That was a tough one: The galaxy M74 in the constellation Pisces (and the weather) gave me some trouble, but I'm quite happy with my final image. This is a combined exposure time of 13 h with the L-Pro & IDAS NB12, which brought out the H-alpha regions #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

I just finished reading this amazing book 🙂 After enjoying “Under Alien Skies” so much this is another book written by Philip Plait that I can highly recommend! Don’t get fooled by its cover: It’s serious and scientific stuff! I’ve read lots of books about space but learned lots of new things here.

Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) #astrophotography #M31 #Andromeda#galaxy #astronomy #space #science #photography #art #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnite #BlueSkyArtShow @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social Image details, see ALT 👇

Continue experimenting with Schlieren Photography, A DIY setup using reflections of a pinhole light in a parabolic mirror to visualize air turbulence. Light bends as it passes through rising heat, revealing invisible airflow from a candle. More details 👇 #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse

1/ The Spaghetti Nebula (Simeis 147, Sh2-240) is what remains of a supernova and the second project which, up to now, had been on my list of “black beasts” — targets I considered impossible to capture under my sky — that I have finally brought home after a three-year battle. ⬇️ 🔭 #Astrophotography

A neonate orphan has lost its family, food source, and protection. Our Keepers fill that void – sleeping beside them, swaddling them, hand-picking their greens, scooping mud onto their skin. Offering round-the-clock care, for as long as it takes: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

Long exposure turned the water into a symphony, each flying droplet sketching its own note. Captured while hiking in the south of France last summer #favoritethings #blueskyartshow

1/ The Flying Dragon nebula (Sh2-114) | December is driving me crazy: over the last two weeks the weather has alternated grey, rainy days with others sunny, seemingly crystal-clear at night—except it isn’t, because the sky is constantly crossed by fog banks and “sheep-clouds”. ⬇️ #Astrophotography

Sh2-200 The Bearclaw Nebula captured from my patio on six nights last month 😊🔭 This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of about 55 hours in mono with Ha and OIII narrowband filters and combined with RGB stars. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

I was going to just get three hours of this and move on to something else, but now it seems promising and I think I'll try to get four more hours tonight. It's IC405, the Flaming Star Nebula. #Astronomy #astrophotography

I released a new Astrophoto: A Planetary Nebula - Sharpless 188, Nov’25 Made optimal use of two nights. Quickly refreshed the collimation of the Cassegrain. Result and Making Of: astrocamp.eu/en/sharpless... #astrophotography #astronomy #nature #deepsky #astroimaging #clearsky #photography

✨The Horsehead and Flame nebulae. The difficulty of this capture was keeping Alnitak, one of the brightest stars in Orion’s belt, under control. 📷Setup : Sony A7S, Newton 130/900. @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ? #blueskyartshow #sky

Yay! My VdB 14 and VdB 15 image was voted Top Pick Nomination on AstroBin! 🥳 #Astrophotography

Meet Kaikai, who has captured every heart at Kaluku. Daphne Sheldrick once said when orphans play, you know they've turned a corner. For Kaikai, who had a heart-breaking start to life, seeing her turn a wave “hello” into a game shows her recovery is well underway. Adopt her: www.swt.bio/kaikai

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One more sleep… set your alarms as tomorrow, we’ll be running a very special #GivingTuesday Matched Giving campaign. It’s your chance to donate or adopt, knowing your gift will have double the impact for Kenya’s wildlife. Stay tuned, we’ll share more tomorrow on our website and social feed!

Et voilà ! Merci à vous, vous êtes 1000 ! Et pour fêter ça, voici une nouvelle photo des Pléiades ! Et je pense que c'est ma meilleure photo, toute cible confondue... Et chose amusante, pour obtenir ce résultat, j'ai tenté : je n'ai mis aucun filtre ! 😁 Vous en pensez quoi ? 😇 #astrophotography 🔭

🔭 The Triangulum Galaxy, M33 is a beautiful sight. 2.73 million light years from earth it's the third largest galaxy visible. I took this photo using LRGB and Ha filters for about 20 hours. #astrophotography #trevinca #m33 #triangulum #astronomy Large: app.astrobin.com/i/ymzzmc

Ça fait tellement bizarre de voir ses propres photos dans un journal 🥳🥳

A rise of moon on an autumn sky. I came out ready for a full night of astro, but once again the weather won… and somehow still offered me this quiet moment. #warmth #blueskyartshow

Another couple of clear nights gave me a chance to collect about 12 hours of photons on M33. Shot in LRGB + H-alpha with my SW Esprit 80ED 80-mm f/5 refractor and ASI2600MM Pro camera. More info on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/4tmgil #Astrophotography

VdB 14 and VdB 15 captured from my dark site in southern France end of September 🇫🇷 😊🔭 This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 with Hyperstar for a total integration time of about 5.5 hours using an OSC cam with just the UV/IR-Cut filter. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

Newborn rhinos are extremely vulnerable. They need to be shielded from even the slightest chill, hence Chamboi's woollen, cherry red blanket. It was such a favourite when he first came into our care, that he flatly refused to wear anything else! Meet the rhinos currently in our care: t.co/CvOTGiQk8X

Menkib and the California Nebula. After failing to get the whole nebula into the FOV, I tried something different: focusing on the tension between that beast of a star and the nebula. Gear: 130/910 mm APO, ASI 2600MM Pro & SHORGB filters. Total exposure: ~15 hours over 4 nights. #astrophotography

The Pacman Nebula NGC 281 in Cassiopeia had been on my wish list for several years, and now, over the course of 4 nights in September & October, I finally got it. Visually not an easy object due to light pollution, but really fun to photograph (tech. details in image) 🔭 @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

A bit of #astrophotography drizzling, cropping, and sizzling on #M82 to show just how gorgeous those H-alpha jets are 😍. Can you please plate-solve this @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?

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Marrying H-alpha and LRGB data while doing #astrophotography can reveal cool things in space like those reddish jets of matter coming out of the nucleus of M82 (a buddy of M81, one of our neighbor galaxies). Where do you put this @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s Super-Kipekee! Her bright blue 'cape' is as practical as it is stylish: Newly orphaned calves arrive cold, traumatised, and desperately missing their mothers' warmth. A soft blanket becomes their security – physical comfort that says "you're safe, you're not alone."

Andromeda's maelstrom! Imaged over three nights in September from the driveway. Image details are on my Astrobin page at app.astrobin.com/i/w0aubd. #astrophotography #astronomy

This marked the moment Chamboi met his SWT family - and took his first helicopter flight. We rescued this tiny newborn after he was found completely alone at the height of a drought. That was back in 2023. Despite his tough start to life, Chamboi is now thriving: swt.bio/chamboi

28 seconds. That's all it takes for Tytan to finish his bottle of specialist formula milk. We hand feed this orphan black rhino milk on a schedule throughout the day. Come nightfall, he enjoys a bounty of leafy vegetation in a night time stable, which keeps his tummy full overnight: swt.bio/tytan

Keeper Peter adjusts Kipekee’s blanket with care. For newly rescued tiny orphans, these brightly coloured blankets can become an essential part of their recovery, providing more than just warmth: they offer comfort and a physical reassurance that they're safe.

Team work in #astrophotography 🔭📷 gives nice results. Here is M33, a neighboring galaxy combining images from 3 setups. I'm always amazed with its bright blue stars that can be resolved from several million light years away. @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social where's this please? www.astrobin.com/ibi2sb/

Electra, also known as vdB 20, is a reflection nebula in Taurus, 400 ly away. It reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight in late November. ▼ Vixen ED80sf | Canon EOS M100 '21 © Thomas Hanrath '25 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 astrocamp.eu/en/vdb-20-el... #astrophotography #astronomy #nature

La galaxie d’Andromède (M31) et ses deux galaxies satellites M32 et M110, dans la constellation d’Andromède. Image composite combinant vues couleur et vues avec un filtre spécifique à l’émission Ha de l’hydrogène. Détails techniques: app.astrobin.com/i/npf0wr #astrophotography

Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan

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👨‍👩‍👦‍👦7 sisters family portrait My last attempt on the Pleiades. Easy to capture, not that easy to keep clean , in particular, collimation to get crisp star spikes. 📷Newton 130/900 · Sony A7S · 6h exposure #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ?

The planetary nebula Sh2-188 in the constellation Cassiopeia is also known as Shrimp Nebula due to its shape. I took this image over five nights in August using a C8, an ASI294mc Pro camera and a total exposure time of around 13 hours (details in image) #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

This brave little black rhino has a heartbreaking story - his mother fatally fell off a cliff, and for two days, the tiny baby gave his rescuers the run round. Now he’s safe at our Nairobi Nursery where he has found the love of a new human family. Discover Tytan’s full rescue story: swt.bio/tytan

Wolf’s Cave Nebula (LDN 1217 / vdB 152) captured on two nights a couple of weeks ago 😊🔭 This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 with Hyperstar for a total integration time of about 8.5 hours. I combined OSC and mono Ha data for this image. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) reached its perihelion on Sep 27 2024, at a distance of 0.391 AU from the Sun. I photographed it in Oct 2024. ▼ Baader Apo 95 CaF₂ | Canon EOS R(a) ’24 © Thomas Hanrath ’25 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 astrocamp.eu/en/c-2023-a3... #astrophotography #astronomy #nature

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1/ The Flying Bat nebula (Sh2-129), hiding within it the famous and extremely elusive blue Squid (Ou4), has been my longest-running project so far, and the one I’ve spent the most nights on over the past three years. At this point, a real case of astrophotographic stubbornness. 🔭 #Astrophotography

The Eagle Nebula's overall shape is thought to resemble an eagle with outstretched wings. The total integration time was fifteen hours. My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #nebula #photography

I just finished reading this book and can highly recommend it 🙂 It’s a good read and I really enjoyed it!

Et voici C/2025 R2 (SWAN) prise en 18minutes avec le RASA 14" de l'OBP au Chili sur les filtres RVB. Un traitement de comète en mono... il faut vraiment pas être bien dans sa tête 😂😂 (coucou @pahcas.bsky.social ! Je pourrais jouer encore avec votre jouet à l'occasion ? 😇) #astrophotography 🔭