Ah, I see why people use things like StarNet to make #astro image processing easier. Here's my first use of it. Target is IC5146, the Cocoon Nebula in Cygnus. 225x10s Seestar images, stacked in Siril before having stars extracted. The starless image processed in Affinity and recombined. Left/Right

So, who reckons you can image a Black Hole/X-Ray source with a Seestar? Surprisingly, you can (in a way) - The marked star is HD226868, the blue supergiant star that feeds the Black Hole X-Ray source Cygnus X1. It's about 1/2 degree from Eta Cygni (top right), so quite easy to find with binoculars 🔭

@robinince.bsky.social - if we'd had more time, I'd have asked if you'd come across RIchard Ayoade's "The Unfinished Harauld Hughes'; a narrative on making of a documentary about a fictional author? Of course, Ayoade felt obliged to write his fictitious complete works in three accompanying volumes.

Was doing some #astronomy outreach at a local school, showing them the Sun and sunspots. Lots of things crossing its disc, some will be birds, but I think some might be satellites. Any thoughts? Oh, and stay to the end!

Considering Lunar #Astronomy having observed the Earthshine on the 2 day old Moon last evening. As seen on the Moon, the Earthshine has almost 30x the overall brightness than the Full Moon gives on Earth. If there were any Lunar Astronomers, they'd really hate the Earth!

Considering Lunar #Astronomers: having observed the Earthshine on the 2 day old Moon last evening. As seen on the Moon, the Earthshine has almost 30x the overall brightness than the Full Moon gives on Earth. If there were any Lunar Astronomers, they'd really hate the Earth!

Sidewalk #Astronomy for the Partial Solar Eclipse in NW England. Obscured by clouds, but you can see the dark side of the moon. More than 40 pairs of eclipse glasses given away.

Rather than imaging a 'target' last night, I asked my #seestar50 to look at a relatively nondescript 'NGC' things in Coma Berenices: NGC 4274 and NGC4278. In only 65 minutes I imaged the home of billions of solar systems

Love this - I'm pretty sure that geologists will agree, yes? @seismatters.bsky.social xkcd.com/3068/

Catching up with the latest Lovell Lecture at Jodrell Bank (Chaos at Cosmic Dawn) with Phil Bull - and we come out to this... #astronomy at top level photogenics

Science with the SeeStar, the advantage of having a fixed format rig. The observed size of the Sun's disc near Perihelion (375 pixels) and near Aphelion (363 pixels), demonstrating that the Earth's orbit is not circular. #astronomy

The nice thing about the SeeStar is that it allows you to image things you've not heard of before. Last night's example being the Flaming Star Nebula IC 405

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Hi @sainsburys.bsky.social - I was in your Cheshire Oaks store yesterday when you decided to play a promotion for a new book by David Walliams over the tannoy. Please don't - he's an author that has consistently punched down on the poor, the old, the fat and the different. We do not need that.

A view of Venus just before the Moon moved in front of it. A fortunate gap in the clouds