Chris Jones

It's a bit small on the D3 sensor,but shows you have good data on your crop👍

Thanks, its different😉, no edits either, just a 10 minute stack, due to moonshine I moved on 👍

These were scheduled, but managed to stop this after a while, this was just 10 minutes stacked after 45 minutes shooting. As it wasn't looking too good I moved onto M51 instead 👍

It started well here too, but accompanying moonglow and dense fog later on got in the way, Leo triplet for reference 😔😂

Middle section of the waxing Moon at 99.9% lit, as it set behind the farmhouse at 6.50am this morning

The mornings full Worm moon,(or part of it due to cloud) as it set behind the local farmhouse
#astronomy #moon #photography

A few black and white pics around Shrewsbury in last few weeks
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Wild skies over the UK,
19.01.2026
#aurora #northernlights

There is none, you have a far superior scope for planets👍

No, the sensor is but the lens is too wide a fov, jupiter is just a bright dot, its not setup for planets, you need something ideally with more than 2000mm focal length, this is 150mm, equiv fov to approx 700mm fl. a Dobsonian for visual, or newtonian or sct with planetary camera for photography👍

Cheers 👍

D3 does everying the mini does plus more, images are cleaner on mini though, but the d3 is still plenty portable enough for travels, maybe a D4 will incorporate best of both 😉

Cheers Matt, takes a little editing but yep comes out well for such a small device 👍

On the fence, This is with astro filter and find its images are almost too saturated out of the box, however connection and operation is much quicker and more stable especially on home wifi and optics are sharper, still have mosiac mode for wider fov, not tried it yet👍

A fiery looking Orion Nebula, the bright emmision star forming region of Orions sword

A fiery looking Orion Nebula, the bright emmision star forming region of Orions sword

A fiery looking Orion Nebula, M42.
Just 28 minutes with the impressive Dwarflabs Mini smart telescope.
#astronomy #astrophotograpy

This is a first for me, not the galaxy M33, but the short solid line at the bottom which is the asteroid Eros approx 10 miles diameter, it's spud like in shape and currently 40 million miles away, it was visited in 1998 by the probe NEAR Shoemaker.
#astronomy #dwarfmini

So these are accumulated times, i've only ever done single sittings, never thought of combining data like that in trails, I'll have to look it up 👍

Star trails centred on Polaris, the North Star, who lives just above my chimney. Clever OM1ii has a setting called live composite so my part is minimal. I set the time of each exposure - 15 seconds - and OM1ii will take 1440 exposures in 6 hrs then blend them together. This is 2 6hrs, 2 one hour & one 30 minutes blended in StarStax.

271225 @sjbastro.bsky.social @salopchris.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #astrophotography #astronomy #stars 14.5hrs! OM1ii played out all night & Nut granted 9 clear hours & 5 a bit cloudy. Thank you, Nut, the bestest Sky Goddess ever.

Wowsers, that must be one if the longest star trails you get, impressive Jess👍

A beautiful moon halo/ moon rainbow sitting high in the sky above the 900 year old Abbey Church in Shrewsbury, UK

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I managed a meagre 80 minutes last night, first one I have done in years, bit annoyed as there was aurora just off to the left of the screen too 🙄

Apologise, its 10 hours, the 9 is a little close to the 0,👍 #fatfingers

M31, a 10 hour shoot over multiple nights, mega stacked within the D3 smart telescopes inbuit software and processed using nothing but Photoshop Express, Snapseed and a touch of lightroom

A 19 hour stack on andromeda, M31. Shot with the amazing astro device from DwarfLabs, the Dwarf 3, and processed with only free photo editing apps on my phone

Wonderful star trail Jes👌

*Shropshire

Every chance Tom, looks to be clearing from 3am, but all we need is a break, and there are pockets about, so keep looking, currently its on red alert 👍

Aurora overhead in Shrophire, UK at 4am today, a watery sky made it very diffuse, yet it made for an unusual moon halo looking south east
#aurora #astronomy #spaceweather

It certainly does👍, maybe if I used pixinsight or siril it could squeeze a lot more out of it, but i'm more than happy with the ease of inbuilt stella studio and phone editing apps 😀

Yes, shot over the last few weeks Peter, its amazing what the little dwarf can do, I'm aiming for 10 hours but not sure if its worth doing much more on this target👍

6 hours and 20 minutes of stacked data shot on my dwarf3 smart telescope over 3 sessions in the last few weeks when weather allowed

Another process of Andromeda, Messier 31, our galactic neighbour, as it was 2.3 million years ago

If it was bright enough to see in the night sky, it would be as long as six moons side by side.
#astronomy #astrophotograpy

Thanks, love your profile pic, Captain Scarlett was always a fav show 👍