Rick's #Astrophotography Picture of the Day (from my growing collection of captures)

Pelican Nebula, aka IC 5070 Integration Time: 12.5 hrs. (50 x 1000s) Askar FRA500 (0.7x) ASI2600MC Duo Camera ZWO AM5N Mount ASIair Plus Mini-PC Pixinsight My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography

Still working on processing but wanted to show the beautiful tail of Comet Lemmon from my last session. It's about 100 minutes worth of data here. Hoping to catch it again tonight if the weather allows. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #comet #cometlemmon

Here’s 7 hrs of M33 for your viewing pleasure! I love all space photos, but I’m a galaxy lover at heart. The Triangulum is at the sweet spot in size that makes it one of the more approachable targets for mid-focal length telescopes (400-600mm). #astrophotography

It's the Crab! The Crab Nebula to be precise. Messier's Number One (M1) in his famous catalog of fuzzy objects in 1758. My fifth attempt to collect a decent image. Two clear hours before sunrise for this one. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Taking advantage of the clear nights we've been seeing this past week. A shot of M33, the Triangulum Galaxy from the backyard near Ottawa 🇨🇦. About 1500, 30s frames shot over 2 nights, stacked in the Dwarf3 robotic 🔭 and run through their Stellar Studio tool. #astrophotography #dwarf3

NGC7497 A dusty galaxy in Pegasus This spiral edge on galaxy is located almost 60 million light years away. It is visible in this image hiding behind the integrated flex nebula, a faint cloud of interstellar dust within our own Milky Way galaxy Shot from my backyard , September 2025 .

Not the best seeing but doing what I can with what I have. My internet died and my first stream was forcefully ended. New stream: youtube.com/live/kv12afL... #astronomy #astrophotography #saturn

"It wouldn't make lot of difference, evidence never did once you were in the deep levels where accusations had the status of proof" This book is so -ing good. #booksky 📘📚

The North America and Pelican (looking like a Pterodactyl) nebulae. This is a crop of a 1.8x1.8 wide field mosaic. Two and a half hours of 45 seconds exposures in EQ mode. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

A Sunday morning blue sky Moon lit by the Sun's light- you might not even spot it unless you look very high up - currently 66 degrees altitude. Waning Gibbous of 52% #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

Here's the image of Supernova SN2025vzq in NGC 7606. ~100 million light years away. Taken with a 17" CDK telescope at my astronomy club's field (@atmob.bsky.social). Give the account a follow, we have amazing members at the club! #Supernova #Astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy

If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough) Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

Thought for the day! If 1 million seconds is 12 days 1 billion seconds is over 31 years. That mean 424 billion is over 13 thousand years. That means #ElonMusk could spend a $ per second for 13000 years. There is no justification for #Billionaires

Definitely my favourite if it’s possible to have a #Discworld favourite

Which Pratchett book is your favorite? I think Night Watch is peak Pratchett.

Zoom in and leave your (numerous and significant) Earth problems behind. M8 Lagoon Nebula 🏝️ Apertura 75Q Telescope 🔭 QHY Minicam 8 📷 SkyWatcher 100i Mount HaRGB Ha 52 x 2m ❤️ R 33 x 2m ❤️ G 28 x 2m 💚 B 33 x 2m 💙 Total : 4.8 hours exposure.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Terry Pratchett's final masterpiece, 'The Shepherd's Crown.' To honour this milestone, we're sharing these poignant reflections from Rob Wilkins. 🔗📚 bit.ly/the-shepherd... #TerryPratchett #Discworld

It's my birthday today. A very significant one. A fabulous three day family & friends celebration has come to a close. So clear last night before bed & dream time I had to set my scope on the California Nebula. #CaliforniaDreaming #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

-from Witches Abroad #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WitchesAbroad

Completely unprocessed #Astrophotography straight out of the #SeestarS30, M13 the great globular cluster in the constellation of Hercules. I have a tandem project running on my main rig with the RedCat71 and my mono Atikone camera.

📸 Imaged comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) ☄️ on August 21, near the star 9 Herculis 🌟. Shining at mag 12.5, with a greenish 2′ coma and a ~20′ tail. It’s heading toward perihelion in October, with a high risk of disintegration ⚠️ ℹ️ cometografia.es/2025k1-atlas... #astronomy #cometwatch #comet #astrophotography

M81 and M82 galaxies. Seestar 50. 65 minutes exposure. #astrophotography #astronomy

IC 1795, or the Fish Head Nebula, about 6,000 light-years away. This was probably my last project with the 8" Newton. I'll soon be shooting with a 6" apo refractor. Gear: 203/926mm Newton, 2600mm Pro camera & 2,5nm ha-filter, ~6 hours of exposure. Color data from an older shot. #astrophotography

NEW #Astrophoto: Messier 15 Snapped M15-globular in Pegasus, ~33 600 ly out-on a single clear early-summer night with my VC200L. So worth it! Full story: astrocamp.eu/en/messier-1... ▼ Vixen VC200L | Canon EOS R(a) '25 #astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #clearsky #photography #nature

I second this🤣

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae on my first anniversary on Bluesky (check my pinned post)! The pair of deep-sky objects located in the constellation Orion at last are now high enough for an hour of Dwarf smart scope shooting 4-5am #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

M20 - They call me Tripod Apertura 75Q / 405mm / F7 🔭 QHY MiniCam8 Camera/Filters 📷 Sky-Watcher 100i Mount HaRGB Ha – 106 x 2m R – 31 x 2m G – 17 x 2m B – 65 x 2m Total : 7.3 hours I think it turned out amazing for such a tiny little portable setup!

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M17 - the Omega Nebula. 17 hrs in SHOrgb. Disaster! 2 full nights of subs removed due to a focus glitch! AHH! Recovery: Skimmed a few hrs here & there & got it back up to 17 hrs! Full story with processing walk-thru here: cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m17... #Astrophotography

Hello darkness my old friend! Astronomical darkness returns tomorrow. It’s a shame it’s brought the clouds along for the ride. #Astrophotography #DarknessReturns #Astronomy

It's my birthday!

Am redoing my personal website to host my #astrophotography work - it'd be a shame to have stuff just on my hard drive or on social media accounts. Reprocess of my Pleiades to California Nebula mosaic from last January.

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

#astrophotography #galaxy #M33 #photography #nature

RCW 85 is an emission nebula located in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 5,900 light-years from Earth. Imaged using SHO and RBG filters to capture the nebula and the stars. The nebula is shaped by ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

I've always had a liking for taking Moonrise pictures. This one I captured from the beach at Whitley Bay, UK, in 2016. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Our first attempt at the Eagle Nebula, specifically the heart of the eagle. 97 300 minute images stacked and processed in Pixinsight, final touches in Photoshop. Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 scope ZWOASI2600mcpro duo camera ZwoAM5 mount ZWOASI Air plus #astrophotography #astrosky #astronomy #nebula

Hi all. This is my first post on Bluesky. But of an experiment, this one: North American and Pelican Nebulae taken with my PlayerOne Uranus C Pro, on a vintage Takumar 135mm M42 lens. Zwo duo band and UVIR cut filters. I struggled with haloes a bit. Processed in Pixinsight. #astrophotography

1/ After all the time wasted in the futile attempt to capture Rho Ophiuchi this year, I decided to console myself by returning to another classic summer target that I had only dedicated a few hours to last year, the Trifid Nebula (M20). These are about 9 hours of integration. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Hi all of you! What I love about #Astronomy 🔭 is that you can literally witness the past from your backyard. Billions and billions of worlds as they were millions and millions of years ago : NGC7331 and friends + the Stephan Quintet. #astrophotography 🔭📷. What do you see @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?

NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. #astronomy #astrophotography #telescope #sky #deepsky #space #universe #nebula #bubble #video #animation

1 hour version, #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭 @siril.org @gimpofficial.bsky.social

“Gytha?” “Yes, Esme?” said Nanny Ogg innocently. “I can feel you grinnin”. You can save the tu’penny-ha’penny psycholology for them as wants it.” -from Witches Abroad #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WitchesAbroad

For several years I have been drawing characters from T. Pratchett's Discworld. Now I will show them here too. Granny Weatherwax #pontpilat #discworld #GrannyWeatherwax #pratchett #art #cartoon #gameart #concept #character #пратчетт #арт #ветровоск #плоскиймир

M8 The Lagoon Nebula What an absolute beauty it is; easily in my top 3 fav targets this summer 🔭 #astrophotography #M8

Abell 39 captured from my patio on seven nights in June 😊🔭 This bubble like planetary nebula was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of 27 hours in mono using Ha and OIII narrowband filters and RGB filters for the stars. #Astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

Over the course of 7 nights in May and June, I took test images of the Hercules cluster M13 with the ASI183mc Pro camera, which was kindly provided by @astrophil.de. Also tested different filters, and I'm quite happy with the final stack of all frames #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Lords and Ladies is our pick for a perfect Pratchett summer read! Drawing from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," only with elves that are truly terrifying, and the added menace of Morris dancing, Terry's tale of evil magic is as eerie as it is enchanting!🧙‍♀️🧝‍♀️ www.discworldemporium.com?s=lords%20an...