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Given that the sky stays clear is there a 'best time' to see any aurora?
Early, just after sunset, or later after my normal bed time?
 
Ok. Signed up for that lancs uni thing and not had a single alert yet
 
Where's smokes when you need him? Must be in the shed feeding the ferrets
 
Im off to Seahouses area, maybe Bamburgh - Will decide when I see what the light is like. Druridge Bay was pretty good last time but have to go up that way anyway. KP7 is expected to hit at midnight-ish. Some canny apps on android market that give alerts based on location.
 
MaDMaCKeM said:
Im off to Seahouses area, maybe Bamburgh - Will decide when I see what the light is like. Druridge Bay was pretty good last time but have to go up that way anyway. KP7 is expected to hit at midnight-ish. Some canny apps on android market that give alerts based on location.
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Where are you hearing about kp7? The sites I'm looking at seem to be playing it down
 
Sounds like it's turned to shite

Wasting no petrol ere
 
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I am constantly monitoring the aurora forecast websites, Scooby. Not looking good, planetary field too far north.
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scooby :lol:

While your ere, someone was asking me about cameras that perform best in low light for star fields (not lengthy motorized exposures) any ideas?[DOUBLEPOST=1389309005][/DOUBLEPOST]kp4 predicted but that only brings it down to shetland as far as I can tell
 
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Icarebecauseyoudo said:
scooby :lol:

While your ere, someone was asking me about cameras that perform best in low light for star fields (not lengthy motorized exposures) any ideas?
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Best low light astronomical camera is a peltier cooled CCD camera. For DSLRs, look to full frame Canons - Canon chips have lowest noise at long exposure and full frame have largest pixels for best signal to noise ratio.
 
smoker said:
Best low light astronomical camera is a peltier cooled CCD camera. For DSLRs, look to full frame Canons - Canon chips have lowest noise at long exposure and full frame have largest pixels for best signal to noise ratio.
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I reckon he wants summat cheap like ;)
 
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