Weather change coming: 23º halo around the moon, with Jupiter just inside at the top.

NGC 55 / C72: The "String of Pearls" galaxy. #Seestar S50🔭 16 min vs 20 min wall-clock. "Denoised" & adjusted brightness & contrast to bring out arms. Not included in the H400, so surprised me to see such a large bright galaxy. I like the differing densities and lengths of the left vs. right arm.

NGC NGC 2261 (Hubble's Variable Nebula, C46), imaged with a #Seestar S50 🔭. Pictures before & after using the S50's AI denoising and brightness / contrast settings. Imaged for Astronomical League's "Caldwell" observing program (www.astroleague.org/caldwell-obs...). 15 min @ 10 sec in alt-az mode.

Barnard 139 is the elongated dark patch near the center of the image. It looks a bit like a squid swimming down & left, with tentacles stretching up & right. The star field is quite dense: this is in the middle of the summer Milky Way.

Dark Nebula B 335, taken in a 20 minute exposure (of which 15 minutes of 20-second frames were stacked) with a #Seestar S50 🔭. The original image was quite blue. I used the apps "AI Denoise", then tweaked the brightness and contrast to make the nebula stand out more.

Green tree #frogs having a convention tonight.

Usagi is a charter member of the Dead Worm Appreciation Society. #dog #GreatPyrenees

Amazingly good image taken during the full moon. NGC 188 (also C1) was about as far from the moon as was possible, and i did tweak the contrast a bit to highlight the cluster stars, but still: this was taken during Full Moon!

#proofOfCat This is Meep, our 16 year old cat, grumpy from being woken from a nap. Her name is the only thing she could say when we rescued her from a dog, 16 years ago.

First clear night in a week or so. In-between objects on the Dark Nebula and Caldwell observing programs, so i hit a couple of "Tonight's Best" with the #seestar S50 🔭. NGC 253 is a lovely galaxy- hard to belive i never observed it 'til a year ago. NGC 6960 is a segment of the Veil nebula.

This was about two feet (.7 m) above the ground, attached to several stalks of golden rod. Anybody have speculation about what kind of #bird made this #birdnest?

A rather blurry picture of a spider whose GREEEEN fangs were gleaming in the sun. #spider

Dark nebula Barnard 92, taken with a #seestar S50 🔭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard...

Handrail #frog. These are slimy when you find them in the dark going up the stairs. “#Blenophobia” fear of slimy textures.

We have horse, er, cattle egrets in our pasture. The horses (who play nose hockey with the turtles who wander in there) don't seem to care about the egrets.

M 11, the Wild Ducks, taken while i waited for it to get dark enough to try a Huge Mosaic of the Pipe nebula (which failed). Under some conditions, visually in a modest sized telescope, M 11 looks like a V of waterfowl (which is where the "Wild Ducks" came from).

Announcing the discovery of the Possum Nebula tucked in between the North America and Pelican nebula. The search is on for the Raccoon Nebula. #stars #humor #milkyway #funny #astronomy

Good choice!

#TCrB still hadn't become a nova as of last night...

Mi trovis verdan araneon. I found a green spider.

Ĉi vi deziras ion legi en #esperanto? Jen retejo kun multaj senkostaj legindaĵoj: libro.ee/index.php

I like to take very short exposures of objects with the #Seestar S50 🔭, to approximate what you can see through a modest (8-10 inch) scope. Well, those are modest sizes nowadays, given the prevalence of foot-wide and larger scopes. 30 seconds on most objects is about right.

Region around 𝛾 Cygni (Sadr). A difuse nebula around the star, with many dark nebulae superimposed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_C... 30 minutes with #Seestar S50 🔭

Despite a waxing moon, M26 (The Dumbell Nebula) looks quite good. 30 minutes with a #Seestar S50 🔭 Spite de kreskante luno, M26 aperas bele. Tridek Minutoj.

Gaja estas birda vivo ĉe rivero sur deklivo. Sub ĉiel' aùrora ĝoja birda ĥoro kantas kun fervoro el la tuta koro. -- de -- Kolekto da versaĵoj por esperantistoj inter 0 kaj 3 jaroj Preparis por la la TTT-ejo de DENASK-L Sergej Verŝinin.

Because Lyra is fairly far from the first quarter moon, here's 20 minutes on the Ring Nebula with a #Seestar S50. Bubble of gas, glowing in the light of a white dwarf at the center.

Hitch-hiker on our tractor. #treefrog. #frog

KURAS MI PER TUTA FORTO Kuras mi per tuta forto, miaj kruroj botojn portas. Boto jen, kaj boto jen Mi elpensis tion mem. Tamen povas mi pli bone: Miajn krurojn botoj kronas. Kaj eksciu ĉiu hom' Mi elpensis tion mom.

ŜIPETO En river navigas ŝipo, ĝi navigas kun persisto. Sidas tie brava kvaro, brava kvaro da maristoj. Bele rondas la oreloj, la kombitaj vostoj glatas. Kaj neniun ili timas krom katinoj kaj krom katoj. Versaĵoj por esperantistoj inter 0 kaj 3 jaroj Preparis Sergej Verŝinin. #esperanto

Muso al musido diris: - Bonajn librojn mi akiris! Legi ilin mi ne povas, Sed la guston bona trovas. --- De <<Kolekto da versajhoj por esperantistoj inter 0 kaj 3 jaroj>> Preparis por la la TTT-ejo de DENASK-L Sergej Vershinin.

Hieraŭ cxielarkon mi vidis... Ĉi-vespere mi vidis maldikan kurban lunon

Nia Tanjo laŭte ploras - En rivero pilko foras. Vanas ploro kaj sufero - Pilk ne dronos en rivero... --- De <<Kolekto da versajhoj por esperantistoj inter 0 kaj 3 jaroj>> Preparis por la la TTT-ejo de DENASK-L Sergej Vershinin.

Bunch of Canada honkers dropped themselves in our pasture. Must have been about forty of them.

Ni havas fenestro-ranoj! We have window frogs!

Ŝatas mi chevalon mian, Voston kombas per kombilo. Mi prizorgas ĝin senhaste, Al amiko rajdas gaste. --- eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolekto...

Dark nebula again: Barnard 295 is in the constellation Sagittarius (right at the tip of the spout of the "teapot"). It nearly as tall as two full moons, but not nearly as wide. To me it looks a bit like a lizard. 9 minutes with a #Seestar S50 🔭

Luli-luli-luli-lu, ĉe la rand' ne dormu plu. Se vi dormos ĉe la rando, vin forŝtelos lupo granda. Lupo nazon vian mordos, en arbaron vin forportos. Lupo, vi al ni ne venu, nian bebon vi ne prenu. Luli-luli-luli-lul, dormu, mia petolul'.

Dark nebula Barnard 84a in the constellation Sagittarius. A cloud of gas and dust blocking the light of the Milky Way stars. These dark nebulae are largely confined to the galaxy's spiral arms, since that's where the clouds of gas and dust are concentrated. 15 minutes with a #Seestar S50 🔭.

Steĉjo saltas sur divano, Steĉjo saltas kiel rano. Mur, mur, mur-mur-mur - Steĉjo volas salti nur. --- De eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolekto...

Vivis iam tri pingvenoj - Pik, Pak, Pok. Gaje kantis dum matenoj - "Pik, Pak, Pok!". Inter fokoj kaj rosmaroj - Pik, Pak, Pok. Naĝis dum la tuta jaro - Pik, Pak, Pok. --- Mi trovis en uunet antaŭ dudek jaroj: eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolekto...

Another night of dark nebulae. Clouds hung on til 10pm, so I could only image 3 tonight. This is Barnard 66. Taken with a #seestar S50 🔭.

B 72 the “Snake” nebula. Taken with a #seestar S50. There are four smaller dark nebulas below and to the right of B 72

Saw these #Mushrooms at Costco, where everything comes in multipacks...

Dark streaks in the sky caused by low-lying clouds blocking the sun's light.

#TCrB is still not boiling as of two days ago #WatchedPotStar Weather hasn't allowed me to see it since then.

The view from Canada:

The Watched Pot Star, T Corona Borealis, is still simmering at about 9th magnitude. #Seestar S50 🔭 #TCrB

These swallows scoff at your spiky anti-bird wire.

Started the Astronomical League's Dark Nebula Observing Program: www.astroleague.org/dark-nebula-... Imaged B142 and B143 (which together make the "famous E nebula") with a #Seestar S50. The two images are stitched at their overlap using the LibreOffice drawing module on a Mac Mini.

#proofOfCat I can has pretzel?