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  • in reply to: Comet 21P passing NGC 7000 #579650
    Nick James
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    This conjunction has certainly encouraged a lot of people to have a go at imaging this (currently) rather puny comet. Denis Buczynski has just updated our image archive and you can see the results for 21P here.

    in reply to: Russian Fireball #579645
    Nick James
    Participant

    Very nice event. Not sure about the music though. Who’d have thought that the state of Russian roads and insurance companies would have led to such an increase in captures of these very bright events. Someone should be doing some stats.

    in reply to: Maurice Gavin #579586
    Nick James
    Participant

    That’s really sad news. Maurice was a great observer who always got into a field before anyone else did. I remember marvelling at his CCD images in the early days of the electronic era.

    in reply to: BAA meeting video #579579
    Nick James
    Participant

    Robin – I’m not aware of any recordings of that meeting.

    in reply to: BAA meeting video #579576
    Nick James
    Participant

    Thanks Jeremy. It was just like old times for me reading out the list of papers!

    in reply to: Christchurch Weekend Meeting #579575
    Nick James
    Participant

    Peter – That’s a shame but, as others have said, we have constraints too and so it is not always possible to avoid a clash.

    in reply to: V392 Per – first results from a beginner #579574
    Nick James
    Participant

    Nice spectra of a very interesting object.

    in reply to: BAA meeting video #579573
    Nick James
    Participant

    Lars. Thanks. It’s great to know that these are appreciated.

    in reply to: BAA meeting video #579572
    Nick James
    Participant

    The other talks are now up on our website here.

    in reply to: 2010 WC9 #579485
    Nick James
    Participant

    David, Thanks for the heads up on this. I imaged it this morning using a widefield instrument so the trail is small but it is visible. The observation is here.

    in reply to: Nova in Perseus #579446
    Nick James
    Participant

    Brilliant work. These absolute spectra really show the evolution well.

    Do you think physics will ever adopt SI units? It is one of the significant differences between physics and engineering and I have to keep looking up the scale factor between ergs and Joules. I suppose CGS is better than BTUs and feet…

    in reply to: Nova in Perseus #579428
    Nick James
    Participant

    So it does. Denis is a very dedicated comet observer not so used to imaging bright point sources that don’t move…

    in reply to: Nova in Perseus #579427
    Nick James
    Participant

    Mike. Very nice. That H-alpha emission is very strong.

    in reply to: Nova in Perseus #579410
    Nick James
    Participant

    After a nice day the evening was very hazy with a lot of cirrus but I did manage to get a picture of it in a small gap. The attached is a single 15s exposure at ISO800 with a 100mm f/2 lens at f/2.8. Capella is the bright star at lower left. The nova appears very red on this image.

    in reply to: Nova in Perseus #579400
    Nick James
    Participant

    Great stuff. Now if only we could get a clear sky in the southeast of England…

    in reply to: Solar transit of the ISS 25 April 2018 and AR12706 #579393
    Nick James
    Participant

    Great video. If you stack the frames using minimum pixel hold you should be able to get a nice still showing it moving across. I’ve only ever succesfully imaged this once on 2011 May 25 using a DSLR. Each video frame was minimum pixel stacked to get this effect.

    in reply to: Ooops! #579309
    Nick James
    Participant

    A seminal paper. Kudos for referencing Kepler’s 1619 Harmonices Mundi.

    in reply to: USB over Ethernet #579279
    Nick James
    Participant

    Indeed. I’ve been doing this for years with a cheap Dell in the observatory. My PC death rate is around one death every 2-3 years but I keep a disk image so replacement is dead easy. Windows RDP is certainly secure enough to use on an internal network. I wouldn’t expose it directly to the internet though unless your network firewall can restrict access to particular IPs.

    in reply to: JD to BJD convertion #579278
    Nick James
    Participant

    The GPL Positional Astronomy Library (PAL) can be found on Github here. It is an open-source reworking of Patrick Wallace’s slalib and it contains all the functions you need to do this. Alternatively the original slalib in Fortran is GPL and should be available somewhere. Even if you can’t use these functions directly they are a good source of information on how to do the conversion accurately.

    in reply to: Ooops! #579252
    Nick James
    Participant

    Excellent. Good job Prof. Dunsby has got a sense of humour!

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