Daydream Astro🌈⃤
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teacher 🍎 ✏️ Outreach & Observatory lead 🔭RAS award winner @royalastrosoc Writer for @popastro
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Love anything with our solar system on 🤩
🪐💫🔭🥰🌍
#astronomy
#planets
#solarsystem
#love
#neverstoplookingup
#infiniteinspiration
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My husband inspired me to share photos that we finally feel proud of 😍🔭
Here is a little collection of our top 5 astrophotography images that we have taken in the last 18 months
All taken using ZWO294, Optolong L-eNhance or Pro filter
#ASTRO
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
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I have been working SO hard to improve my data and processing. I absolutely LOVE the Horsehead Nebula and it really does show just how much difference an auto focuser makes! The detailing that has come out is incredible!
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#IC434
#Neigh
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Best resolution we have ever got on Jupiter before... those dust clouds...
#planetary
#astrophotography
#FencePost
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Flaming Star Nebula IC405 in Auriga
9.9 hours of integration time to capture this stunning fire in the sky 😍
*expand for full*
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#AstroHour
#Optolong
#ZWO
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M31, the Andromeda Galaxy...our closest neighbour, home to o n e t r i l l i o n stars. This is the first galaxy image I felt proud of. Nebula images are my usual fancy, but I can't help but fall in love with M31 😍
#Astrophotography
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C h e r r y l i p s 🍒 C r y s t a l s k i e s
I can show you incredible things...
#astrophotography
#Red
#Love
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Bagged a cheeky 3 hours on the Whirlpool last night 🌙 the background still needs a lot of work but we will be adding more to this at the next opportunity
M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
#CloudBagger
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My favourite 4
This was hard as I really like our NGC7380 too but here they are.
A horse, a flame, a Rosette and a running man, all in the sky 😊
#astrophotography
#AstroHour
Happy Thursday
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From a little spark may burst a flame
which has the potential to kindle the world...🌏
Go and ignite the universe ✨️
F l a m i n g S t a r N e b u l a 🔥
#AstroHour
#Astrophotography
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Great Orion Nebula- M42
We've never managed to get this level of background nebulosity before.
2.5 hours of data under no Moon
ZWO294 OSC
Skywatcher 80ED
HEQ5 pro
Photoshop
#astronomy
#AstroHour
#astrophotography
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NGC 4565 - Needle Galaxy 🪡
Nifty little LRGB taken this week
(skies are abysmal 🌧)
1.5 hrs of RGB
1.5 hrs of Luminance
#Astrophotography
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A first pass of our M31 data captured last night from our cabin in Suffolk.
We haven't taken the calibration frames yet so this is purely the lights, stacked & processed
Around 4hrs exposure
💫🔭🥰
#M31
#Andromeda
#astro
#AstroHour
#Astrophotography
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Happy Monday! I'll be mostly working on our new M81 and M82 data today...
Sneak peak...
#MondayMorning
#AstroHour
#Astrophotography
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First attempt vs last attempt
M42 & IC434
t w o y e a r s a p a r t
📸Canon 550D ➡️ ZWO294
🔭SW 130PDS ➡️ SW Evostar ED80
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#progress
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I've a l w a y s liked to play with f i r e
🔥
20°C already at 7.20am...anyone else in for a scorcher today? 🌡
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
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Feeling B l u e and O r a n g e today
💙🧡
#Astrophotography
#Optolong
SW ED80
HEQ5 pro
ZWO294 OSC
L-eNhance Optolong filter
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A collection of my favourite astrophotography images we've taken to date.
I am looking forward to seeing what 2023 brings 🔭
#astrophotography
#spaceiscool
#spacerocks
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A fresh NGC2237 Rosette Nebula taken last night
10 min subs
Total integration 5 hours
Skywatcher Evostar ED80
ZWO294 OSC
L-eNhance Optolong filter
#Astrophotography
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My Top 6 from our 18 month journey with
#Astrophotography
I love how everyone can image the same target but get something completely different.
These photons have travelled through space and are all mine 💕
IC1805 🤍
IC434 🐴
IC1848
M42
NGC2237 🏵
NGC7380 🧙♂️
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Good Morning! Kicking off Saturday with my
#FavouriteFour
IC434 in Orion, IC1805 in Cassiopeia, the Moon in the sky 🤣 and NGC7380 in Cepheus
🐴♥️🌔🧙♂️
#Astrophotography
#photography
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Showing M42 some Love today 💕
Our very first shot and our very last
#Astrophotography
#AstroWorld
Drop your M42 shots in the thread 😍
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My first light and first love ❤️
First light in Summer 2020 with our ZWO OSC and
@Optolong_filter
L-eNhance filter
#Heart
#Love
#astrophotography
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The Great Orion Nebula (M42) taken in January 2021
The data suffered as the Moony was full and close to the object. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this target again this winter 🙃
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#Orion
#Constellations
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I was hesitant to post this one for fears of the 'it's not natural' backlash.
After sharing it with only a handful of important and influential friends of mine, I decided to share it with the rest of you 😊
I'm calling it 'Ethereal Dreams' 🐴
#astrophotography
#space
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IC434 🐴 Giddyup Horsey Horsey
The first Image is from 2020 and the second is from 2021
What a true journey of patience, pleasure and resilience.
The sky that saved my life 🖤
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#space
#lockdown2021
#mentalhealth
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So overwhelmed to have not only been nominated, but to have won this award.
Speechless 🙊 🥰😍🤩
The 2022 RAS Primary Education Award goes to Mrs Rachel Wood of Southfield Primary School. Mrs Wood (
@DaydreamAstro
) has worked incredibly hard to inspire her class and to encourage them and other children to develop an interest in astronomy.
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IC434 - Horsehead nebula
Need more data on this. The O3 suffered with so much moonlight but we wanted to have a go at this target as its been over a year since we tried last.
Will be getting more data and posting a final image when we do ☺
#Astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
#
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The great Orion Nebula, a diffuse nebula on the dagger of our mighty
@warrior_orion
Welcome back Hunter
#astronomy
#astrophotography
🥰
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She only reveals what she wants you to see...
🌗
#Astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
#Astronomy
#Moon
#Moony
#MoonOfMyLife
#MentalHealthMatters
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I entered a local Astronomical Society image competition and our selection won! I feel so grateful and absolutely love being able to spend time with our neighbours at
@MSAstro
Thank you! We feel very proud
#astronomy
#astrophotography
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Hello I'm 'Daydream'... an
#Astrophotographer
from Yorkshire who takes photos with my astro dream team,
@PURPLEHAZE046
.
I'd like to share some of our work from our 2 year journey, since its
#PortfolioDay
#astronomy
#Astrophotography
#skywatcher
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I got asked to submit an astrophotography image for a photo competition with
@SpaceHub_SL
so here is my offering!
😋
IC434 Horsehead Nebula 🐎
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Oh, I'm obsessed
With the way my head is laying on your chest
How you love the things I hate about myself
that no one knows, but with you, I see hope again
And why do I get so nervous when I look into your eyes? Butterflies can't stop me falling for you
🕯🐴
#Astrophotography
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So apparently it is
#PortfolioDay
A collection of our
#Astrophotography
spanning the last 2 years of imaging. Looking forward to expanding our collection over the coming months ☄️🔭📸❤️
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M31 Andromeda - I still remember the tingling sensation when we looked at that beautiful little golden smudge in July 2019
S t a r s m a k e m e h a p p y
😊 💫
#Astro
#Astrophotography
#Andromeda
#Galaxy
#astronomia
#AstroWorld
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Finally! She is a beauty
I could look at this forever 😍☄ so magical
#NEOWISE
#NeowiseComet
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#yorkshire
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IC1805 one of my favourite targets to image
I may not always remember what you've said but I'll never forget the way you make me feel ❤
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#photooftheday
#astrohour
#love
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I've already got the Orion blues 💙
Miss you 😔
Show some
@warrior_orion
love in the comments with your favourite shot you've taken of this beautiful constellation
#AstroHour
#Astrophotography
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5 hrs of pure Hydrogen alpha data on this nebula using the
@Optolong_filter
HA 3nm 2" filter under a bright Moon.
Really impressed with this Filter. Can't wait for astro dark skies to come back!
#astrophotography
#crescent
#DarknessIsComing
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A work in progress... Still need LOADS of data on this squishy space Jelly 🐙
#Astrophotography
#Jellyfish
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You took a polaroid of us, then discovered...the rest of the world was b l a c k a n d w h i t e, but we were in s c r e a m i n g c o l o u r
#Monochrome
#AstroHour
#Astrophotography
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Birthday Tadpoles imaged from
@GrassholmeObser
a year ago today! 🎂
I was so lucky to have no Moon and inky, clear black skies!
#AstroHour
#Astrophotography
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This week has given us a treat of 4 clear nights with no Moon! It's almost unheard of...
So our cold, late nights have been rewarded with this image of NGC2237
ZWO294 OSC
Total integration 8 hours
5hrs L-eNhance
3 hours Hydrogen Alpha
#astrophotography
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Signing off the weekend by sharing 3 starless DSO images all taken this year.
Feel free to drop your own favourite images in the thread ☺️
Keep Safe & Clear Skies!
-IC434 Horsehead Nebula
-M31 Andromeda Galaxy
-NGC7000 North America Nebula
#Astrophotography
#Astro
#AstroHour
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How it started...how it's going 🐘
2019 vs 2021
It's all about the journey 🤭
4 more sleeps 🥳⭐🔭
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#KellingHeath
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Don’t you d a r e get discouraged.
Don’t you dare believe that f a i l u r e is permanent or insurmountable.
I'll get there, just not yet.
#MentalHealthMatters
#astrophotography
#resilience
#fierce
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Bubble and Lobster Claw Nebula
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
#sundayvibes
Because space needs m o r e lobsters 🦞
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IC 1805 : Heart Nebula
-Skywatcher 80ED
-EQ6 AZGT
-ZWO294 mm Pro
- ZWO 120 guide
- Ha, Oiii and Sii 3nm filters by
@Optolong_filter
- Processed in
@Photoshop
Total integration 4hrs
Loving the Mono SHO life 🥰
#astrophotography
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Astronomy and Astrophotography have given me so many experiences and opportunities that I didn't even think were possible.
Celebrating my love for the skies with a collection of my favourite images we have taken over the last 2 years. 🔭❣️
#astrohour
#Astrophotography
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Hope you've all had a marvellous Tuesday
🔭⭐
Representing the Orange and Blue squad we have...
NGC7380, NGC2237, IC434 and IC1805
#ASTRO
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
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It's hard to get up out of bed when everything is on its head and nothing seems to make any sense
Like a Band-Aid on a bleeding heart
I fake a smile and fall apart
And no one ever knows I'm a wreck
#astrophotography
#Optolong
#LeNhance
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Happy Friday with NGC2237: Rosette Nebula
This object is the one that made me fall inlove, the first one I ever sunk my astro teeth into.
Data captured on 30th December 2020 under a full Moony 🌕
It's not perfect, but it's mine 😍
#astrophotography
#AstroHour
#space
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Neigh the Horse be with you
🐴😂
Yes. I came up with that all by myself 😂
#Horse
#Astrophotography
#ForTheLoveOfHorse
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Holy quacamole! How tasty is this? 😍🥰
Something beautiful to start your weekend. A mosaic of a vast region where tens of thousands of new star systems are being formed in the depths of the glowing dust.
I hope it brings you some happiness amidst all that's going on in our world!
#space
#astronomy
#photography
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Astrophotography makes me happy when everything else fails me 😍
Here are a selection of our latest images
16 months down the line and we are still as addicted as ever!
#Astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
#space
#lockdown
#staystrong
#neverstoplookingup
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We're just two tadpoles swimming in a fish bowl, year after year. Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears..
W i s h Y o u W e r e H e r e
#AstroFloyd
#PinkFloyd
#astrophotography
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Wizardy Wednesdays for all you spellbound night owls 🦉 🧙♂️🪄
NGC7380
Just give me more space 🌟 🤩 🪐
#ASTRO
#Astrophotography
#Astronomy
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I do love our Moon 🌙
A small selection of Moon images and sketches that I have done 😊
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#AstroArt
#art
#SpaceArt
#sketch
#Moony
#MoonOfMyLife
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You took a polaroid of us, then discovered the rest of the world was black and white...
And we were in s c r e a m i n g c o l o u r ☄️
#NEOWISE
#Astrophotography
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The Daydream collection 🔭💫
A few of our images that we have taken so far 😁
HEQ5 pro
Skywatcher Evostar 80ED
ZWO294 OSC
#ThePhotoHour
#Astronomy
#Astrophotography
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Well, maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much, but maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up...
F l a m i n g S t a r
🔥⭐
#Astrophotography
#Nebula
#Optolong
#ZWO
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I'm a nebula girl at heart but occasionally, just occasionally, we capture galaxies too.
Definitely still learning and working on this type of target.
#astrophotography
#ASTRO
#Galaxy
💫🔭☄
M33, M51, M66, M66 & NGC3628 and M31
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When you love Astro SO much you start seeing nebulae in the clouds ⛅️ 🐴
Astro > Life
#astrophotography
#cloudappreciationsociety
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I'd love to revisit this nebula this year and do it justice
Western Veil / Witches Broom 🧙♀️
#Astrophotography
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I hear you calling and it's n e e d l e s and pins
I want to h u r t you just to hear you screaming my name
🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗
#MoonHour
#OneLookCouldKill
#astrophotography
#AstroHour
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M81 and M82 - Bodes and Cigar Galaxies nestled within the constellation of Ursa Major
Data captured on 27th February 2022
4.5 hrs total integration
Skywatcher 80ED
HEQ5 pro
ZWO294 OSC
L-eNhance Optolong filter
#Astrophotography
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M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy
Imaged over 2 different nights this week and last week. Most of which had a 80% Moon, so we are pretty pleased with the result 😀
5.9 hours total integration time
WO FLT132
EQ6 AZ GT
ZWO294 OSC
L-eNhance Optolong filter
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
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I know a girl from a lonely street
Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet
Dry your eyes, Sunday Girl...
#MoonHour
#Moony
#Astrophotography
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Saturday morning swirly 😍
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
An interacting spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is estimated to be 23-million light-years away.🌌
#Astrophotography
#Galaxy
#Space
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Evolution on North America Nebula
Modified DSLR ➡️ ZWO294 OSC
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#astrohour
NGC7000
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Finally! After what feels like a life time of waiting. We finally took a photo of M42 last night! Feels good to actually process some our own data!
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#M42
#nebula
🌟🔭
Details:
HEQ5 PRO
Skywatcher 130 PDS
Canon 550D
Subs 30 secs - 2 mins
ISO 800
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She has a built in ability
To take everything she sees...
#Moony
#MoonHour
#Astrophotography
#Astronomy
🌛
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Offering my Heart and Soul this Valentines
#ValentinesDay2022
IC1805 Heart nebula
IC1848 Soul Nebula
T h a n k y o u f o r y o u r l o v e ❣
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
#astrostuffs
#space
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We never did get round to collecting the rest of our data on this cheeky little Jelly in the sky!
🐙
#astrophotography
#Jellyfish
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Can you free yourself enough to be able to experience the reality of life as it goes on before you and with you, and as you go on as part of it?
Or not?
Because if you can’t, you stand on square one until you die.
#WishYouWereHere
#astrophotography
#M42
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A real side by side comparison to show the difference between my data output for OSC RGB stack vs an extracted HA & Oiii stack with a synthetic green
Captured using L-eNhance Optolong filter and a ZWO294 OSC
IC1805 : Heart Nebula
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#Optolong
#ZWO
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A re-process on the old trunky dunk.
Starless but packed with colour
IC1396 🐘
#astrophotography
#astronomy
#AstroHour
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IC1396 : Elephant's Trunk 🐘
A beautiful emission nebula in the constellation of Cepheus around 2,400 LY from Earth 🌎
#astrophotography
#AstroHour
• ZWO294 mc pro
• L-eNhance Optolong filter
• Skywatcher Evostar ED80
☆ Total integration time: 5hrs
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