A swirly galaxy with another little one next to it and connected
Messier 51, The Whirlpool Galaxy, stacked from 2530 pictures (about 10 hours of exposure, 10GB of images) taken over 2 nights, from my light-polluted suburban Portland front garden #seestars50 #messier51
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde
M-16 "Eagle Nebula" in Serpens. 12-minute exposure at 4:48 AM EDT Saturday, April 11, 2026, with the SeeStar S50 telescope from my back yard in far southeast Indianapolis. A stellar nursery almost 6,000 light years away.
M-16 "Eagle Nebula" in Serpens. 12-minute exposure at 4:48 AM EDT Saturday, April 11, 2026, with the SeeStar S50 telescope from my back yard in far southeast Indianapolis. A stellar nursery almost 6,000 light years away. #SeeStarS50 #Astrophotography #HoosierSky #Indianapolis
Finally got some more clear sky last night, and got a couple of images with my #SeestarS50, 47 minutes of 10 second exposures on the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101 ) and 31 minutes on the Cigar Galaxy (M82, in the centre) with Bode's Galaxy (M81) in the top right
#astronomy #astrophotography #seestar
The Waning Gibbous Moon at 3:28 AM EDT April 7, 2026. Less than 12 hours after the crew of Artemis II swung around it and headed back to Earth. The Moon was very low in the constellation Scorpius.
The Waning Gibbous Moon at 3:28 AM EDT April 7, 2026. Less than 12 hours after the crew of Artemis II swung around it and headed back to Earth. The Moon was very low in the constellation Scorpius. #ArtemisII #HoosierSky #Indiana #SeeStarS50
Waxing Gibbous Moon imaged with my SeeStar S50 scope. 10:37 PM EDT March 28, 2026.
I was able to image the Waxing Gibbous Moon tonight in spite of increasing high clouds, with my SeeStar S50.
10:37 PM EDT March 28, 2026.
2:37 UT March 29, 2026.
Lunar Co-Longitude = 37.43 degrees.
#HoosierSky #Indiana #SeeStarS50 #Astrophotography
Picture of the moon today
There is a lovely moon in the sky if anyone is interested.
#moon #seestars50
Dark sky with a small spiral galaxy in the middle with clearly distinct spiral arms
Messier 100, (for some reason unofficially dubbed the Blow dryer Galaxy) has exquisite spiral arms. Taken last night from our front yard in Portland (Bortle Class 7)... the Seestar S50 was taking pictures until 4am before it set behind some trees. #m100 #seestars50 #portland #bortle7 #mirrorgalaxy
A 2hr integration of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) a few nights ago, on the Seestar S50 #astronomy #astrophotography #seestarS50 #nightsky #galaxy
A small but perfectly formed spiral galaxy floats in a sea of stars.
Because the UK sky gods continue to smile upon me, here’s some more #SeestarS50 #Astrophotography
This is NGC 3631, a ‘small’ spiral galaxy seen face on. You can find it in Ursa Major, and it’s an absolute gem.
An hour of imaging here. Noise reduction by Seestar […]
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Tge galaxy M84 in Virgo. But just below in this screen grab is a cluster of pinkish pixels... that PGC169281 a galaxy and it is TWO BILLION light years away!
So just below M84 here is a wee smudge of pixels. They are vaguely pinkish (zoomed in here so the colour is an artefact).
Those pixels a PGC169281 a galaxy that is A) travelling away from us at 11% the speed of light & B) is 2 BILLION light years away!
Blows my […]
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Galaxy M101 imaged with my SeeStar S50 last week. 20 minute exposure with no editing.
It's high time that I started the learning curve to do variable star photometry with my SeeStar S50. I need some kind of "guide for dummies." Here's an image of the galaxy M101 I took last week. #SeeStarS50 #AAVSO
Right then! For the first time this year basically I got a GOOD night of #Astronomy and #Astrophotography with the #SeestarS50. And it’s Galaxy Season. And I got the scope to do 20s subs with basically NO rejections. Truly the astronomy gods smiled upon me last night. So here’s a wee thread of […]
