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samir_ansari said:
Thanks chaps! That was taken with the following:

Skymax 127mm
2.5x APO barlow
HEQ5 mount
toUcam 740k with IR blocker
Astronomik L filter for Luminance and combined with RGB data

The effective focal length of that combination was 3750mm
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Assume then multiple images all stacked up?
 
It's the girlfriends birthday soon and I was wondering if you could give me some advice on what books are worth buying. She is obviously a Brian Cox fan, but I don't know what his books are like.

I was looking at A Universe from nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss, as I think he's great.

Thanks in advance.
 
i-bert said:
It's the girlfriends birthday soon and I was wondering if you could give me some advice on what books are worth buying. She is obviously a Brian Cox fan, but I don't know what his books are like.

I was looking at A Universe from nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss, as I think he's great.

Thanks in advance.
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What kind of subject are you looking at for a book??

Cox's books are nice and simple. Why does E=mc^2 is probably the most pop-sci book of Cox's and is pretty simple so good for those who don't know a massive amount about physics. However his book on the Quantum Universe is a bit more maths based towards the end, nothing extreme though.
 
Tibbz2 said:
What kind of subject are you looking at for a book??

Cox's books are nice and simple. Why does E=mc^2 is probably the most pop-sci book of Cox's and is pretty simple so good for those who don't know a massive amount about physics. However his book on the Quantum Universe is a bit more maths based towards the end, nothing extreme though.
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We're not Physics experts, so something quite basic would be better I think. She said a book by Michio Kaku was quite heavy reading.
 
i-bert said:
We're not Physics experts, so something quite basic would be better I think. She said a book by Michio Kaku was quite heavy reading.
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Marcus Chown has a good basic series of books, including "Quantum Theory Cannot Harm You" and "Afterglow of Creation".

If you haven't read Hawking's Brief History of Time I suggest that should be the first thing to go for, superb book!

Carl Sagan's COSMOS isn't massively educational as such, but is a superb read for anyone interested in astronomy and the Universe.
 
Tibbz2 said:
Marcus Chown has a good basic series of books, including "Quantum Theory Cannot Harm You" and "Afterglow of Creation".

If you haven't read Hawking's Brief History of Time I suggest that should be the first thing to go for, superb book!

Carl Sagan's COSMOS isn't massively educational as such, but is a superb read for anyone interested in astronomy and the Universe.
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I'll have a look at those.

Thanks Tibbz
 
Tibbz2 said:
Carl Sagan's COSMOS isn't massively educational as such, but is a superb read for anyone interested in astronomy and the Universe.
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Or indeed the TV series was great! Unmatched in my opinion to this day as a digestible lump of science!
 
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