Tyler

It's ok he will just wait til you aren't looking or just camp Air HQ for you to get on cop and shoot you in the back of the head like the rat he is. Ask @DarkKnight the dude never plays fair he will wait for the most annoying possible time to fuck you over.

This is a mosaic taken by NASAs Hubble Telescope in one of the darkest patches of the night sky... every single thing you see in this photo is another galaxy except for a couple of stars.
 

Which one? The most recent wasn't taken by me but by a Youtuber name Peter Zelinka i posted it as a preview for the new telescope i just bought for imaging. But yes they are extremely mind boggling. Galaxies really trigger that sense of being tiny for me. Just imagine every star we can see in the night sky is in our own galaxy EVERY SINGLE ONE, and we can't even see most of the stars in our galaxy they are just too small, too dim, too far away, or obstructed from view by the galactic core. But when we take photos of Andromeda, The Whirlpool, Spindle, Black Eye, etc it's just a whole new perspective of just how small we are in this huge huge universe.

Just a quick update... after cancelling our vacation due to coronavirus concerns I decided to put some of the money I saved towards my new found astrophotography hobby... I hope to be posting some truly stunning photos here soon for those who care I puchased a William Optics SpaceCat 51 APO Refractor.
Here is an example of the Orion Nebula (the object i have been photographing with just a camera and lense) through the SpaceCat51/RedCat51
Credit goes to Peter Zelinka for his photo of Orion and the Running Man/Horsehead Nebulae:
So excited!!!

 

*EDIT* There has been some confusion as to which photos are mine and which are not so to help curb that confusion for those of you who don't read lmao.
RED post = These images are not taken by me and are either provided as an example for what is possible with the gear i'm buying or an object i have photographed and wanted to show what a higher quality image looks like. They will also be in Spoilers just to make sure people understand anything in red and in a spoiler IS NOT MY WORK IT IS SOMEONE ELSES!!!!
GREEN post = An image taken, edited, and posted by myself. I am not here to take credit for anyone else's images. I really just want to share the love of Astronomy with you all.
 
Looking to get in to Astrophotography in the near future and was wondering if i should take the time to post any really good pictures here on the forums or not? I personally don't like posting things that are super off-topic too often but maybe i can make a thread for myself and others to share. Also this wouldn't start like tomorrow or anything it would take some time for me to learn the camera and image stacking/post-processing to bring out the light since usually it's much too faint to see normally unless you have an amazingly clear night and perfect exposure times.
Here's an example of some wonderful Astrophotography done by AstroBackyard on Youtube after it's been stacked and processed:
Andromeda taken in Bortle 4 skies: 
Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Bortle 6 skies: 
 

Just a quick update... after cancelling our vacation due to coronavirus concerns I decided to put some of the money I saved towards my new found astrophotography hobby... I hope to be posting some truly stunning photos here soon for those who care I puchased a William Optics SpaceCat 51 APO Refractor.
Here is an example of the Orion Nebula (the object i have been photographing with just a camera and lense) through the SpaceCat51/RedCat51
Credit goes to Peter Zelinka for his photo of Orion and the Running Man/Horsehead Nebulae:
So excited!!!

 

Just a quick update... after cancelling our vacation due to coronavirus concerns I decided to put some of the money I saved towards my new found astrophotography hobby... I hope to be posting some truly stunning photos here soon for those who care I puchased a William Optics SpaceCat 51 APO Refractor.
Here is an example of the Orion Nebula (the object i have been photographing with just a camera and lense) through the SpaceCat51/RedCat51
Credit goes to Peter Zelinka for his photo of Orion and the Running Man/Horsehead Nebulae:
So excited!!!

 

Alright... so here is a more final image after a good amount of time in Photoshop trying to color correct, stack, and eventually major noise reduction. I'm a lot more proud of this one even though I still have a bit of star trailing (just can't be helped until i get a star tracker and better tripod)
 
The Orion Nebula
12 images stacked and processed (taken in class 6 skies on 3/14/2020)

I can see it now... You're on your way to Athira rebel to grab mags or something and get domed by some rando with a pistol and he disarms you? Oh i'd be fucking PISSED.

China not number one anymore now is it? @YuSheng

First off, just because you played the role for cash doesn't mean everyone does. If you camp in Kavala hitting up everyone with a 1k+ bounty for cash then that's you. Most of the people who actually play cop though play way different. They patrol, respond to 911s, and are constantly in a fight losing money. The people who play cop solely for money most of the time get kicked off pretty quickly anyways for one reason or another. Look at @Jake when he was an LT he lost like 2m+ just by playing and i had to give the dude cash for redgull because he had like $5 in his bank. Also you talk about 250k as if that's a lot of money... do a meth run sometime. When my old gangs used to run Meth we would make like 180k ea for 30-45 mins of work.

I was wrong about what he said lmao that was someone else my b.

Thank you for your suggestion.
 
No.
 
Administration has all the numbers and logs of who makes money doing what. You are not in a position to be informed enough to have input so just stop. We are #2 ranked server for a reason.

This is the best joke I've heard all day. This guy thinks cops make money. 🤣😂🤣

Alright... so here is a more final image after a good amount of time in Photoshop trying to color correct, stack, and eventually major noise reduction. I'm a lot more proud of this one even though I still have a bit of star trailing (just can't be helped until i get a star tracker and better tripod)
 
The Orion Nebula
12 images stacked and processed (taken in class 6 skies on 3/14/2020)

Lmao just shut the fuck up

Alright... so here is a more final image after a good amount of time in Photoshop trying to color correct, stack, and eventually major noise reduction. I'm a lot more proud of this one even though I still have a bit of star trailing (just can't be helped until i get a star tracker and better tripod)
 
The Orion Nebula
12 images stacked and processed (taken in class 6 skies on 3/14/2020)

Honestly a lot of people used monitor crosshairs on that server. It was one of the few less aids servers for a while until they added more cringe stuff and rules then i quit playing. But you're right on the dev part, a lot of it already exists as mods already and is mostly as simple as plug in play (GTA handles mods much much better than arma 3 does and they auto download/update upon joining a server) but making a whole new server economy and having to play test every little thing would take a long time on top of the sheer amount of development necessary to get it running.

This is one of the pictures i took after running it through Photoshop with very basic changes mostly to darken the back ground and brighten the stars and nebula a bit.

Honestly if Mitch made an Asylum GTA 5 server with laid back rp and cartels and shit i'd be all over it. GTA 5 RP only sucks right now because people are completely cringe af with it. I personally love GTA 5 it has so much you can do. Literally everything can be changed.

Is 100x cooler than

This is one of the pictures i took after running it through Photoshop with very basic changes mostly to darken the back ground and brighten the stars and nebula a bit.

Honestly a lot of people used monitor crosshairs on that server. It was one of the few less aids servers for a while until they added more cringe stuff and rules then i quit playing. But you're right on the dev part, a lot of it already exists as mods already and is mostly as simple as plug in play (GTA handles mods much much better than arma 3 does and they auto download/update upon joining a server) but making a whole new server economy and having to play test every little thing would take a long time on top of the sheer amount of development necessary to get it running.

Honestly if Mitch made an Asylum GTA 5 server with laid back rp and cartels and shit i'd be all over it. GTA 5 RP only sucks right now because people are completely cringe af with it. I personally love GTA 5 it has so much you can do. Literally everything can be changed.

Is 100x cooler than

Honestly if Mitch made an Asylum GTA 5 server with laid back rp and cartels and shit i'd be all over it. GTA 5 RP only sucks right now because people are completely cringe af with it. I personally love GTA 5 it has so much you can do. Literally everything can be changed.

Is 100x cooler than