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@rsliva@astrodon.social also the very distant NGC 6144 just to the upper left of Antares

@mdales thanks! 💜

Blog post and pics up for my latest ax…
#electricguitar #customguitar #lutherie #barnwood #salvagedwood.

https://dismalax.com/2023/12/03/2304-sparrowhawk/

A jauntily shaped electric guitar in a rustic motif, greyish green with a wide, dark brown stripe in the middle, brass and aluminum hardware in an art deco style, and dark red pickup covers, against a black background.

@catherinerhyde It’s awesome, but I think you mean the Cocoon nebula?

52 Cygni and a wisp of the Western Veil Nebula, making me want to tear out the ir filter in my little Canon M200 😹
Don’t get me wrong, I was delighted to see the blue show up with a decent amount of detail, but the faint traces of reds just make me want more.
This is 168x 30 seconds at iso1600 through my 7” f/4.5 reflector on homemade equatorial mount with RA drive only.
#astronomy #Astrodon #space #nebula #astrophotography

$52 Cygni, a bright star near the middle of the frame, with four diffraction spikes, caressed by a long trail of thready, undulating wisps of blue, thinner and more concentrated to the right, and becoming more diffuse towards the left as it passes the star. All against a dark background peppered with small stars.$

The Helix nebula. This is only about 50 minutes or so integration. I should probably be getting more time into tonight but instead I’m trying to see what I can get of the Veil nebula at 800mm fl. I really like this though even if it is a little grainy.
Canon M200, 7” f/4.5 Newtonian, 1.1x coma corrector, homemade equatorial mount with RA drive only.
112x 30 seconds at iso1600
#astronomy #Astrodon #space #astrophotography #nebula

The Helix Nebula, seen here as a hazy, roundish mass of gasses sloughed off by the white dwarf star at its center. The middle is greenish blue, becoming yellowish toward the outside, fringed in red. Background is black with a moderate amount of small stars.

@glasspusher thanks! 💜✨

Messiers 31, 32, 33, and 110; our celestial neighborhood.
Andromeda Galaxy at top, flanked by dwarf galaxies M32 and M110, 2.5ish million light years away; Triangulum Galaxy lower right; 2.7ish million.
Mirach (Beta Andromedae,) mag. 2 star in Andromeda, center; 197 light years.
Open cluster Caldwell 28, lower left; 1400 light years.
Canon M200, Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9 at f/4.
96x 30 seconds at iso1600, tracked and stacked with calibration frames.
#andromeda #galaxy #astronomy #Astrodon

A field of tiny stars, with a few brighter ones, against a black background. At top is the Andromeda galaxy, seen as a small ellipse of swirling white. At lower right is the Triangulum Galaxy, similar, but considerably smaller and more compact.

@astromecanik thanks! Uranus is magnitude 5.6, which is at the edge of unaided vision, so it actually shows up easily in photography when the Moon isn’t washing out everything around it. This is one of the few times clouds are a good thing in this context 😹

Moon and Uranus last night. Uranus is the tiny dot to the right of the cloud. Spent about an hour waiting for the cloud cover to present the right combination of filtering the brightness of the moon and leaving a clear spot for the much dimmer planet.
#moon #planet #uranus #astronomy #Astrodon

The bright disk of the nearly full moon to the right, partially obscured by a fluffy white cloud, with the tiny white dot of Uranus to the right, against a dark sky.

@inababy from here in Tennessee; it’s the little dot to the right of the cloud. Tricky to pick up that close to the nearly full moon.

@heafnerj thank you 💜

The Flame and Horsehead Nebulae, with the blue supergiant Alnitak between them.
Canon M200, Zeiss 2.8/180, uv/ir cut filter, SW Star adventurer 2i.
120x 30 seconds at f/4, iso800
#astronomy #Astrodon #nebula

Two colorful nebulae and many stars against a black background, more details in following photos

The Flame Nebula, appearing as a pinkish white cloud, with dark veins of dust arranged like a tree trunk. Alnitak, a large bright star is directly to the right, surrounded by pale, but colorful halos. All against a black background with many smaller stars.

The Horsehead Nebula, appearing as a wide swath of red gasses, with a dark cloud in front, shaped like the head of a horse. Several bright stars scattered nearby. All against a dark background with many smaller stars

@cathieleblanc I love the owl… caught it perching on a branch a while back

A little cluster of stars resembling an owl, appearing to perch on a branch in the foreground, against a starry sky.

A couple nice wide views of the Milky Way last night.
Sagittarius, Scutum, and Aquila.
Cygnus and Lyra with the Summer Triangle of Deneb, Altair, and Vega.
Started shooting Cassiopeia and Cepheus, but it got cloudy.
Canon M200, Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 stm at f/4, SW Star Adventurer 2i.
40x 30 seconds each at iso800, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with 20 each dark, flat, dark flat, and bias frames.
Pretty impressed with this little pancake lens
#milkyway #space #Astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

A swath of the Milky Way, appearing as a column of billowing clouds of stars and nebulae, interspersed with darker lanes of dust, against a starry sky, with the glow of the horizon below. The constellations Sagittarius, Scutum, and Aquila are visible, along with the Eagle, Swan, and Lagoon nebulae, globular cluster M22, and many other features.

Another swath of Milky Way, through Cygnus, appearing a bit more stark, with the stars Altair, Deneb, and Vega arranged in a large triangle l

Jupiter and Ganymede early this morning.
A nice sized dark hot spot north of the Great Red Spot.
#Jupiter #planet #space #astronomy #Astrodon

Jupiter, seen here as a large obovate ball with whitish and brownish bands of clouds diagonally across it, a reddish oval lodged in one, and some dark voids at the edge of another., against a black, starless sky, with Ganymede, a small, greyish dot, in the opposite corner.

@world_beauty
A more nuanced look…

The lagoon nebula, seen here as a cluster of small bright stars amidst swirls of pale blue and pink clouds of interstellar gas and dust

My two new Sparrowhawks out on the porch. Fully fledged and awaiting flight.
#electricguitar #customguitar #lutherie #barnwood #salvagedwood #milkpaint

Two electric guitars laying flat on a weathered wooden floor. Both have the same jaunty body shape, with aluminum and brass hardware. One is red and black, the other green and brown.

@stfn I haven’t been able to figure out stretching in Siril. I found a quick tutorial on doing it in gimp, and found it really easy. Maybe I’ll see if I can find a similar one for Siril.

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