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The robotic telescope's output from night two: the Lagoon & Triffid nebulae, the Swan & Eagle nebulae, and the Moon.

I did get an image of Sharpless 1 as well, but it's clear that would need a lot more time than the couple of hours I gave it to get a good image.

#Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Image of a large emission nebula (Lagoon Nebula) with a smaller one below it (Triffid Nebula).
Image featuring two emission nebulae, ones at the top (Swan Nebula) and one at the bottom (Eagle Nebula).
Image of the Moon, in waning gibbous phase.
#astronomy #astrophotography #seestars30pro #seestar

And now I've tried solar observing mode with the included solar filter. The tiny scope isn't the ideal instrument for this kind of thing, but it does OK. Sunspots are clearly visible, and you can distinguish the umbra and penumbra of the larger ones.

#SeestarS30Pro #Seestar #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Photo of a Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope on a tripod, during the day.
Image of the Sun from a Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope. Some sunspots are visible.
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OK, there we go, the result of pointing the little robotic telescope at the Prawn Nebula for four hours.

It's kept all the data so I can try reprocessing this in Siril, but the automatic image processing has done a decent job.

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Image of the Prawn Nebula, emission nebula in a dense star field, taken with a Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope.
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The Moon is now up so I got out my tripod & wedge, switched to equatorial mode, and picked an emission nebula as my next target so I could use the internal light pollution filter. I think I'll leave this running for a couple of hours and see what I get.

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Photo of a Seestar smart telescope on a tripod, lit by moonlight
Screenshot from the Seestar app showing an imaging session in progress on the Prawn Nebula
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A couple of quick galaxy snaps with the in-telescope automatic image processing. Not a bad start.

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Image of M83 taken from a Seestar S30 Pro
Image of NGC 5128 taken with a Seestar S30 Pro
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We are installed in Kurrajong for the long weekend, just outside the worst of Sydney's light pollution, which means I get to open my birthday present a little early.

I plonked the little astromech on the balcony table, spent literally a couple of minutes setting it up,, and told it to start imaging the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. For now I've just left all the settings in their default fully automatic modes and it was even easier than I expected to get it working.

I'll let it run for a bit, and then start tinkering.

#Astrophotography #SeestarS30Pro #Seestar #Astronomy #Astrodon

Photo of a cardboard box on a table
Photo of a Seestar S30 Pro "smart telescope" on a table
Screenshot of the Seestar app showing an imaging session on M83 in progress.
Screenshot of the Seestar app showing an imaging session of M83 in progress, zoomed in on the galaxy
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Hubbles Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot
Credits: #NASA, ESA, Hubble, OPAL Program, STScI; Processing: Karol Masztalerz, STScI, Karol Masztalerz
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Hubbles Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot
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Star trails over the trees last night

#astrophotography #StarTrails #SeeStarS30Pro

Star trails taken from my backyard last night
#astrophotography #Startrails #seestars30pro

Solar system family portrait.
Earth (foreground), Jupiter (second brightness point), Venus (brightest point).
Pollox and Castor, the two brightest stars in Gemini are visible above the planets.
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Twilight sky, with the corner of a building in the bottom left. The sky is a gradient from sky blue to deep blue. There are two obvious points of light in the sky, the brightest and lowest one is Venus, the other, higher in the sky is Jupiter. There are two bright stars above the planets.
#astrophotography

Full moon was out last night, so the only way to go for broadband #astrophotography was to select a target far from the moon's position in the sky.

After a while you start going for odd subjects just 'cause they fit the FOV at your focal length, and here is how I ended up on this space blob, which seems to also go by the name NGC 4605. 🤷‍♂️

NGC 4605
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This fake image goes viral every few weeks. It shows the Prohodna cave in Bulgaria, which has two openings resembling eyes. There are many similar images showing fake views of the night sky through the holes, like the unrealistically large #Moon here. I've also seen versions where the Moon has been mirrored into an impossible view.

If you want to learn how to spot fake #astrophotography images, check out this article I wrote: eso.org/public/blog/csi-astron…

#astronomy #science #photography

A photograph taken inside a cave at night. The camera is aimed upwards, pointing at two holes in the ceiling that look like human eyes. A huge full Moon shines brightly through one of the wholes.

ESOblog: CSI: Astronomy Learn how to spot fake astrophotography images

CSI: Astronomy
www.eso.org
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Some pics of the #moon last night. You can see lots of weird features besides the craters, like mountains, long canyons and faults.
#Astronomy #Astrophotography #science
Picture of a region of the moon through a telescope. Here is Mare Imbrium, a large plain, with Montes Alpes, a mountain range north of the Mare. There is a large canyon-like feature among those mountains, it is called Vallis Alpes.
Here we see crater Manilius, south of Mare Serenitatis, to the left are the Montes Apenninus.
Here we see Mare Nectoris, the large plain to the southwest of Mare Fecunditatis, which itself appears towards the upper right corner. Towards the center left id the Bay of Roughness (Sinus Asperitatis) and south of it is crater Theophilus.
#science #astronomy #Moon #astrophotography

Catching Auroras

The lightness colors our world against the darkness.

fringe.com/photograph/catching…

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The photograph features a snowy field, with a lone, straggly pine tree in the dark. It’s dark, so it is difficult to see any details or features, but we can see it is snowy. The lone pine tree has short branches, isn’t very tall, and is crooked. But it is making it all the same. What makes this photograph, though, is the aurora in the top two-thirds of the photograph. Way to bury the lede, right? Anyway, this is a curtain-kind of aurora, and it appears to be coming down from left to right, top to bottom. The lower right-hand corner doesn't have any yet, and you can see the blue of the sky and the stars beyond. The colors range from a light turquoise in the upper left corner to purples in the lower left, then blues, a little red, and some neon green at the front edge of the aurora, leading up to the middle right. It is as if colored curtains are being drawn over the scene. The darkness of the foreground and the loneliness of the pine, juxtaposed with the colorful auroras, make an interesting composition.

Catching Auroras - Fringe Photography, LLC

Witness the wild, unpredictable power of the Aurora Borealis. Catching Auroras documents the cosmic curtain descending upon the Alaskan wilderness
David Schneider (Fringe Photography, LLC)
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Now where did I leave my car?
#astrophotography #photography #nevada #on1pics #streetart
Graffiti on car stuck in the ground under the stars
#photography #streetart #astrophotography #Nevada #on1pics

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