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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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Moon. I used my 80mm ED refractor along with StarShoot SolarSystem Color Imager IV and software to create this image
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°
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.
While the flights of the RSS Pale Blue Dot and the RSS Mote of Dust provided successful proof of concept that hyperspace travel was possible, their ventures within the Solar system never truly achieved what the final goal was: faster-than-light travel. That honor was reserved for the RSS Hedy Lamarr that embarked on a 4-and-a-half-Month-40-light-years-round trip to the Trappist-1 System (solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/335/10-things-all-about-trappis...) in 2361, gathering a plethora of valuable data during a close flyby.
Behind the scenes:
It did take me forever to build that follow-up on the RSS Pale Blue Dot (flic.kr/s/aHskHoPuG3) and the RSS Mote of Dust (flic.kr/s/aHskUJZMn8). There were a number of attempts and iterations, most were never photographed, some were photographed but remained unpublished.
Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000): Austrian-American inventor who’s work laid the foundation for frequency hopping and the revolution in data transfer that shaped the the late 20th and early 21st century. (www.forbes.com/sites/shivaunefield/2018/02/28/hedy-lamarr... )
Concept design was strongly influenced by …
„Mars Colonialization“ by Stephane Chasseloup
www.artstation.com/artwork/z6KAd
National Geographic „Deadalus“ Spaceship by Oscar Cafaro
Sinus Iridum, The Bay of Rainbows imaged from London on 7th May 2017
Celestron Edge HD11, CGE Pro mount, Televue 2.5x Powermate, ASI174MM camera
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
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-2 high speed camera and 16-cm Astrophysics Apochromatic Refractor at F/32 on a software bisque PME mount.
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.
The center of our Solar System. This hazy look is due to the fires out west. The smoke has reached Connecticut.
Venus conjunction with Crescent moon on 09 Oct 2021 in Scorpius constellation. However, Venus is paired with star called Dschubba. In this image, planet Venus is about 3 arc degree from the 3 days old Moon. Also, you can see the Earthshine on the Moon’s dark side with 9% illuminated crescent.
Transparency was poor so I increased gain to maintain frame rates. Looks like some smoke was in the air, as the images initially had an orange hue and were harder to colour balance.
Jupiter was magnitude -2.86 with angular diameter of 48.8".
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.
Captured just before dawn from Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA. Five minute exposure, unguided, with a WO RedCat.
A design image of the planets in the solar system on a child's space cadet T-shirt that got lost at Port Maitland Beach.
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.
Ormai il pianeta Giove si allontana sempre di più dalle condizioni ideali di osservazione. Fra la fine dell'anno scorso e l'inizio di questo, ho iniziato a fare sul serio e a riprendere in mano la mia grande passione: osservare il cielo e sentirmi parte dell'Universo.
Qui Giove ripreso qualche giorno fa con una focale equivalente di 2.250 mm su un telescopio dal diametro di 15cm. Il risultato è notevole perché arriva al limite massimo teorico dello strumento
Buona giornata
#giove #skywatcher #pianeta #osservazioni #solarsystem #newton #barlow #bands #bande #astronomy
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.
Planet Jupiter imaged from London on the 2nd February 2025. Celestron Edge HD11 scope, Televue 2.5x Powermate & ZWO ASI224MC camera with ADC
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.