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M27 (The Dumbbell Nebula)
Also Known as the Apple Core Nebula and NGC6853 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the northern hemisphere, it is found in the constellation of Vulpecula (The Fox.) It also contains the Diablo Nebula, which is also a planetary nebula. This was the first planetary nebula to be discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It is 1,360 light years distant from Earth with a magnitude of 7.5 and an angular size of 13 arcminutes. The white dwarf star in its center is the biggest known white dwarf. Taken at Lee, IL on 20150605
Image type: Ha + OIII + Luminosity (unfiltered)
Ha 9x300
OIII 9x300
Lum 40x60
Hardware:
AstroTech RC 8” with 0.8 reducer/flattener
Orion 400m Short Tube piggy back for guiding
Orion Star-Shooter Auto-guider
QHY9M with filter wheel with Baader Ha and OIII 7nm each
Software:
EQMOD with Starry Night Pro 7
Nebulosity 3.0.2
CCD Stack
Photoshop CS
Conditions:
Mediocre conditions with average transparency and winds ranging from 17 to 10 mph. Low Temp 55F.
Notes:
I am not happy with this result due to the lousy guiding due to the winds which makes the frames seems unfocused. I will try it again later with the same setup.
Slightly less atmospheric turbulence last night so was able to pick up a little more detail.
Still fine tuning the Celestron electronic focuser which is tricky given the turbulence.
Celestron C9.25 SCT scope.
ZWO ASI224MC camera.
i finally after forever picked up 3 of these super duperly awesome 1940/50 space helmets. man there groovy
This one kicked the shit out of me mentally and physically to paint it but im happy with the end result...
I think this looks like a planet with its moons.
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The Vanguard is the bulk fighter of the Confederacy Navy. It's a light vessel designed to operate from both space carriers and ground bases. It can last a week on standby and a day in battles, such as short skirmishes and riot controls. When the power core is depleted it can be switched out easily at the base or with a resupply craft.
Dual tungsten rail guns can deal massive damage over long distances and the powerful shield protects the pilot from incoming hostiles. The angled position of the shield generators gives maximum protection to the cockpit from frontal attacks.
This is my entry in the Star Fighter category of Space Jam 2018!
Play features:
* Open the cockpit to access the pilot seat
* Replace the depleted power core
* Retractable landing gear
* Fire the rail guns with the aft mounted trigger
Here is a video of the play features: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vI56lsmdjI
Published in Astronomy Now Magazine April 2020.
An intensely faint, and thus rarely imaged, large planetary nebula in the southern constellation Lepus. It was discovered by George Abell in 1966. It is 1,800 light years from Earth.The small galaxy to the north east is PGC 16611.
Astrodon Blue: 19x300"
Astrodon Green: 21x300"
Astrodon Red: 22x300"
Astrodon OIII: 19x1800s bin 3x3, 14x1200 bin 3x3
Astrodon Ha: 32x1800s bin 2x2, 11x1800 bin 3x3
Total Integration:41 hours
Captured on my dual rig in Spain.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 (6" aperture 1200mm focal length)
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS
Taken from Rest Bay, Porthcawl.
Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus & Neptune in shot. Super fisheye lens gets everything into one shot.
Saturn and Mercury had set with the sun and so it was never going to be possible to see all 7 planets.
Planetary Resources Mining Drone Carrier "STREIFF" is another one of the "war horses" of the Planetary Resources (PR) mining flotilla.
After the war was over PR quickly bought a large number of unused war ships. The bankrupt governments of the newly formed Confederacy where eager to sell. This way PR could quickly start to mine the newly opened asteroid fields and establish themselves as one of the most powerful mining companies of the galaxy.
Streiff is a command ship that has been stripped down and rebuilt into at drone carrier. New additions are upgraded drone link arrays, rock analysis sensors and several different repair modules. Streiff can carry 30 medium mining drones in it's hold but can operate and control up to 200 drones simultaneously. Ore can be loaded inside it but the ship also has docking ports and connections for all kinds of transport ships and containers.
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Streiff took just about the entire month to build. I am a house owner and a father of two, so my building time is sparse. I had an entirely different kind of ship planned at first, but just a few days before September 1 I realized it would be too big and that I probably wouldn't be able to finish it.
So here it is! It's about 110 studs long. I have no idea about the amount of bricks used. Lot's of hinges though :)
Equipment Details ;
OTA : Celestron C11 Edge HD
Mount : ES Losmandy G11
Imaging Camera : Zwo290mm
Filters : Astrodon RGB Gen II
Accessories : Powermate 2.5x , ZwO ADC
“The Medusa Nebula is a large planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini on the Canis Minor border. It also known as Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274. It was originally discovered in 1955 by UCLA astronomer George O. Abell, who classified it as an old planetary nebula. The braided serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggests the serpent hair of Medusa found in ancient Greek mythology.” Wikipedia
It is at a distance of 1500 light years, and has size 4 ly. It is magnitude 16 overall, but the details are faint.
Bicolor HO image with RGB stars.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
HO RGB 10,9.5, 2:2:2 hours
total exposure 26 hours
Transparency and Seeing good to excellent.
Oct 2017-January 2018
Processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom, Photoshop.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
astrophotography website: www.Eric-Ganz.net
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
UUU v4.6.9 by Frans 'Otis_Inf' Bouma (www.patreon.com/Otis_Inf)
ReShade v5
Small Adjustments in Lightroom
I know Im posting a lot of Venus images but Im trying to improve my technique.
Previously Ive used the Baader UV filter but here Ive used the Astrodon UVenus filter as it is said to have greater transmission in the UV. I was certainly able to reduce exposure times whilst keeping gain and %histogram the same - that resulted in many more frames per 2 minute video run.
I removed another one of the spacers in my Baader modular VIP Barlow so just x1.5 magnification here taking total magnification to about 6000mm f/30 and an image scale of 0.1 arcsec/pixel - still a bit higher than I would like.
Also getting comfortable using an ADC - usually needs just 0.5 or 1 "stop" for this target at 21 degree elevation.
Seeing was moderate for my site
Astrometry:
Illuminated fraction = 0.294
Diameter = 35.9 arcsec
Light travel time = 3.9 minutes
Elevation = 21 degrees
Elongation from Sun = 40.7 East
FireCapture v2.6 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Filter=AstrodonUV
Profile=Venus
Diameter=35.32"
Magnitude=-4.51
FocalLength=5900mm
Resolution=0.10"
Frames captured=6950
File type=SER
ROI=712x714
FPS (avg.)=57
Shutter=16.79ms
Gain=471 (78%)
Gamma=50 (off)
Histogram=83%
Limit=120 Seconds
During some pretty wobbly seeing tonight I used the 4x powermate on the Altair Lightwave 72ED-R to capture the mountain range.
Best 30% of 1000 frames taken with the Orion Planetary SSAG camera. I think I should start taking flats at this range as the bayer pattern is beginning to show through!
Final processing in CS5.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I found this area while wondering the backroads north of Sheridan at night. The aurora I had tried to capture was a bust, but when I left the milky way was perfectly placed above these bluffs. Mars and Saturn were close together after their conjunction last week. I lit up the formation with my headlamp from the side to add depth.
The ST100 Maglev is the preferred way to get around the surface of Planet Frost. Powered by a Cyclonic Fusion core, the 5 car consist is capable of reaching speeds in excess of 700 mph. Boasting a smooth ride and luxurious accomodations, the ST100 is popular among locals and visitors alike.
The ST100 is powered with Power Functions. The model features 16 3mm LEDs. This is the first element of a large space display I'm (slowly) working on.
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Planetary alignment in the dawn of June 24, 2022. Mercury (as expected) is lost in the twilight (even if, with a lot of imagination and a little good will, one might see a tiny dot of light in the right place in the original RAW files), the rest of the planets are visible "in the correct order", i.e. corresponding to the actual distance from the Sun. The Moon (with visible Earthsine!) represents the Earth-Moon-system in this row: Mercury (Merkur) - Venus - Moon (Mond) - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn.
Full (Buck) moon rises over Dunnottar Castle, ruins of a 13th-century clifftop fortress, with Jupiter and Saturn for company.
A very small and beautiful planetary nebula with some amazing facts about its central star. NGC 2440 lies about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Puppis.
Its central star, HD 62166, is possibly the hottest known white dwarf, about 200,000°C which is 1,100 times of our Sun.
It was discovered by William Herschel on March 4, 1790. He described it as "a beautiful planetary nebula of a considerable degree of brightness, not very well defined." [Wikipedia]
A higher resolution image and full imaging details available at astrob.in/qnh4wy/0/
Remotely imaged over 3 nights from Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain.
364 x 120 second exposures.
Total image time: 12 hours 8 minutes
Telescope: Celestron C14 Edge HD
Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Pro cooled to -5C
Filter: ZWO UVIR Cut
Mount: EQ8-R
Captured with: NINA, processed with PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Jupiter, Saturn and Venus lining up in the evening sky above the Tihany peninsula (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
To me this bit of rusty, crusty metal looks like some of the images taken from orbiting spacecraft such as the recent images of the surface of Pluto.
I saw this table full of dahlias at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar, California.
Lit with one hand held SB600, in TTL mode, off to the left for side lighting. Strobe triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in Commander mode.
Pictures I've taken over the years at our local fair can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600647070312/
Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...