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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.
It is said that everything remains silent when you hear the noises of the demons. It is the noiseless orchestra of the Death.
And it is that these demons are beneath the sound waves, buried by specters. Imprisoned where the astronomy of their structure extends to the Cosmos, a jail that resembles a symphony of screams. This explains the absence of sound in outer space. They only can dance to their tune. Void. Meanwhile, the astronaut Briggs was sleeping. He wasn't in that deep sleep that keeps in rest those who are limited by their own vertices, but the unstoppable, sudden rise into Dreamland.
“Every breath he takes has a deafening noise.”
A powerful loud cry that made the spacecraft and both soul and body reach such height thereafter the sky was ripped and torn from beginning to end. Who knew what could fall from the other side, and who would clean such mess. Thus both man and craft descended the galaxy like a chunk of sugar sinking in a glass of icy lemonade. Then like sparkles, the inhabitants of the Earth thought they were stars for their iridescence, typical of effervescent matter.
The so-called Perseids.
The scene dealt in a net of constellations that braked the fall of Briggs, and once on them, the astronaut felt like hovering on a shoal of electric fishes swimming in the lemonade from the other side of the sky whose air no-one has ever breathe. These fishes were nothing else but comets and asteroids whose path defined the effect of translation of the whole celestial bodies.
This way the planetary orbit was determined: always elliptic, never circular.
You can see the project here: www.behance.net/gallery/42865727/Un-astronauta-extraviado
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.
The dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula 1,360 light-years away and is the remains of a Sun like star that has exploded at the end of its life.
30 minutes total exposure time, 45 seconds lights taken from light polluted skies with a nearly full moon.
Equipment:
Skywatcher skyliner 200p
HEQ5 pro
Canon 7D mark ii (unmoded)
processed in deep sky stacker and Photoshop.
"Gaia" a 23ft diameter reconstruction of planet earth by British artist Luke Jerram using images from NASA and exhibited in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral. The planet Earth rotates at approximately 1,037mph at the equator.
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Venus is very prominent in the twilight sky. Its showing a 37.4% disc and this will decrease in the next few weeks but it will maintain its brightness as it moves closer to the Earth in its orbit.
It is currently 30.94 arcseconds in diameter - about 1/60th of the diameter of the Moon.
Elongation from Sun = 43.9% E
Light time = 4.5 minutes
Altitude = 21 degrees.
This was taken using an Infrared filter for Red and UV filter for blue. A 50/50 blend of the two was mapped to green to form a colour (RGB) image.
10 x 1 minute video captures (IR 685 nm) at 124 fps for red (stacked into 1 image)
4 x 2 minute video captures (UV 350 nm) at 12 fps for blue (stacked into 1 image).
Celestron 8SE SCT scope 2000mm f/10
Baader modular Barlow magnifying lens at x 1.75 plus other elements of optical train (ie, flip mirror and filter wheel) = total focal length of 4500mm f/22
ZWO ASI 290 MM CMOS camera
NEQ 6 Pro mount
Laptop with FireCapture 2.6 acquisition/control software.
Settings for IR capture were:
Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Filter=IR685
Profile=Venus
Diameter=30.95"
Magnitude=-4.48
FocalLength=4550mm
Resolution=0.13"
Frames captured=7496
ROI=712x714
FPS (avg.)=124
Shutter=0.324ms
Gain=351 (58%)
Gamma=50
Histogram=69%
Limit=60 Seconds
Sensor temperature=17.5°C
Focuser position=3956
Settings for UV capture were:
Camera=ZWO ASI290MM
Filter=UV
Profile=Venus
Diameter=30.95"
Magnitude=-4.48
FocalLength=4800mm
Resolution=0.12"
Frames captured=1507
ROI=712x714
ROI(Offset)=449x98
FPS (avg.)=12
Shutter=79.71ms
Gain=351 (58%)
Gamma=50
Histogram=67%
Limit=120 Seconds
Sensor temperature=14.8°C
Focuser position=4808
Well, this is not my best work. It was handheld, 05:38, in the morning, grabbed before the clouds rolled it.
As seen from Tasmania, approximately 42.3°S/147.0°E
Lower Right to Upper Left:
Jupiter Venus, Mars, Saturn
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Last one, I promise. I love these ringed planet-looking fireworks, this one behind Coit Tower, seen from Marin.
The Helix nebula is an example of what our sun may look like once it has run out of fuel (hydrogen). As a star runs out of hydrogen it starts to expand and eject its layers. Says wiki, "The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula, formed by an intermediate to low-mass star, which sheds its outer layers near the end of its evolution.
The remnant central stellar core, known as the central star (CS) of the planetary nebula, is destined to become a white dwarf star. The observed glow of the central star is so energetic that it causes the previously expelled gases to brightly fluoresce. Yet this star's size is only about 2.5 % that of our sun and possibly of its original.
This particular nebula is one of the closest ones to us at around 650 light years. The object has been given numerous nick names such as "The eye of God" or "The eye of Sauron"
I took this very close to a full moon but got better results than I thought. It's basically in Hubble palette with some blend modifications (Red - 50% Sii and Ha; Green - 15 Ha and 85 Oiii; Blue - all Oiii) to make it look RGBish. Stars are so so as there was very little exposure (3 min per filter). Acquisition is about 3 hours of combined SHO taken from Chile with a 10 inch Astrograph and a ZWO ASI 6200 (bin2). Thanks for looking.
The Police Striker is one of the most common ships in the Confederacy Galactic Police Force. It mostly patrols the outskirts of major Cities and Industrial areas. Always ready to strike at suspicious activity. Antigrav engines keeps it in the air while the quad thrusters gives it it's deadly speed. The wings are mainly for stabilization but can also be used for tight twists and turns. The Striker can fly in zero g but performs best in an atmosphere.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 385MC Astronomical Imaging Camera. Captured with the sky starting to lighten using Firecapture.
10000 frames captured with about 2500 processed with Registax 6. Final adjustments with G.I.M.P. and Adobe Lightroom. Image scaled up by 200% post processing
Seeing Conditions: Fairly good, with the target about 25° above the horizon.
A reasonable outcome in the end. With the ring system almost edge on, a difficult one to capture. It took quite a few attempts to get satisfactory settings.
Footnote:
At the time of capture the target was approximately 1.392 billion Km (870 million miles) from planet Earth.
First build for my IronBuilder against Tim.
The seed part, the silver technic connector, was used 27 times.
There is this competition called Iron Builder, not sure if you heard of that yet. I finally got the time to join the adventure.
Of course entry for Febrovery as well.
I will do my best and I hope you enjoy!
Telescope: TS130 f5.7
Mount: Avalon Linear
Main camera: Atik 460EX mono
Filters: Baader HaGB
Autoguide: TS60 + QHY5L-II Mono
Exposures:
Ha: 1x600" bin1x1
G: 1x600" bin1x1
B: 1x600" bin1x1
Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Captured from Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain.
This 3 panel panoramic shows the current alignment of five planets and the moon, from the Dover Patrol Memorial at St. Margaret's Bay, on the White Cliffs of Dover. The lights of Calais (France) are visible on the horizon. Taken at 6.32am on the morning of 3rd February, with a Fuji XT-1 and Samyang 12mm at f/2.
I've been having so much fun with light new toys recently — the Z6 and Canon G5 X — I decided to get out some old, clunky gear and see what it felt like and what I could do with it...
Alinhamento Planetário em conjunção com a lua. Vénus, lua, Marte, Júpiter e Saturno
Pentax k-1 Mark II + Irix 21mm f1:1.4
A small faint planetary nebula can be found near the centre of M22. Planetary nebulae located within globular clusters are very rare.
This planetary nebula has a very unusual shape.
The central star is moving, and this causes the ejected material to pile up in one direction. This part is brighter.
It is interesting to compare the hydrogen to the sulfur exposures.
I have included both so that you can use the arrow keys to move between them.
The planetary nebula is interacting with the interstellar medium. Long exposures show faint details of the planetary nebula.
The rest of the circle at the lower left as well as extra material below this are also barely visible.
Press “L” to see large.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
H 12.5 hours exposure.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
November-December 2017 Processed in Pixinsight, and Lightroom, Photoshop
This spectrum, its first of Mars, combines data measured by Webb’s NIRSpec instrument, and shows the signatures of water, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in Mars’ atmosphere! The data also gives us information about the planet’s dust, clouds, rocks and more. Spectra like this one are created when light is split apart into its components.
Read more: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/09/19/mars-is-mighty-in-first-we...
More detail:
Webb’s first near-infrared spectrum of Mars, captured by the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) Sept. 5, 2022, as part of the Guaranteed Time Observation Program 1415, over 3 slit gratings (G140H, G235H, G395H). The spectrum is dominated by reflected sunlight at wavelengths shorter than 3 microns and thermal emission at longer wavelengths. Preliminary analysis reveals the spectral dips appear at specific wavelengths where light is absorbed by molecules in Mars’ atmosphere, specifically carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and water. Other details reveal information about dust, clouds, and surface features. By constructing a best-fit model of the spectrum, by the using, for example, the Planetary Spectrum Generator, abundances of given molecules in the atmosphere can be derived.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Mars JWST/GTO team
Image description: mage Description: Graph titled “Mars Atmosphere Composition,” showing data from Webb’s NIRSpec instrument, Fixed Slit Spectroscopy mode. The x-axis is “Wavelength of Light” in microns, ranging from 1.0 to 5.0. The y-axis shows “Brightness of Light (reflected and emitted),” and from bottom to top it goes from dimmer to brighter. Data is represented by a white line with dynamic peaks and dips, both big and small. A purple best-fit line is overlaid on top of the white line. In general, the line starts high, dips (with especially low valleys around 2.75 microns and 4.3-4.4 microns), then rises back up starting around 4.5 microns. Several signatures of molecules can be found in the data, including 5 instances of carbon dioxide (highlighted as yellow vertical stripes on the chart), 1 instance of carbon monoxide (highlighted as a thick red stripe beyond 4.5 microns), and 1 instance of water (highlighted as a thin blue stripe beyond 2.5 microns). The background is a Mars “heat map” taken by Webb’s NIRCam.
Another southern target...
Ha: 18 x 30m
OIII: 36 x 30m
Scope: Ceravolo 300mm f/9
Camera: Apogee U16M
[From APOD: Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. Seen at the center of the cosmic cloud, the star is a mere 3 to 4 million years old. In another three to four million years the massive star will end its life in a supernova explosion. Spanning around 4 light-years, the nebula itself has a bipolar symmetry. That makes it similar in appearance to more familiar planetary nebulae - the gaseous shrouds surrounding dying sun-like stars. Also like many planetary nebulae, NGC 6164 has been found to have an extensive, faint halo, revealed in this deep telescopic image of the region].
Many thanks to Rick Stevenson for sharing the data.
Atmospheric turbulence was quite bad tonight but pleased to get my first image of Mars. Southern Polar cap seen at the bottom.
The dark feature towards the top is Niliacus Lacus. The bright region on the left is the Tharsis region.
Celestron 9.25 inch SCT with ZWO224MC colour camera.
ZWO ADC at +/-2
FireCapture acquisition software
AutoStakkert!3 for stacking.
RegiStax6 for wavelet sharpening
Colour balance in PS.
Best 50% stacked of a 5000 frame video @ 108 frames per second. Focal length = 6000mm.
21 arcseconds diameter and increasing as it nears Earth in its orbit. It’s just after winter solstice on Mars (Ls =279) so Southern Hemisphere is tilted sunwards.
Magnitude -2.2
Distance 3.7 Light minutes
CM = 40
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Wonders of the Cosmos
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using CineStill 800T film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
This painting is based on the mural i did in India in January 2017.
It was about the motion of celestial bodies in the Universe.
This painting is about Earth motion.
After one year of painting black lines on a walls i bring this experience to the studio.
Ink+arylic on Linen.
100x60 cm.
2017.
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this was a pre-dawn shot from last weekend, I was trying for that "silky" water effect but an added bonus was catching the planetary alignment of Jupiter, Mercury & Venus still visible in the top left corner. Lucky thing, don't think I'll be around for the next one !
This planetary nebula has a very unusual shape.
The central star is moving, and this causes the ejected material to pile up in one direction. This part is brighter.
SHO RGB Composite
The planetary nebula is interacting with the interstellar medium. Long exposures show faint details of the planetary nebula.
The rest of the circle at the lower left as well as extra material below this are also barely visible.
Press “L” to see large.
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
S 10 hours, O 7.5 hours, H 12.5 hours exposure. RGB 5 hours total.
35 hours total exposure.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
November-December 2017 Processed in Pixinsight, and Lightroom, Photoshop