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Osbourne One-Nil

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  1. Osbourne One-Nil
    23.4C here this afternoon beating the 22.4C record set at the weekend and further smashing the long-term March record of 15.7C! A minimum overnight of 1.2C giving a daily range of 21.2C, which is pretty good going.
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    Just got in from a day on site and yep....staggering!
  3. Osbourne One-Nil
    And here's a 5 minute exposure at ISO200.
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    Here's one of the Moon and Venus I took this evening and one I took last night of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus -
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    Here are another couple of shots - one of the Pleiades (with the mount not properly aligned) which shows some nebulosity nicely, and one of the Orion Nebula taken a few minutes ago with just a 15 second exposure...the sky wasn't even properly dark!
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    Reached 22.7º here today, which I'm guessing is my March record, but I can't access my records right now, so I'd be guessing. Beautiful day! Edit - just checked my records and yep, smashed my March record, which until today stood at 15.7º!
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    Managed -1.2º last night but temperature shooting up now and it's currently 7.8º with a clear blue sky. Wonderful!
  8. Osbourne One-Nil
    Here's tonight's effort - Auriga, high in the west with the Milky Way running through it. You can even make out two open clusters; M37 & M38, both of which are about 4000 light years away.
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    My spawn's definitely developing and I think one or two might have hatched out and are attached to the jelly. Just got a cheap air pump placed in there and am slowly topping the water level up each day, with a watering can's worth at a time as the water which comes out of the well is pretty damned cold, so I want to do it slowly.
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    That was a 3min exposure at ISO 400 and f5.6. I think the rays coming from Venus are just down to lens flare from the lens iris. Don't really have a clue what I'm doing yet, but the photos look pretty which is all I really care about!
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    Here's another one I took last night. Venus, Jupiter and Pleiades, all in one frame.
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    It was a 5 minute exposure complete with tracking. Just a bog standard Canon EOS 1100D, which is their entry level DSLR. You can make out a darker band within the Milky Way in the central bit of the photo too.
  13. Osbourne One-Nil
    Here's one I took earlier tonight looking towards Perseus, and you can see a plane going through in the bottom left corner.
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    Think it's an aeroplane - the dashed line suggests a flashing light going through the image during the exposure.
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    Bright blue sky this morning and just missed out on an air frost with the temperature dropping to 0.0º. Currently 3.8º.
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    Oh yes - good point. Perhaps because the pond is in permanent shade it won't be such a problem? Depends if I can get the solar panel into a sunny position, but I guess just a pump would do to oxygenate the water? I don't know how normal pond weed would do in shade.
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    I want the tadpoles to have the best chance of developing (and for the water to not look manky), and am happy to get a filter/pump for the "pond" but the smallest I can find deal with ponds of up to 1500litres. Mine is going to be 200 litres. I guess you can't over filter the water can you?!
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    How about looking at the weekend then Gavin?
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    And perhaps keep an eye out for any wandering Frenchmen?
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    I got my decimal place in the wrong spot! I meant 200 litres. I can probably manage that. I've read online all sorts of advice about rearing tadpoles, but I still reckon if I got some sort of filter, and perhaps oxygenate the water somehow (as it's permanently shaded) they're going to have a better chance of developing than in some pool which will dry out in a few weeks?
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    My daughter caught a frog laying some spawn (or whatever verb refers to this particular act) and we took a small amount for my new water feature which I'll do in the evenings this week. Can't wait to fetch 2000 litres of water from the beck into my garden.
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    Must be a fake, as we never landed there really did we? Nope - you don't appear to have shutter priority or manual exposure, so I'm not sure it's going to be possible to capture much in the way of stars or planets I'm afraid.
  23. Osbourne One-Nil
    To go with the three-levelled rabit run with ensuite lawn area....posh pets here. Not sure how they'd get out towards the end of the summer, but I guess an 18" drop is nothing for a frog.We collect toad spawn, didn't know it was illegal, but it;s either that or it'll all get washed out into the Irish Sea as our village beck fills up with high rainfall. That's what I'll tell the magistrate anyway,
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    I'd be very surprised if you couldn't - doesn't it have a mode called shutter priority? Ideally you want full manual control, with the longest exposure you can get, and the aperture wide open (although not fully open generally). If you can link me to the instruction manual (if it's online) I'll take a look for you. You won't have what's called a bulb setting though - that's where you can leave the shutter open as long as you like. You'll probably have a 30 second limit.
  25. Osbourne One-Nil
    I've gone a bit extravagant and ordered a tailor-made butyl liner to fit inside the trough. If something's worth doing...
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