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Clear skies enthusiast
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Naztronomy
2 days ago
Check out my 12 panel, 71 hour mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud in both broadband and narrowband:
app.astrobin.com/i/7thh0y
Go full screen & zoom in! I presented it at NEAIC/NEAF for the first time yesterday and it was the main subject of both of my talks.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#space
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Large Magellanic Cloud HOORGB 12 Panel Mosaic - AstroBin
First shown to the public in my talk at NEAIC. Go full screen and zoom in 1x to see the breadth of the Large Magellanic Cloud! This is a giant 12 panel mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud taken over ...
https://app.astrobin.com/i/7thh0y
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Splashdown!
3 days ago
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Coming home soon!!!
#artemis
#splashdown
#nasa
3 days ago
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Galaxy season is here! Here’s an edge-on (NGC 4013) and face-on spiral galaxy (NGC 3938) combo. They are located near Ursa Major.
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
#galaxy
#astronomy
#astrophotography
4 days ago
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Katie Mack
6 days ago
I was on CBC-KW this morning to chat about
#Artemis
II and got a lovely view of the waning gibbous Moon on my way in to work afterward. We have such a pretty satellite 😍 BTW, did you know NASA has a Daily Moon Guide with Moon-viewing tips & info?
science.nasa.gov/moon/daily-m...
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NASA's Daily Moon Guide
Your interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year, featuring detailed views from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, plus special Moon events.
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/daily-moon-guide/
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“Amaze! Amaze!…” “Copy, Moonjoy…” — Artemis Mission Control to Integrity Great images from
#NASA
of impact crater Mare Orientale, now in full view. Blue line is a very rough estimate of where far and near side meet. Its position changes due to lunar libration.
#artemis
#astronomy
#space
7 days ago
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Katie Mack
8 days ago
NASA
#Artemis
II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (
plus.nasa.gov
) or on the NASA YouTube channel (
www.youtube.com/@NASA
). It should be amazing to watch!
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Katie Mack
8 days ago
There's a nice
#Artemis
II mission tracker here:
artemis.cdnspace.ca
LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"
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Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control
Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.
https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/
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European Space Agency
9 days ago
OK this is cool. The first time humans have seen the whole Mare Orientale on the far side of the Moon with their own eyes. See
flic.kr/p/2s5HA2X
🧪🔭
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Katie Mack
9 days ago
The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the
#Artemis
II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT
@swapnakrishna.com
@jasonc0.bsky.social
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Let’s unpack the picture taken from NASA’s Orion after translunar injection by Reid Wiseman. See alt text. This shot was taken with a Nikon D5 DSLR at ISO 51,200 which is why it is grainy. See also
@astrokatie.com
’s video annotation.
www.instagram.com/reel/DWryhfx...
#artemis2
#astronomy
#space
9 days ago
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It’s
#Artemis
II day. Aptly, on the
#Moon
, a cat seems to lurk.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#felixthecat
#artemis2
12 days ago
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
about 2 months ago
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory has officially started releasing world-public alerts! 🎉 Here's what you need to know about these first alerts and what's coming up for Rubin ➡️ 🔭🧪☄️
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory
about 2 months ago
The largest spot-the-difference effort EVER has begun!🚨 On the night of Feb 24, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially released its first ~800,000 public alerts of detected changes in the night sky!🔍 A new era of discovery is here✨ 🔭🧪☄️ 🔗:
rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a...
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Eyes of Clavius and Rupes Recta are revealed tonight along the terminator of the waxing gibbous (69%) moon. Jupiter’s main bands also appear after stacking many frames taken at low exposure.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#moon
#jupiter
about 2 months ago
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α Ursae Minoris
#polaris
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#startrails
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2 months ago
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The
#SuperbOwl
Nebula! 🏈
#astronomy
#astrophotography
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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Regulus (alpha Leonis, magnitude 1.4), the brightest star in Leo, subtly reappears after its lunar occultation on Feb. 2, 2026. Video stacked with
#seestar
S50.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#occultation
#moon
2 months ago
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Dan Burns
2 months ago
I have had my Orion ShortTube 80 refractor for 30 years. I used it a lot in the 90s with a film camera. Now it is relegated to guide scope duty attached to a ZWO ASI178MM camera. Last night I let them show what they can do on the waxing gibbous moon. Not bad! Details in ALT.
#astrophotography
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Two stars, two galaxies, two clusters: Canopus - 2nd brightest star (and the home star of Arrakis in Dune) Achernar - 9th brightest star Large and Small Magellanic Clouds - dwarf irregular galaxies NGC 2516 - open cluster 47 Tucanae - globular cluster
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#arrakis
#dune
3 months ago
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First light with the
#DwarfMini
scope Flaming Star Nebula, M101 and NGC 3180 (Pinwheel and Little Pinwheel Galaxies) and Jupiter with the Galilean Moons
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarflab
#galaxies
#jupiter
#nebula
3 months ago
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Orion on a cold winter evening.
#orion
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
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3 months ago
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Happy New Year!!! Here are the Fireworks Galaxy and NGC 6939.
#happynewyear
#HNY
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#NewYear2026
3 months ago
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Southern skies under Bortle 2 skies. Omega Centauri (green), Southern Cross (red), Alpha Centauri (yellow) in the Milky Way.The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are also visible with the naked eye.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#southerncross
#milkyway
4 months ago
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The luminous red
#nova
(LRN) AT2025abao in the Andromeda
#galaxy
was discovered by Koichi Itagaki on 10/17/25. Here is M31 on 6/25 vs 11/14 this year imaged with a
#Dwarf3
telescope. The lower right inset shows the bright nova after the merger of two stars.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
5 months ago
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Aurora Borealis bathing Orion tonight
#aurora
#astronomy
#astrophotography
5 months ago
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The brightest crater on the moon stands out during the waxing gibbous phase (~89%). The relatively young Aristarchus crater was formed 450 million years ago.
#moon
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#seestar
5 months ago
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Timelapse of Two Travelers — Lemmon orbits with a majestic and dynamic tail spanning a few degrees. SWAN silently sails with almost no tail yet proudly marks its presence with a green glowing nucleus, a signature of diatomic carbon.
#comet
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#space
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6 months ago
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Capturing
#cometLemmon
and
#cometSWAN
together in a wide angle shot of the western sky around 90 mins after sunset.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#comet
6 months ago
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While an Eagle soars, a glowing Swan swiftly glides across the night sky. 📷 details in alt text
#cometswan
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf
6 months ago
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Transit of the International Space Station on 10/4 at 1/3 actual speed.
#solartransit
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#seestar
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6 months ago
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Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon near Leo Minor . The green color is from the dicarbon (C2) species found in the coma.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
#comet
#cometlemmon
6 months ago
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An H-alpha image of the
#Sun
on Aug. 30. Left: result from raw images aligned and stacked. Right: color rendering of the left image in Photoshop to bring out the prominences. On the disk are spicules or “fur”, filaments and plage (white regions near sunspots).
#astronomy
#astrophotography
7 months ago
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Neptune and Saturn imaged with the
#Dwarf3
telescope on August 12. Two of Saturn’s larger moons,Titan and Iapetus, were discernible.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
8 months ago
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2 Pallas, the 3rd largest asteroid in the solar system, is now in the constellation Delphinus. It will be in opposition and at its brightest on 8/10. Currently, it is at magnitude 9.4. The brightest star in each image is Saulocin.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
#asteroid
#minorplanet
8 months ago
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Seyfert’s Sextet, found between Hercules and Serpens, consists of 5 galaxies and a long tail of stars of one of them. NGC 6027d is not gravitationally related and is actually 955 million LY away! The other 5 are only 190 million LY away. Such old photons!
#dwarf3
#astronomy
#astrophotography
9 months ago
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The Crab Nebula (M1), the remnant of a supernova that exploded on July 4,1054. It is 6,500 light years away and found in the constellation Taurus.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#seestar
#fourthofjuly
9 months ago
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The waxing crescent moon flanked by (clockwise from the top) Mars, Rho Leonis and 49 Leonis.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
10 months ago
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V462 Lupi, 12 days after it turned nova. Imaged ~ 8 degrees above the southern horizon. The comparison star is HD 13380 (HR Lupi) below the nova, at the center of the image.
#nova
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
10 months ago
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Waxing gibbous moon At the right angle of illumination, two features appear at the southern region of the moon: Rupes Recta (“Straight Wall”) - a 110 km by 2 to km wide fault The Eyes of Clavius - the rims of the 2 smaller craters w/in the Clavius crater
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
10 months ago
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The Trifid Nebula (M20) and its open cluster neighbor (M21) near Sagittarius first observed by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764 — 261 years ago today. Imaged with the Dwarf 3 with the duo band filter.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
10 months ago
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A Study of the Sky, Herbert A. Howe (1896)
11 months ago
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Asterisms named after Fr. Lucian Kemble: Kemble 1: Kemble’s Cascade (in Camelopardalis) Kemble 2: Little Queen or Mini- Cassiopeia (in Draco) Kemble 3: Kemble’s Kite ( between Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis)
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#asterism
#seestarS50
#dwarf3
11 months ago
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Beautiful spots today at regions 4079 (34 spots) on the left and 4076 (1 spot) on the right.
#sunspots
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#seestar
#solarastronomy
12 months ago
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A night sky of wonder and beauty: a New Moon, a War God hounded by Bees (Mars and the Beehive Cluster), a Thousands Suns next to a seeming Obsidian Void (M9 and Barnard 64)
12 months ago
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In the Great Hercules Cluster (M13), three relatively dark lanes nearly 120 degrees apart seemingly form a propeller. This was first reported by Bindon Stoney in 1850. Globular clusters may look the same but each has its own special traits.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
12 months ago
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Happy
#EarthDay
, fellow space travellers!
12 months ago
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It is too busy up there!
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#startrails
#polaris
12 months ago
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This is the home star of exoplanet K2-18b. It is a red dwarf about 124 light years away in Leo. The bright star to the right is HD 99904 for reference.
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#reddwarf
#dwarf3
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
12 months ago
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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies
about 1 year ago
From last night: here's 67 minutes worth of asteroid (8) Flora passing in front of galaxy NGC 3628. 🔭
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