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Some images from last night.
We have Centaurus A, the Jewel box cluster and southern Pleiades (IC 2602) from the Dwarf and a mosaic of the running chicken nebula from the Seestar.
#seestarS50 #dwarf3 #astrophotography

A wide star field. Centre right is what resembles a large star with a wispy cloud in front of it. I love this image 😍
Watermark: DWARF 3
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Centaurus A | 43 min 30.s

Very dense star field with a bright cluster of stars in the centre, the Jewel Box.
Watermark:DWARF 3
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Herschel's Jewel Boy | 49 min

The Southern Pleiades. A dense star field with a loose cluster of very bright white stars centrally placed. One especially bright star in the centre.
Watermark: DWARF 3
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IC 2602 41 min

The Running Chicken Nebula. An emission nebula only visible from southern skies. This is a mosaic of 2x2 photos merged into one.
Watermark:
Seestar S50
115° E, 31° S
2026.02.20 03:59
IC 2944
90min

For the first time, I put my #seestarS50 and #dwarf3 out in the same location, looking at the same object, at the same time for supposedly the same length of time. I have felt that the Dwarf was better but didn’t ’zoom in’ enough, so the Seestar would get me closer to an object. Now I have some evidence and no, the Dwarf wins even in that domain. Consider the images.
The dwarf has a wider field of view but a much higher resolution so you can zoom in on the image and get a closer in view of the object than the Seestar.
The image is less noisy on the dwarf (both had their respective denoise algorithms applied)
I’m sure there are situations where the Seestar will shine, but for this #astrophotography, I will stay with the Dwarf.

Note that both were scheduled for 1 hour of airtime but frames were dropped because of reasons I am not sure about, but probably because of streaks, blurs or planes flying through leaving trails.

A star cluster - C96 the southern beehive cluster or diamond cluster.
3 bright yellow stars in a triangle with a cluster of white stars below. Watermark on the image:
Seestar S50
115º E, 81° S/ 2026.02.19 23:29
C 96
33min

The c96 cluster / southern beehive cluster / diamond cluster. Same alignment as the other image but with greater field of view.
Watermark text:
DWARF 3
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NGC 2516 | 49 min 30 s

I took advantage of the new Moon a couple days ago, and got a nice look at Centaurus A.

Quite good detail this time.

#SmartTelescope #Dwarf3 #DwarfLabs #Astronomy #Astrophotography #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #BackyardAstronomy #DrivewayAstrophotography

An unusual Galaxy with a dark stripe across it is in the centre of a well populated star field. There are distinctly red and blue tinted stars, and a faint satellite trail at the top of the image.

Well the #astrophotography from Wednesday night was a failure. I ran out of space on the device! So last night was a retry.
#dwarf3

Jupiter and its moons. A slight green tinge. Not sure where that came from. Taken on the dwarf 3.

A red cloud formation with same dark areas separating it into 2 halves. 1 hr 41 min of images stacked using dual band filter on my DWARF 3.

Betelgeuse - a single bright star in a field of less bright stars.
Taken on my DWARF 3. 7 mins of stacked images.
HD 39801

Another mission nebula - a red cloud of dust with a starry background. A smaller cloud off to the right. ic 2872
1 h 32 min of stacked images. Dual band filter

A cool effect when a tree blocked out the sun in parts! Unedited!

#Dwarf3 #sun #photo

The sun appears behind leafless tree branches, creating a silhouette against a reddish-orange sky.

Bright orange full sun with silhouetted tree branches in front, set against a dark sky.

A bright orange Sun with two small dark spots on its surface, against a black background.

Due the bad weather a new composing of my #M31 shot from last year September with my #dwarf3.
Mosik of two parts with total 353 pics, 30s 60gain Astro filter.
STacking in #siril with the #naztronomy script , removing stars with the #syqon starless script, and more processing with several of teh #veralux then the final tuning in #dxophotolab and #DXONIKCollection

#Sun #star #Dwarf3

Photo of the sun made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

VIS filter photo sun made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

Distortion because of clouds make a fun effect on solar picture made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

#Sun #star #Dwarf3

Photo of the sun with longer exposure made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

#Moon #Luna #Dwarf3

Photo of the moon with filter made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

#Luna #moon #DWARF3

Photo of the moon made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

#DWARF3 Telescope photos of our #star the #sun! ☀️

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The sun photo made with Dwarf 3 Telescope

The sun photo made with Dwarf 3 Telescope Astro Filter

The sun photo made with Dwarf 3 Telescope VIS filter

Waxing Gibbous passed, I didn't get a good one of full moon, because there's rarely such a thing, but Waning Gibbous cometh.
#AstroPhotography #Dwarf3

The moon in its waning gibbous phase. The craters and mare are clearly visible. This was taken by a Dwarf 3 digital camera in 20 images, 0.04 s each.

Made with #DWARF3 #telescope. #sun #star #space

Astro filter on Dwarf 3 - sun on 4 February 2026.

I tried my hand at using the processing software for the M42 shot.
#AstroPhotography #Dwarf3

M42 Great Nebula in Orion taken by Dwarf 3 and post processed using the Stellar Studio I think it's called.

There was a lovely waxing gibbous moon just past first quarter tonight.
#AstroPhotography #Dwarf3

A photograph of the moon in its waxing gibbous phase. The terminus is on the right hand side of the image and there are various mare (seas) and craters visible.

Nebulosa cabeza de Caballo y de la Flama

815 fotos de 60 segundos cada una, tomadas a lo largo de 5 días.
Total de integración de 13hs 35min

#Dwarf3 en modo ecuatorial desde Bortle 8/9

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #SmartTelescope #AstronomíaDel3erMundo #Astrodon

Nebulosa cabeza de Caballo y de la Flama

Attempt two. Found a darker place to put my Dwarf3.
#AstroPhotography #Dwarf3

A photograph of the Great Orion Nebula (M42) taken by a Dwarf 3 digital telescope. It says it was doing so for 1 h 49 minutes.

Es ist voller Sterne. Der M35, ein offener Sternhaufen.

#Dwarf3 #AstroPhotography

Sternenhimmel mit vielen Sternen und einem offenen Sternhaufen im Zentrum.

Wieder nichts mit der ISS heute. Ich habe aber den #Mond für euch im rahmen der #Dwarf3 #AstroPhotography.

Wie findet ihr?

Dunkelmond am Nachthimmel, halb sichtbar mit detaillierter Oberfläche.

Aufgrund technischer Herausforderung die #ISS nicht gesehen. Aber wie wäre es mit einem Nebel und ein paar Sternen?
Bisherige Ausbeute der #AstroPhotography mit dem #Dwarf3 von gestern.

#Dwarf3

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