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The Medusa Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini. It is also known as Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274. It was originally discovered in 1955 by University of California, Los Angeles astronomer George O. Abell, who classified it as an old planetary nebula.
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...almost 50 planets have now been found inside this parallel planetary system, characterized by imperfect spherical celestial bodies.
Lik Observatory:
Lick Observatory was the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.
The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick. In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, "Here lies the body of James Lick".
Before construction could begin, a road to the site had to be built. All of the construction materials had to be brought to the site by horse and mule-drawn wagons, which could not negotiate a steep grade. To keep the grade below 6.5%, the road had to take a very winding and sinuous path, which the modern-day road (SR 130) still follows. Tradition maintains that this road has exactly 365 turns.
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Mars (right) and Jupiter (left) conjunction......the alpha star of Libra, Zubenelgenubi at top right ...moons of Jupiter in second frame...Crescent moon catches up.....zoom in to see the planets to the bottom right...in last frame....
I made a shot similar to this back around Christmas 2016. I wanted to try out a new lens - I sort of like this one much better than the previous! The warped bokeh really leads the eyes towards the light.🚀🌌
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C. 34 x 2 minute exposures (1 hour 8 minutes) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 20:16 and 21:37 on the 5th of November 2022.
The brilliant starry sky, the red sand and the ice structures piercing the foreground of this image combine to give the impression of a desert far from the reach of human footprints. A landscape that could easily be mistaken for the polar regions of our distant neighbour Mars.
The jagged tooth-like formations are not on the Red Planet however, but on the sloping hills of the Atacama Desert.
The formations are called penitentes — structures made of snow and ice that form mostly at high altitudes. The low pressure, moisture and temperature at these altitudes help to create this interesting and rare behaviour in the freezing of ice. The strange structures also have a tendency to orient themselves towards the Sun, which is why they are all perfectly aligned like a carefully tended garden of ice.
As if this beautiful quirk of nature wasn’t enough, above the structures lies an even more magnificent sight.
The large blue star just above the hill is Sirius — the brightest star in the sky. Following the horizon to the left from Sirius, the ancient red supergiant Betelgeuse can be seen, located in the constellation of Orion. The second brightest object after Sirius is Canopus and it is seen here as a brilliant blue point at the right hand side of the frame.
This strange and alien-looking image was taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Babak A. Tafreshi.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1522a/
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ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
The red (Ha Signal) is sh2-129, the flying bat nebula. The blue squid nebula (OIII signal) in this image (OU4) was discovered by the French Amateur Astrophotographer Nicolas Outters in 2011. It is very faint. I used a tone mapping process originally described by J-P Metsavainio to bring it out.
Abell 72 planetary nebula in Delphinus
Settembre 2019
Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna
Meade LX200 12" con Starizona riduttore/correttore di coma F/7.1
CCD QSI 540wsi raffreddato -20 - Autoguida con ETX105 e ASI120M
RGB Baader CCD e Bader Narrowband 8.5nm
OIII-RGB: OIII 50x6min, R 50x3min, G 51x3min, B 50x3min
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - Calibrata con Dark, Bias e Flat.
Elaborazione: MaximDL5, Astroart6, StarTools4, AstraImage5, Paint Shop Pro2020, plugin Topaz e StarSpikePro3.
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SH2-216 Giant Planetary Nebula in Perseo.
Febbraio 2020 - Febbraio 2022
Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna
Tecnosky AG70 F/5
ASA DDM60PRO con Autoslew e Sequence.
AVALON M1 - QHY174MM su Celestron OAG.
CCD QSI 583wsi raffreddato -20
Astrodon Narrowband 3nm
HA-OIII: HA 42x15min (R), OIII 17x15min (B), verde sintetico.
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - Calibrata con Dark, Bias e Flat.
Elaborazione: Astroart8, Starnet2, Paint Shop Pro 2023 e plugin vari.
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A large-scale defense cannon for the Star Vikings collaboration at BrickCon 2014.
There is internal gearing to lock the cannon's elevation-of-fire, controlled by rotating the rear lower-left cone heat sink unit. The landscape technique was inspired by Blake Foster's M:Tron Magnet Factory.
I also made a Star Vikings dropship. See the total collaboration in the Star Vikings group.
all credits (and a little story too) @ current outfit!
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Ive started to use an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector to remove the red and blue fringes seen around bright planets, particularly at low elevations as the thicker atmosphere there acts like a prism and separates out and smears the colours - this effect is particularly pronounced at the blue end of the spectrum and can affect ultraviolet imaging as well.
This image was taken with a colour ZWO ASI224MC camera that I used at the start of the session to set up the ADC.
There was a small red rim on the convex edge of the planet which I didnt notice onscreen at the time - easy enough to remove with lens correction tools in Photoshop.
FireCapture software comes with a tool to set up ADCs properly which I should be using rather than just my eyeballs.
I was happy with my subsequent IR and UV runs but there was no additional detail to be seen so Ive just posted this image.
Ive managed to shorten my imaging train by using some direct T2 connections rather than 1.25" nosepieces into clamps so focal length is now about 4500mm which is where I want.
Astrometry:
Illuminated fraction = 0.277
Diameter = 37.0 arcsec
Light travel time = 3.8 minutes
Elevation = 29 degrees
Elongation from Sun = 39.9 East
FireCapture v2.6 Settings
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Camera=ZWO ASI224MC
Filter=L
Profile=Venus
Diameter=36.95"
Magnitude=-4.52
FocalLength=4400mm
Resolution=0.18"
Date=270420
Mid=200903.169
Duration=60.009s
Frames captured=6824
ROI=816x816
FPS (avg.)=113
Shutter=0.174ms
Gain=375 (62%)
HighSpeed=on
Gamma=50 (off)
Histogram=74%
Sensor temperature=16.6°C
I don't think I could have picked a colder night to head out for some light painting, but enjoyed it despite the blizzard conditions and fingers that felt like they were going to fall off!
Playing around with the strobe projector for the alien shadow. It's taking a bit of effort to create usable gobos, and not found a reliable way to use full colour yet, but working on it...
Image created in a single exposure, no Photoshop.
Celestron C9.25 SCT scope
Turbulence tends not to be so marked at IR wavelengths - this was taken with a ZWO290MM camera with a IR685nm filter.
The pixels are smaller on the 290 compared with the 224 so Mars appears relatively larger.
It's FebRovery again, my favourite themed building month.
So let's begin with a modification of set 10497 (or as I like to call it, the "UCS Galaxy Explorer") into a rover.
As far as names go, "Planetary Explorer" was the obvious and only choice. The rear cargo compartment contains a small skimmer-type vehicle to mirror the rover carried by the original
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
Other-worldly looking camp near Diamond Mesa below Forester Pass. A high altitude night leading up to the last big day of my hike that would put me on top of Mt. Whitney at the end of this same day for an even higher night in this different world above 12,000 feet. It was 12:33am when this image was created.
The reddish "star" left of the moon is Mars, not an optical flaw in the lens. Mars won't be that big again for another 15 years, This was just 1 month after minimum distance (57.6 million kilometers)
Mars on the 23rd September 2020. Presented with the Southern Ice Cap to the top to resemble the view through a Newtonian scope.
The bluish colour over the opposite pole is cloud - the Northern Polar Hood and cloud or haze is also seen towards the right edge of the planet.
The dark central zone is Terra Meridani with the desert Arabia Terra below - Syrtis Major is the dark area towards bottom left.
Making some progress with my new C9.25 SCT scope with Celestron motorised focuser. Still feel Ive got a way to go to get the full power of this system.
This was taken with a ZWO ASI224MC colour camera - I think from here on in, I'll try the monochrome ASI290MM and do RGB runs.
Jupiter, Mars and Venus were aligned for this photograph taken in Sea Isle City, NJ during the Leonid meteor shower.
NGC 2392 taken last year 2024 in March with Edge HD 14 "inch and full frame QHY 410C camera . Crop it to 2000x1500 pixels to see more details .
A lot of twisting, turning, squinting and squatting went into lining up my camera so I could capture the planets Jupiter and Saturn framed by the superstructure of this bridge. I’m sure I won’t win any accolades for composition or the like for the photo, but I’ve had a long day at work so didn’t have much time to choose and edit a shot to post tonight. I picked this one because it required next to no work to get it ready to post. If nothing else, the photo shows how insanely amazing it can be to photograph the heavens at a truly dark site, enabling you to capture colours and details that your eyes can’t render.
I find something special in contrasting the natural wonders of the night sky with a banal, lifeless piece of human engineering such as a bridge.
The location for this photo was under the Princes Highway bridge over the Tuross River near Bodalla, Australia. To shoot the image I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/2.0, using an exposure time of 10 seconds @ ISO 6400.
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Alinhamento Planetário em conjugação com a lua. Vénus, lua, Marte, Júpiter e Saturno
Pentax k-1 Mark II + Irix 21mm f1:1.4
I didn’t see any fog hanging over the fields that I passed on my way to this location north of the rural town of Marulan, New South Wales, Australia, back in April. This stop was my fourth location of the night–an evening that saw me cover almost 600 km (372 mi)–and there’d been no sign of fog at any of those other places. One look at the lower left-hand quarter of my photo, though, reveals a blue-white bubble of haze entrapping the planet Jupiter, an unmistakable indicator of the high moisture content in the air.
With that much wetness in the sky, I’m surprised that the background stars are so sharp. The filigrees of dust and dark gas that are characteristic of this part of the Milky Way are almost as distinct as they are when viewed through dry air, too. Taking this photo was another one of the times when I saw the shot on my camera’s LCD, just after the shutter closed, and I let out an audible “wow!” There is a distance of about 27000 light-years between the tops of these trees and the centre of our galaxy, but here they both are, squished into the one frame of a photograph for me to marvel at. Awesome!
For this single-frame photograph, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II DSLR camera, a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f/1.8, using an exposure time of 8.0 seconds @ ISO 6400.
This was taken just before 6am on the morning of 15th May from a beach in the National Park, where there is less incidental light. They are quite visible in Sydney, but the whole sky was lit up with skys and constellations. Great spot to take night photographs of the sky, if you arrive early enough that is !!! it was already getting light. Sunrise was at 6.15am
Heres the write up I already posted on my other photograph taken a few days earlier.. I hope to have a few more pictures of this, during the month. I have added to it
Star gazers have another grand celestial event to celebrate. The finest planetary conjunction of the year will happen on May 11 when Venus passes very close to the south of Jupiter. The two brightest planets on the sky will not get this close anytime before August 2014.
Beginning May 11, the four planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will rearrange themselves to form different patterns in the sky. This celestial spectacle can be easily seen through the naked eye. On May 13, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will form a triangle and on May 20, it will be Mars, Venus, and Mercury in the triangular position.
Though two other planets, Uranus and Neptune, will also participate in this show in the sky, but viewing them will need the aid of a telescope.
It is a rare phenomenon when so many planets can be viewed at one time on one section of the sky.
The rare planetary conjunction will end on May 30, when a crescent Moon also joins the party.
The truly remarkable event - when Jupiter lines up with Venus, Mercury and Mars in the pre-dawn sky - will be visible in Australia's eastern sky this Friday. Its the closest Planetary grouping until 2040
The alignment of the four planets, which happens only once every 50 to 100 years, will occur just before sunrise, the Sydney Observatory says.
"Every couple of years you get two or three planets that come close together, but to have four is particularly rare," the observatory's education officer, Geoffrey Wyatt, said.
The last time Australians saw such a show was in 1910, and the next occasion would not be until 2056, Mr Wyatt said.
During the alignment, from 5am (AEST) on Friday, the four planets will be visible just above the horizon in the east.
Venus, in the middle of the group, will be the brightest. Just above and to the left will be Jupiter, while Mercury will be to the right of Jupiter and slightly fainter.
Early risers have already noticed Jupiter and Venus in the eastern sky before sunrise, Mr Wyatt said.
"It looks pretty much like two headlights coming towards you. We are getting lots of calls already saying there are two bright lights in the sky."
He wouldn't speculate on how the alignment might influence people, astrologically speaking.
Beginning May 11, the four planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will rearrange themselves to form different patterns in the sky. This celestial spectacle can be easily seen through the naked eye. On May 13, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will form a triangle and on May 20, it will be Mars, Venus, and Mercury in the triangular position.
Though two other planets, Uranus and Neptune, will also participate in this show in the sky, but viewing them will need the aid of a telescope.
The truly remarkable event - when Jupiter lines up with Venus, Mercury and Mars in the pre-dawn sky - will be visible in Australia's eastern sky on Friday.
The alignment of the four planets, which happens only once every 50 to 100 years, will occur just before sunrise, Sydney Observatory says.
"Every couple of years you get two or three planets that come close together, but to have four is particularly rare," the observatory's education officer, Geoffrey Wyatt, said today.
The last time Australians saw such a show was in 1910, and the next occasion would not be until 2056, Mr Wyatt said.
During the alignment, from 5am on Friday, the four planets will be visible just above the horizon in the east.
Venus, in the middle of the group, will be the brightest. Just above and to the left will be Jupiter, while Mercury will be to the right of Jupiter and slightly fainter.
Early risers have already noticed Jupiter and Venus in the eastern sky before sunrise, Mr Wyatt said.
These two Messier objects lie quite close together, see previous image for a full frame view.
M97. The Owl planetary nebula is about 3.7 arcminutes across in our sky but is actually 0.91 light years in diameter. It lies about 2600 light years distant. The central star has shed its outer layers which glow either red (hydrogen) or green-blue (oxygen) lit by the intense UV light of the remnant white dwarf star in the centre. Eventually, the star will cool and the gas will expand until the nebula fades away. It estimated that the nebula is about 6000 years old based on its size and expansion rate. Our own Sun may eventually suffer a similar fate.
A gravitational effect has formed a constrained tube of gas near the star before it expands into a sphere. We are looking down at about 45 degrees to the axis of the tube, these effects produce an "owl face" from our perspective.
Barred spiral galaxy M108 is about 45 million light years away and is almost edge on from our perspective. It’s 8.7 x 2.2 arcminutes diameter in our sky. It lacks a prominent core or bulge but has numerous dark dust lanes. It’s possible to see
a small yellow core at its centre (yellow or red stars tend to be old and mature) brownish dust lanes, pink hydrogen alpha zones and two bright blue "stellar associations” of young intensely bright stars at this magnification.
A Type II supernovae was observed here in 1969.
Technical card on previous full frame image.