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TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, QHY178M, SW Barlow 2x, Baader Astrosolar PHOTO and ZWO-R filters.
FireCapture, Autostakkert, AstraImage, Photoshop.
800 of 3000 frames stacked.
The interstellar visitor 31Atlas will pass 167.1 million ml from Earth on 19 December 2025, when it will be inside the asteroid belt and beyond the 4:1 Kirkwood gap.
It will then head on to Jupiter where it will pass it in the Spring of 2026.
After that it will continue on it's way out of the solar system never to return.
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February 2nd (Illumination: 95%)
Because there is no atmosphere on the Moon that protects it from foreign impacts, the surface of the Moon is drilled with millions of impact craters.
Impact craters are the result of collisions between an asteroid, comet, or meteorite and the Moon at an average speed of about 30 kilometers per second.
These craters reach hundreds of kilometers in diameter and the largest ones have been filled with cooled and solidified lava which has finally become peculiar Seas.
Mars Animation photo...
Valles Marineris, Noctis Labirinthus and north polar cap are clearly visible. The volcanoes Olympus, Arsia, Pavonis and Ascraeus Mons can be seen on the center right.... on the upper left the thin film of Mars atmosphere is also visible.
20 frames; Celestron NexStar 6 SE Prime focus; Stacked using Affinity photo and processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Uncropped; 2250mm eq. focal length.
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TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, ZWO ASI662MC, ZWO ADC, Celestron Barlow X-Cel LX 3x, Baader UV/IR-Cut L CCD filter.
FPS (avg.)=49, Shutter=19.98ms, Gain=470 (78%).
FireCapture, Autostakkert, Registax, AstroSurface, Photoshop.
30000 frames stacked.
Courtesy NASA:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/
The easiest way to understand Lagrange points is to think of them in much the same way that wind speeds can be inferred from a weather map. The forces are strongest when the contours of the effective potential are closest together and weakest when the contours are far apart.
Lagrange Contours
L4 and L5 correspond to hilltops and L1, L2 and L3 correspond to saddles (i.e. points where the potential is curving up in one direction and down in the other). This suggests that satellites placed at the Lagrange points will have a tendency to wander off (try sitting a marble on top of a watermelon or on top of a real saddle and you get the idea). But when a satellite parked at L4 or L5 starts to roll off the hill it picks up speed. At this point the Coriolis force comes into play - the same force that causes hurricanes to spin up on the earth - and sends the satellite into a stable orbit around the Lagrange point.
Very good seeing this night. The mount for the C14 is currently out of commission, so I used my Edge HD 925 with a CGEM DX mount the school has.
This is from 13 45 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 24% of about 800 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.
During the next shadow transit, Titan will also cross the face of Saturn.
CM I: 2.7°
CM II: 97.8°
CM III: 241.4°
TS-Optics UNC 10" f/5, QHY178M, SW Barlow 2x, filter wheel, ZWO IR850 filter.
FPS (avg.)=32, Shutter=1.620ms, Gain=35 (68%)
FireCapture, Autostakkert, AstraImage (wavelets), Photoshop.
10 frames of 5,835 stacked.
Thick grey clouds. So dark. So a little play with some oil on water. I am pretending that is the sun and planets.
Reprocess of a Jupiter image from last week. Additional sharpening was applied and then de-noised using Topaz Labs de-noise which is an amazing piece of software
Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), currently the brightest comet in the sky. This image is from the dark and clear morning of June 30th from suburban Bloomington, Ind., with the comet against the rich star background of the constellation Ophiucus. It will be getting a little closer to Earth in the next couple of weeks and so may still be a bit brighter, but will be up against a bright, full Moon, so this may be the best I can do.
29 frames, 180 sec. each. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, auto-guided, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
Images were combined twice, once with the stars aligned but the comet trailed and again with the comet registered but the stars trailed. These two rendered images were combined in Photoshop to produce the composite.
#comet #astrophotography, #deepsky, #solarsystem #PanSTARRS
The Moon shot from London on 10th October 2016
6 panel mosaic using Celestron Edge HD11 and EOS Rebel T3i
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW (RGB)
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/Tele Vue 2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
4200 frames in R, G, and B captured in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 50% stacked in AutoStakkert!
Wavlet sharpening and noise reduction in RegiStax
RGB frame derotation in WinJuPos
Finished in Photoshop
Far left to far right in a shallow, climbing diagonal line: Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. 0345 looking east.
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) with NLC
Canon 500D
Tair 300mm f/4.5
37x2 sec stacked on comet
ISO200
f/4.5
Budapest, Hungary
2020.07.08
01:30 UT
Original image taken from the same NASA planetary size comparison chart as Jupiter: solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Plan...
This looks like a flipped version of the "Saturn's rings" photo (Photo ID: P-23883C/BW) from the NASA NSSDC Photo Gallery: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html
It was taken by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981.
It was really fun capturing this year’s blood moon. I wasn’t expecting to see it due to the back to back storms we’ve been having, but Mother Nature was kind and moved the clouds for about an hour so we could enjoy it! I wish I’d captured it rising over something interesting, but I still think it’s mesmerizing by itself surrounded by the night sky.
National Air and Space museum.
Washington DC.
Exploration reveals that our solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform our understanding of Earth and worlds beyond.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery probes the science and history of our exploration of planets and moons. This exhibit tells the stories of the diversity of worlds circling our Sun and how exploring those worlds helps enhance our own understanding of Earth. Exploring the Planets draws on research from scientists in the Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, who are actively involved in current planetary missions.
Saturn and Titan imaged from London on the 3rd October 2024. A more natural colour process. Celestron Edge HD11 Scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate and ZWO ASI224MC camera with ADC.
Three days old Moon with Earthshine on the Moon’s dark side with 9% illuminated crescent. Gear setup: Celestron 127 SLT with Meade 0.63 F/R @ f/7.5, ZWO 294 MC pro. Captured by Sharpcap pro. Stacking by Autostakkart!. Wavelets by Registax. Processed by PS & Topaz Denoise AI.
Well I have done my best to try and catch up with everyone, I was so far behind that I could only favourite photo's that I like as I just don't have the energy to comment on the all. I really want to keep up with everyone but I can't promise because I have been feeling so tired.
Today I managed to get a few photo's sorted that I hope to post over the next few days, mostly wildlife shots from last year plus of course photo's of Cirrus and Sweet Pea.
Andromeda Galaxy - the closest neighbouring galaxy to us at (only) 2.5 million light years.
This image is basically what Andromeda looked like 2.5 million years ago, when the light photons first started out on their long journey to Earth, before ultimately arriving on my camera sensor.
All of the individual stars you can see in this pic are actually in the foreground - a part of our own Milky Way, and therefore much closer to us than Andromeda.
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Experts go easy on me! This is my very first attempt at photographing a DSO and I don't have a scope or tracker. Any advice appreciated :)
- 200mm, manually tracked by adjusting the tripod every 30 or so frames to keep the galaxy as central as possible.
- 400 x 1.6sec exposure (ISO16000,f2.8), 20 x dark frames, 20 x bias frames.
- Stacked using Deep Sky Stacker.
Ciao piccola cometa Wirtanen... sei stata difficile da vedere, con la tua chioma rotonda ed azzurra... sempre inseguita dalla luna e dal cattivo tempo... ci vediamo fra 5 anni, forse :)
Foto scattata alcuni giorni fa, 70mm f/4.
Buona giornata
#cometa #wirtanen #celestial #celeste #stelle #stars #astronomy #life #periodic #solarsystem #blue #tail #coda #round #rotondo
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A picture I took in Fira (Santorini, Greece), last summer. It is a long exposure shot and I've repainted some parts of it.
Fira is the modern capital of the Greek Aegean island, Santorini. It is a traditional settlement.
The view from Fira is magnificent, with a unique panorama showing the 18 km long caldera from southern Cape Akrotiri to northern Cape Ag. Nikolaos, plus the volcanic island Nea Kameni at the center with Thirassia Island in the distant west on blue Aegean water.
Fira is a town of white-washed houses built on the edge of the 400 m high caldera on the western edge of the semi-circular island of Thera. The two main museums of interest are the Santorini Archeological Museum, 30 m east of the cable car entrance, and the Museum of Prehistoric Thera at the southeast corner of the White Orthodox Cathedral (with the Greek name meaning Metamorphosis), built on the site of the Ypapanti Church, destroyed in the 1956 earthquake.
Access to Fira is mainly by roads on its eastern side, climbing from its port via the Z-shaped footpath on foot or on donkeys, or by riding the steep cable car from its lower terminal by the port.
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Candles of The Past
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Candles of the past
In shadows corner cast
Like paintings on a wall
Or tinting blanching fall
Precious moments going
Special people knowing
Of lives so many ways
In vanished yesterdays
Somewhere in my heart
Where memories start
I have again found
Incidents once around
All the music ways
In the magic of the days
Candle lights I’ve crossed
Those now today are lost
Jupiter opposition on 26/09/2022 with its closest approach to Earth by about 150 million km with . apparent diameter of 50 arc second. Jupiter currently is about 590 million km from Earth. The image shows Europa , one of Jupiter moons on the left of the planet. This closest approach will happen again after 59 years.
Gear setup:
Celestron HD 800
UV/ IR Cut filter
ZWO ADC
ZWO 224MC
TV powermate 2x