Friday 20 September 2013

NOT QUITE MARS BEST GUESS

I have often wondered about the establishing of the gas elements that make up the atmosphere of an Exoplanet.

I have also repeatedly warned of seemingly good ideas being wrong.

So here is an article that the expected discovery of the gas Methane on Mars has not been detected by the Discovery Rover. At least the maximum that can exist is only a tiny fraction of that which was predicted. 

Not a case of best guess being wrong but best guess with TESTS being wrong!

Still it is the process we go through to reach the facts.

Tuesday 17 September 2013

AWAITING NEW TOOLS

I have been waiting an inordinate amount of time for two deliveries to arrive. One of these is a book on Astrophotography but I knew this was coming from America while the other is a lens hood with three different stages, or positions, to it.

I wondered whether or not the hood may have been coming from America too as after a week when it did not arrive I checked the order and the estimated delivery date seemed to be within 24 hours, plus or minus, the date given for the book.

These dates were last Friday and Saturday and as it is now Tuesday I am pretty sure that these will arrive this week FOUR SURE, as my Dutch friends used to say.

I am quite interested in both these arriving and doing a fair bit of reading and then some experimenting. I want to see if the hood makes any difference to the pictures taken with the longer exposures.

Fingers crossed it does, lol.

FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON

Right now here is my first few pictures of the Moon which I did hand held basically because I saw the satellite for the first time in a fair old while.

It was late too so I ran downstairs grabbed the camera and returned, opened up the bedroom window as wide as I can and then pointed through the gap!

Note that it was interesting to see that at full size I managed to pick up a great deal of STARS!!

The photos of the further away Moon are taken at 50x optical Zoom while the closer ones are at 100x Digital, purely for curiosity purposes only.