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Location :CastresmallObservatory (Castres, 81- France)
Acquisition Date :2016-02-05 beginning at 19:20:38 UT
Author :Pierre Rougé
Scope :Samyang 500mm F6.3
Autoguiding :Skywatcher Synguider V1.1 & Meade ETX 70/350 mm
Camera :Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel Xti) refiltré Astrodon in Side (modded Astrodon in Side)
plus EOS CLIP CLS Astronomik
Exposure :63.0 minutes [21 subexposures of 180 sec each (selected from 25)] @ ISO 2000
Calibration :Dark & bias : 52/6 @ ISO 2000 - Flat & Dark-Flat : 11/6 @ ISO 400
Weather :Bonne transparence. Rafale vent de E à SE. T=11°C humidité faible
Software Used :DeepSkyStacker 3.3.6, Pixinsight LE, PhotoShop CS, Noiseware
Milky Way, Ultra Wide Angle Canon Lens EF 16 35mm f2.8L II , Canon 40D, August 12, 2013, Tripod, 4 images 30 seconds each, DeepSkyStacker
A simple but effective monochrome shot in hydrogen alpha light. The Cone nebula in Monoceros - very near the more well known Rosette nebula.
I love all the ripples and folds in the thick dusty nebulosity in this object, and think its quite adequate as a mono image by itself, and might not even go back for the additional data.. :)
ED80 - ATIK16HR - astronomik ha clip/2" adapter. Altair 0.6x reducer.
Data; 9 x 10min exposures in halpha, 3 darkframes used.
Messier 94 in Canes Venatici.
Taken from the Starshed Enterprise on 31st March 2020.
A stack of 10x300s exposures using a QHY22 camera on a TS Imaging Star71 - 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO telescope. Autoguided using OAG. Flats, darks and bias applied.
Calibration and stacking done in DeepSkyStacker and post-processing in PixInsight.
Continuing my collection of Not Comets (Messier objects), this is the hugely exciting M92. On its own it would be a reasonably bright cluster (not from my garden) - but when you're in the same constellation as M13, you tend to pale into insignificance.
Now the core of this was interesting. It seems to be a lot brighter even than the core of M13, and was well saturated at 180 seconds. I did some shorter subs to capture the core (10 seconds in fact) and manually stacked them because DSS just chucked out a grey splodge. Layered in, you can at least see some detail in the centre. This is a wider field of view, just to ring some changes.
Now, what next I wonder? :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
93 x 180 sec subs, iso 1600
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5.
Ha: 48 x 600 seconds, ISO 800
RGB: 40 x 480 seconds, ISO 400
50 darks, 50 flats, 200 bias for each
Total exposure time: 13+ hours
Equipment: Canon 450D (full spectrum mod), Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph, Atlas EQ-G, Astronomik 12nm HA filter
Software: Pixinsight, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop
My Sony A7S was recently defiltrated and I wanted to test it on a classic object from the night sky, the Orion constellation. I have three lenses (Samyang F1.4/24mm, Zeiss Loxia 2/50mm, Samyang F2/135mm) for astrophotography. I use iOptron SkyTracker Pro but I do not know enough how to do polar alignment so I limit myself to 10s subs for 135mm lens. Here is the result with only 4 min exposure.
Astro Modified Sony A7S (Astrodon)
Samyang 135/F2 to F2.8
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
24x10s (4min), ISO6400
Processing : DeepSkyStacker, Fitswork, RawTherapee
We can easily recognize :
- The Orion Nebula (M42)
- The Horshead Nebula (Barnard 33)
- The Flame Nebula (NGC2024)
But the exposure is too short to see the Barnard's Loop (Sh 2-276) (bottom right) and the Witch Head Nebula (IC2118) (top left).
Taken on 20th July 2020 with Nikon D850 and Nikkor 2.8/300mm at ISO 2000.
Stack of 200 x 1 sec in DeepSkyStacker, DBE in Pixinsight and final processing in PS.
Grande nébuleuse d'Orion (M42) Orion nebula
Nébuleuse de l'homme qui court (NGC 1975 et NGC 1977) Running Man nebula
Nikon D5100
William Optics ZenithStar 73
150x30 sec + DOF
F/5,9 -- Iso 200
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Traitement: DeepSkyStacker + Gimp (traitement draft)
AstroM1
(r.1.1.2-t2)
M51 Whirlpool galaxy
Image taken on 7th March 2019
Location was Rochdale, UK.
Equipment used was a Skywatcher 8" quattro steel tube on HEQ5 pro mount, no guiding.
Canon 1100d dslr camera with an intervalometer.
The final image is a combination of 100 sixty second exposures at ISO 800. Plus calibration frames consisting of 40 of each, darks, flats, dark flats and bias.
Software used to combine all the shots and create the final image was DeepSkyStacker, to stack all the images together. StarTools to process the final image.
August 19th, 2017
Our most nearby galactic neighbor. My first time imaging this relatively large angular object, had a problem with hot pixel streaking (added random noise in post to suppress but it's a problem I encounter sometimes with my canon) . It's definitely not one of my best but it's still my start of galaxy imaging. Object was also located in a more light polluted portion of my sky so the work to eliminate that was more difficult as well. Will most likely have to shorten exposures next time.
Capture:
Orion Newtonian Astrograph 8"
(F/4): Canon 550D
Exposures: 16x119"
ISO 1600
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: Photoshop for curves, color alteration, noise reduction.
Nikon d90(mod)
TS72 APO + TS72flat
settings: 432mm, f6, iso800, 120min
guiding:
ZWO asi120mcs
TS 50mm guidescope
Tracking: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
software:
guiding: phd2
Stacking: Deepskystacker 4.2.2
Processing: Adobe Photoshop, GradientXterminator, Nik software, HLVG
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 32 180-second light frames and 28 180-second dark frames, all at ISO 400, as well as 31 flat and 25 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop. Diffraction spikes added with StarSpikes Pro.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 1213x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Taken using Skywatcher 80ED Pro, Nikon D3300, 213x30" lights (ISO 3200), 100 flats, 110 bias. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop
The Crescent Nebula.
Scope: William Optics z103 (710mm) x0.8 reducer
Camera: Nikon d600 (unmodified)
Filter: Optolong L-Enhance
Guidescope: Generic 50mm
Guide camera: ASI120MM mini
10 x 600s Lights
3 x Darks
Stacked using DeepSkyStacker
Stretched in Photoshop
Final edits in Lightroom
Image taken in October of 2010, but reprocessed on 10/13/11.
30 min total exposure, taken at Roxbury, NY.
Canon T1i, 200mm 2.8L lens. Drizzled at 2x (doubled resolution) in DeepSkyStacker.
I am no expert in astro-photography. Just wanted to try it once with my new D750 - the sensor is amazing! Nikkor 50mm/1.8, 55 frames à 5sec, ISO 6400, F=2.8 - Deep Sky Stacker software - The pink structure in the upper center close to Deneb is NGC 7000, the North America Nebula. --
Region der Milchstraße im Sternbild Schwan. Ein erster Versuch, die neue D750 in den Himmel zu richten. Der Sensor ist schon erstaunlich - so wenig Rauschen. Aufnahme-Ort: bei Lauffen bei Heilbronn, mittlere bis starke Lichtverschmutzung. Gut zu sehen sind Deneb (obere Mitte) und NGC 7000, Nordamerika-Nebel, als lila Struktur links davon.
Veil nebula
The Veil Nebula complex is huge, covering about 7 moon widths on the sky, so I can’t get it all into one image. This image shows NGC6960 (sometimes called “The Witch’s Broom”), Pickering’s triangle, and NGC6979. All of these objects are part of a supernova remnant.
The supernova that created the Veil Nebula happened between 5000-8000 years ago and the nebula has been expanding ever since. The glowing gas is mostly hydrogen and sulphur (red) and oxygen (teal) whose atoms are being excited by the pressure waves created by the massive supernova explosion. The progenitor star whose explosion created this object was about 1,470 light years away.
Image details
Location: Filiates Thesprotias(Greece)
Exposure time 3:00 Hours
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Astrograph
Neq6 Equatorial Mount with autoguider
Canon 60d Modified
Pre Processing Deepskystacker
Post Processing Photoshop CS6
AstroTech AT8RC + CCDT67 + Atik383L(-25C)
on Takahashi EM200 Temma2 Jr
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 (with EFW2)
Ha2x900sec,L20x600sec,R2x600sec,G2x600sec,B2x900sec (Total:300min)
Guiding: OAG9 + LodestarX2
StellaImage7, DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CC2017
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Oct 2017
Taken near Mariental (Namibia)
18x30s @ ISO 3200
(+12 blacks, +5 bias)
Equipment: Explore Scientific ED 80, iOptron Skytracker Pro, Canon EOS M3
Software: CHDK, DeepSkyStacker, Affinity Photo
OTA: Celestron C8N, 8" newtonian reflector and MPCC-III
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Exposure: RGB: 12x2min each, L:73x2min
Mount: CGEM-DX
Captured with SGP
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (light pollution zone: red)
Skywatcher 72ED Apo/field flattener,SX Trius 694/filterwheel/OAG (Lodestar)
riding on CEM60. 6x600 subframes taken through Ha and OIII filters,stacked in Deepskystacker,colour combined in Maxim DL4 (Ha,OIII,OIII) processed in Astroart 8 and PS CS2.
Taken 31/10/21
Equipment: Newton 250/1000, EQ6r-pro, Sony a6100
In three nights all together 65 light frame (ISO 3200, 300sec), 25 dark, flat and bias frames.
Processed in deepSkyStacker, Pixinsight and Photoshop
The Cone nebula and Christmas tree Cluster in Monoceros. Image dates: 16,17,18,19 & 20 feb 2017. 108x 240 seconds iso1600 with Esprit 100 triplet APO / Flattener/ Optolong L filter Canon 6Da on 10 Micron GM2000 HPS II mount. All exposures unguided. Stacked/calibrated in DeepSkyStacker with 150 Bias frames and 40 flat frames. Processed in Pixinsight.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
Location: Copernicus public observatory (Volkssterrenwacht), Overveen, The Netherlands.
Date & time: 18 february 2015, 21.50 Local Time (GMT+1).
Moonlit sky, moon low on the horizon, waxing crescent (21%).
Seeing moderate to good.
Telescope: Televue 85 refractor (f=600mm).
Lumicon UHC filter.
Camera: Pentax K-r SLR.
Mount: Paramount ME II; tracking only.
Software used: DeepSkyStacker, PhotoPlus.
10 lightframes @240s, 10 darkframes @240s, 10 biasframes, 10 flatframes; RAW-format @1600 ASA.
Between 5000 and 8000 years ago a supernova exploded in the center of this region in the constellation Cygnus. Today we see the Veil or Cirrus nebula complex with the Eastern veil (NGC6995 left), Pickerings triangle (top right) and Western veil (NGC6960 right). Photographed with Canon 6Da / Esprit 100 APO refractor with Optolong L (IR/UV cut) filter. 39x240 seconds iso1600. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker using 48 dark frames, 30 Flat frames and 174 Bias frames. Processed in Pixinsight. Very little processing, HistogramTransformation, Curves adjustment. No noisereduction was used.
Full resolution (5618x3948) can be downloaded.
Knight Observatory, Tomar
SQM 20.8
Best view: press F11 for full screen followed by L for lightbox view.
I added another night of data onto my previous image of IC434. A little more lights helped with the general smoothness of the image. Setup and take down of my equipment multiple nights in a row will result in slightly different field of views which can make it difficult to align when stacking multiple imaging sessions.. luckily DeepSkyStacker could handle it easily with no hiccups. It took many hours in the freezing cold to capture this, layered up on lots of clothes to battle the outside temperature, 3 pairs of socks, 2 pairs of longjohns, 2 sweaters and goosedown jacket, toque, gloves, a thermos full of hot tea, but I still had to walk around the park a few times just to get feeling back in my toes.. And this is barely winter weather compared to the rest of Canada, Being the wet climate here though, the moisture seems to chill you right to the bone even when it is only a few degrees below freezing.
Lights: 40 x 4 mins
Darks: 34 x 4min
iso 1600
Canon 500d (Modified)
Skywatcher Esprit120
Antares ALP filter
NEQ6 + Synguider
Stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight
Location: Vancouver, BC
Light Pollution: Bortle Scale 7-8
Temperature: -3°C and -4°C
I gave Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) a shot last year, but this time around I was able to get some more well-rounded data across the various narrowband wavelengths. While this nebula emits primarily in Oxygen-iii, it still has some Hydrogen-alpha and Sulfur-ii data emissions that I was able to more appropriately include (to some degree this time).
This nebula's path across my night sky has it only going above the trees for a brief window (a few hours) on a given night, so this image came from two nights toward the end of December. Each exposure was three minutes long, and I was able to get about 2.5 hours of time on both nights. Individual exposures were stacked in DeepSkyStacker and then the wavelengths were aligned and mapped to the Hubble palette in PixInsight before doing my final tweaks to taste in Lightroom.
Scope: Skywatcher 150PDS
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM with ZWO EFW and filters
Another clear sky, albeit with half a moon :)
Continuing my obsession with all things cluster, this is M67 in Cancer. Apparently there are few Galactic clusters known to be older (this is something like 4 billion years old), and none of them are as close as M67, so it is the subject of much study (according to Wiki). Slight variation in the spikes on this one, just to ring the changes :) A little noisy, but I had some trouble retaining the colour so decided to put up with it.
SW ED80/EQ5
Canon 500D modded, Baader Neodymium filter
60 x 180 sec subs, iso 800
Acquisition: APT
Guiding: Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD/EQMOD/AstroEQ
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5.
Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, looks much better photographed from the dark sky of Killarney Provincial Park than downtown Burlington!
Taken with a Canon 70D fitted with a Sigma 50mm Art Lens mounted on an iOptron SkyTracker. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, ten 60 second light frames shot at f/1.6, ISO 1600, with in-camera noise reduction on, and ten bias frames, no flats.
One for the Trophy cabinet :-)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191014.html
twitter.com/apod/status/1183767014789308417
APOD Discussion about this Image:
Yep, my first comet :) 5,5m - not bad to try for the first time. If not the Moon :(
Left image is what I consider "normal", the right image is overcooked to drag out, kicking and screaming, what I think is the comet's tail.
Acquisition time: 07.01.2014 22:22-22:58 MSK (UT+3), comet's maximum elevation for me was around 22:41 MSK and peaked at 31° 37'.
Equipment: Canon 60Da with Astronomics CLS-CCD clip-in filter and Baader Planetarium MPCC MkIII coma corrector on Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian reflector riding on Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro.
Exposures: 33 @ISO800 55 seconds with 48 darks, 60 offset frames and 50 flat field frames.
Capture software: Magic Lantern
Processing: images were stacked in DSS in comet tracking mode and stacking result was post-processed in Photoshop.
Note: the Moon: -11,8m, 93,4% full, 19° 07' high.
Note 2: DeepSkyStacker is clever. Of 33 frames I have used it had mistaken the star for the comet on just one frame. Predictive powers :)
The area around Orion's belt, taken with an old 135mm lens on 350D - about 8 x 3mins stacked in deepskystacker
Canon 20D, Tamron 18-250mm @18mm, f/3.5, H1 (3200) ISO, 15 Second Exposure
Stacked 40 light frames with Master Dark and Flat Frames, (each made from 20 shots) and made curves and saturation adjustments in Deep Sky Stacker.
Post Processed in Photoshop CC with Astronomy Tools Actions, using a number of light pollution and noise filters.
Image taken in New South Wales, Australia.
Known as the Cocoon galaxy.
The smaller companion galaxy is NGC 4485. Referred to collectively as ARP 269.
The galaxies passed close to or through one another sometime in the past and, it's almost certain gravity will bring them back together several billion years in the future.
The red/pink areas are prime star forming regions where dense clouds of ionised hydrogen are irradiated by ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars within.
ARP 269 can be found in Canes Venatici some 24 million light years away. The two galaxies having now passed by one another are now approximately 24,000 light years apart.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 70% of 60 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
Open star cluster located approximately 385 light years from Earth.
The faint reflection nebulosity (forming the Maia and Merope Nebulae) visible around the hot blue stars is caused by light from the stars reflecting off dust in the surrounding interstellar medium.
Exposure: 100 x 15s exposures @ ISO2000 equiv. Darks & bias/offset, no flats. Total integration time: 25 mins.
Camera: Canon EOS 7D MKII
Lens: EF 70-200mm 1:2.8 L USM @ f/3.5. 200mm (x1.6).
Filters: None
Mount: Piggy-backed on 8" Meade LX10. Rough polar alignment.
Guiding: None
RAW images calibrated & stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PSPx9
[edit: fixed the color balance a little]
:) finalmente l'80ino tripletto e' stato sistemato dal buon Giuliano di tecnosky, e ho potuto scattare queste due nebulose, prima che passi il periodo e non si vedano fino al prossimo anno
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Apo triplet 80/480
Camere di acquisizione: Canon / CentralDS EOS Astro 50D
Montature: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Pro
Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: 60/228
Camere di guida: lacerta mgen2
Riduttori di focale: 0.8X flattener/reducer
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Lightroom 3, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop
Date: 10 agosto 2013
Luoghi: Monte Leone, Niella Belbo(CN)
Pose:
Astronomik CLS CCD clip in: 12x360" ISO1600 4C bin 1x1
Astronomik CLS CCD clip in: 3x520" ISO1600 4C bin 1x1
Integrazione: 1.6 ore
Dark: ~22
Flat: ~22
Scala del Cielo Scuro Bortle: 2.00
Temperatura: 20.00
WARNING!! Original size image contains 39 tiny megapixels*!
Constellation Cygnus, the Swan, is in the trend now, so I want to participate. The black gap in Milky Way (sometimes reffered as the Nothern Coal Sack :) where the Swan resides, is full of emission nebulae, so it is there I pointed the camera this time.
SWANS stands for Semi-Wide Angle Nebulae Survey. I'm a big fan of the way how NASA and CERN name their experiments and missions.
Lots of upgrades in all aspects of imaging. Prime lens, UHC filter, firmware hack in camera, three overlapping datasets collected in two nights, artificial flat-field image, automatic stitching, formalized processing in Photoshop. This is the positive side. On the other hand, the second night of imaging brought with it the hazard of dewing. That was the negative experience. Cost me a lot of precious time.
Some trailing is apparent at 1:1 view and bugs me, but with the arrival of polar finder it wouldn't be an issue anymore, I hope.
Another issue is the inconsistency of data, since the "Albireo" panel is this image and it differs from two other in ISO value (3200 vs 2000) and in amount of data (10 subframes vs 29 and 20, respectively).
And yet another bit of information: the Crescent nebula (see note on the image) is an unusual object. It's an emission nebula produced from the outer layers of so called Wolf-Rayet star. These rare objects are massive - about 10-15 Solar masses - highly evolved stars that had lost the outer hydgrogen shells and are in fact the exposed helium cores that produce tremendous amount of energy and dense streams of "stellar wind". Amazing objects :)
Aquisition time: 03 and 04.08.2013 between 00:00 and 01:40 MSK (UTC+4)
The Sun's deepest dive was -17° @01:30, so stricktly speaking I was imaging in the dusk.
Equipment:
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM lens and Baader Planetarium 2" UHC filter mounted in front of the lens via step-down ring attached to Canon EOS 60D running Magic Lantern 2.3 firmware override riding on Vixen Polarie tracking platform over photo-tripod (alltogether codenamed "Anywhere Is, SWANS configuration").
Aperture 21,4 mm
Focal length 60 mm
Tv = 60 seconds (Magic Lantern's bulb timer and intervalometer rock the suburban skies :)
Av = f/2.8
ISO 2000 for "Deneb" and "Sadr" areas and 3200 for "Albireo" area
Exposures: 29 for "Deneb" area, 20 for "Sadr" area, 10 for "Albireo" area (plus 10 dark frames and 10 offset frames plus 2 fake flat-field frames).
Processing: Contrast was set to "linear" for all images in Canon DPP and 16-bit outputs were fed to DSS.
Flat-field images were made by applying Gaussian Blur of 250 pixel radius to a randomly chosen image from the series. After blurring the histograms were adjusted to end at 70% of saturation. Since I have aquired three series of overlapping fields, I made a Master Flat by combining fakes from both series. Works fine - without it the Veil nebula can't be seen due to vingetting.
16-bit stacking results were then processed in Photoshop with AutoContrast and Levels (namely gamma was set to 3,5), stiched in Microsoft ICE (that's coool!) and back in PS Curves were applied(skewed sigmoid curve was applied at first step, and at step two the segment of red and blue curves corresponding to the brightness of nebulae was elevated).
* 1 Megapixel = 1048576 pixels.
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Cometa C/2013 R1 Lovejoy desde Peña Cabarga (Santander) foto del 28 de Noviembre de 2013 a las 6:30 de la mañana.
Datos: Canon 5DMII @100mm f/2.8 30 segundos ISO 2500
Con seguimiento montura vixen polarie
24 fotos (12 minutos de exposición) + Dark + Bias
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NGC4565 Needle Galaxy
C-11 @ F/2 Hyperstar CGEM-DX on Pier
OverallQuality = 1530.38 in Deepskystacker
41 subs 60 sec iso1600 unguided
5 flats
5 darks
5 bias
Total integration 41 minutes.
Canon 450D Full spectrum - self Mod
Filter - LPS2
seeing - better than normal
1st time on target
M82 (Cigar Galaxy) taken on the evening/morning of 9-10 Oct 13.
H-Alpha - 7x900s
Red/Blue - 9x600s
Green - Synthesized from Red & Blue channels.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker & processed in PS2.
Camera: Atik 314L+
Filters: Baader H-Alpha 7nm, Red & Blue
Scope: Celestron C8 with 6.3 F/reducer.
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto, PhD guided with Orion SSAG through OAG.
Telescope: Celestron 8" newtonian reflector, C8N
Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)
Exposure: 105x2min, ISO 800
Coma corrector: Baader MPCC
Filter: Orion Skyglow imaging filter
Mount: CGEM DX
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Taking advantage of a clear night for some astrophotography loving. Oh, and read the lovely interview I did for Meera Sethi at Inkling Magazine: www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/qa-phillip-chee