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(I said I’d let you know when it arrived - thank you for the inspiration!)
#dwarf3 #astrophotography

So yesterday a #dwarf3 telescope arrived and I was disappointed because it was cloudy and raining but I poked my head out at about 10pm and saw stars so I thought I’d give it a try. Easy to set up and in minutes I was finding stars. Took my first photo of the Lagoon Nebula and I’m thrilled! Then the clouds returned. So hopefully next weekend I’ll get some good ones.
Here is my Lagoon Nebula photo. 40x15s photos stacked up and then processed to reduce noise.

#astrophotography

Astro photograph of the lagoon nebula. Taken on a Dwarf3. A 10 minute exposure. A ‘bulbous cloud’ of gas in a sea of stars.

I got a new toy but I’m going to have to wait for a bit before I can use it! :sad face:
Cloudy, rainy whether does not lead to fun with new telescope
#dwarf3 #excite

We have been blessed/cursed by a very dry Djeran / Autumn period. Cursed because no rain after a long, hot Bunuru( Second Summer) and blessed because the nights are cold, and very clear.

This and @rdm having to be on Munich time for a few days prompted some enthusiastic astrophotography sessions ahead of the news that the clouds were finally coming to us with some rain.

We figured that we'd do a lot of astrophotography, and then write it up and share photos during the rainy cloudy bits to keep us going.

So here we are - this is my first post about it, and it's about the last day of the clear sky.

We have here NGC 4945 or Caldwell 83 - also known as the Tweezers Galaxy (I personally think it looks more like an orange peeler).

I was leafing through Astronomy Australia 2025 and found it as a target for May. I hadn't come across this galaxy before, and was thrilled to find a galaxy that's a big enough apparent size to suit my #dwarf3

These are great books and the last of this great almanac that they'll publish, after 30 years - so get yours today - https://quasarastronomy.com.au/product/astronomy-2025/ even though it's a yearbook it's still going to be useful down the track. If you're in Australia or close enough. #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy folks. I grabbed some of their back catalogue - incredibly cheap and plenty of interesting stuff in there, if only historically. 🙂

So, anyway, back to the galaxy - I plonked the #SmartTelescope on the roof later in the evening so it's only a few hours exposure. Gain was 80, exposure was 60. Got a few hundred frames in two sessions as I belatedly realised that I should get the telescope to shut down before the closest Sun made itself apparent.

So then, in the morning @rdm ran me through the Mega Stack and Stellar Studio provided through Infinity Lab within the telescope, which was super easy, and then I did some cropping in Snapseed.

And this is the result, I hope you enjoy!

#Astrodon #Astronomy #BackyardAstrophotography #DrivewayAstrophotography #Galaxy

A highly populated starfield, there are also a few little fuzzy yellow galaxies. In the middle a Seyfert type galaxy sits at an angle between two big blue white stars.
Text in the corner reads Caldwell 83 Alicia Smith (c) 2025

What should I target this evening with my #Dwarf3 ?

Southern hemisphere , of course

#Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon

So I'm attending a tech conference in Munich this week - virtually. This means I am keeping CEST, and that lunchtime is 6pm local.

So at lunchtime, I set up my #dwarf3 on the back roof, and let it run for the 'afternoon'.

My target was Messier 6 aka NGC6405 aka "The Butterfly Cluster". There is some very nice nebulosity right next to it. so I framed things a little off, and also got the smaller open clusters NGC6383 (aka NGC6374) and the tiny NGC6404.

I ended up with 240 frames out of 300, at 60s per frame - or 4 hours of usable data.

I then ran it through the Dwarflab postprocessing tools, and finished off with some work in Google photos and Snapseed.

#nebula #OpenCluster #M6 #NGC6383 #NGC6406 #Astrodon #Astronomy #astrophotography #Scorpius

A bright star cluster in the top left sits in front of a cloudy nebula that fades to the right. In the upper right is a second, fainter cluster. There is a pair of orange stars on either side of the bottom left corner.

Compared to other astronomer gears, this small #dwarflab astrograph might be a toy - but it is a serious one…

M101 „Pinwheel Galaxy“.
Composed with 102 images á 30s plus 139 images á 60s from my #dwarf3 - overall about 3 hours.
Post processed with #siril , #graxpert and others.

#astronomy #astrophotography #stargazer

M101 galaxy photo made with Dwarf 3 smart-telescope

Today we have a mosaic of two images, both taken the same night by two #Dwarf3 #SmartTelescopes from the roof of the studio at the back of our house, where we left them running all night, with the help of a pair of 10Ah USB-C powerpacks.

I targeted The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC6334), while @leece targeted part of the nearby NGC6357. We both made sure to have the individual nebulae off-centre frame enough that we could get a slight overlap.

For both we have around 7 hours of exposure - 420ishx60s@80, both with the internal Ha/OIII filter.

We ran both images through the Dwarflab Stellar Studio to do a star removal, and recomposed both images with a star mask. Some final tuning in Snapseed, and then a manual combining of the two shots.

All up, about 2 hours actual effort, over three days.

#Astrophotography #Astrodon #NGC6334 #NGC6357 #MosaicImage #Nebula #Astronomy #Dwarflab #Snapseed

Two red-orange nebulosities against a fainter blue-green cloudiness. The top nebula resembles the pawprint of a cat, while the lower looks a bit like a lobster or scorpion. Each is annotated in green, with the top labelled "Cats Paw Nebula NGC6334", and the lower "War and Peace Nebula NGC6357".

A blue-green cloudiness or faint nebula, with two bright red-orange nebulae, one above the other. The top resembles the pawprint of a cat, while the lower looks like a scorpion or lobster.

Noch nicht mal ganz voll und schon so hell…

(97% Mond, Imagestack mit 100 Bildern je 1/500s bei Gain 0 mit Astrofilter, beschnitten, leicht geschärft und entsättigt)
#dwarf3 #astrophotography

Mond bei 97% aufgenommen mit dem Dwarf3 Smart-Teleskop

A couple of nights ago I let my #Dwarf3 stay out all night with a stellation mask, which bagged me about 8 hours worth of #Antares , #Messier4 , and other goodies, including the Antares #ReflectionNebula.

I ran it through the #DwarfLab #StellarStudio tools, and then did a bit more cleanup in #Snapseed and #GooglePhotos - about 15 minutes work.

I'm pretty darned pleased with the results.

#astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #Nebula #Star #GlobularStarCluster

A bright red star with eight rays shooting out from it is just to the right of the top centre. In the extreme top left is an almost circular tight cluster of stars. Below the big red star is a red-orange cloud of nebula.

Dark Side of the Moon

#astronomie #mond #astrophotography #dwarf3

Well, we've been quite busy over the last two weekends and such, and a lot of it has involved astrophotography.

Our Easter was quite peaceful so we chilled out and did some photography then - I took this of the Trifid and Lagoon #Nebula on Easter Sunday. I've got a Dwarf 3 (and 2) so we're used to landscape - but I rotated this in post, because it looked really good that way.

Tilt your head to see it in the original.

#Astrophotography #dwarf3 #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #DrivewayAstrophotography #BackyardAstrophotography #Astrodon

Portrait mode, and a heavily populated starfield, with some blue white stars, and in the bottom third the Trifid Nebula. There's some pinkish shading as we travel up the frame, and we can see the Lagoon Nebula in the top right corner, much larger. Copyright Alicia Smith 2025 can be read in the bottom right hand corner.

A quick snap of the sun with my #dwarf3 and the solar filters. There was some high, hazy cloud, so it's not very sharp, but you can see sunspots.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dtl/shares/04c8xh4F61

Mission Control

2xDwarf2, 2xDwarf3 all in a dark sky reserve.

#Astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #DwarfII #dwarf3

The dashboard and steering wheel of a small car, looking forward out through the windscreen. Very little can be seen outside, as there are four large tablets propped up against the windscreen.

@dtl
Give Stellar Studio a try in the album section of the Dwarflab app. It makes the images coming straight out of the #Dwarf3 look even better. I'll be intrigued to see your comparison with more traditional equipment.

A quick 30 min test of my #dwarf3 telescope on M81 & M83. No post processing, just a straight stack of 120 X 15s subs.
I'm pretty happy with this. I'll have to have a test against my big telescope soon. #astrophotgraphy

The night sky, dark with hundreds of pinpoint stars. There's a fuzzy disc in the middle and a fuzzy line above it to the left these are both distance galaxies.

Last night I left my #Dwarf3 out all night.

After a few hiccoughs, I targetted The Southern Pinwheel - #NGC5236 or #M83, for about four hours.

After running the results through the DwarfLab destar routine, I did a little cleanup in #Snapseed and #googlephotos

And this was the result. I'm pretty happy!

#Astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography

A golden glowing barred spiral galaxy against a black field. The spirals of the galaxy are surrounded by an extended glowing cloud.

M81 / M82 on the night of April 14th to 15th, a total of 1400 images, 15s, 60 gain, with the #dwarf3, 1000 images with the Astro filter, and 400 images with the Duo Band filter.
M81 is from the processing with all images in #Siril, #graxpert, and #luminarneo. M82 is just the Duo Band images, the same settings in Siril and Graxpert, fine-tuned, and both images combined in Luminar Neo; that's the only way I got M82 to look good.

The Eta Carinae Nebula.

This was taken with the new DwarfLab Dwarf3 smartscope, one of which I recently acquired. I brought it to Australia with me on a current trip, and shot this Nebula from Bortle 6 skies, using the built-in Duo Band filter..This is 30x15 second frames, stacked and denoised within the Dwarf app. Mild saturation increase in Lightroom.

#dwarflab #dwarf3 #astrodon #astronomy #space #Nebula #astrophotography #photography

I took this back on the 10th of March.

It is our old friend the Eta Carinae Nebula.

This time with a SII/OIII filter (thanks for the suggestion, @malcircuit !) and 120x90s@80 for the exposures. Then I ran it through the Dwarflab star removal tool, and post-processed the result in Snapseed.

I was not going to post it, but it came up as a background on my office screen today (long story), and I had not realised just how much detail it had.

#Dwarf3 #Astrodon #astrophotography #Astronomy #EtaCarinae #starless #Snapseed

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