The Astronomy Thread
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Finally broke out my little telescope for some more imaging. I've shot pretty much everything I can from my back yard so I'm going back and adding images to stack. First up is M51 which I've posted a few times. This is a little over 3 hours of 10 second images stacked. Quite a lot of detail for something that is 30 odd million light years away.
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I'll let you rent some space in my back yard for $99 month! Also, fuck Celestron , last one I bought I had to sic the Cal attorney general on them to get my fucking money back.
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I have a pretty dark site. I think (not sure) a lot of these peole have invested very large sums into their rig with the scope, mount, camera and such and to them they want to see what it can do and don't live in the right spot for certain things. I know there's a huge industry of going observing and doing astrophotography in the southern hemishere to get new things.
But pretty sure it's more about the investment into the rig over long periods. Maybe it's just me. The amount did not seem that high considering the multi multi thousands each rig cost.
But pretty sure it's more about the investment into the rig over long periods. Maybe it's just me. The amount did not seem that high considering the multi multi thousands each rig cost.
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Sheriff Cad
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Swift Boost Mission - NASA Science
NASA has awarded Katalyst Space a contract to raise the orbit of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
science.nasa.gov
This sounds really cool, they're trying to launch a spacecraft to boost the orbit of the Swift Observatory. It's already operating on two (out of four) failed gyroscopes for stabilization/orientation, and this isn't going to fix that, just reposition it. But if it loses another gyro it's toast anyway.
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Cool wonder if they could do that to something like Hubble?Swift Boost Mission - NASA Science
NASA has awarded Katalyst Space a contract to raise the orbit of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
This sounds really cool, they're trying to launch a spacecraft to boost the orbit of the Swift Observatory. It's already operating on two (out of four) failed gyroscopes for stabilization/orientation, and this isn't going to fix that, just reposition it. But if it loses another gyro it's toast anyway.
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There have been multiple missions to Hubble, manned missions, so yes I would assume so. Think they actually replaced some of the gyros in Hubble on one of the missions in addition to the mirror replacement mission.