Here is an entry-level camera similar to the one I used for the video (mine was analog and has been discontinued):

https://www.telescope.com/Orion/Ast...r-Camera/rc/2160/pc/-1/c/4/sc/58/p/103029.uts

No T-ring necessary. You just connect it to your telescope and laptop and use the bundled software.

 

Great video almost looks as if you are flying across the moon's surface in a space craft.

 

Thanks, Kevan. It's a great little space camera, the Orion Electronic Imaging Eyepiece (color version). This particular model is analog and has been discontinued, but the latest generation is digital and has USB.

 

I wholly agree with you, Kevan - it is a flight. It triggers the ineffable for me - playing off so many levels of the consciousness at once that simple words are lacking to do it the proverbial justice.

 

Yes I've starting to join the moonies!no not a follower of reverend moon,he of the mass weddings,but of our companion in space!I'd always regarded the moon as a pest stopping me seeing the messier and NGC objects with its natural light pollution.in fact I have come round to moon gazing as it comes up.one of the most beautiful views in space (well everything is in space!) Is that down the lunar terminator.even when full you have reflected moons on water and what of the elusive moon bows of which I can only remember seeing one on a beach in fog.

 

Bravo! That's a great shot to start off 2018. Copernicus, Plato, Aristarchus, Grimaldi, and Tycho (et al) never looked better!

Reggie

 

I'm surprised that you didn't freeze to death in that neck of the woods been really cold out there!although not quite as cold as Mars as the media claimed more sort of Siberia/Antarctica levels.

 

We had a balmy -45F. with the wind-chill - -20F without - the other day or 5. Still around a shirtsleeve (now) 8F. I've decided to hibernate until March. My name tells all regards location, but it's not been any better, and some worse, all over this Winter. I've decided to do the <Gasp!> un-thinkable and look into just how bad heat-currents are when sticking one of my 'tubes' out an open window!

Will report when Mission Accomplished. I guess we can at least be glad we're not in Hawaii this last 24h. I'd probably of twisted my other ankle climbing down an open manhole-cover! <no comprende? Check the news> Already twisted one on black-ice on the sidewalk yesterday. I think we should all get medals for living in this years' Winter.

Baa! <curmudgeon-mode>

 

Can you believe what happened in Hawaii? Nearly 40 minutes of sheer panic. How many people nearly had heart attacks or anxiety episodes? Who's responsible for this? Off with his or her head! Excelsior!

 

I was raised in Africa so never discovered the Fahrenheit scale, centigrade was used although now people call it Celsius.I make that, rounding it up ,to -29 Celsius or 244 kelvin I think they lowest direct temperature I've ever experienced was about -18c..here's two other temperature scales,rankine;effectively a scale like kelvin using absolute cold but graded using the Fahrenheit scale (kelvin uses Celsius). Not to forget reaumur,a French scale which also became popular in eastern Europe and Tzarist Russia.reaumur is said to be redundant however there are reports of its use by dairy farmers in Switzerland and Italy to measure milk temperatures.here's the nations the scales inventors where from,Fahrenheit: Prussia/Germany (now Russian Kaliningrad),Celsius: Swedish, kelvin: Irish, rankine:Scottish, reaumur:French.I might try and buy a reaumur thermometer to put next to my Fitzroy's storm glass!

 

You're on the mark, Kevan. -29C.

Reggie, here's the body of the actual alert that reached, in one format or another, everyone in Hawaii:



Often seen in red text across TV-screens. In statement on-air radio. Text alerts. All media.

It took 39 minutes for a notice to disregard to be issued/broadcast.

Welcome to the Trumpian Dystopian Nightmarica we seriously are in at present.

"OUT OF THE DOORS! INTO THE STREETS! OUT OF THE DOORS! INTO THE STREETS! OUT OF THE DOORS! INTO THE STREETS!"

And THIS is NOT a Drill!

 

Missed 2!the Newton scale and romer scale.Newton:English, romeranish. The Newton scale seems to be used for measuring the temperature of metals as Issac newton had an interest in alchemy and no doubt making mirrors for his telescopes? Romer, seems to have based his scale upon newtons and Gabriel Fahrenheit his upon romers, rankine upon Fahrenheit's although the metric kelvin scale predates rankines by 11 years.

 

Guessing any incoming missiles would originate from north Korea? China and Russia haven't yet been called 'shitholes'....gunboat diplomacy! Too small a target for Kim's mob their missiles would miss a small archipelago, the Japanese sneeked up close to pearl harbour.

 

It's the 'gestalt' that came into play, Kevan. Not too many people are aware of the parameters of a nuclear missile income from the DPRK. They will just go into 'Safe-Mode' and start dropping their kids into open manhole-cover and pray.

And that, amongst many others, is exactly what many did. For 39 minutes of "Swimming with the feces." - with apologies to Mario Puzo of "The Godfather."

 

While we're (I truly hope!) thinking of ways to take this nation back from the paws of the obviously deranged (with nuclear-codes), never let it be said that a revolution can't have a touch of the comedic...

 

But, yet, an effective medium of communication in a nation where language alone leaves far too many mystified and beyond comprehending the messages contained therein.

But you, Sir, are quite correct in your observation.

 

I've got to get somewhere warm for stargazing in 2018.I'm not sure if Namibia, gets put in the shitholes filing cabinet having only flown over it enroute to Johannesburg, but it has some prime stargazing and our summer lines up with their winter which is the dry season. Botswana,one of Africa's most successful countries, strenuously objected to being so,by inference, called and Namibia is rather similar,low population, diamonds and safaris so I'm guessing it's not!?