Time for a little solar astronomy with the #Dwarf2. So much for that Grand Solar Minimum, eh?

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Photo de la lune presque pleine. Les nombreux cratères et impacts sont visibles.

#astrophotography Moon. #Dwarf2 telescope.

Nébuleuse d’orion (M42) prise au télescope Dwarf2. Composition de 180 images, 15s et 60 iso.

#astrophotography

Orion Nebula (M42) last night in France. Clear sky, but high moon. #Dwarf2 telescope : 15s/60/180

Post treatment DWARFLAB mega stack and stellar studio.

Two tripod-mounted devices are set up outdoors in front of a wooden fence. The taller tripod holds a rectangular, gray device with dual lenses and connected white cables. The shorter tripod supports a similar device angled slightly upward. Green grass and some leafy plants grow at the fence's base. White string lights are loosely attached to the fence.

My #Dwarf2 (r) and #Dwarf3 (l) recording the #birds of the backyard. I am dumping all of my videos from these two (and my #Canon) over here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A slightly longer, better quality video shot from my #Canon instead of the #Dwarf2 / #Dwarf3 showing a mother European Starling feeding her hungry and and absurdly large youngster. #Birds

youtu.be/A09lJpk-Oww

The Sun may be beating down, but it is comparatively quiet in terms of sunspots today. #Dwarf2 🔭

Watched today's partial eclipse with my Dwarf II.
Unfortunately I didn't get all of it as I forgot to use an external battery pack and timelapse mode really drains the battery hard. Still I'm happy with what I got.
#dwarflab #dwarf2 #dwarfii

youtu.be/0teaVh8cscc

Flashback to our visitor, Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

This was, i believe, one of the last few evenings visible

#DwarfLabs #Dwarf2 #Astrophotography #Comet

Good morning, shot of Waning Gibbous moon taken this morning.

#WaningGibbous #DwarfLabs #Dwarf2 #Moon #Astrophotography

Tonight's moon from UK, it's big and cratery

A #moon
#dwarf2

Here we see two photos of the Moon combined into one, as if we see the earthshine lighting up the dark side of the Moon #dwarlab #dwarf2 #moon

The tail of comet C2023A3 Tsuchinsan-ATLAS was so large that I had to take a mosaic of 4 separate photos to get it all (2024-10-25) #dwarflab #dwarf2 #comet

The november Moon with its many many craters visible because of slowly rising Sunlight #dwarflab #dwarf2 #moon

Nice to see so many people getting into #Astrophotography because of devices like the #SeeStar & #Dwarf2

Photograph of the Beaver Super Moon taken in Livingston, Tennessee, on November 16, 2024, at 03:00. The image captures the Moon in stunning detail, highlighting its craters, ridges, and bright rays against a pitch-black sky. Text at the bottom includes the event name, location, date, and time, along with a small watermark that reads “Ragle.”

The Beaver Super Moon, shot this morning using my Dwarf 2, 1000 images at 1/1000 exposure, 20 gain, IR Cut, color corrected in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

#BeaverMoon #SuperMoon #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Dwarf2 #Dwarflab

今夜は全天的に晴天だったので、ダメ元で30cmドブソニアン反射と、DWARF2の両方で、かなり遠ざかった紫金山(ツーチンシャン)アトラス彗星を観測

前の時は失敗した、DWARF2のキャリブレーションに成功し、スマホアプリのAtlasモードにC/2023 A3が現れ、ダブルタップ後の［A］で自動追尾にしたら、ご覧の通りに5等級前後の星野を、背景に浮かぶ彗星の追尾観測に成功🙌

ドブ鏡は光軸調整が間に合わずピンボケで、観測方向の街の光害もあり、目視では見つけられんかったがほぼ満足w

#DWARFLAB #DWARF2
#紫金山アトラス彗星 #C2023A3

午後3時まで晴天だったのに、午後5時過ぎから曇り出したけど、雲の合間からようやく撮影出来ました!!
ちなみにこのあと、もう一回撮影しようとしたけど、既に曇ってしまって、戻り彗星としてはコレが初でラスト^^;
スマート望遠鏡 #DWARF2 スゴイ!!
#紫金山アトラス彗星

Why am I up until 2:30am?
Because I found the spec for the #dwarflab #dwarf2 #dwarfii api and started building a dotnet (.net) library to control my scope.
If they made the app easier to use I wouldn't need to do this, ask anyone who's tried to set the gain/shutter speed etc with a big fat finger...

A sunny morning, so a chance to test the replacement solar filters for my #Dwarf2 (I lost the originals when I fell off a cliff. Really). All good and Sun suitably spotty.

One other #Dwarf2 versus #eVscope comparison from last night’s twilight skies, looking at M81. You get a lot more detail with the #eVscope, but the #Dwarf2 gives you M82 for free!

So I took a look at the rather unusual open star cluster NGC 188. Half-hour exposures with each telescope. The larger field of view of the #Dwarf2 puts the cluster in context nicely, while the larger aperture of the #eVscope picks up many fainter stars. 2/5

Into the eternal twilight of late May and lots of Moon, so really not that dark, but too nice a night last night not to get a telescope out. And if one is good, two is better, so both the little #Dwarf2 and the #eVscope were out on the patio. 1/5

I wish we had more #Dwarf2 users here to share our experiences, dissatisfactions and, sometimes, photos XD