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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 16th at 8:54pm 2011
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 16th at 8:54pm 2011
As you guys know I travel a lot. I also take shitloads of pictures. Sometimes some are so good they beg to be shared. Enjoy this one.
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Aazell on Sat Jun 18th at 1:19pm 2011
Posted by Aazell on Sat Jun 18th at 1:19pm 2011
The nice thing about living and working in London is the huge variety of architecture on show. Edwardian and Victorian buildings sit right up alongside 70's horrid cubist buildings and modern glass and metal buildings.
I'll be adding to the album linked below but these are the buildings and views I see everyday on my way to work. It's nice to just stop my commute and take some of it in from time to time.
Hope this is useful to some of you..
https://picasaweb.google.com/aazell1/WhatISee?authkey=Gv1sRgCNqBwdbVrJWDjQE&feat=directlink
I'll be adding to the album linked below but these are the buildings and views I see everyday on my way to work. It's nice to just stop my commute and take some of it in from time to time.
Hope this is useful to some of you..
https://picasaweb.google.com/aazell1/WhatISee?authkey=Gv1sRgCNqBwdbVrJWDjQE&feat=directlink
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Le Chief on Sun Jun 19th at 12:40am 2011
Posted by Le Chief on Sun Jun 19th at 12:40am 2011
Nice. Did you take those photos with your phone?
Took these photos through my telescope with my phone:
The Moon
Saturn
Jupiter and Io
Took these photos through my telescope with my phone:
The Moon
Saturn
Jupiter and Io
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 1:06am 2011
Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 1:06am 2011
I can't get my phone to fucking focus on the images through my telescope.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Le Chief on Sun Jun 19th at 2:11am 2011
Posted by Le Chief on Sun Jun 19th at 2:11am 2011
Yeah it's hard. Though if the object in your telescope is the only visible light your phone should automatically try to focus onto it. Orph told me a trick which I havent tried yet, you could try to tweak the focus on your scope to compensate for your phone. But still nothing compares to seeing it through your own telescope as you would know with Saturn. 
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 6:36am 2011
Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 6:36am 2011
That doesn't make any sense. Changing the focus on my telescope would make it blurry ... blurry + blurry = Really Blurry.
Also, anytime there's a gentle breeze my shit tripod doesn't give a stable image. Seriously, it's fucking terrible I hate that goddamn tripod.
Also, anytime there's a gentle breeze my shit tripod doesn't give a stable image. Seriously, it's fucking terrible I hate that goddamn tripod.
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 19th at 12:00pm 2011
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 19th at 12:00pm 2011
1st.. I never claimed it would work, but that it should work.
2nd.. The manual focus knob was designed to compensate for the viewer. In this way a 20/20 and a 20/40 user can use the same scope.
3rd.. Its not really an issue with the telescope so much as the camera. You are trying to use something that is designed to be used at a minimum distance of 14 inches, pressed up to a view finder on the scope.
4th.. Since people DO successfully use digital cameras to photograph stellar objects, there has to be a way for Aaron to do so as well. Preferably with the equipment he ALREADY owns.
Lastly, unless you have tried every conceivable way of doing it and still failed stop dismissing it as undoable. Its prolly more a case of not desiring to succeed more than unable to succeed.
I used to use a film camera 35 years ago. I didn't have to contend with auto focus but savagely lower light than the camera was designed to contend with. Back then it was just shutter speeds.. Sadly though, with film you didn't know how badly you failed on any particular night until you got the film developed.
Aaron, you might have to settle for just the moon. Cameras on phones are really the low end of the camera market and succeeding with one may be unattainable. I dunno, but keep at it and documenting the failures. Who knows.
2nd.. The manual focus knob was designed to compensate for the viewer. In this way a 20/20 and a 20/40 user can use the same scope.
3rd.. Its not really an issue with the telescope so much as the camera. You are trying to use something that is designed to be used at a minimum distance of 14 inches, pressed up to a view finder on the scope.
4th.. Since people DO successfully use digital cameras to photograph stellar objects, there has to be a way for Aaron to do so as well. Preferably with the equipment he ALREADY owns.
Lastly, unless you have tried every conceivable way of doing it and still failed stop dismissing it as undoable. Its prolly more a case of not desiring to succeed more than unable to succeed.
I used to use a film camera 35 years ago. I didn't have to contend with auto focus but savagely lower light than the camera was designed to contend with. Back then it was just shutter speeds.. Sadly though, with film you didn't know how badly you failed on any particular night until you got the film developed.
Aaron, you might have to settle for just the moon. Cameras on phones are really the low end of the camera market and succeeding with one may be unattainable. I dunno, but keep at it and documenting the failures. Who knows.
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Niborius on Sun Jun 19th at 12:37pm 2011
It was still interesting to see, and always better than nothing.
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Posted by Niborius on Sun Jun 19th at 12:37pm 2011
Quoting Orpheus
Aaron, you might have to settle for just the moon. Cameras on phones are really the low end of the camera market and succeeding with one may be unattainable. I dunno, but keep at it and documenting the failures. Who knows.
It was still interesting to see, and always better than nothing.
Also:
Quoting Orpheus
As you guys know I travel a lot. I also take shitloads of pictures. Sometimes some are so good they beg to be shared. Enjoy this one.
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Riven on Sun Jun 19th at 2:42pm 2011
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Posted by Riven on Sun Jun 19th at 2:42pm 2011
Man, I wish I had a telescope. One of these days....
Aazell, it looks like your camera is only partially rendering some of the photos, either that or something happened to them when you were transferring them. Some are half-gray.
I can't wait to move to a large city. I'm stuck out in what feels like the country, in a little small college town in north Louisiana. One more year and I'm gone!
Aazell, it looks like your camera is only partially rendering some of the photos, either that or something happened to them when you were transferring them. Some are half-gray.
I can't wait to move to a large city. I'm stuck out in what feels like the country, in a little small college town in north Louisiana. One more year and I'm gone!
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 4:11pm 2011
Posted by Crono on Sun Jun 19th at 4:11pm 2011
Dude, the adjustment distance on a telescope is not for the viewer, it's for the focal point of the lens ... you honestly think that it adjusts for the viewer's personal vision? It does not. There is only one point of focus for each lens and it is at different points for each lens (focal point!) THAT'S why you can adjust it
If you need to adjust the light coming into your eye because you have poor vision, this is what glasses are for ... but if you do not start with a clear image .... how is a camera or a person going to make a clear image? (It doesn't)
I HAVE taken images from a telescope before, but you're not entirely cognizant of the situation or the setup.
At no point in time did I say Aaron shouldn't take photos from his telescope, I think you're assuming something I didn't say. You can ask Aaron, we've been talking about this quite a bit, my tripod has problems.
The issue with the camera is more the software than the camera itself.
If you need to adjust the light coming into your eye because you have poor vision, this is what glasses are for ... but if you do not start with a clear image .... how is a camera or a person going to make a clear image? (It doesn't)
I HAVE taken images from a telescope before, but you're not entirely cognizant of the situation or the setup.
At no point in time did I say Aaron shouldn't take photos from his telescope, I think you're assuming something I didn't say. You can ask Aaron, we've been talking about this quite a bit, my tripod has problems.
The issue with the camera is more the software than the camera itself.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 19th at 11:02pm 2011
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 19th at 11:02pm 2011
Aaron, try this link. It looks promising.
Sound familiar?
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Take short exposures and zoom in on a star and examine with the LCD display on the back of the camera. Then you change the focus slightly and examine the image to see if the star looks smaller. Through a process of trial and error, you will eventually go through the point of best focus.
Sound familiar?
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Aazell on Mon Jun 20th at 6:27am 2011
Posted by Aazell on Mon Jun 20th at 6:27am 2011
It was the transfer from my phone. Google Android fail... will take more.
You have to be careful and a bit sneaky when taking photos on the London Underground. They dont like you doing it since the terrorist bombings in 2005.
Its a shame because it has some of the most fastastic architecture that seems to come straight out of HL or another FPS.
Will try and sneakily take some more. Its not like Ill be arrested, i just dont want the hassle of having to explain to a cop why Im doing what Im doing. Will make me late for work. Lol
You have to be careful and a bit sneaky when taking photos on the London Underground. They dont like you doing it since the terrorist bombings in 2005.
Its a shame because it has some of the most fastastic architecture that seems to come straight out of HL or another FPS.
Will try and sneakily take some more. Its not like Ill be arrested, i just dont want the hassle of having to explain to a cop why Im doing what Im doing. Will make me late for work. Lol
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Niborius on Tue Jun 21st at 9:21am 2011
I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw those pictures, though I don't know if it's worth the money. I mean, after looking at the planets about 20 times, doesn't it get boring?
Don't get me wrong, I am really fascinated by space stuff, but I was still wondering
Posted by Niborius on Tue Jun 21st at 9:21am 2011
Quoting Riven
Man, I wish I had a telescope. One of these days....
I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw those pictures, though I don't know if it's worth the money. I mean, after looking at the planets about 20 times, doesn't it get boring?
Don't get me wrong, I am really fascinated by space stuff, but I was still wondering
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Crono on Tue Jun 21st at 7:08pm 2011
Nope. It always changes and there's plenty of other things you can look at with a telescope, like satellites and with the right filters the surface of the sun.
If you have a stable camera connected to it you could even do time-lapse photography to get deeper space images.
But, honestly, even if you've seen pictures of planets and such, it's not the same as physically seeing it for yourself. Which is exactly what you're doing with a telescope.
Posted by Crono on Tue Jun 21st at 7:08pm 2011
Quoting Niborius
I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw those pictures, though I don't know if it's worth the money. I mean, after looking at the planets about 20 times, doesn't it get boring?
Nope. It always changes and there's plenty of other things you can look at with a telescope, like satellites and with the right filters the surface of the sun.
If you have a stable camera connected to it you could even do time-lapse photography to get deeper space images.
But, honestly, even if you've seen pictures of planets and such, it's not the same as physically seeing it for yourself. Which is exactly what you're doing with a telescope.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Le Chief on Thu Jun 23rd at 11:34am 2011
Posted by Le Chief on Thu Jun 23rd at 11:34am 2011
Nuh there's plenty to see and a camera cant capture the crystal clear detailed image you see live through a telescope. Tomorrow morning when I wake up for work I'm going to try and view Uranus for the first time. It's a nice way to start the day. 
Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jun 23rd at 11:36pm 2011
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Jun 23rd at 11:36pm 2011
Depending on what you do the night before, you may see more of ur anus than you want. 
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Re: Recently Photographed
Posted by Niborius on Fri Jun 24th at 9:28am 2011
Somehow it never gets old
Posted by Niborius on Fri Jun 24th at 9:28am 2011
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Depending on what you do the night before, you may see more of ur anus than you want.
Somehow it never gets old
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