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A closer look at Orion

I‘m blown away by the details of this photo that I took yesterday from our terrace. It shows the Horse Head Nebula as well as the Great Orion Nebula and a ton of stars from the Orion constellation.

I took 180 light frames at 200mm using ISO 1000 at f3.5 for 15 seconds each on the Canon EOS R with Canon EF 70-200 f2.8L IS USM II. Then I stacked and processed them using Siril.

#orion #space #astrophotography #staradventurer #deepspace #canon #eosr #siril

Can astronomy mastodon recommend a basic astro-webcam I can fit to my entry-level 1.25" lenses and which adapters I'd require?

Everything I've seen for sale looks like it threads onto the eyepiece, but I can't see on my lenses where it should fit.

I've been enjoying using a mobile phone adapter, I got this great pic of the moon last night, but it's a right faff.

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First picture is last nights full moon called the snow moon. Other pictures are just different phases of the moon that the moon goes through during the course of the month.

#astrophotography #astronomy #Space #moon #mississippi #nature #sky

A shot of the moon and Jupiter with 3 of its moons (Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa). I forgot I took this back in late Jan. Handheld through an RF 100-400mm @~174mm.

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(Nov/2022) Nebulosa #IC4628 acompañada por los cúmulos #NGC6242 y #NGC6231, en la zona del "falso cometa" de Escorpio, delimitada por las estrellas dobles ópticas μ1,2 y ζ1,2 Scorpii #Astrophotography #LaPalma #Hermine
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A senior executive at Zero-G loves watching first-time customers on her company's parabolic airplane flights. Joining the joyriding clients are new types of people seeking access to microgravity, even if it's just for a few seconds at a time, across a spectrum of abilities, interests, and science types.

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#Astronomy #Astrophotography #NightSky #Space #Comet

With Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) moving towards the east, I was able use my telescope tonight to get a few images of the comet. The comet now has a visible magnitude of 4.4, well within naked eye view but the bright moon makes it hard (really impossible) to see. Took 40 pictures at different exposure speed and ISO settings. These four are the best ones.

First image at 10 seconds, ISO of 3200.

Second image at 15 seconds, ISO of 3200.

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Sneak preview of my next fine collection of photons from my driveway!

This is part of the **Seagull Nebula** in *Monoceros *(on the border to *Canis Major*); you're looking at the average of about 13 hours of 10 minute Hydrogen-alpha emission exposures, with stars removed.

Try to spot two things:
- *bow shock* of a star (looks like a thin crescent Moon)
- image artifact from a plane that happened to fly through

#astrophotography

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The is about to host one giant leap in artificial intelligence (). A machine learning system will make its way to the moon's surface onboard the United Arab Emirates that launched with Dec. 11.

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Ta-dah! Felted planets, as seen in visible light, designed and entirely handmade by me. Do you like? #science #crafts #hobbies #felting #space

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My shot of the gorgeous green ZTF comet gracing our skies right now ☄️

This is the result of ~200 stacked images over the course of half an hour, from my courtyard, with a vaonis vespera

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the trees. Clouds rolled in before he got above the treeline at 3:30am (again). *sigh*
#astrophotography #comet

This isn't really my handiwork, as the telescope did all the work, and I haven't done any post processing, but I wanted to share my first #astrophotography, Caroline's Rose cluster. From my tiny, light polluted back yard, no filters

A first attempt at processing some images of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) captured last week whilst the comet was scooting through the stars of Draco. I'm pleased to have picked up both the dust tail and the fainter ion tail. I need to spend more time on processing... This was 120x60s exposures at ISO1600. Vixen ED80 on an EQ5, Canon 6D camera. #Astrophotography #Comet

A memory shared today for the Day of Remembrance: The day before the launch disaster, senior NASA official James Beggs made an urgent phone call to the agency's chief engineer after seeing icicles on the launch tower.

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