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The image is the composition of 2 photos.
The landscape ( the refinery ) was taken on July 10, 2023 with a nikon z 6II and a lens nikon G24-120mm used @100mm.
The image of the moon was taken on July 11 ,2023 with a telescope sky watcher with D=90mm and 1250mm focal lenght.
This is a panoramic skyscape of the emission nebulae in Cassiopeia.
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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD , Takahashi TSA 102
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop CS5, PHD, Main Sequence Software
Filters: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm, Baader SII 8.5nm, Baader O III 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
Resolution: 3491x897
Dates: Nov. 14, 2015
Frames: 140x1800"
Integration: 70.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.12 days
Avg. Moon phase: 4.98%
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is an orange day at Color my World Daily and we celebrate « bread teddy bears at Happy Teddy Bear Tuesdays. The theme at Crazy Tuesday is « looking up ». Happy triple challenge day to you all !!
Antoni, the teddy bear, is a dreamer and he always was. As a tiny bear his eyes were always on the sky, watching the univers above us and wondering if we are alone. Perhaps there is another world to discover ? Maybe he will be able to see a sign of an intelligent life ? Or maybe he will just see a flying rocket ? For years , Antoni watched tirelessly the sky… And today, when he was looking up, he saw something out of ordinary !
Unfortunately I dont have the time to explain or even describe what Antoni saw, since I have another very, very urgent meeting of our cartography department and my presence is mandatory !! You will have to believe my picture and trust your own eyes ! And keep looking up, you might see something very, very extraordinary !!!
Mucho, mucho amor for you all!! Have a beautiful day my friends!!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !
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♫ The mood
"Heights looking down from above
The sky by my fingertips, the polychrome below
You wanna play it out live
Walking through a sea of colors
Floating through, I wanna see you lie down
It's so surreal, it's so surreal"
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Existing poses modified for the purpose of the picture
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IC 443 (also known as the faint and elusive Jellyfish Nebula Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. Flanked by two bright stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth. At that distance, this image would be about 300 light-years across.
Integration: 55 hours
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher MX
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD, Photoshop CS5
Filters: Baader Ha, OIII & SII
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel, Baader Planetarium 36mm narrowband filters
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I'll be far away
And I say
Blue eyes
Holding back the tears
Holding back the pain
Baby's got blue eyes
And she's alone again
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a clear blue sky
Watching over me
Blue eyes
I love blue eyes
When I'm by her side
Where I long to be
I will see
Blue eyes laughing in the sun
Laughing in the rain
Baby's got blue eyes
And I am home, and I am home again
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There is little to say,
little and every little thing.
So did you see
the dawn sky,
watch it soften
to palest pink
as that puff-ball robin
sounded out a new day?
And if you did
was a part of me present
in your first smile?
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like deep blue sea
On a blue blue day
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I'll be far away
And I say
Blue eyes holding back the tears
Holding back the pain
Baby's got blue eyes
And she's alone again
Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a clear blue sky
Watching over me
Blue eyes ooh I love blue eyes
when I'm by her side
Where I long to be
I will see
Blue eyes laughing in the sun
Laughing in the rain
Baby's got blue eyes
and I am home again
Blue eyes laughing in the sun
laughing in the rain
Baby's got blue eyes
And I am home again
Elton John
A reprocessed image taken on 21-1-2020 using Astro Pixel Processor. Taken at the Astronomical Society of Victoria dark sky site LMDSS.
Canon EOS 6D Modified.
Focal length: Canon 400mm f5.6
Mount Sky-Watcher EQM-35 Pro Go-To
Guiding: None
Exposure: 30 x 60sec @ ISO-3200 (RAW)
With Dark, Flat and Bias frames applied.
Software: DSS & LR
Taken January 21 2020
The original using Deep Sky Stacker can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/85879856@N07/49458727217/in/album-7...
Milky Way and Mars over Durdle Door, Dorset. Foreground is a stack of a few shots taken during blue hour at about 20:30 (5s at f/8 ISO 1250), night sky was taken with a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer at 23:30 (183s at f/2.8 ISO 400).
The Oldboatyard Restaurant - Arbroath
This has to be one of the most spectacular Sunsets that I have ever witnessed , down at my local harbour for the evening when everything just started to kick of , it was just amazing standing underneath this beautiful sky watching the colours in the sky transfom
Pushed the processing here, the structure stands out, at the cost of a grainy picture, looks great until you zoom in. The light of the half moon can be seen to the right of the image, reduced but I was unable to remove the glow completely. Non the less a pleasing image.
Several dozen frames at ISO1600 stacked IN DSS, and processed in Lightroom and Canon DDP.
Sky Watcher 80mm Equinox refractor.
Canon 760D, no filters.
Half moon present in 70 percent of the images.
This is an image of our natural satellite taken on a warm August morning last year.
Some prominent lunar maria (plural of mare, sea, lava filled plains) on the near side are (see annotated image for identifying these and other prominent features): Mare Imbrium (Sea of Showers, second larger lunar sea), Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity), Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds) and Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms, largest lunar basin). Prominent craters among others are Copernicus (diameter 93 Km), Plato (100 Km), Archimedes (83 Km), Aristarchus (40 Km, brightest lunar feature), Aristoteles (87 Km) and Tycho (86 Km, center of a large ray system).
Features close to the lunar terminator (day-night division) are seen better due to low angle illumination by the sun - that’s why the Full-Moon phase is the worse time to observes, as there are no shadows cast by lunar features.
Not the best image quality, since this is just one single exposure on a night with mediocre seeing (Moon altitude was also low, about 25o). Much better results are achieved by stacking lots of video frames on nights of good seeing conditions, still I was totally absorbed by simply observing through the eyepiece(s) with a bino-viewer, a very rewarding accessory for visual study of the Moon and the planets. I can also verify for those interested that the Sky-Watcher Mak 150 is a great scope for planetary observing and photography.
Thanks to everyone for looking. Clear skies to all!
Tech Details:
Camera Model: Canon EOS 550D
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Maksutov 150 PRO (6-inch, f/12)
Single shot, ISO 400, 1/40 sec
Processing: Adobe Photoshop 2020, Adobe Lightroom Classic
M51 MN190+1.4 extender, ISO800, ISO6400, 5H 10M 44S, 159 subs.
This image combines 21\2 hours exposure time from 2020 and 3 hours imaging time earlier in 2021. By combining the 2 photos together reveals a deeper image, the feint gas below the main galaxy M51 is seen extending the full width of the galaxy into interstellar space, which was not visible in the separate photos.
The interacting smaller galaxy is clearly overwhelmed by the gravitational force of the main galaxy, gas dust and stars being stripped out, asunder.
Canon 760D+1.4 extender, no filter.
Sky watcher MN190, F5.3, F7.5 with the extender.
Sky watcher NEQ6 goto mount.
Mgen3 Autoguider.
159 Subs from 50sec to 8mins, totaling 51\2 hours, depending on sky and Bortle conditions, collected over approx 10 nights, over 2 years.
Needle Galaxy, NGC 4565.
Sky watcher MN190 F5.3+1.4 extender F7.5
Sky watcher NEQ6 go to mount.
Canon 760D no filter.
MGEN3 Autoguider.
ISO 3200, 3 hours 26M 3S exposure time.
95 frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
Post processing in Lightroom and Canon DPP ( Digital Photo Professional ).
View full size for result!. Reduced the core brightness on this pic revealing ,more core detail, and overall contrast.
MN190, 3h 41m 81 frames, plus darks and flats and bias frames.
EOS760D Stock, Enhance narrow band tri filter.
MN190, F5.3, 7.5 inch Maksutov Newtonian .
Sky Watcher NEQ6 goto mount.
M GEN3 stand alone auto guider. 40mm guide scope.
3h 41m 81 frames, ISO 3200.
Post processing in Lightroom and Canon DDP.
I was watching the Sky from my kitchen window and I just had to take this picture, beautiful colors, amazing. Picture was taken in my backyard.
The final voyage on a Hurtigruten voyage was from Svolvar to Tromso a 17-hour trip. We did not board till 22.00 so there was lots of time to sit on deck and sky watch. Mary was dog-tired and went to bed around midnight taking my camera with her. About half an hour later the sky got rather interesting so I had to rely on my I Pad to take a few shots it did not do too bad a job. However it is not easy to hold up an Ipad on the deck of a moving ship they really catch the wind. I think this one was taken about one in the morning
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Feb 13 2023
Equipment--
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED 80, field flattener (no reducer), 480mm focal length
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI204MC-Pro
Guide scope: Williams Optics 50mm guide scope
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
Software: NINA, PHD2
Imaging--
Lights: 45x120s
Darks, Flats, DarkFlats, Bias: assorted
Sensor temp: -10.0
Filter: Optolong L-Pro
Sky: Bortle 5 (nominal)
Post processing--
Software: PixInsight, Photoshop
Our galaxy, extends over about 100,000 light years and contains 100 to 400 billion stars.
From Earth, we can only observe a cross section of the Milky Way, 1,000 to 3,000 light-years thick. It then appears as a trail of milky white light across the sky.
(According to Greek mythology, Hera tore Heracles, son of Zeus, from her womb, thus making the milk spurt out onto the sky, hence the name Milky Way)
📷 Canon EOS Rebel T5i ( 700D )
EF-S18-55mm F/3.5-5.6
🔭 Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
ISO 800
ExpTime 146.3s
F/3.5
18mm
I was working on and mulching my garden yesterday and this job is only once a year at the beginning of the year... and it was getting late when I was sitting at this lily of the valley bed and realized the sun was setting fast and my photographic opportunity was not lasting too long so ran inside and grabbed my camera... in the end all the mulch was on me, instead of in this flower bed, but i got this pic :) Thanks for looking!
And to boldly split infinitives. Andromeda galaxy - no stacking - one 1.5 minute exposure using sky watcher and 400mm lens. Just before the sky clouded over and all was lost.
The Dumbbell Nebula, M27 or NGC 6853 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1227 light-years. This object was the first planetary nebula to be discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
Equipment:
Celestron 9.25” 2350mm Edge-HD Telescope
Celestron .7 EdgeHD Reducer Lens
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
Orion 50mm Helical Guide Scope & StarShoot AutoGuider
Celestron 9x50 Finder Scope
ZWO ASI294MC Pro Color Camera
PHD2 Guiding Software
ZWO 1.25” Duo-Band Filter
SharpCap Pro
Thank you for your comments,
Gemma
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.”
– The Buddha
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9AFMVMl9qE
ELLIE GOULDING – YOUR SONG
FREEDOM
Seated in my dining room
I look towards the patio
where Buddha watches over me
through closed and hooded lids
so wise; so tranquil; so knowledgeable
an oasis of calm upon the ledge of the boundary of my life
my life may seem smaller now in some respects
my plans may have recently been shelved
but within the confines of my garden
my world is complete and in perfect harmony
there will be time enough I hope
when the illness that restricts my movements
has ended it's journey so that mine can then begin
this year I wanted to travel more
to see new places and revisit old memories
but “life is what happens
when we are making other plans” clichéd, yet true
so here I am and I can either watch the world go by
or I can wait for the world to come to me
for our knowledge of the world can be completely found
within the intricacies of nature; from the smallest insect
to the tallest tree and I can still lay on the grass
and look up to the sky; watch clouds endlessly floating by
imagine where they've been and all that they have seen
their watchful gaze takes in my form and carries it along
to another sky where someone else is also watching
how exciting it is to be a part of something
so much bigger than we are
the Universe; the Moon; the Sun and stars
I am not unique, but I am a part of you
and you are a part of me; together we make up the world
and who is to say that collective consciousness
is not within the clouds
or in the blinking of a shooting star;
or even a speck of dust carried on the wind
tomorrow that dust may settle on your shoulder or your shoe
and as you brush it gently away think of me
and I will know by the sound of the whispering wind
as it gently touches my face that the thought of me has travelled
and the thought of you is here,
so though we may stand still and barely move at all
we have in fact travelled the world together
have you ever caught a glimpse of a shadow
within your peripheral vision
only to turn and there is nothing there
perhaps that is me or one of you;
or at least the imprint that you have made upon this world
that travels freely within your mind and mine;
no borders can prevent this freedom that we have
the freedom of our minds can take us to the moon and back
in the blinking of an eye and the rain that falls on me
may someday fall on you; and can you see what happens
when raindrops trickle down the window
they merge and form a pool and that is us
one drop at a time we form the world; the whole.
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On a holiday to the coast for Easter, we spent Good Friday evening watching the sun set over the waves in the West. Middle son found a handy breakwater to sit and watch the show.
I guess we are a family of sky watchers!
La nébuleuse de l'Amérique du Nord, cataloguée NGC 7000, est une nébuleuse en émission située à environ 580 pc dans la constellation du Cygne, près de Alpha Cygni. Elle a une taille environ 15 pc.
Sky-watcher EQM-35 GOTO PRO
TS PHOTOLINE 80 / 560 + Réducteur
Altair-Astro 183 MM ProTec refroidie
Baader H-alpha 7 nm : 53 x 180s à -15 °C
Baader O3 8.5 nm : 40 x 180s à -15 °C
Baader S2 8 nm : 28 x 180s à -15 °C
Exposition totale 6H05
Nouveau traitement RVB avec :
Rouge = 75% H-Alpha + 25% SII
Vert = 100% OIII
Bleu = 80% OIII + 20% H-Alpha
My first record of the Trifid Nebula. The stacked frames, captured on two consecutive nights, totaled 5 hours and 10 minutes of exposure.
"The Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20 (M20), is a large star-forming region located in the southern constellation Sagittarius. The nebula’s name means “divided into three lobes,” and refers to the object consisting of three types of nebulae and an open star cluster. The open cluster is surrounded by an emission nebula, a reflection nebula, and a dark nebula within the emission nebula that gives M20 the trifurcated appearance for which it is known". Source: constellation-guide.com
Sky-Watcher 203mm F / 5 EQ5 reflector with Onstep, Canon T6 (primary focus) modified, Optolong L-eNhance filter (in one third of the frames). Guidescope 50mm with ASI 290MC. 62 light frames (42x300 "ISO 800 + L-eNhance: 20x300" ISO 1600). Processing: Sequator and PixInsight.
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The dog-day cicada comes out during the dog days of August - typically coinciding with a stretch of very hot and steamy summer weather here in Iowa. The dog days are so-called because Sirius - the Dog Star - appears in the eastern sky just before sunrise now in late summer and sky watchers in ancient times believed the bright light from Sirius amplified the light coming from the sun rising soon after, causing this seasonal searing heat wave. That does sound like a pretty convincing scientific explanation to me. By the way, the "song" of this dog-day cicada is a very loud high-pitched whine sounding like somebody sawing wood with a chain saw. Try sleeping with a hundred noisy cicadas calling from the treetops around your house now.
IC 1805 Heart nebula
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The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sh2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing gas and darker dust lanes. The nebula is formed by plasma of ionized hydrogen and free electrons.
The very brightest part of this nebula (the knot at the right) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of this nebula to be discovered.
The nebula's intense red output and its configuration are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass. The cluster used to contain a microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago.
Integration: 26.7 hours
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TSA 102
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TSA 102
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Focal reducers: Takahashi TOA/FS Reducer
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD, Photoshop CS5
Filters: Baader Ha, Hb, OIII & SII
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel, Baader Planetarium 36mm narrowband filters