Quick pic of globby M3 from last night 😃 An 11.4 billion year old cluster of half a million stars located 34,000 light years away
2.5 hours exposure with an 8" f/10 SCT reduced 0.65x. SCT astrophotography has been challenging and this isn't perfect but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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Thank you!
Image of the Orion Nebula
Another year, another pic of the orion nebula :)
Our nearest star forming region; so bright you can see it with the naked eye, even in the most light polluted places
Got the data for this back in december but had so many setbacks i just now successfully processed it haha
Go to a casino put it all on red so winner gets $20k :)
Thank you!!
Recently got this picture of Pleiades and the surrounding nebula 😁
One of our nearest star clusters, about 444 ly away and only 100m years old. The nebula looks blue due to trace amounts of carbon present
The star cluster is very bright, you can easily see it in the night sky this time of year!
this is correct actually
Thanks! Gear for this one is Redcat 51, ZWO ASI2600MM, SkyWatcher EQ6-R pro, asi120mm mini guide camera, LRGB color filters
Pic of Andromeda I've been working on for like a month :) our nearest galactic neighbor
Took a pic of the dumbbell nebula (M27), a remnant of a dying star.
August 31, 4.5 hours total integration time
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
lunar eclipse!
Very exciting! I've got clear skies so I'm staying up to watch
The M81 group, from left to right: the garland galaxy, bode's galaxy, and the cigar galaxy. Imaged across 2 nights last weekend
Taken with Redcat 51 and ASI178MM
Skywatcher EQ6-r mount
20x80s exposures each RGB, processed with Siril and GraXpert
Globular cluster M3 from Saturday night, a cluster of ~500,000 stars 32,000 ly away. These clusters are some of the oldest objects in the galaxy, this one is about 11.4 billion years old
thanks!! i do too
The Orion nebula, 1.5 hours exposure
dippin my toes into deep sky astrophotography, here's the Orion nebula :)
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