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GOES-East Satellite, 8:50PM UTC 11/20/2024. Data processed by me.

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The three objects form a triangle in the center of the image - the large dark round spot left of center (Mare Nectaris) and the two craters above (Langrenus) and below (Stevinus) center to the right.

Taken with a Svbony 122 mm f7 APO, Svbony 705C camera, a 2x Barlow, and a neutral density filter. Top 10% of 2000 images stacked. Post processing in imppg for deconvolution and sharpening and then in Photoshop for levels.

This photo was taken in the upper peninsula of Michigan in very dark skies. It was over the summer months so there wasn't a lot of time for complete darkness. But I did go sit out there at 2a.m. and enjoyed looking at all the stars with such amazing dark skies.

✨ Equipment ✨ Target: M8 Lagoon Nebula and M20 Trifid Nebula Exposures: 60 x 120s Telescope: Askar FRA500(miss this telescope) Filter: Optolong L-Pro filter Camera: ASI2600MC-pro, dew heater on, Bin 1x1, cooler set to -10°F Mount: ZWO AM5 w/P200 extension and TC40 tripod Guide scope: SV106 Guide Scope Guide camera:ASI120mm mini Bortle: 1 Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom

The colours represent speed, going from blue — gas moving the fastest towards us — to red — gas moving the fastest away from us. Jets, almost along the line of sight, propel the material in blue and red. The stars in the binary are located at the single bright dot at the centre of the ring-like structure shown in green, which is moving with the same velocity as the system as a whole along the line of sight. Astronomers believe this ring has its origin in the material ejected as the lower mass star in the binary spiralled towards its red-giant partner.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Olofsson et al. Acknowledgement: Robert Cumming

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2002a/

This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals lunar features as small as roughly 560 feet (170 meters) across. The large "bulls-eye" near the top of the picture is the impact crater, caused by an asteroid strike about 100 million years ago. The bright trails radiating from the crater were formed by material ejected from the impact area during the asteroid collision. Tycho is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide and is circled by a rim of material rising almost 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the crater floor. The image measures 430 miles (700 kilometers) across, which is slightly larger than New Mexico. Hubble doesn't often view Earth's moon. This image was taken in preparation for using the reflected sunlight from the Moon for observations of the transit of Venus in 2012, which Hubble could not observe directly without damage to its instruments.

Rosette Nebula

Here’s a photo I took of the beautiful Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237) with my Stellarvue SVX 102TR telescope and ZWO 2600MM camera. I used Antlia 3nm SHO filters to show the bright colors from hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur gases. Isn’t space incredible?

** Some Facts About the Rosette Nebula **

It’s about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn).

This nebula is HUGE, about 130 light-years wide!

In the middle, young, super-hot stars light up the gas and shape the nebula.

GOES-East Satellite data

Saw them outside my house and decided to take a picture. There was quite a lot more that didn’t get captured. I do live in England so stars aren’t as common due to cloudy skies.

It’s not much, but it’s mine. For those more experienced, is this about the best I can expect with a non-tracking mount and an iPhone? What should I consider if I want to get better shots?

I also noticed that if I switched to a higher magnification, Andromeda appeared blue for some reason.

I have just recently discovered astrophotography and how amazing it is. I am using my wife’s DSLR Nikon D3100 with cheapish telephoto Nikkor 55-300 lens. This photo is the result of stacking ~300 photos with total exposure time of 30 minutes. I don’t have any star tracker ( in the process of building diy harmonic drive goto mount) so I had to use low exposure time of 3s to avoid star trails. I did not expect this to turn out so nice!

Do you guys think it is North America Nebula visible here or is it just galaxy dust formations?

Taken with with a Svbony 122 mm f7 APO, Svbony 705C camera, a 2x Barlow, and a neutral density filter. Top 10% of 2000 images stacked. Post processing in imppg for deconvolution and sharpening and then in Photoshop for levels.