Horsehead Nebula (IC434) A filter mix-up on my #seestar S50 left me with broadband + narrowband data, so I combined them instead of tossing 1,000 subs. This is a total of 2008 x 20 second subs. #astrophotography #astronomy #space www.justinthedark.com

Last week I used my #dwarf3 to photograph the Orion Nebula. I love imaging Orion as it takes me back to my very first Astro shot in 2021. I processed the 2008x15 second subs in PixInsight. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #dwarflabs

I’ve got the whole family out imaging tonight! We’ve had 3 clear nights in a row, so I’ve got a ton of data to process this week. #astronomy #astrophotography #seestar #dwarflabs

Just post this new image and detail of the Pacman Nebula (NGC281) on my astro blog! I had a fun time processing this breaking out the Ha and OIII with DBXtract in #PixInsight. #astronomy #astrophotography #space www.justinthedark.com

First take on the Pleiades (M45) for the season using my Apertura 60EDR and ZWO ASI533MC. I had cool experience with a Chinese rocket body photobombing my image during shooting. You can read more on my blog. Astro Blog: justinthedark.com #astrophotography #astronomy #ZWO #Apertura

Just finished processing my latest image of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) using Siril & PixInsight. Shot on my #Dwarf3. Other than some weird color banding I like the results. More details on my blog: justinthedark.com #astronomy #astrophotography #Dwarflabs

I took the #seestar S50 for a run this week and imaged the Triangulum Galaxy for 4 hours. I’ve also started a new blog at www.justinthedark.com if you want to read more. I plan to write about astronomy and astrophotography of course. #astronomy #astrophotography #space

Took my #Dwarf3 to Breckenridge for Thanksgiving and tried imaging M31 in the freezing cold. 185 subs later, I think the Andromeda shot turned out awesome. Shout out to @naztronomy.com and his amazing Siril script for smart telescopes. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

Talk about #astrophotography! It’s been cloudy for what seems like months, but at least we just got our space selfie back from Crunch Labs! space.crunchlabs.com/selfie/aODjoYV #astronomy #space

Sometimes there’s a steep learning curve to #astrophotography. Last night was a struggle to focus my Sky-Watcher 127 to my new ASI662MC. This only compounded by my complete inability to plate solve, so I could only rely on manual polar alignment. I guess it’s to the YouTubes. #astronomy #space

First light for my new #Dwarf3 smart telescope. It was easy to navigate the app and polar align the scope. I left it out for a total of 5.45 hours of integration with no problems and only 6 rejected subs. This thing will shine when summer targets are back! #astrophotography #astronomy #space

I imaged my first globular cluster of the year! The M3 cluster is one of the largest and brightest and is made up of around 500,000 stars. It is estimated to be 11.4 billion years old and roughly 32,600 light-years from Earth. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

We had quite a bit of cloud cover last night, but my little #Seestar tried its best to capture the Blood Moon. Here’s a timelapse of the evening on 20 second intervals #astrophotography #astronomy #space

I took a two minute video on my #seestar in raw and stacked the video in ASI Studio - Planetary Stacker as a bit of practice for tomorrow. Fingers crossed for clear skies! #astrophotography #astronomy #moon

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been swamped at work and needed a little break from social media. Here’s 8 hours of integration on Markarian’s Chain from my #Seestar S50. I’ve been working on some other multi-night images and will post soon. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

There has been an abundance of clouds over the last two weeks hampering any real astronomy time. However, I brought some telescopes to my kid’s school for their STEM night! We took these photos on my #Seestar S50 while waiting for it to get dark. #astronomy #astrophotography #space

Just going to post this here if you’re looking for different scientific lists to follow on Bluesky! Happy Reading. blueskydirectory.com/lists/all?q=...

“Fifty years ago, on February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.” This is a quick and inspiring read that will make you want to cherish and protect our precious planet even more. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/77201...

I highly encourage everyone with an iOS device to pre-order the Flashes app. It’s a phenomenal instagram replacement based on Bluesky. I’ve been beta testing it and each update has been better than the previous. Android users, the sole freelance developer has stated your time will come!

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to print and display #astrophotography? Does anyone have any examples of custom backlit printed astro work?

I shot Bode’s Galaxy as the first DSO target for my Skymax 127mm. It appears this focal length really shows the backlash from my SA GTi. I guess more fine tuning is needed. This was 4 hours of 1 min subs. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

Finally some clear skies and calm winds tonight! After a week of clouds and rain we had clear skies last night, but it was so windy I thought it was going to blow over my telescope. Whomp whomp. I’m thinking the Jellyfish Nebula for the Seestar and maybe Bode’s Galaxy for the Skymax 127.

Happy Valentine’s Day, Bluesky! To celebrate, here’s an image I took of the Heart Nebula. I hope your day is as beautiful as this region of space. #astrophotography #astronomy #space #valentinesday

It’s been cloudy and raining all week so I went back and reprocessed an old stack of M33 the Triangulum Galaxy. I guess we call this an official #TBT. #astrophotography #astronomy #space #seestar

Maybe if we all get on that Mediterranean diet we can live long enough to see it again. lol (Edited 1:42 PM via @skeetsapp.com)

IC 405 - The Flaming Star Nebula This proved to be a difficult target to image with the #Seestar. I totaled 3 hours of integration on this target with 1100 x 10 second sub frames. Processed in #PixInsight #Astrophotography #astronomy #space

First light for my new Skymax 127mm telescope with an ASI533MC-Pro camera. I’ve never done planetary imaging before so I’ve got a huge learning curve. I also know the focus wasn’t great but I’m still really excited! #astrophotography #astronomy #space #moon #jupiter

My first shots of #galaxy season! Here’s M81 Bode’s Galaxy and M82 the Cigar Galaxy as shot on my #Seestar S50. This is just a quick 3 hour shot processed in #PixInsight. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

Let's go!!! 🚀 Here's a link to the Open Beta for Flashes (iOS-only for now)

I spent the last two week (between clouds) shooting a total of 12 hours of integration on the Orion Nebula with my #seestar S50 and processed in #PixInsight. I think this will do for 2025 and will revisit Orion next year. #astrophotography #space #astronomy

I’ve got my #seestar imaging the heart nebula for a fun Valentine’s Day project. However, I had to take a quick shot of the moon. Venus and the Moon look splendid next to each other this evening. #astrophotography

Just ordered a Sky-Watcher Skymax 127 mm Maksutov-Cassegrain! I’ve always imaged deep sky objects, but this will be my first step into planetary imaging. I’m also very excited to use it for visual #astronomy outreach. It looks like it will be handy for galaxy season too. #astrophotography

This is pretty neat! I’ve done star trails photos in the northern hemisphere, but never thought about what it would look like at the equator.

I’ve been adding to my count of M42 subs from my #seestar. This was from a couple weeks ago with just 4 hours of integration. I’ve got another 12 hour stacking now! Can’t wait to process the results. #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social #astronomy #space #science #space

Here’s my attempt at the Monkey Head Nebula shot on my #seestar S50 over two nights on Jan 19-20 for a total integration of 4 hours. I ran it through a narrowband normalization with an HOO palette in #Pixinsight. #astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky #space #zwo

I finished this 6 hour mosaic of the Horsehead and Flame nebulae 2 weeks ago on my #seestar and processed in #PixInsight. This is always a tough target for me, but I think this one came out ok. #astrophotography #astronomy #space #zwo #deepsky

Rosette Nebula I took this over 4 nights with my #Seestar S50. I stacked 3636 x 10 second subframes in PixInsight for a total of 10 hours of integration. Then I followed my standard dual-band processing. It’s impressive what you can get from this telescope. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

Hello world. Making the switch from Meta to Bluesky! We’ll see how this goes.