Coffee under the stars ?

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Coffee under the stars ?

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Hi All,

Just an idea I had with all the bad weather. Having coffee under a dark sky. Here is a part of the Milky Way core I took in May 2018 in Mount Bromo area, Indonesia. Combine that with a coffee mug...

Hope you like it.

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That's lovely :hamster: I'm guessing this isn't a reflection in the coffee but a composite?

Very dreamy :)
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Hi Alexandra,

Yes, it is a composite/blended two separate images. The milky was is a stack of about 9 files to create increased signal/noise image.

I'll try and drink coffee next time at a dark sky site and see if I can photograph it directly !

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That’s an original take on things. Very cool!


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Radon86 wrote: Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:51 pm Hi Alexandra,

Yes, it is a composite/blended two separate images. The milky was is a stack of about 9 files to create increased signal/noise image.

I'll try and drink coffee next time at a dark sky site and see if I can photograph it directly !

Magnus
Hi Magnus,

I would like to see the results. You need 0 zero vibration on the Coffee mug :shock:

Put a bit of milk in the Coffee so you have at least the Milky part ... :lol:


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Artistically beautiful!!


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I love it: the idea and the picture itself.

Maybe i should look for a 12VDC coffee maker...


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Thanks guys for your appreciative comments. I hope you find some clear dark skies and get the chance to gaze at amazement at the Milky Way, a truly awe inspiring sight if you have never seen it before !

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There is nothing more awe inspiring than seeing the Milky Way under a truly dark sky. I can see it here from home in Edneyville N.C. but it's washed out a bit from the light pollution from nearby Hendersonville. My dad in Lowndesville S.C. has a much better view. I remember back in the summer of 2016 when I and a close friend of mine and his family did a six-day road trip to Colorado and New Mexico and back and viewed the Milky Way from the Cowboy Shack site in the Galisteo Basin outside of Sante Fe New Mexico. The site was at least a Bortle 2 with just a trace of light pollution in the directions of Sante Fe and Albuquerque NM ( Which has enacting light pollution ordinances ). My friend said it still was not as dark as the PTA site near Mauna Kea which he visited when he was in the Army back in the 1980s which is certainly a Bortle 1. Anyway the Milky Way showed impressive detail from the Cowboy Shack site. I saw parts of it down below Scorpius and Sagittarius that I had never seen from the N.C. mountains. The detail with the naked eye was truly impressive. I bet the eye limiting magnitude was 7+! M-13 in Hercules was easily seen with the naked eye. Everyone needs to go to a truly dark site at least once in their lives to see the grandeur of our galaxy from within. 80 percent of people live in areas where the Milky Way cannot be seen or only marginally can be seen at all!! I have been lucky to have always lived in an area where I can see it even if not the best. But it's getting brighter all the time and in a few years it will be gone from my current Hendersonville/Edneyville location but a move is close at hand to Lowndesville and that will give me darker skies.

In 2024 I hope for a trip to Big Bend National Park in southern Texas for a week under dark desert skies plus the total solar eclipse. It's probably a Bortle 1 site so it will be impressive if it happens. My impending move and the changes accompanying it may render it improbable. Time will tell. I may simply after moving not have the money to go and then there is my dad's declining health plus the loss of my current job. My friend has issues of his own too.

The brief two hours under dark skies at the Cowboy Shack will always be a memorable experience. I did take my Orion ST90 and 10x50 UltraView binoculars on the trip.

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