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Sunday 9 May 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

Filed under: General — Chris Curtis @ 02:00
  • Flickr: M3 4 May http://bit.ly/cV00e3 #
  • Just finished my 3rd run of week 1 with #getrunning – 28½ minutes of exercise and 8 minutes of running. Next run: Friday 7th. #
  • Just finished my 2nd run of week 1 with #getrunning – 28½ minutes of exercise and 8 minutes of running. Next run: Tuesday 4th. #

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Tuesday 4 May 2010

M3 4 May

Filed under: Photography and Art,Science — Chris Curtis @ 23:02

M3 4 May, originally uploaded by ThinkingCamera.

Another version of the globular cluster M3 but a much better image. I took the painful plunge and bought Maxim DL Pro software. This encourages you to calibrate images properly by taking flat, bias and dark frames, then combines these with the “light” frames (20 x 20second exposures this time) to help reduce noise. There are then good tools to adjust the results.
I was very pleased with this. There is “coma” (misshapen stars) because I was using an f3.3 focal reducer, but overall I think this is a good image.

Sunday 2 May 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

Filed under: General — Chris Curtis @ 02:00
  • Just finished my 1st run of week 1 with #getrunning – 28½ minutes of exercise and 8 minutes of running. Next run: Tuesday 27th. #

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