Kevin Earp 🔭🌜☀️🪐⭐
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Astrophotography, Wildlife and occasional random stuff. Paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms.
A small place near Bedford, UK
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#Saturn
's closing rings over the last 3 years, with the angle of tilt reducing from 13 to 2 degs
The 2022 image (top) is a bit rubbish, which was taken with a different scope to 23/24. My processing may have improved a bit since then too!
@ThePhotoHour
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#Solar
time-lapse from 2 days ago, spanning 1h 45m of real time, speeded up about 400 times.
2 types of prominence are visible with very different structures. Amazing!
Seeing was ropey which gave variable sharpness 😕
#sun
#animation
#astrophotography
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Another view of my time-lapse from the 8th.
Mono looks nice without colourising the image. Sometimes I can't decide which I prefer, so posting both 🙂
#Sun
#Solar
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
#animation
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The sun this morning 17th July, showing tge area around active region 3055.
Esprit 100 and Quark CS.
#solar
#astrophotography
#space
#astronomy
#astro
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Finally finished this animation from the 20th.
The resolution has taken a big hit due to the number of images, so I'll probably keep messing to try and improve it.
152 images over 1 hr 41 minutes, playing at 10 fps.
#astrophotography
#solar
#sun
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My last solar time-lapse from recent sessions.
Captured on 9th June.
The prominence, whilst not wildly active, shows some gentle movement of plasma, with a bit of flare action around the leftmost sunspot of active region 3331.
#solar
#animation
#thephotohour
@skyatnightmag
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Short time-lapse of a solar flare in active region AR3327 taken a few days ago.
Seeing was very wobbly so sharpness comes and goes, but nice to capture this small C class event
#solar
#astrophotography
#animation
#ThePhotoHour
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A different take on
#NorthAmerica
.
#NGC7000
in the more familiar geographic orientation, and processed in a false Hubble style palette.
Details in the image
#astrophotography
#astrohour
#astro
@skyatnightmag
#astronomy
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Incredibly, this is the only data I've captured of the
#Horsehead
64 mins integration taken in January
If we ever see an end to the clouds, I'm looking forward to another go and doing battle with Alnitak again!
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
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A few more village
#BarnOwl
shots from a few years ago, taken with a big lens to keep my social distance!
Having trouble identifying the prey it was bringing to the nest though.
@nature
@NatureUK
@Britnatureguide
#TwitterNatureCommunity
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My last image from the 24th
The wonderful Horsey
Only managed 1½hrs of 5min exposures before it dipped behind my hedge.
Taken with my Esprit with L-eNhance filter. Processed IN APP, Starnet & Photoshop
#astrophotography
#horsehead
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Was on family duty today, so no chance of imaging.
But I did have a play this evening with some more images from yesterday's session.
No spectacular proms around at present, but the small ones are still pretty 🙂
#Sun
#solar
#astrophotography
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Final go at my first mosaic of the Flaming Star and Taddies.
I've now normalised the exposure across the panels.
Can't do much about the focus on some panels but will try and improve next time.
Been staring at the monitor so long I'm now image blind lol.
#Astrophotography
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Final image of yesterday's partial
#eclipse
A nice prominence being slowly occulted by the dark limb of the
#moon
was the highlight for me.
To think the moon and prom were separated by 93 million miles, and ~8 minutes in time, stretches the mind a bit!
#astrophotography
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One of my favourites.
Horsehead Nebula, IC434
Only 1 hr integration due to annoying trees.
#Horsey
#nebula
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
#space
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Another
#solar
image from yesterday morning, 22 Mar.
Main active regions 3256 and 3257 and a few pretty proms.
3 image mosaic.
Inverted disk
#Sun
#astrophotography
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My final image of
#M51
.
Bit more zoomed out. I like the way galaxies appear when they look small against a big back-drop of stars.
Proper 'island universes' 🙂
#ThePhotoHour
#astrophotography
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First run through my animation data from 16th.
60 avi's, 1 min apart. Shown at 10 frames/sec.
Couldn't get auto align to work. 60 frames manually aligned is not fun!
Few things I dont like so will have another go when my brain recovers.
#astrophotography
#solar
#sun
#astrohour
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Been playing with Telescopius to plan taking mosaics
All I need are some clear skies to put it into practice 🙄
My first and last mosaic, below, used a Stellarium screenshot and a lot of manual fiddling to try and get the overlaps right. Not ideal 😬
#astro
#astrophotography
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Elephant's Trunk with a few more hours of data added, giving a total of 4h 40m integration.
A lot smoother than my last image and have been able to bring out more of the blue nebulosity
#astrophotography
#IC1396
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Inspired by the wonderful
#solar
animations of
@deeptwilight
I've reworked an old prom from 2020.
Managed to pull out more faint detail I think, but the frame intervals are really too long, and the focus is on and off.
Good learning for next time though 😊
#astrophotography
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Reprocess of the
#Heart
nebula to try and bring out more of the blues.
4hrs integration using my Esprit 100 and L-eNhance filter.
#astrophotography
@BBCStargazing
#ThePhotoHour
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In a shock break-away from comet processing, Astrokev finally managed to start on the deep sky backlog.
The
#Pleiades
and distant galaxy UGC 2838, on 18th Jan
#astrophotography
#astro
#thephotohour
#M45
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A few hours on the Elephants Trunk
#nebula
a few nights ago.
It would've been 4 hrs, but somebody forgot to turn guiding on for the first 2 🙄
#astrophotography
#noguidingsucks
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I love the
#moon
when the seeing is good
Wonderful Petavius crater, with its system of rilles, is part of the great crater chain near the eastern limb.
Others in this image are Vendelinus in the north, and Furnerius in the south
8 panel mosaic with a C11.
#astrophotography
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It's amazing the difference a bit more data makes.
This is the Pelican, imaged with the same kit, 15 mins last June vs. 75 mins last week.
I think my processing may have improved a bit too, but a long ways to go...
#Astrophotography
#astro
#ThePhotoHour
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Reprocessed my Tadpoles using a false Hubble palette.
Very different look to my last image.
Esprit 100, L-eNhance filter, 294MC Pro camera
#astrophotography
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Just starting to think about the 2024 US solar eclipse.
Texas looks a possibility 🤔
Here's the last one I was lucky enough to see in Hangzhou in 2009.
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Only 1h 40m on the North America Neb due to cloud.
Surprised this came out as well as it did because the sky was a murky mess. The L-eNhance dual band filter probably helped a lot
#astrophotography
#NGC7000
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Before imaging the comet last night, I did I quick bit of Mooning.
Mare Imbrium, my favourite area to lose yourself in.
#moon
#lunar
#astrophotography
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Another view of yesterday's AR3363 firework display
'Inverting' the disc allows the proms to be brightened more than with a 'normal' image, making the fainter plasma streams easier to see
May need to *CLICK* to see full image
#sun
#solar
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
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I want to add more data to this, but here's an interim process of the Horsehead.
4hrs of 5 min subs
Edge 8", ASI294MC Pro and L-eNhance filter
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First image of 2023.
The northern end of the lovely Sea of Showers, from the Bay of Rainbows to magnificent Plato.
6 panel mosaic, with a mild mineral saturation boost.
#moon
#astrophotography
@skyatnightmag
@AstronomyNow
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My first proper go of the
#Heart
Nebula, IC1805.
4.75hrs captured in rubbish skies over 10th and 11th Nov.
I'm still playing with my colour workflow, but this'll do for the time being!
#astrophotography
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Close-up shot of AR3363 taken this morning; the largest sunspot currently on the visible face of the
#Sun
.
#solar
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Another take on my
#Heart
Struggled with the palette on this, and didn't achieve what I was trying to do.
But at least it's different to my last image 🥴.
I'm thinking I need to make the scary leap to mono 😬
#nebula
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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A labour of love or madness
#timelapse
#animation
of the transit of
#Jupiter
by Io on the 6th Nov
Spanning 1h 49m the GIF is made up of 64 frames, each frame being a Winjupos derotation of 7 videos, 70 AVI's in total
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
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The
#Sun
captured on 11th April and only just processed!
3 image mosaic. Inverted disk.
Main active region is AR3272, with AR3275 & 3276 near the
#solar
limb.
Needs a click to see the full image!
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Something a bit different for me.
Was messing around with colour and came up with this.
Proms against a daytime sky?
Don't know whether I like it or not, but would be interested in knowing what folks think.
#sun
#solar
#astrophotography
#photohour
#astrohour
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7 hours integration on M101, the
#Pinwheel
Galaxy. My longest integration on a galaxy to date.
Captured over 4 sessions, totalling 84 x 5min exposures.
#astrophotography
#space
#galaxy
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Galaxies can be tiny with my 550mm refractor.
Thinking of getting a longer scope for smaller targets like this M51 from a year ago.
Would love to here any suggestions or recommendations 🙂
Thanks
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Rework of M45, the
#Pleiades
, taken earlier this year from my shed 🙂
Esprit 100 ED, ASI294MC Pro.
Processed with APP, Starnet and Photoshop
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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The Tadpoles Nebula
74 x 5 min exposure captured on 14th Nov, giving a total of just over 6 hrs integration.
Kit - Esprit 100ED, L-eNhance filter, ASI 294MC Pro.
Processed in APP, Starnet and Photoshop
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Trying to drag out as much as I can from tiny targets with my 100mm frac.
Messier 51 over 2 nights last week.
#M51
#astrophotography
@hyman_roger
#ThePhotoHour
#messier
#Galaxy
#space
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#Horsehead
Nebula given a bit of false Hubble treatment.
#astrophotography
#IC434
#space
#astro
@ThePhotoHour
@hyman_roger
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My first image of
#comet
#ZTF
,
and my first attempt at double-stacking any comet image!
Captured yesterday morning at stupid o'clock.
Loads more data on this to process.
@PeterLewis55
@hyman_roger
@StargazerRob
#ThePhotoHour
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My best image of Saturn to date.
Single image taken on 2nd Sep.
Edge HD8, x2 Barlow.
Best 4% of 23,000 frames
#planet
#Saturn
#astrophotography
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#Saturn
emerging from behind the moon after Wednesday morning's
#occultation
.
An MP4 video made from 100 stacked images from a single 10,000 frame AVI taken through my telescope. Playing at 10 frames/second.
Single video. No composite
#animation
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Another image from 21st June.
This is active region AR3340 and an impressive snaking filament pointing the way to a fine prominence.
Taken with my 100mm refractor and Quark CS from my back garden
#sun
#astrophotography
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I've a big backlog of
#solar
data. Helpful when summer nights are so light
This is a faint and pretty prom taken on 22nd June
I've added a scaled image of Earth to show how huge these things are.
It's humbling don't you think?
#Sun
#astrophotography
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A while since I've processed new
#solar
data
This is a 4 panel mosaic of the Eastern hemisphere, captured in late October. Just about the last time I saw the
#Sun
😄
Some nice proms and filaproms
You may need to click the image to see it all!
#astrophotography
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Rework of a prom
#timelapse
#animation
from September.
I'm so in awe of the sheer size of this that I've added a scaled image of Earth.
It's totally mind boggling! 😲
YOu may need to CLICK on the image to see it all
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I wasn't very happy with the proms in my last image, so just had to rework this.
I'm a bit happier with this one.
#solar
#astrophotography
#astrohour
#space
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Haven't done a Moon for a while.
This was a few nights ago from the back garden
#lunar
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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A few cloudy days, so catching up with some processing.
The western hemisphere on the 22nd.
The large active region below centre is AR3335.
CLICK to see full image
Still trying to find colour scheme I like for non-inverted images
#Sun
#thephotohour
#astrophotography
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The Soul.
Imaged on 24th Nov with my Esprit 100 and L-eNhance filter.
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
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I dipped out on capturing
#Clavius
this
#lunar
cycle, but here's a throw back to a while back with my C11.
I need to give this scope another airing!
#moon
#moonhour
#astrophotography
#photohour
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Those who've been following me recently can be forgiven for thinking I'm just a
#solar
guy.
So here's a quick collage of a few other images just to show that I occasionally venture out at night and do other stuff too 😄
#deepsky
#astrophotography
#space
#astronomy
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My first attempt at IC1805, the Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia.
Only managed 1.5 hrs integration. It's now too low behind my hedge, so this will have to do for this season
#astrophotography
#space
#astro
#ThePhotoHour
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First solar image for 2 months, and a nice prom rising above the disk.
Good to see it at an altitude where I can actually image it once again.
My solar processing feels very rusty though!
#Astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
#sun
#solar
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#animation
from 11th April.
56 images spanning 35 minutes.
Playing at 10 fps, which = 375 times real-time speed.
Lost some resolution as this is reduced to 35% size to meet upload limits.
Its also N-S flipped, but hopefully you won't notice 🤣
#solar
#astrophotography
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I love Hadley rille.
Probably my personal best image of it, taken a few nights ago in good seeing.
#moon
#astrophotography
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The Pelican, or is it a pteradactyl?
A bit early in the season for this target, but after an all nighter the other night, as you do 🤣, I managed to catch it just before dawn. 🥱
#Astrophotography
#pelican
@skyatnightmag
#IC5070
#astro
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Our nearest star, in the light of hydrogen alpha.
A 12 panel mosaic taken yesterday.
Active region AR3311 at upper left has been chucking out a lot of high energy flares over the last few days.
Exciting stuff!
#Sun
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
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The largest and most active sunspot group on the Sun at present.
AR 3435 taken in hydrogen alpha, from my back garden yesterday
Click to see the full image!
#solar
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Uranus from last night
10 minute video comprising 7,500 frames, with the Edge 8" and x5 Powermate, giving a focal length of ~ 10,000mm.
Best 1000 stacked
#astrophotography
#ThePhotohour
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15 panel mosaic of the Sun a few days ago.
It's been cloudy since I took this 😫
Esprit 100ED, Daystar Quark CS and ASI174MM
#solar
#astrophotography
#iHateClouds
#ThePhotoHour
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Gorgeous prominence on the
#Sun
on the 20th.
This is a single frame of my recent animation, processed a bit more carefully than I was able to do with the animation.
#solar
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Cone Nebula taken Tuesday night in the recent rare clear spell
A bit more integration than my last effort on this target - 166 cf. 70 min, which made it a lot easier to process
#thephotohour
#Astrophotography
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Messier 81 & 82 in Ursa Major
Taken on 10th Jan with an Esprit 100 and ADI294 OSC camera. No filters used.
4 hr integration (120 x 2min subs).
#astrophotography
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Another shot from last week on the 20th.
The large prom at around the 2 o'clock position is showing quite well on this full disk image, together with some lovely filaments.
#Sun
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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In a rare bit of clear sky last night, I managed to capture 70 mins on the Cone Nebula, before my neighbours tree got in the way.
With only 14 subs it needs lots more data, but pleased to have got something.
#ThePhotoHour
#astrophotography
#NGC2264
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#solar
timelapse
#animation
captured on the 16th Sep
This prom would swallow Earth whole
Thin cloud gave variable luminosity between frames, so spent ages trying to even it out as best I can
Frames taken every 30 secs. Played @ 10 fps = 390x real time speed
#astrophotography
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Another
#solar
image from this morning.
Especially for those who like proms 😊
#syn
#astrophotography
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The wonderful Orion Nebula captured a few weeks ago
2 hours total integration. Combination of 2 min and 30 sec subs
I'm slowly catching up with my processing!
#astrophotography
#M42
#ThePhotoHour
@hyman_roger
@AstroNebulee
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Final image from 17 July.
Really pretty proms near to active region AR3376.
Disk is inverted to help bring out the fainter proms.
You may need to *click* to see the full image
#solar
#astrophotography
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Playing around with GIF settings.
This version of my earlier
#animation
, captured last week and uploaded from my PC instead of my phone, will hopefully be higher resolution 🤞
#solar
#astrophotography
#prom
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A quick process of the only
#solar
image I was able to take yesterday, before the clouds stopped play.
It wasn't even in good focus, but you can only work with what you've got 😕
#sun
#astrophotography
@StargazerRob
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#Owl
Nebula. M97
5 hrs integration (60 x 5 min)
Edge HD8" with an ASI294MC Pro and L-eNhance filter.
The enhance filter really helped to combat the nearly full moonlight
#ThePhotoHour
#astrophotography
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Tonight's Moon 9th Jan.
Nice to be taking fill disk images again 🙂
17 panel mosaic, imaged with an Esprit 100ED and ASI224MC camera.
#astrophotography
#lunar
#photohour
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Supernova!
Always nice to catch an exploding star.
This one is in the small and faint edge-on galaxy NGC 4216 in Virgo, and has the snappy name SN 2024gy
1h 26m integration with my Edge in the back garden
#astrophotography
#ThePhotoHour
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Sea of Crises
21st Aug in average seeing.
Taken with an Edge HD 8" at prime focus from my front driveway.
#lunar
#astronomy
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#Whirlpool
Galaxy M51.
My longest integration of this target to date at just over 6 hrs (73 x 5 mins)
Edge HD8" with ASIAir Plus, ASI294MC Pro and L-eNhance filter
Processed in APP and Photoshop
#Astrophotography
@zwoasi
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On the morning of the 11th Aug I imaged the 5 superior planets from my garden.
Here they shown to the correct relative size.
Mars is tiny at present but will double in apparent size by the end of the year
@ThePhotoHour
#planet
#astrophotography
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Some cracking proms on the Sun's Eastern limb this afternoon.
Could be something brewing just over the edge.
Looking forward to see what tomorrow brings 😃
You may need to CLICK to see the full image!
#solar
#astrophotography
#thephotohour
@skyatnightmag
#sun
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Still going through unprocessed planet data.
This is Saturn on the 3rd Sep with my 8" Edge HD and x2 Barlow.
5 images derotated in Winjupos
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An earlier image of
#Mars
from last night
I've tried to label the more obvious landmarks, using Martin Lewis's
@SkyInspector
albedo maps, available on his excellent website - highly recommended!
#astrophotography
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Rework of my
#solar
animation from mid July
Just caught the end of a large outburst from AR3363 and it's aftermath
Seeing was poor so sharpness is variable, but there's lots of changing detail in the sunspot itself as well as the proms
#astrophotography
#sun
#ThePhotoHour
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Another image from early morning on the 28th July.
My favourite area of the moon - Mare Imbrium, the impressive crater Plato, and wonderful isolated mountains Mons Pico and Piton.
Edge HD8 with x2 Barlow
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First light on the EdgeHD 8.
A quick process of 10 x 120s subs.
Quite pleased as a first go, with only 20mins integration.
Full frame, no cropping.
No cal files.
#Firstlight
#astrophotography
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Following the suggestion by
@clarkjames70
I've created additional frames between the original GIF frames using Winjupos, to give 127 frames
Run at 20 fps it is so much smoother than my first go with this data
Thanks James 🙏😊
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Last chance to see the marvellous AR3664 as it leaves the Sun's visible disk.
Responsible for the aurora show at the weekend, I wonder if it will survive its trip around the back of the Sun?
#aurora
#stormhour
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The huge active region AR3615 imaged this morning from the garden.
Esprit 100 with x5 Powermate and Herschel wedge.
Processed in AS!3, ImPPG and Photoshop
#ThePhotoHour
#solar
#astrophotography
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First new image for a while.
Messier 82 the Cigar Galaxy. Imaged last night with an Edge HD8, ADI294MC and L-eNhance filter
#ThePhotoHour
#Astrophotography
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A collection of some of my recent solar images taken from my garden
#ThePhotoHour
#solar
#astrophotography
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I think this maybe my best
#Mars
image to date
Taken on 23 Nov, this time with a x2 Barlow
I've been experimenting with IR filters on my 224MC which is IR sensitive, and also tried a slightly different processing workflow, in the never ending quest to find one that works!
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A quick bit of
#Moon
processing just before bed...
Taken a few nights ago with my trusty
#Esprit
100ED.
Don't normally enhance my moons to show mineralisation variation, but just for fun 🙂
#moonhour
@321FlaSpaceGirl
#Astrophotography
#AstroHour
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