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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.
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.
Here's a little experiment. The dotted line is the International Space Station (ISS) passing through the field of view of my small telescope, very near the interesting little object known as NGC 246, a planetary nebula sometimes called the Skull Nebula in the constellation Cetus.
This wasn't by chance. Watching for these sorts of coincidences, I consulted the trusty sky simulation software SkySafari and noticed that the path of the station would take it in front of a few interesting features in the sky, in addition to this one: M13, the Great Hercules Globular cluster in Hercules, Vega, the brightest star in Lyra, and The Veil Nebula in Cygnus.
Because of the tremendous difference in brightness, I captured the ISS and the nebula field separately. (The ISS is the third brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus). For the ISS pass, I made a short video with a Nikon Z 6 mirrorless camera and Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor. The image of NGC 246 was made afterward with a ZWO ASI294MC camera and Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, 15 6-minute exposures processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom. The ISS track is in the correct position and scale, composited in Photoshop. In addition, the inset is an enlargement of a few video frames and shows some detail in the ISS.
#astrophotography, #ISS
The Helix Nebula , NGC 7293, is a large planetary nebula in Aquarius
It is one of the closest plenary nebula's to earth.
About the Image:
10" Orion Astrograph
Celestron CGem DX
Canon60Da
Guiding SSAG & PHD
Acquisition: Nebulosity
Processed with PixInsight & PhotoShopCC
71 Minutes (9x 180Sec: 27 Min + 10 Darks / 11x 240Sec: 44Min + 10 Darks)
ISO800
100 Bias Frames
4 August 2013 / Magalies Mountain Sanctuary, South Africa
Alinhamento Planetário em conjugação com a lua. Vénus, lua, Marte, Júpiter e Saturno
Pentax k-1 Mark II + Irix 21mm f1:1.4
Jupiter, Mars and Venus were aligned for this photograph taken in Sea Isle City, NJ during the Leonid meteor shower.
This planetary nebula's simple, graceful appearance is thought to be due to perspective: our view from Earth looking straight into what is actually a barrel-shaped cloud of gas shrugged off by a dying central star. Hot blue gas near the energizing central star gives way to progressively cooler green and yellow gas at greater distances with the coolest red gas along the outer boundary. Credit: NASA/Hubble Heritage Team
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The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star reveal a new twist.
"The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He leads a research team that used Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the best view yet of the iconic nebula. The images show a more complex structure than astronomers once thought and have allowed them to construct the most precise 3-D model of the nebula.
"With Hubble's detail, we see a completely different shape than what's been thought about historically for this classic nebula," O'Dell said. "The new Hubble observations show the nebula in much clearer detail, and we see things are not as simple as we previously thought."
The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years from Earth and measures roughly 1 light-year across. Located in the constellation Lyra, the nebula is a popular target for amateur astronomers. Read more: 1.usa.gov/14VAOMk
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Last one, I promise. I love these ringed planet-looking fireworks, this one behind Coit Tower, seen from Marin.
The planetary trio of Venus, Mars and Jupiter lined up in the morning twilight. The bright star Regulus is in the top right corner, which together with the row of planets allows clear identification of the line of the ecliptic.
The International Space Station is the streak just below the planets.
PK 164+31.1 è una nebulosa planetaria visibile nella parte settentrionale della costellazione della Lince. Come molte altre nebulose planetarie, la sua struttura e la sua forma sono dovute all'espansione di un guscio di gas espulso da una stella morente. È stata scoperta nel 1939 da Rebecca B. Jones e Richard Emberson su una lastra fotografica acquisita con il telescopio rifrattore di 40 cm di diametro dell'osservatorio di Oak Ridge, dista circa 1.600 anni luce.
Sky-Watcher Newton 200/1000@960
ToupTek Astronomy Cameras ATR2600C
Light 115 da 300" Tot. 9,35 ore
Svbony Astronomy sv220 dual band 7nm
Guida Phd2 tubo 60/240 e ASI 224
Sky-Watcher EQ6-r pro
Acquisizione N.I.N.A.
Stacking DSS elab. Pixinsight Photoshop
1/3/5 Febbraio 2025
Sannicola ( LE ) Italy
SQM 19.48
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
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.
"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.
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.
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
The primary purpose of this heavy duty M-Tron mech (nicknamed Crab) is patrolling remote, often automated outposts, inspecting them for any signs of wear & tear, as well as performing minor repairs.
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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...
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!
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 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
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Back in 2020 in our lovely flat close to the city center. Feeling trapped in between corona lockdowns.
The "Gaia" exhibition, a 23ft diameter planet earth constructed from NASA images by British artist Luke Jerram and currently on display at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral
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