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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
~ Antony Garrett Lisi
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.
Sunspot AR2674 imaged from London on 2nd September 2017
Celestron Edge HD11 with Astrozap full aperture Baader solar filter, Televue 2.5x Powermate and ASI174MM camera
Rendered in false colour
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
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ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PM
Losmandy G11
5 x 30s RGB runs captured in FireCapture
Best 50% of ~11,000 frames per filter stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Color channels separately derotated, then R/G/B derotation in WINJUPOS
Finished in Photoshop
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. In 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and sunsets. To find out where the ISS is now—or to get text or email alerts when it’s visible in your area—check out the Spot the Station site.
With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.
Image Credit: NASA/Josh Cassada
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Mars continuing to recede from the Earth but is still shining brightly.
Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate and ZWO ASI224MC camera with ADC
This oblique perspective view of part of the scarred and colourful landscape that makes up Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars, was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Barlow 3X + 10mm lens (210x).
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
A ten-exposure HDR composite of tonight's waxing crescent moon, captured and processed identically to earlier HDR composites of the moon.
What set this one off, was a few high clouds traipsing by.
Venus shot in IR and UV light, London, 8th February 2020
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI174MM camera
IR image mapped to red channel, UV mapped to blue channel and a synthetic green channel comprised of 50%blend of IR and UV
This combination of filters enables cloud structures to be seen
As Saturn climbs higher in the night sky, the clarity improves. With only a camera for imaging, it's amazing what can now be achieved. I'm off to New York state next week, where Saturn and Jupiter will be much higher in the sky...
Snow Moon. 06 02 2023-(08:50)
Shot from Nottinghamshire.
SONY DSC-RX10M4
f/16, 1/50 sec, ISO-80, 220 mm, 35mm focal length: 600
What is the Full moon named today?
Full Moon, Snow Moon, Candles Moon.
Europeans have referred to February's full moon as the Candles moon, connected to Candlemas on February 6, or the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ. The moon also occurs with the end of Lunar New Year celebrations, which is the Lantern Festival.
The full moon falls in the middle of the month of Shevat and on the holiday Tu BiShvat on the Hebrew calendar, or "New Year of the Trees," which is celebrated by planting trees and raising ecological awareness.
The Arapaho tribe's name for February's full moon means “frost sparkling in the sun”.
What Phase is the Moon in?
Today the Moon is Full Moon Phase and its age is 15.38 days. Waxing Gibbous.
Today's Full Moon is 98.54% visible and is Waxing Crescent, with a tilt of 208.421°.
The Moon is currently in the constellation of Taurus. The current Right Ascension is 04h 59m 58s and the Declination is +25° 15' 55”.
The approximate distance from Earth to the moon is 406,335.61 km and the moon sign is Leo.
Moon distance to earth: 403 869.63 km
Moon angle: 0.49 (Moon tilt: -402.055°)
Next moon phase: 7 days left to the next phase 3rd Quarter.
Why is the moon so big tonight?
"When the moon is near the horizon, the ground and horizon make the moon appear relatively close. Because the moon is changing its apparent position in depth while the light stimulus remains constant, the brain's size-distance mechanism changes its perceived size and makes the moon appear very large.
The next supermoon will be 1 August 2023, followed by a rare blue supermoon that same month, 30 August 2023.
Fun fact: the word Gibbous was first used in the 14th century and comes from the latin word gibbosus which means humpbacked.
Album: Sunsets and Moon.
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Beautiful Saturn blew me away when i first saw her. Taken back in 2014 Nikon D5000 eyepiece correction. Skywatcher 150p Newtonian telescope. Saturn at its closest to Earth is 746 million miles.
Poor seeing again for this image. For scale, the Straight Wall is nearly 70 miles long. QHY video camera with Mewlon 210. Registax and Photoshop for processing.
Copernicus Crater – diameter is 96 km, named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. Need many more frames to strengthen the details.
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90, best 25% of 10k frames. Software used included Sharpcap Pro v3.1 and AutoStakkert!3. Photographed on March 17, 2019 from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, USA.
Image taken with a SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + 10mm lens.
Edited with Photofiltre and MS Picture Manager, to get more details.
El Sol, nuestra estrella particular, la que nos proporciona la energía necesaria para la vida.
Sin él, no existiríamos.
Canon eos 600D modificada y refrigerada.
Objetivo Sigma 70/300 apo a 300mm.
Filtro solar + filtro Baader BCF.
Single shot.
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-2 high speed monochrome camera and 30-cm Takahashi Mewlon at F/18 on a software bisque PME mount.
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This image looks almost decent, but there are some issues that I want to work on. As for softness, I am well-collimated and I prefocused on Alderaban, but average seeing could be an issue. I can add an IR/UV cut filter. I noticed an image size issue in WINJUPOS when making the measurements in the wire frame. It seems that IR, which I used for the R channel, is much less intense than the G or B channels. Because of this the IR image appeared somewhat smaller than the G or B channel images. I am going to go back to using the Red filter for the R channel.
10 iRGB runs (60s and 34,000 frames/filter) in Firecapture.
Best 10% stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpening in Registax
Derotation in WINJUPOS
Finishing in Photoshop
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25x
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PowerMate
Losmandy G11
Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) September 3, 2023. This comet is bright enough to photograph with a small telescope and should be visible in binoculars (I didn't try until the sky was too bright so didn't see it), but not naked eye. The nice, long, straight tail stretches nearly to the corner of this frame.
Composite of 20 exposures, 2 minutes each. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat, ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled CMOS camera, ZWO UV/IR cutoff filter, Losmandy GM811G mount, ASIAir Pro controller, autoguided. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, Photoshop
This image, based on observations from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, shows the largest mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres.
Dawn was the first mission to orbit an object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and spent time at both large asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is one of just five recognised dwarf planets in the Solar System (Pluto being another). Dawn entered orbit around this rocky world on 6 March 2015, and studied its icy, cratered, uneven surface until it ran out of fuel in October of 2018.
One of the features spotted by the mission is shown here in this reconstructed perspective view: a mountain named Ahuna Mons. This mountain rises to an elevation of 4000 m at its peak – Europe’s Mont Blanc on Earth would rise slightly above it (as measured from sea level) – and is marked by numerous bright streaks that run down its flanks. Scientists have determined that these marks are actually salt deposits left behind from the formation of Ahuna Mons, when plumes of saltwater and mud rose and erupted from within Ceres, puncturing the surface and creating the mountain seen here. While temperatures on Ceres are far colder than those on Earth, this mechanism is thought to be somewhat similar to the formation of volcanoes by terrestrial magma plumes.
More recently, a study of Dawn data led by ESA research fellow Ottaviano Ruesch and Antonio Genova (Sapienza Università di Roma), published in Nature Geoscience in June, suggests that a briny, muddy ‘slurry’ exists below Ceres’ surface, surging upwards towards and through the crust to create Ahuna Mons. Another recent study, led by Javier Ruiz of Universidad Complutense de Madrid and published in Nature Astronomy in July, also indicates that the dwarf planet has a surprisingly dynamic geology.
Ceres was also the focus of an earlier study by ESA’s Herschel space observatory, which detected water vapour around the dwarf planet. Published in Nature in 2014, the result provided a strong indication that Ceres has ice on or near its surface. Dawn confirmed Ceres’ icy crust via direct observation in 2016, however, the contribution of the ice deposits to Ceres’ exosphere turned out to be much lower than that inferred from the Herschel observations.
The perspective view depicted in this image uses enhanced-colour combined images taken using blue (440 nm), green (750 nm), and infrared (960 nm) filters, with a resolution of 35 m/pixel. Ahuna Mons’ elevation has been exaggerated by a factor of two. The width of the dome is approximately 20 km. The spacecraft’s Framing Camera took the images from Dawn’s low-altitude mapping orbit from an altitude of 385 km in August 2016.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Mars92% illumination 7 Dec 2020,Celestron SLT 5 inch, Televue 2.5x, ZWO 294C, cooled @ 0 degree. 5000 frames stacked by Autostakkart 2, Processed in Registax 6
A touch of Windmill sail a small chance of a meteor and the Expanse of the our known solar system and beyond.
Lunar mosaic 6 panels with Zwo Asi 290MC, Skywatcher newton 150/750 pds on Skywatcher neq6 pro2 mount.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko passes through the constellation Gemini on three consecutive nights: November 6, 7, and 8, 2021 (right to left), near the closest it will come to the Earth in its orbit. This is the brightest comet in the sky right now, though still not really very bright at all. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft orbited Comet 67P and the Phillae probe landed on it back in 2014. The orange-ish star at upper right is upsilon Geminorum, one of the bright stars in Gemini.
This is a composite of multiple exposures taken over several hours on each of the three nights. These were combined to produce a panoramic view of the background and of the comet on each night.
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