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And so thanks to the incredible generosity of my best friend Vera (Professional Voice Actor - Click Here ), I got a loan to get me the Tamron 150-600mm G2 A022 Telescopic Lens, of which I trialled this morning, after waking far too early. It had occurred to me after receiving the lens I could use the full focal length and zoom in on garden pots, flowers and other blooms that are on balconies and out of reach areas, but look really good. So hence I leaned over my balcony and got this shot of a beautiful Night Sky Petunia, I actually came up with the title before I had ID'd the flower.
But now I have an ear worm of Metallica's cover of Astronomy from the Garage Days album playing in my head, so now with this massive, professional lens, I can now play with the big Boys and Girls! I've more shots on the way, stay tuned!
In the meantime, it's Friday so enjoy the weekend people and as always, thank you! :)
PS: Zoom in ;)
As you can see with a focale of 600mm in both case, moon size is different because moon distance to the earth always change (from 356.000km to 406.000km). Here there is a difference of distance of 7.5%, so that means a difference of size of 7.5% (+/- 100pixels in this case)
Left photo
Last Quarter
Moon distance was : 373.000km
Right Photo
First Quarter
Moon distance was 400.200km
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Comme vous pouvez le voir avec une focale de 600 mm dans les deux cas, la taille de la lune est différente car la distance de la lune à la terre change toujours (de 356.000km à 406.000km). Ici il y a une différence de distance de 7.5%, donc ça veut dire une différence de taille de 7.5% (+/- 100pixels dans ce cas)
Photo de gauche
Dernier quartier
La distance de la lune était de : 373.000km
Photo de droite
Premier quartier
La distance de la lune était de 400,200 km
(MoonSize_gr_rot+4)
Just before dawn, with the Milky Way arching over the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Four 8m diameter telescopes which toghether make the largest telescope in the world.
10 Frame pano stiched with Lightroom CC.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM
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.{AB}. Constellations Blush (Omega/Catwa) HUD
[SC] Galaxy Maitreya
alaskametro "Space Unicorn" makeup set - applier HUD (WEAR) (lips only)
CORE WINTER STORM EYES HUD (ADD ME)
E.BEAUTY - KYLIE SKIN CATWA [CARAMEL]
E.BEAUTY - BODY SKIN APPLIERS ALL TONES // MAITREYA [CARAMEL]
FAC BodyLight v1.0
LA VIE - Glitter Mailtreya SPARKEL ( Gold & Silver )
Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.2 Clothing Layer
CATWA TEETH B [Small] v3.2
~LF~ Dimple Piercing -Kimberly-
CATWA EYES RIG Kimberly v3.2
Cynful Mina Piercings - Collarbone - Maitreya Lara
CATWA Tongue piercing
Maitreya Mesh Body - BoM Add-On Parts V5.2
Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.2
CATWA HEAD Kimberly v4.5
Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.2 Underwear Layer
^^Swallow^^ Princess Ears Right
^^Swallow^^ Princess Ears Left
CUREMORE / Selenopolis / Futura Tiara (Rose)
CUREMORE / Selenopolis / Machina Bodysuit (Rose)
CUREMORE / Selenopolis / Robotrix Boots (Rose)
Tableau Vivant \\ Editorial \ Western wind - Funky
[FORMANAILS] NAILS - MAITREYA - BENTO - STILETTO 1
FOXCITY. SkinFX - Wild Ones (For Dark WLs)
Man has always gazed to the heavens, and dreamed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAeMqGibd9g
[Song: "Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland" by Henry Burr, recorded in 1910]
wednesday evening in Ersfjordbotn,
perfect conditions in the fjord with a great and strong aurora in the nightsky.
The milky way in the beginning of summer. The light come from a car near the road, in the opposite of the field. Canon EOS 760d + Samyang 16mm f2.
Beneath the Ancient Skies of Atacama
A moment of connection between Earth and the cosmos at Hierbas Buenas, one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in the Atacama Desert.
Above, the southern Milky Way shines in all its glory, revealing glowing hydrogen clouds, dark dust lanes, and billions of distant stars.
Here is my latest deep-space photograph. I battled a LOT of mayflies to get this shot 😆
This is M13, the Hercules star cluster. This globular cluster spans nearly 150 light-years in diameter with up to 500,000 stars, and it is roughly 25,000 light-years away. There is a tiny galaxy that is in there, too. It is NGC6207 and is positioned just to the bottom right of the star cluster. It is the bluish, elliptical-shaped star-like light.
I took this shot with my ASI533MC and Redcat 61 near the Lake Erie shoreline on Friday night (June 12th). It is about 2 hours of total photography time before the clouds ended the night.
Messier 13
Celestron C9 (f=2204mm - D = 203mm) + ASI1600MC + Ircut.
56x 60s, g139. Traitement SIRIL et Photoshop
Red Negative Filter
AR 3686 3685 3679 3674 3683 3676
📷 Canon EOS Rebel T5i ( 700D )
🔭AstroMaster 90/1000mm
ISO 200
ExpTime 1/640
NGC 1365 is a spiral galaxy in the Fornax constellation, around 56 million light years from earth.
As is common with these types of galaxies, the two spiral arms actually orbit the centre of the galaxy at different speeds. Meaning that over time (in astronomical timescales), they’ll look completely different.
Setup:
Planewave CDK24
Moravian C3-61000 Pro
Planewave L-600
Image acquisition details:
38x600” HA
37x600” Luminance
28x600” Red
28x600” Green
30x600” Blue
Sh2-135 est une nébuleuse en émission visible dans la constellation de Céphée. Elle est située dans la partie sud de la constellation, juste au nord de la ligne joignant les étoiles ζ Cephei et δ Cephei.
= Acquisition info =
William Optics Zenithstar 73ii (FL 430mm)
Risingcam IMX571 color
iOptron CEM26
WO Uniguide 32/120 + Touptek GPM462M
NINA & PHD2
= Séances photo =
20, 28 et 29 septembre et 2 octobre 2025 -- Filtre IDAS NBZ --298 x 180s (14h50 min)
= Traitement/processing =
Siril, Starnet++, GraXpert & Affinity Photo 2
Temps d'exposition post-traitement : 12h35
@Astrobox 2.0 / Bortle 9
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
AstroM1
The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula (catalogued as Messier 17 or M17 or NGC 6618) is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764.
(Wikipedia)
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I had only recently purchased some narrow-band filters and was keen to give them a test run; for this, I chose NGC281. The aim was initially to capture data in LRGB along with Ha, OIII, and SII; the telescope and weather had other plans. I hadn’t looked at the data since the initial night, and using a process in Pixinsight inspired by Cuiv’s recent mastering Pixinsight YouTube video, I was able to bring together this HOO image of the nebula; it is a target that I plan to revisit this winter to capture more Ha and OIII, along with LRGB and SII data.
NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula and part of an HII region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way’s Perseus arm. This 20×30 -sized nebulosity is also associated with open cluster IC 1590, several Bok globules and the multiple star B 1. It collectively forms Sh2-184,[3]spanning over a larger area of 40 arcmin.[4] A recent distance from radio parallaxes of water masers at 22Ghz in 2014 is estimated to be 2.82±0.20 kpc. (9200 ly.) from us.[5] Colloquially, NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to the video game character. Source: Wikipedia
Imaging session: December 1st, 2023
Sky quality: Bortle 5 (approx.)
Mount: iOptron CEM40G
OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED with x0.85 flattener, f6.35, 768mm
Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro, Cooled to -10 deg C
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW
Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO
Rotator: Primaluce Lab ARCO
Guiding: iOptron iGuide, 120mm: 2.9um
Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle Pro 2 + ECCO2 (Environment)
Light Exposures:
Luminescence .. 10 x 90s
Ha........... 9 x 300s
OIII......... 9 x 300s
Calibration files:
BIAS .......... 25
Dark .......... 25
Flat .......... 25
Dark flat ..... 25
Total integration time: 1.75 hours
Processing
Pixinsight -> Topaz Denoise -> Photoshop
Center (RA, Dec): (12.999, 56.667)
Center (RA, hms): +56° 40' 01.687"
Center (Dec, dms): 00h 51m 59.764s
Size: 47.8 x 47.7 arcmin
Radius: 0.563 deg
Pixel scale: 2.02 arcsec/pixel
Plate solved at nova.astrometry.net
La bella luna di stasera, festa del papà, fotografata da casa
:)
#luna #padova #moon #yellow #gialla #moonrise #astronomy
In early July this year, my wife and I had a five-night stay at Tuross Head, on the south coast of my state of New South Wales, Australia. After dinner on the final night, with my weather app predicting a cloudless night, I drove to the edge of Tuross Lake, ensured I was warm and slept in my car for a few hours. My phone’s alarm did its job and woke me a little before moonset at 12:45 am when I prepped my camera gear to shoot the Milky Way as it slid down the southwestern sky.
With plans to shoot at a couple of locations, I didn’t bother to get out my special mount to capture a panorama. Instead, using the tried-and-true method of estimating how much overlap I had between the frames I’d later use to stitch this final composition, I snapped away and got the shots I needed. There was auroral activity on this night, and you can make out the faintest of red glows on the left, where the Milky Way’s arch touches the shoreline trees.
My panorama was created from eight single-frame photos using my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.8, with an exposure time of 25 seconds per shot @ ISO 6400. The panorama was stitched in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
NGC 5474 is a peculiar dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is one of several companion galaxies of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)
(Wikipedia)
Timelapse captures of the imaging Telescopes can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZhMRKW8SmRlX8gHKTzMF5Q
More Astrophotography at : telescopius.com/profile/k-bahr
and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/
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NGC 6820 is a small reflection nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in a large faint emission nebula called Sh 2-86.
(Wikipedia)
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Westerhout 5 (Sharpless 2-199, LBN 667, Soul Nebula) is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia. Several small open clusters are embedded in the nebula: CR 34, 632, and 634 (in the head) and IC 1848 (in the body). The object is more commonly called the Soul Nebula
(Wikipedia)
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and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/
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The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula (catalogued as Messier 17 or M17 or NGC 6618) is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764.
(Wikipedia)
Timelapse captures of the imaging Telescopes can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZhMRKW8SmRlX8gHKTzMF5Q
More Astrophotography at : telescopius.com/profile/k-bahr
and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/
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Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth it contains an active nucleus, and the presence of a central supermassive black hole has been demonstrated from radio-wavelength observation. (Wikipedia)
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Deux superbes cratères : ARISTOTELES en haut
EUDOXUS en bas.
Celestron C14 + ASI224MC.
Ciel très turbulent.
Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251 is about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus.
It is a large star forming molecular cloud.
Timelapse captures of the imaging Telescopes can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZhMRKW8SmRlX8gHKTzMF5Q
More Astrophotography at : telescopius.com/profile/k-bahr
and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/
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LBN 437 is a molecular cloud in the constellation Lacerta.
It's trivial name is the gecko Nebula.
Timelapse captures of the imaging Telescopes can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZhMRKW8SmRlX8gHKTzMF5Q
More Astrophotography at : telescopius.com/profile/k-bahr
and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/
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An LRGB image of NGC4038 - the Antenna Galaxies. Data courtesy of Telescope Live.
Processed in PixInsight and Affinity photo.
The image comprises of 48 x 10 minute subs. A total of 480 minutes or 8 hours.
Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically.
Sh2-101, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes.
The black hole has a mass of 15 solar masses and a Schwarzschild radius of 45 km. A bowshock is created by a jet of energetic particles from the black hole.
(Wikipedia)
Timelapse captures of the imaging Telescopes can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCZhMRKW8SmRlX8gHKTzMF5Q
More Astrophotography at : telescopius.com/profile/k-bahr
and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/
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NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, young central star (Wikipedia)
More Astrophotography at : telescopius.com/profile/k-bahr
and on Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrophotography_in_the_north/