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My shot of NGC1444 star cluster, for 125 minutes.
Tech specs: astrobin.com/joqrln/
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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "vdB 152 - Wolf's Cave Nebula" by Sebastien Kuenlin
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#astrophotography
ALT vdB 152 - Wolf's Cave Nebula
First camera I used as a kid in the 70s: We had an old (even for then) Kodak Brownie Holiday box camera when I was a kid. Had to hand wind film between each shot.
Took 127 film rolls, not a cartridge. I used it a few times, got film developed at the drug store. Took a week.
Camera was square, brown Bakelite plastic, about 5x5x5 inches. (big for a camera now)
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I got another 90 minutes of data gathering time this past weekend on the Fish Head Nebula (NGC896, on the left) and the Heart Nebula (IC1895, on the right).
They are both located between 6,000 and 7,000 light years away. They look right next to each other but the Fish Head Nebula is 1,000 light years closer to us than the Heart Nebula.
This puts the total exposure time of this area of the Cosmos at close to 3 hours using my 85mm refractor telescope and Canon DSLR camera in a severely light polluted Bortle 7 sky.
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Midday in late October, and the sun barely clears 29°.
That low light turns Solitude Palace to gold against a deep blue sky. Duke Carl Eugen built it in the 1760s as his retreat above Stuttgart.
Which season gives you your best light? 📷
#SolitudePalace #Stuttgart #LeicaM8 schloss-solitude.de/en/
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Happy #MonochromeMonday, everyone!
This is the stunning emission nebula RCW 32, also known as GUM 15, a lesser-known object in the southern constellation Vela, located about 3,000 light-years away.
The nickname for RCW 32 is "The Southern Trifid Nebula".
Data: Telescope Live
Processing: Beatrice Heinze
I created this black-and-white image from RGB data after first stacking the RGB frames in Astro Pixel Processor and processing them in PixInsight.
Total integration time: 19 hours 20 minutes.
Clear Skies!
ALT The Southern Trifid Nebula. Emission nebula RCW 32 (in monochrome), also known as GUM 15, a lesser-known object in the southern constellation Vela, located about 3,000 light-years away. Astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze (Processing) & Telescope Live (Data).
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ICYMI: the International Space Station was seen crossing in front of the Moon earlier this morning from Florida’s Space Coast (left image, taken by me).
@astro_anil was also looking down from the station around the same time and caught the Florida peninsula lit by the near-full moon (right image).
Rupes Recta wall on Moon, (in bottom middle crater). In infrared.
Tech specs: astrobin.com/orwtvc/
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The way is the target, which is why my main telescope still carries a Telrad and a spiral-bound atlas still lies open beside it, chart 5 with Draco, Ursa Major and Boötes, so that every faint galaxy has to be found by hand before it ever reaches the eyepiece.
Steve Kufeld designed this sight in the late 1970s, three red rings of 4°, 2° and ½° that seem to float on the sky at infinity, and almost fifty years later it still does one simple job better than any gadget I have tried since, without ever asking for a firmware update.😂
CS /px #Telrad #stargazing
Roll-off-roof AstroHut now that it's got two mounts. It's tight in there, 8x8 feet inside size. (2.4 meters x 2.4 meters).
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Zoom! 🧐
#galaxies NGC7331
This picture has never seen a desktop. Data beamed directly from the #Vespera II telescope onto my iPhone and slightly adjusted in the incl. SkyColor app.
Why am I showing you this?
Well, this is a refreshing approach to dive in the deep sky. It eliminates the need for special software, a powerful computer, advanced skills and a lot of TIME.⏳🔭
#astrophotography #galaxies NGC7331 & friends
More than 50 California Quail on our bird food pile about an hour ago. Most we've had in a few years.
Had 80 a couple years ago at one point.
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