Today at the Baltic Sea: feeding pewit.
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Finally had a chance to take some photos with the new camera today that I was satisfied with…this whole last week has just been a series of random shots and figuring out how to actually take a decent picture.
Going out in the morning and maybe once more over the weekend to take some time and get some photos at new locations…though I’ll definitely be returning to these one shown here (as they are on the way to the most recent project).
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Some shorebirds a shot yesterday (with my camera 
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Eurasian golden plover
dunlin
ruddy turnstone
redshank
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A few days ago I asked about astrophotography (First astro opportunity (photo club outing)). Well, I did make some mistakes (long exposure noise reduction was on, whereas I should have just gathered more light in the same time, and used dark frames in Siril), but it was a very nice experience.
These are with the phone:
A 800 and a 1000 mm telescope, with filters mounted, to observe sunspots and flares (Hydrogen Alpha, red filter):
The sunspots and the flares, simply by holding the phone to the respective eyepiece. At first, when I looked into the telescope showing the spots, I thought something was wrong, and I was just looking into an empty viewfinder, with some dust. Then it hit me: it really was the Sun. I cannot explain why, but it was a very emotional moment. I mean, I have seen great, high quality, high resolution photos and videos, but seeing it with my own eyes was simply somehow different.
The big telescopes. Their description says me little, but I do understand they have 80 cm and 55 cm mirrors, with 7.8 m and 2.5 or 10-15 m focal lengths, respectively.
The 85’er is a pure Cassegrain telescope with a focal length of 7.8 m. The other telescope can be converted from Cassegrain to Newton configuration. Focal lengths of 10 to 15 m (Cassegrain) and 2.5 m (Newton) are achieved here.
Our guide and a few club members next to one of the smaller devices (Ritchey Chrétien-Astrograf (Pro RC 360) by Officina Stellare).
And the big ones in action:
Finally, ‘my’ shot of the day (night). Not really mine, as I was just following instructions like ‘attach your camera here’, ‘adjust the focus here’, ‘good, now take a picture’.
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Wow. Nice mount (10 Micron)! Also “your” shot of M13 is nice. I can see the “Propeller” and NCG 6207.
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Fascinating with all the lines that meet in the center of the image.
Went out this morning a little later than I should have, but started what is going to be an extensive series of photos from an area just up the road from my home.
Where I live is littered with extensive protected grassland regions, but I never realized just how close some of them were.
I’ve seen photos from these areas before and have wanted to go and check them out…now I get to!
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@AdamFromCanada I absolutely love the one of the fence going down into the water. Great!
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Excellent worm @AdamFromCanada ! Looking forward to more!
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I often enjoy Plan B more than I’d expect…Nice shots.
ta very much
But when you do, they turn out very well.
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