On our way after some technical issues

Good night fediverse.
#moon #Astrophotograhy

So to continue with highlights from our #astrophotography expedition to Gingin, another subject I had some fun with was Sandqvist 149.

Yes, I'm aware of its other, more popular name but let's let the discoverer have some kudos, huh?

This is a dark nebula, a star-blotting-out mass of dust that looks like a crack in the sky. You can see some stars in front of it which gives me a sense of three dimensionality to the usual flatness that I get of looking into the infinity of the night sky, and gives perhaps the sense that it is a dust cloud there, not a crack in reality.

The image on the left I took with the #dwarfiii - 60 second exposure, with a gain of 80, and stacked 40 of them.

That's coming to us straight out of camera, and I'll do some post to it sometime.

The image on the right was taken with the #DwarfII with shutter 15 and gain 80, for about 330 frames - and is the first time I've used a stellation mask.

I think that they look a bit silly - because stars don't look like that and it's a really artificial sort of prettiness that's a bit kitsch to me. Sorry to everyone who uses them - I mean they can look pretty, I admit...but for me they're usually meh.

I thought it would be funny to use one for a dark object.

Open Source KStars is the most feature-rich free astronomy software for Linux, macOS, and Windows

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-b7a72c38-7719ac518d47167a

Open Source KStars is the most feature-rich free astronomy software for Linux, macOS, and Windows

KStars caters to a wide-variety of use cases. Whether you are a student, an educator, an amateur astronomer or an astronomy enthusiast, you will find tools in KStars that are useful to you.

Graphical simulation of the sky with the planets, up to ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/open-source-kstars-is-the-most-feature-rich-free-astronomy-software-for-linux-macos-and-windows/

The sun is out! I can finally fly my drone.

I was able to get QGroundControl to fix a bug but it seems to have introduced another. I have to upload my mission in the daily build then never disconnect from it or use the normal build to actually connect after uploading.

I doubt the rain will stay away long enough so tonight I can finally test my camera for astrophotography but fingers crossed.

Just me over here standing in the middle of a moonlit forest, trying to escape all chaos big and small
#Astrophotograhy #photography

feels good to be doing some #Astrophotograhy again after months and months of clouds and missing astronomical darkness through summer.
two (hopefully) clear nights ahead.

Stars shape the Universe. The intense stellar winds of a very energetic main sequence blue star push the interstellar medium filled with ionized hydrogen to form the huge Bubble Nebula, in the constellation of Cassiopeia, close to the North Celestial Pole.

This galaxy is called the Hidden Galaxy bc literally it is behind kazillions of stars that are in the equatorial plane of our own galaxy. So, this might explain why it was discovered not so long ago, in 1892, by a man who responded to the name of William Frederick Denning. However, some visual astronomers claim that this galaxy can be spotted with a pair of binoculars from a dark sky. God bless the eyesight of these astronomers.
#Astrodon #astronomy #Astrophotograhy #space #nightsky

Managed to catch some shots of the sun through the solar telescope even though the seeing isn't great today.
#Astrophotograhy

Taken with a Lunt LS 50THa + Player One Ceres 462M camera.

Couple hours before sunrise in Wailea, Maui

The Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2024

#Astrophotograhy #photography #photostodon

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/21/milky-way-photographer-of-the-year-2024-in-pictures

Pinko

#PinkMoon #FullMoon #Moon #mastophotography #Lunarphotos #Lunarphotography #Photography #Astrophotograhy https://pixelfed.social/p/Lsquare28/690735769139213888

Lunchtime adventures in #AstroPhotograhy and #Astronomy in #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy

So this is our closest star, Sol, today as seen from Perth, Western Australia. Look out for auroras, that's all I can say. Check out those sunspots on the left.

This was 11 frames at 1/320, using ND1E6 sunglasses for the #DwarfII

I upped the warmth in Google photos just to give it more of a sun vibe cosmetically and a bit of pop and contrast.

Now, really, can I call it #BackYardAstronomy if I'm doing it in my front yard?

The Dark Emu constellation rising over Nyoongar Balladong boodjar.
This constellation is unusual as it's made from the dark spaces. The head of the Emu is the Coalsack Nebula, and the neck stretches from right to left at an angle. My phone couldn't quite get all the body and legs, but I got most of the body which you can see on the left.

#AstroPhotograhy
#Astronomy #IndigenousAstronomy #DarkEmu