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3d

The lunar eclipse has begun! Totality starts at 11:26pm PDT (07:26 UTC). 1/n

#Moon #Eclipse #AstroPhotography #Photography #Darktable

A photo of the Earth's Moon in full Moon stage showing a dark area across the bottom where the Earth's shadow is being cast onto the surface of the Moon.

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What it may have looked like some long forgotten autumn evening 800 years ago.

(Note: I carefully placed glow sticks in the windows so as to not disturb the ruin. No fire was used for the effect.)

#AstroPhotography #Canyon #Desert #Archaeology #Photography #Darktable

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I like this galaxy very much. However, I don't know if I like it because of its "grand design" or because it reminds me of The Time Tunnel. Yes, that ancient TV show in which Tony and Douglas were inevitably lost in time. (Never understood how the guys in charge could retrieve a massive mammut from the past, but not the pair of time travelers together). Anyway, this is M51, The Time Tunnel.

#astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy #space #nightsky #outdoors #Astrodon #stars #maelstrom #vortex

In my post, I said the photograph was only of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. But that's not true. This galaxy obviously is tearing apart another galaxy, its neighbor: NGC 5195, or M51b for short. The name of M51, the bully, seems appropriate; it is indeed a cosmic maelstrom. I must mention that there are a lot of "cosmic maelstroms" in our universe, so M51 taking all the credit does not seem fair to me. I've added information of the red wavelength known as H-alpha. In this particular wavelength, ionized hydrogen emits a lot of light. Emission nebulae are made mainly of ionized hydrogen, so you can see in this picture many of these kinds of nebulae sparkling with a reddish color, the spiral arms of this majestic thing. How far this thing is, you may ask. Who knows, it might be 15 million l-y or 30 million l-y away, according to the available literature. I take bets.
You can find more galaxies, if your are patient enough...

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13d

The Rice Hat Nebula on the left is a verrrrry faint supernova remnant. It was hard to pull out even with my fast (f/3.3) scope in the Bortle 1'ish skies of SW New Mexico and over 34 hours of exposure time. But...here it is. #astrophotography #photography

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28d

Can't even put into words how excited I am right now.

It's frickin' cold but I'm out for the second night out with clear skies this week.. Imaging #pleiades tonight.

Polar alignment was a bit tricky at first, but worked well in the end.
Getting the small kit zoom lens of my camera to somewhat decent focus was more of a fight.

Taking 30 second subs now, till the battery dies 😅

#astrophotography #winter

Picture taken of a camera display at night. It shows some information about the camera mode, ISO, etc.

Also there are some stars, very faint but visible. It's the pleiades cluster.

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20d

This is the famous Horsehead and Flame nebulas. My HaRGB version of this region is one of my favorite images I have made, so I wanted to give it another go with a different color palette. This time I went with more of a SHO look and I quite like it!

Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/horsehead-and-flame-in-sho-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/f7lnr4/

#astrophotography #photography #nebula #gold #horsehead #flame #space #astronomy

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21d

backyard #astrophotography with my 1" scope 😅 . Orion Nebula 1340 light years away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula

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21d

IC 434 - Horsehead Nebula, NGC 2024 Flame Nebula, and some Ghosts

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 or B33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion.[2] The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex.

Like how you can see the two ghosts on the left too!

9x180s + 20x180s + 23x180s
Bortle 5
Berkshire UK
Askar Fra500
Affinity, PixInsight

#astrophotography #astronomy #nebula

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22d

OMG, it is possible that I have solved my year long issues with the mount not wanting to guide. My mount has an RJ11 "telephone" cable between the pilot and the head, and today it dawned on me that I can just test it with my cable tester that I got two months ago.

And yes, sometimes one of the six strands is failing, and probably when the temps are freezing, the connection is even worse.

I made a new cable, now I need to a clear night to confirm if that was the problem.

#astrophotography

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26d

New blog post!

In which I talk about how I am getting back to astrophotography, show a new picture I took just a few days ago, and also vent my growing frustrations about hardware issues when taking pictures of the night sky.

https://stfn.pl/blog/64-going-back-to-astrophotography/

#Astronomy #astrophotography #space #stellarmate #astrodon

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28d

Update from last night:

I still cannot force my setup to guide at all.

I decided to postpone fighting with it, and just do some exposures unguided, only tracked.

Got two hours of the Witch Head Nebula, and it barely registered above the noise, did not expect it is that dark.

My new lens is quite sharp wide open, but still I think I will step it down a bit.

Will continue research why I cannot guide.

#astrophotography

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28d

Waxing crescent Moon setting over Reno, Nevada.

#AstroPhotography #Moon #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white landscape photo of the crescent moon setting behind a mountain range. In the foreground, below the mountain range are the numerous lights of a small city. The downtown core is brightly lit.

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29d

When you see ice building up on your dew heater, it means two things:
- it is very cold
- and you forgot to turn it on

Goodnight.

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50d

We’re back in Buccleuch, Johannesburg, for another night of stargazing! Tonight, we spot constellations like Orion, Vela, Carina (Carina Nebula), and stars like Canopus, Rigel, and Procyon.
https://webgal.nemethstarproductions.eu/index.php?/category/ep02-stargazing-buccleuch-2024

*This episode was also possible thanks to equipment we got on Amazon. Get yours:
(ATUMTEK 51" Stand) https://amzn.to/3ZzhYNg
(iPhonePro): https://amzn.to/3ZkDiYD
(Telescope): https://amzn.to/4crNSB8

#SpaceFridayPhotography #SouthAfrica #Buccleuch #Astrophotography #Stargazing

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35d

An all-time favorite: the andromeda galaxy.

This is our closest galactic neighbor and, if our course calculations are correct, our galaxies will collide with it. It's so large and bright, it can be seen with the naked eye under sufficiently dark skies just not in this detail. It will more likely appear as a bright smudge in the sky.

This is also an #astrophotography from last year.

A bright, tilted, disc in a sea of stars. It appears brownish/yellow in the center and blue in its outer rims. It has dark spiral arms which looks like veins and are swirling around the center.

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37d

Here's tonight's ~80 percent waxing gibbous Moon. It's 378,481km (235,177mi) distant from the Earth. After quite a few days of snow and rain we had a super clear night tonight, so I took advantage of it. And I would have forgotten to do so if not for @catherineryanhyde, posting her shot of the Moon a little earlier, thanks!

Sony A7rIII, Sony 200-600mm lens at 600mm, f/8.0, 100ISO, 1/100sec. RAW processing: Darktable on a Linux box.

#AstroPhotography #Moon #Photography #Darktable #Linux

A square color photo, that pretty much looks black and white, of the waxing gibbous Moon. It's round in the upper right corner and cutoff looking in the lower left. Numerous craters and large dark spaces are sharply visible.

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43d

Went out to dinner yesterday and knew that there's gonna be a great nightsky later on, so I decided to bring my camera and tripod with me.
Eventually photobombed Orion the hunter while gazing at the stars :D

Didn't stay too long as it was quite cold and I wasn't alone, so no deep-sky action, but it's still great looking up and feeling like being part of the universe.
Nightsky is like magic...

📷 20mm, F/1.4, 8s, ISO1600

#nightsky #SilentSunday #stargazing #orion #astrodon #astrophotography

Night sky image with plenty of stars in the background. On the left corner are some trees visible and on the right bottom a man is standing, showing a peace sign with his hand. In the main frame of the image, the star constellation Orion can be seen.

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44d

Last night's view of Jupiter

#Astrodon #Astrophotography

Telescopic view, the planet is centred and appears on a featureless black background. The light, which 'belts', red zones, and mottled polar regions can be made out clearly. The North Equatorial belt appears as a deeper, more ruddy hue than the Southern. The light 'zone' south of the South Equatorial belt has a horizontal line of cloud that stars in the middle of the disk, and continues around to the west. There are some small bright spots in the northern hemisphere (storms I think), and the Southern Equatorial Belt looks turbulent with wavy pattern embedded in it (this is in contrast to the smoother looking Northern belt).

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44d

I secretly put out a trap when space photons least suspected it. You won’t believe what happened next!The Soul Nebula, about 7,500 light years in the constellation Cassiopeia.🔭🧪 #astrophotography

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44d

The trouble with ambitious #photography projects is they can become a bit like a curse. This is an image I’ve tried to capture 4 times across 3 years, and this – the second version – is still the best.

#astrophotography in some of the darkest skies on earth under #tasmania ‘s imposing Russell Falls in heavy flow was a hard thing to pull off. The window this shot works is only about an hour a night for a few weeks a year, and it’s rarely not cloudy.

#australia #waterfall #nature

The scene is focused on the full flow of Russell Falls, rimmed by prehistoric ferns and subalpine rainforest. The foreground has intense flow running over rocks, with significant spray from the falling water. In the canopy, the galactic core of the Milky Way sets behind the zenith of the falls.

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52d

G’day there! I’m Ben, and this is my about… 19th social media #introduction post? I’m a #photography and #science nerd, and the victim of perennial curiosity.

I’m an #actuallyautistic #disabledartist, living in lutruwita/Tasmania, #australia, in my mid 30s. I specialise in #landscapephotography, #astrophotography, and #timelapse in the island’s wild places.

I like to play with light. These are some of my more successful experiments.

How are we all? Say hello!