pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

Two weeks ago I used my Canon 1800MM F/.15 Lens coupled to 1Dt MK VII camera sitting on my three hundred pound Celestron CGEM DX Series 3 Computerized macro-correction Mount (stabilized and superglued on a cement pad with a Nikon micro-bolt).

Love that camera. The 512 simul-exposure feature and thee 16Meg ISO setting almost made the Nikon bolt unnecessary

14,000 plus light and dark luminosity frames were stacked and auto-processed by Zerenity and I was worried that my 512 yottabyte Nexus Tablet was going to fill up or worse that the starlight battery would go dead. I am sorry for the small upload size, crop, and low resolution, but my interSetiNet provider is once again on my back.

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astroturf Loc: vacaville ca.

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CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Pretty cool Pfrancke.
Craig

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

thanks Astro and Craig -- just wanted to have some fun, but also to say thank you to you to all you guys that literally place the universe at our finger tips. Now THAT is what is cool!

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Brings to mind something Charlie Brown said, GOOD GRIEF!
14,000 frames!

Ma... I think I'm gonna need a bigger card.

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JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

You have to post a picture of this fine lens. By my calculations, a 1800mm f0.15 lens would only be 12 Meters in diameter. I'm sure the people from Keck are beating down your door to take a look at it!

And i am sure that 300 pound mount is up to the task.

Good luck capturing images of the Big Bang.

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

no more immediate storage. Over the years, due to the riots of 2020 caused by police-cam data erasure events, all data captures are automatically stored in the cloud as they occur and are accessible only by DNA keyed encryption portals and of course by BB-oversight.com



Yes, those Keckites can be a pain and while we may improve many things many orders of magnitude, glass is glass and light must be gathered. The purpose of the 300 pound mount is not to hold and support, but to dampen. The antigrav magnets serve to hold and support.

And I can't see the lens any longer. It is not nearly as large as you speculate, because the light gathering is augmented by the BHSUATNL (black hole suck up all the nearby light) filter. It takes great pictures, but great pictures can not be taken of the device, since all nearby cameras are rendered inoperable once the filter is screwed on.

And also problematic, once hooked up, memory loss and neurotic behavior overwhelm the operator. Some say that time itself runs backwards depending on how close you can get. For me, all my wrinkles are gone and I don't know what I am talking about...

I thought Jupiter looked really sharp and in focus, but the stars not so much. Might have to work on a larger DOF next.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

I'm sure the Star Trek Federation is envious of what you now have.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

"Computer, take me to the Orion Nebula. The back side..." :shock:
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pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

The lie had to increase by an order of magnitude after exposure to your pragmatic math..