I am glad you enjoyed it. I will post some pictures in the coming days. All I wanted to do last night was sleep!

Now there's an idea! Small Scope + Weather Balloon + Large Firework might get us up there....

Very Funny, and well captured considering it was daytime. You must be one of those folks that likes to see things in clouds. The 'face' as you put it...

Hi Clive, I know nothing about GIMP but thought it was layer based. If you select the region and change its level I think you will just end up with it...

A new thread is probably wise. I saw the circular patches. It is not dirt on the sensor as that would appear sharp. This is either something on the l...

<p style="text-align: justify;">Just a little heads up on using cheaper lenses. Samyang is, as you will have seen, sold under many names such as...

Nice one Clive but isn't it upside down?

You learn something new everyday.... All those tour guides who make a big deal of saying you can always tell where that western was filmed clearly ar...

Mmm. A furry rodent is lurking here unless I'm mistaken. The 'Atacama Desert' has a foreground of Saguaro Cactus. These only grow in Arizona and the ...

It was a good night indeed! Tej, sorry to mention the collimation!...and Mike's was the only APM that night, this time round I bought some other Russ...

Hey Christina, great to see you starting your solar imaging career! For white light with a DSLR, you can get surprisingly good results without stacki...

I would normally suggest a Fez, but as we are mad dogs (and lady) in the midday sun than it can only be a Pith.....

Indeed, crap forecast followed by crap forecast and all turned out to be wrong. How gutted would we have been if we had decided to call it off! Here'...

...but what a sunrise