my nikon p80 shots, lake of the Woods Canada... BigD0g, little_old_man, LtLaszlo and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
little_old_man Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted December 31, 2014 A regional first-generation Dash-8 turboprop at 20,000 feet, flown by Air Canada Jazz, a partner airline to Air Canada. Also hand-held at 250mm. The original image is much sharper than this compressed version. I'll post the full version. My town is on the approach for San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose airports, so needless to say there is always some air traffic going overhead. We're also not far from a major air force base and see a lot of big transports and bombers, and I always find myself looking up to figure out what they are. We've seen Airforce One fly over us a number of times over the years. A really neat web site I found last year takes the guessing out of it. You can open up the following web page and see exactly what commercial aircraft are flying over you in real time. It gives the airline name, type of plane and flight plan, as well as altitude. Some flights have web cams in their cockpits and you can even tap into those. This web site covers the globe so anybody can use it. http://www.flightradar24.com/#38.06,-122.59/9?&_suid=142004089372405930446959645852 Astronomer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8260 Content Per Day: 1.55 Reputation: 5968 Achievement Points: 53575 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 42 minutes ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 There are a few apps where all you do is point your smartphone at the plane and it will give you all the info on it here's an android one http://my.pinkfroot.com/page/plane-finder-for-android Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1071 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8425 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7284 Achievement Points: 74829 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 58 minutes ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) Here's a couple I took while camping with some friends during Thanksgiving weekend. Up nice and early to catch the fog over the water. Taken with my Canon T5i, 18-55mm image stabilzed zoom lens. Edited December 31, 2014 by Merlin007 WeednFeed, LtLaszlo, Labob and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) Take at dusk with my LG G3 smartphone. Its low-light capability is impressive. To my eyes it was much darker than this. The foreground is lit with a streetlight, and a train is coming in the distance. The full-size image is also attached. Edited December 31, 2014 by Astronomer little_old_man, wishbone, FRENCHI and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 There are a few apps where all you do is point your smartphone at the plane and it will give you all the info on it here's an android one http://my.pinkfroot.com/page/plane-finder-for-android I will see if it works with the T38 that fly over head from Randolph AFB. little_old_man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astronomer Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 A few minutes later... hxtr, JohnnyDos, Nisty* and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Great Shots, I would like to see some of Astronomers shots from telescope, My tele I had could barely see the rings of saturn. Also some of my nikon p80 shots, lake of the Woods Canada... Hi Sweatnbullets, I haven't gotten into astrophotography yet, though it's high on my list of things to learn. That's why I got the telescope adapter for the camera and the mount that the telescope is sitting on. Hopefully by the time Spring comes around I can get into it. winters are too damn cloudy here to have a chance to take a deep dive. I have friends that are award-winning night-sky photographers. Great people to learn from. Sweatnbullets 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 My town is on the approach for San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose airports, so needless to say there is always some air traffic going overhead. We're also not far from a major air force base and see a lot of big transports and bombers, and I always find myself looking up to figure out what they are. We've seen Airforce One fly over us a number of times over the years. A really neat web site I found last year takes the guessing out of it. You can open up the following web page and see exactly what commercial aircraft are flying over you in real time. It gives the airline name, type of plane and flight plan, as well as altitude. Some flights have web cams in their cockpits and you can even tap into those. This web site covers the globe so anybody can use it. http://www.flightradar24.com/#38.06,-122.59/9?&_suid=142004089372405930446959645852 Thanks for the link! When we lived in Nova Scotia, we'd often see USAF transports being refueled mid-air as they were entering North America. Pretty cool thing to watch in binoculars. Sweatnbullets 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1071 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8425 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7284 Achievement Points: 74829 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 58 minutes ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) These shots were taken with my old point and click mounted to my telescope. They're not the clearest but like Astonomer, I hope to get some better pics with my T5i mounted on a good night. Edited December 31, 2014 by Merlin007 Sweatnbullets, FRENCHI, BigD0g and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 31, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 These shots were taken with my old point and click mounted to my telescope. They're not the clearest but like Astonomer, I hope to get some better pics with my T5i mounted on a good night. Nice shot Merlin! You caught a great one of Saturn. WeednFeed, Merlin007, LandShark and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
LtLaszlo Posted January 1, 2015 Member ID: 151 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 62 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9137 Content Per Day: 1.71 Reputation: 24279 Achievement Points: 94128 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 314 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 01:18 AM Birthday: 05/17/1959 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted January 1, 2015 Nice shots all. Good thread, so keep showing us your artistic side! Amazing what cameras can do now and readily available (for a price)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted January 1, 2015 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8260 Content Per Day: 1.55 Reputation: 5968 Achievement Points: 53575 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 42 minutes ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted January 1, 2015 You guys let me know when you want saturn to tilt towards you in full light and I'll ask the pope for a favour Astronomer and Merlin007 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blaze Posted January 1, 2015 Member ID: 2702 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 8 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1057 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 918 Achievement Points: 8385 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/27/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 11/26/1978 Device: Android Share Posted January 1, 2015 A few more I took from different occasions. Some are at the Sea Life Centre, some are of Leeds West Indian Carnival, there are a couple of three gulls having a dogfight for an icecream cone in Whitby and a few randoms. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ufd78a2qg0xbsb2/AAA3sJ7ApV1WjFKjDd7Cjvrta?dl=0 Olive, Nisty*, BigD0g and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BigD0g Posted January 2, 2015 Member ID: 20953 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 6 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 62 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 75 Achievement Points: 551 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/08/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 5, 2017 Birthday: 04/15/1962 Share Posted January 2, 2015 heres a few more from when i was mowin up in michigan ...these guys can fly these things... Trasheur123 and JohnnyDos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Olive Posted January 2, 2015 Member ID: 69 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 227 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2660 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 4123 Achievement Points: 22968 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 19 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 12:14 PM Birthday: 05/07/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted January 2, 2015 Cuba,i've got pretty cool pics from this trip,nice beaches,beautiful sunsets ect ect but for some reasons this one is my favourite one corsicaman, Sweatnbullets, Labob and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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