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Samyang 135 F/2 @ F/2.8
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon Ha 5nm
Astro Physics 1200
Ha: 77x300s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 6,5h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
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Cygnus Wiedereintritt. In 84 Tagen werden Reid, Max & ich in solch einem Feuerball nach Hause fliegen!
Cygnus reentry. In 84 days Reid, Max and I will ride home inside such an amazing fireball!
Credit: ESA/NASA
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Just done a quick #HOO process of my #CygnusWall data from last night. Just an hour of Ha and 50 minutes of Oiii. #Astrophotography #space
Cygnus columbianus,
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, Los Banos, CA
Just got back from the refuges in Merced Co., and didn't see swans. But since I'm getting ready for the another trip, these photos from before my flickr account will do for now.
date: Aug. 15th, 2020
location: Amagi Plateau, Shizuoka Pref, JPN
optics: Carl Zeiss APO Sonnar 135mm F2.0
camera: CANON EOS 5D Mark IV (Unmodified)
mount: Kenko skymemoR w/o auto guide
exposure: ISO1600, 90sec x66, F2.0
Aujourd’hui c’est un grand jour à bord de l’ISS : un peu comme un matin de Noël, on est tous très excités par l’arrivée du cargo NG-16. Il a fallu bien plus qu’un traineau pour nous apporter le Cygnus le plus lourd jamais envoyé vers l’ISS ! Lancé par une fusée Antarès, il transporte plus de 3 700 kg de ravitaillement et d’expériences scientifiques. Il nous poursuit depuis 2 jours, durant lesquels on s’est occupé de préparer sa capture et son arrivée. Megan et moi l’avons attrapé à l’aide d’un bras robotique de 17 m de long, piloté depuis une station avec vue panoramique sur la Terre… parfois mêmes les films de science-fiction n’ont pas un scénario aussi ambitieux ! On est toujours tellement concentrés que parfois j’ai besoin de faire un pas en arrière pour me rappeler à quel point ce qu’on fait ici sort de l’ordinaire, et combien d’efforts et de gens talentueux ça mobilise 👏
🚀 📦🎉
Today was a great day on the International Space Station: just like Christmas, we are excited to open our latest delivery 🎅 It took more than Santa’s reindeer to get the heaviest ever Cygnus cargo ship up here though. Launched atop atop a two-stage Antares rocket, and carrying more than 3,700 kg of cargo, this spacecraft spent two days chasing down our orbital outpost before Megan and I brought it in using a 17-m robotic arm piloted from a panoramic window overlooking Earth. Even science fiction film scenarios are not that bold sometimes!!! I often have to take a step back to realise just how unbelievable what we do up here is, and how much effort and talent so many brilliant colleagues put in for days like today to happen 👏
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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New version of NGC7000
about 4 hours each of Ha-Oiii+Sii
QSI583WS
Canon 200mm f2.8L
Astro-Physics Mach1
Astrodon 3nm filters.
There are some aberrations generated by the lens. I tried to use the Drizzle integration in Pixinsight which seems to be working very well. However I have a few artifacts that I need to get rid of.
The Cygnus Wall, a portion of the North American Nebula (NGC 7000) in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula is approximately 1,500 light years from Earth, and the Cygnus Wall spans about 20 light years. The Wall exhibits the most concentrated star formations in the nebula.
Explore Scientific ED127, ZWO ASI2600MM, Antlia 3nm SHO, ZWO ASIAIR, ZWO AM5, PixInsight, Photoshop. SHO 600s subs 3hrs integration.
Trumpeter Swan from across the pond.
Yearly First at Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Martin Mere, Burscough, Lancashire. 23/08/2019
Cygnus Loop, 4 panels mosaic
NGC6992, NGC6995, IC1340, NGC6960, NGC6967, NGC6974
Ha, 600s, gain 0, -10°C, Antlia 3.5nm Ha filter
Panel 1: 52 frames
Panel 2: 50 frames
Panel 3: 27 frames
Panel 4: 48 frames
William Optics z61
ZWO ASI183MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
William Optics 50mm guiding + ZWO ASI120M-S
ZWO EAF
ZWO EFW
NINA
Calibrated by bias, dark and flat
Processed in PixInsight, TopazLabs DeNoise AI and Photoshop
Cygnus Panorama, red channel only. Three frames with Canon 100mm lens and Canon T6i. Each frame is a stack of two 5 minute exposures. The original was split into separate color channels, the red was stretched for this image.
Mute Swan, two siblings discussing about who saw it first. The left one is Polish morph and the right one is in regular colours.
Kyhmyjoutsen
Helsinki
See more of these in my albums
The Cygnus Wall!!!! This is 6 hrs of HA data combined with 1 hr of RGB stars. It's what we call an HARGB image. I did this to show the details in the pillars of Hydrogen that compromise the Cygnus Wall. This DSO is the main attraction of the North American Nebula in my opinion. Many stars have seen a birthplace in this dense region of space. It lies within the Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Cygnus. Rich in oxygen and sulfur, the hydrogen which gives birth to stars in rich abundance is often drowned out by the layer of oxygen that lies above. By using narrow band Hydrogen Alpha filters we are able to see through the dense gaseous regions to the dense composites of hydrogen that dwell beneath. Who knows how many species of life may survive in these areas of star formation. It's interesting to speculate. The Cygnus Wall is one of my favorite deep sky objects. Wu-Tang 4 eva!!!
Equipment used:
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Custom built 6" 152mm APM F8 doublet lens cell reduced to F4.8 using 0.6 starwave reducer corrector with GSO 2.5" focuser in CR6 tube/ Apochromatic Refractor
ZWO ASI air used for Acquisition
ZWOasi071 MC Pro Camera
Evoguide 50mm guidscope
ZWOasi 290 guide camera
EQ6-R Pro Mount
Image data information:
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William Optics Ultra Layer SCT Filter
120x30s exposures = 1hrs
chroma 3nm HA 36x 600s = 6hrs
7 hrs total acquisition time.
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Master Light, Dark and Bias Frames used for image calibration.
Processing information
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Stacking and Pre Processing done in Pixinsight
Final processing done in Photoshop
Der lange Hals scheint äußerst praktisch zu sein. Der Schwan bewegte Hals und Kopf in alle mögliche Richtungen um Gras zu zupfen. Sonst hat sich nichts bewegt.
Aujourd’hui c’est un grand jour à bord de l’ISS : un peu comme un matin de Noël, on est tous très excités par l’arrivée du cargo NG-16. Il a fallu bien plus qu’un traineau pour nous apporter le Cygnus le plus lourd jamais envoyé vers l’ISS ! Lancé par une fusée Antarès, il transporte plus de 3 700 kg de ravitaillement et d’expériences scientifiques. Il nous poursuit depuis 2 jours, durant lesquels on s’est occupé de préparer sa capture et son arrivée. Megan et moi l’avons attrapé à l’aide d’un bras robotique de 17 m de long, piloté depuis une station avec vue panoramique sur la Terre… parfois mêmes les films de science-fiction n’ont pas un scénario aussi ambitieux ! On est toujours tellement concentrés que parfois j’ai besoin de faire un pas en arrière pour me rappeler à quel point ce qu’on fait ici sort de l’ordinaire, et combien d’efforts et de gens talentueux ça mobilise 👏
🚀 📦🎉
Today was a great day on the International Space Station: just like Christmas, we are excited to open our latest delivery 🎅 It took more than Santa’s reindeer to get the heaviest ever Cygnus cargo ship up here though. Launched atop atop a two-stage Antares rocket, and carrying more than 3,700 kg of cargo, this spacecraft spent two days chasing down our orbital outpost before Megan and I brought it in using a 17-m robotic arm piloted from a panoramic window overlooking Earth. Even science fiction film scenarios are not that bold sometimes!!! I often have to take a step back to realise just how unbelievable what we do up here is, and how much effort and talent so many brilliant colleagues put in for days like today to happen 👏
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus) is a species of waterfowl in the tribe Cygnini of the subfamily Anserinae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and the Falkland Islands.
Taxonomy and systematics
The black-necked swan has occasionally been placed by itself in the genus Sthenelides. Its closest relatives are the black swan (C. atratus) and mute swan (C. olor). It is monotypic.
Description
The black-necked swan is the only member of its genus that breeds in the neotropics and is the largest waterfowl native to South America. Adults are 102 to 124 cm (40 to 49 in) long with a wingspan of 135 to 177 cm (53 to 70 in). Males weigh 4.6 to 8.7 kg (10 to 19 lb) and females 3.5 to 4.4 kg (7.7 to 9.7 lb). The sexes are alike. Adults' body plumage is white and the neck and head black; the latter usually has a white stripe behind the eye. They have a prominent red knob at the base of their bill. Juveniles are grayish rather than white and lack the knob until their third or fourth year.
Distribution and habitat
The black-necked swan is found in the southern tier of South America. It nests from Tierra del Fuego north to central Chile, Uruguay, and Rio Grande do Sul in extreme southern Brazil. It withdraws from the southern half of Argentina in winter and is then found as far north as Brazil's São Paulo state. It is a year-round resident of the Falkland Islands. Vagrants have been found on Juan Fernández Island, the South Orkney Islands, the South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula.
The black-necked swan inhabits freshwater marshes and swamps, shallow lakes, brackish lagoons, and sheltered coastal sites. On the mainland of South America, it is often found near human habitation but shuns built-up areas in the Falklands. It is generally found at low elevations but non-breeding flocks can be found as high as 900 to 1,250 metres (3,000 to 4,100 ft) in the Andes of southern Argentina.
The wetlands created in Chile by the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, such as Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary on the Cruces River, have become important population centers for the black-necked swan. The population in this sanctuary has fluctuated widely over the years, reaching a low of 214 in January 2008 and a peak of 22,419 in May 2020 before plumbing to 2,782 in May 2022.
Behavior
Feeding
The black-necked swan's diet is almost entirely vegetarian. It feeds on aquatic plants like Chara, Potamogeton, Typha; algae such as Aphantotece and Rhyzoclonium; and presumably small numbers of aquatic invertebrates. In parts of Chile its principal food is Egeria densa. It forages mostly by immersing its head and neck and by surface feeding, but also upends to reach deeper. In times of drought it has been observed grazing in meadows and pastures.
Breeding
The black-necked swan's breeding season varies geographically. In the far south of its range, it breeds from July to November but ends as early as September in the northern parts. In the Falklands, it breeds between August and November. The exact timing of breeding appears dependent on rainfall. The species is believed to form long-term pair bonds. Its nest is a mound of vegetation constructed by both members of a pair on a small islet or partially floating in a reedbed. The clutch size is four to eight eggs. Males guard females during the 34- to 36-day incubation period. Captive nestlings fledged about 100 days after hatch.
Vocalization
The black-necked swan is mostly silent outside the breeding season. During that time, both sexes give a "soft, musical 'Whee-whee-whee' with the accent on the initial syllable", repeating it to challenge intruders. The call is also used to maintain contact between members of a pair. Males also give "a musical 'hooee-hoo-hoo'."
Diseases
Black-necked swans can contract avian influenza. In March 2023 influenza A virus subtype H5N1 was detected in black-necked swan populations in Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary, Chile and Estación Tapia, Uruguay. As on May 30, 2023, three more black-necked swans were found dead due to influenza H5N1 in Lagoa da Mangueira, Taim Ecological Station, Brasil. This raises the total at that station to 63.
Status and conservation
The IUCN has assessed the black-necked swan as being of Least Concern. It has a very large range, and though its population size is not known, it is believed to be stable. No immediate threats have been identified. It is widespread and generally common. Large-scale hunting in the 18th and 19th centuries extirpated it from much of Chile but it has recolonized those areas. Some egg collecting and hunting still occur, however. The species occurs in several protected areas in mainland Argentina, in which country the population is estimated at 50,000.
Shot with the EOS-M and 22mm f/2 @ 2.8, ISO 400. 20 minutes exposition (5x 4-minute), stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Canon DPP.
I never get tired of the Cygnus region.
this is a couple panels stitched together of the Cygnus constellation stitched together. Work in progress
Et voici l’amarrage, après un ballet complexe entre l’humain et la machine. Megan s’est occupée de piloter le Canadarm 2 et je l’ai secondée en surveillant les systèmes du Cygnus durant la phase d’approche.
👀 ✈️
And the docking. A complex choreography between human and machine. As Megan grappled Cygnus with Canadarm2, I acted as co-pilot – monitoring Cygnus's systems throughout its approach.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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