Happy birthday to my favorite #cobberdog!

Hey, it's a full moon tonight! #astrophotography #sydney #australia

The #sun in this glorious Sydney arvo. The true color of the sun is white, since it emits the entire visual spectrum equally. It's only in Earth where light get scattered on our atmosphere. (I capture the sun in B/W, and apply color in post) #astrophotography #sydney #australia

The near side of the #moon (the one facing us) looks smoother because it got "paved over" by lava billions of years ago, while the far side stayed rough and battered. #astrophotography #moonhour #sydney #australia

Dammit, that's why the 3rd target failed overnight. I forgot to set the 'goto target, center, start guiding' option!

Skull Nebula. A planetary nebula with a triple-star system at its center. A nebula of just a few thousand years, a cosmic blink compared to other DSO. Personally, I call this The Metroid nebula instead. 🎮 #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Jellyfish cluster, or Messier 30, or NGC 7099. A cluster as old as the Milky Way, roughly 27,000 light years away from us. Best viewed between August and September. Unusual because it has heaps of blue younger stars, compared to its age. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

#Saturn will be in opposition starting tomorrow. Excellent time to observe this planet, weather permitting. (Celestron C90Mak + ASI178MC + 2x Barlow. Top 5,000 frames out of 15,000.) #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Messier 11 or the Wild Duck Cluster. They say it looks like a flock of ducks on a V-formation when viewed from a telescope. An old cluster, estimated to be 220 million years old. Unusual because usually cluster would have drifted apart by then. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Sunday #solar photo. A tad unremarkable on the Ha spectrum. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Animated GIF of Blood Moon earlier. I need coffee... #astrophotography #sydney #australia

End of Eclipse started.

Yay! #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Stars are now visible, increased exposure time.

#Eclipse is getting red.

Progress so far of the #eclipse.

Eclipse is starting... A few clouds but overall clear. Setup is focused and capturing. #moon #eclipse

A look at the other participant in tonight's cosmic event. Yeah, the #sun. Hopefully, it we will have a good field of view this early morning. I'll definitely be losing sleep. Arrow pointing at Earth. It's the dot in 'j'. Yeah. we're that small. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

#Moon at before 8pm tonight. It's really fascinating that as the Sun is 400 times larger than the moon it is also 400 times further away as well. That's why for now the moon can cover the sun. Not so in a few million years. #astrophotography #sydney #australia #moonhour

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"When the moon is half full… Does that make it an optimist or a pessimist?" #astrophotography #sydney #australia #moon #moonhour

NGC6770. Stopped recording after a new minutes, this target will need very long capture time and probably best with a mono like my minicam8 instead of a OSC. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Tarantula Nebula. Named because its web-like filaments of glowing gas, seen in telescopes, resemble the legs of a giant spider.. At about 1,000 light-years across, it’s the largest and most active star-forming region #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Orion Nebula! 😃 It's now a visible target... But still close to sunrise. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

String of Pearls galaxy. Named due to its slender, elongated edge-on appearance packed with bright, pearl-like star-forming regions and clusters that run along its disk #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Lagoon Nebula. Relatively young giant emission nebula (plus cluster), estimated to be just a few million years old. Yeah, so a baby. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Jewel Box Cluster. About 6,400 light years away. Naked eye visible in dark skies, though looks like a hazy patch. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

#Sun today. Heaps of prominences jumping around. #astrophotography #solar #sydney #australia

Messier 22. Used #seestar #S50 in equatorial mode. Captured 45 mins worth of subs. Then processed manually in Siril/GraXpert. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Helix Nebula or the Eye of God. One of the closest planetary nebulae. There should be a dying white dwarf in the middle. Generally a good DSO target for both beginner and seasoned astrophotographers. Despite being fainter, it's a tad bigger than a full moon! #astrophotography #sydney #australia

The Fighting Dragons of Ara. A star forming region that's about 4,000 light years away. Not that far 😛 Also a favorite target among astrophotographers. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Omega Centauri. The largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Really old cluster (12 billion), with a (predicted) massive black hole in the center. To keep them all together. Star hopping is definitely a thing for any civilizations there, if any. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

The Great Peacock Globular. The fourth brightest globular cluster in the night sky. It's naked eye visible on dark skies (maybe bortle 3 or better). For some reason space telescopes like to use this cluster for their calibration steps. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Eagle Nebula or Messier 16. Home of the famous Pillars of Creation. It is 7,000 light years away, so we're seeing what it looks like 7,000 years ago. There's speculation that the Pillars are already gone, we're just seeing a 'delayed broadcast'. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

NGC 104 or 47 Tuc. 2nd Brightest clusters just next to Omega Centauri. About 13.1 billion years, so almost as old as the Universe. We don't know if there's a black hole at the center. People living there probably might have never known darkness. Maybe. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Sculptor Galaxy, a starburst galaxy meaning it has active star formations going on. Wonder if there are civilisation living there... (Half of the lights were rejected during stacking, good thing there's enough left for a good photo)

G'day M(essier) 8! #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Messier 17 (or Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula or Lobster Nebula or Horseshoe Nebula... That's a lot!) #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Mosaic snapshot of my current Steam library.

Sun this arvo. NASA detected a huge coronal hole that might light up the aurora in a few days. #astrophotography #solar #sydney #australia

A little #fullmoon action tonight. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

The Trifid Nebula. An active star-forming region. Within it, you’ll find protostars and dense clumps of gas where new stars are born. Some of these protostars have powerful jets carving “stellar tunnels” through the surrounding nebula. #astrophotography #sydney #australia

The Pavo Globular Cluster (NGC 6752). The second-brightest globular cluster in the sky (apparent magnitude ~5.4). That makes it an easy naked-eye target in dark southern skies, and a stunner through binoculars or a telescope. (Mono shots only) #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Sun today has heaps of prominence that are many times bigger than Earth! #astrophotography #solar #sydney #australia

Act I of Clair Obscura: Expedition 33.... You alright mate? #videogames #expedition33

The Small Magellanic Cloud. An exclusive southern hemisphere target :P It's an irregular dwarf galaxy accompanying our own Milky Way. It's very active in terms of star formation, we can see stars in different stages of life. Destined to be gobbled up by our Milky way, in a few billion years.

Milky Way core last night. Tonight will be the longest night. And clear. And moonless. Bliss! #astrophotography #sydney #australia

Strawberry #Moon (for northern hemisphere due to timing of strawberry harvest. It's actually called Cold Moon for southern hemisphere) #astrophotography #sydney #australia #moonhour

The sun in this chilly arvo... #astrophotography #sydney #australia #solar

Omega Centauri. Just a single 2-minute shot on the red channel. Clouds pretty much ended the night's session. #astrophotography #sydney #australia