Dylan O’Donnell

Not crazy .. most of the Earth’s population won’t.

Good girl

… when you take the dog for a piss and it’s low key majestic AF …🥹… Milky Way core tracked Canon 6D mk2, Move shoot move pocket sized rotator. 43 x 30s / f4.5 / iso 3200 #astrophotography #milkyway #byronbay

They put the speakers in order from worst to best.

I'm a speaker at this astronomy event in Geelong, VIC in a couple of weeks if anyone wants to come get hammered with me. events.humanitix.com/vastroc-2025

That's what she said!

The Pillars of Destruction

The Dusty Eagle (Lupus) - Shot over 2 nights, an amazingly rich Southern Hemisphere area! Worth a widescreen zoom in.

🔭 Apertura 75Q – 405mm
📷QHY MiniCam8
SkyWatcher Wave 100i
LRGB
Lum: 47 x 2m
Red: 44 x 2m
Green : 51 x 2m
Blue : 50x 2m
Total: 6.4 hrs.

Pussy close up

It doesn’t look like the “Cat’s Paw” at this magnification (3910mm) so I’m going with claw. 😆 C14” EHD 🔭/ ZWO2600MMDUO 📷 / SW8RH-PRO 🦾
(HOO)
39 x 10m – Hydrogen
50 x 10m – Oxygen[III]
Total : 14.8 hrs exposure

That’s our main brew here :) my go to most of the time !

It’s cold !

Absolute twat.

I've evolved from being the guy who shares his guiding graph on social media to the one getting it published in the latest issue of Scope Trader. That's how insufferable I am now.

Thanks ! I was troubleshooting it and forgot to put it back online :) all good to go! Byronbayobservatory.com.au

It’s been great! I’d like a better mount but the OAG they’ve got on the way looks very cool and would help a lot.

Dragon Ball Z

New shot!

“Dragon’s Egg” Celestron 14” EHD / F11 / 3910mm
ZWO 2600 MM DUO
SkyWatcher EQ8 RH PRO
HOO
120 x 3m Hydrogen Alpha
75 x 3m Oxygen[III]
Total 9.75 hours.

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birds are real

Working on a new video .. just waiting for this silly full moon to get out of the way :)

@astroattorney.com thanks for your patronage ! 🍻✨

Hehe ahead of the game.

Long as a dead dingoes donger.

Dragons, vertical for your pleasure.

NGC 6188 “Fighting Dragons of ARA”

Apertura 75Q / QHYMinicam 8 / SW GTI
HOO-RGB
Hydrogen 21 x 3m
Oxygen 25 x 3m
Red 36 x 10s
Green 39 x 10s
Blue 33 x 10s
Total 1.67 hrs usable data.

Had some school talks yesterday. After an answer about black hole spaghettification one kid goes “so.. if I put my penis into the black hole first …” 😂

Handy graph that shows my feelings towards the Moon plotted over time since becoming an astrophotographer.

Hard, but not too hard.

Mystery of where all my guitar picks go has been solved.

That’s a good podcast huh? I liked the series on Rudolph Steiner and Oprah.

I don’t think so. It has a battery and solar panels (since Venus is pretty close to the Sun).

Comrade

Aussie pass at 2pm today

Stay on the lookout for the failed 1972 Soviet venus lander Cosmos 482 which will crash land anywhere on Earth at any moment from now. It would be real funny if the parachutes still worked. 🪂.. uncertain tracking data via @skyguide for iOS.

Not yet .. little bit in the white light continuum (which comes out of the ha scan as a bonus). Bit stripy but works.

Black body

The tone curve is massaged in IMPPG to make the background black again, but the pure single scan negative data is pretty sweet too :)

We've been enjoying a giant sunspot 4079 seen here in this inverted scan of the sun about 30m ago. A huge "filaprom" has also been showing off this week in the top left, snaking around the limb. The sunspot has been relatively quiet. (SGH700 / SW82ED / SWEQRhPro / QHY678M ) - May7th, Byron Bay Obs

It’s very good.

Hehe it’s ok we’re on Bluesky we’re all friends here ;) and yep. We did a Canada. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺

The only thing more delicious than these Vegemite shapes is watching this sea of Labor red on this landslide election result with my mates :) 🍷

Kill em all

There’s no sweeter sound to an astronomer than the sound of chainsaws from the neighbours property. That’s another 30 mins on the Carina nebula region right there!