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Shahrin Ahmad (Shah) @shahgazer

@shahgazer.bsky.social

I love calculating & chasing eclipses,shadows,transits,occultations on faraway worlds. The sun, moon & planets are my friends 'cause I got class 8-9 bortle sky.

238 Followers  |  100 Following  |  135 Posts  |  Joined: 05.07.2023  |  1.5785

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Kosmos-428-SA has most likely reentered by now. Have not heard any reports of observations. Space Force will at some point issue a reentry estimate - nothing yet.

10.05.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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Sunspot AR4079

2025-05-07 03:20 UTC (11:20 am MYT)
Sky-Watcher 120ED (F=900mm) 2x barlow
ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

#astrophotography #astronomy

07.05.2025 04:15 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Monkey Head Nebula NGC2175 and open cluster M67

20250417 Kuala Lumpur. Bortle 8-9 sky

#dwarf3
#astrophotography

17.04.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Southern skies galore! Did a quick 5-10 minutes shots of these mesmerizing southern deep sky objects. Bortle 8-9 sky.

Eta Carinae Nebula
Omega Centauri
NGC3532
Centaurus A

cropped significantly. Straight out of the box with minimal adjustments using iphone Photos apps

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

02.04.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Old friend, Lagoon Nebula rising in the east. Rushing with the brightening dawn sky. Managed to get 15 minutes total exposure.

Used the star removal tool in the DwarfLab app. Not bad!

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

25.03.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Waning Moon this morning 26th March 2025. Time to get that mesmerizing earthshine again.

25th Ramadan

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

25.03.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A short 5 mins shot on M47 with NGC2423, and NGC2420 in between the clouds last night. bortle 8-9 sky.

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

25.03.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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After a couple of cloudy nights, the sky clears up a bit this morning, 25th March 2025.

24 Ramadan.

42 x 1/124s

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

24.03.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 2: The Distant Universe Earlier this week, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announced the science objectives for the fourth cycle of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) General Observations program - aka. Cy...

Now that Universe Today is totally ad-free, we can do whatever we want.

And what we want is a 5-part overview of the new science coming from JWST's Cycle 4.

www.universetoday.com/articles/jws...

17.03.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Extremely cloudy sky this morning, 20th March 2025. This is just a single 1/300s shot. 19 Ramadan.

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

20.03.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rising Moon of 18 Ramadan. 11:30pm 18th March 2025.

Moon still low on the eastern horizon. Managed to get about 40 frames before the clouds rolled in.

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

19.03.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Moon of 17 Ramadan. Observed during the dawn of 18th March 2025.

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

18.03.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Waning Moon.

Night of 16 Ramadan. (16th March 2025).

72 x 1/500s #dwarf3 #astrophotography

16.03.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another moon shot tonight. March 15th 2025. The night of 15 Ramadan.

210 x 1/640s

#dwarf3 #astrophotography

15.03.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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M41 under the full moon sky. Not bad for this little scope #dwarf3 . So far I’ve been using this far more frequent than my usual ap gears!

#astrophotography

14.03.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Full Moon on the night of 14 Ramadan. (14 Mac 2025 11:30pm MYT)

#astrophotography #dwarf3

14.03.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Venus - 21 days to Inferior Conjunction

2025-03-01 11:57 UTC
Elongation from Sun: 30 degrees
Illumination: 13.8%
Apparent Size: 50 arc sec
C9.25” F=2350mm, Touptek 678MC
ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

#astrofotography

03.03.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. FL too short for planets. Maybe slightly good for moon and sun. but mainly for wide angle and deepsky. It’s more similar to a DSLR with lens. I got this mainly for portability. getting lazy to drag full AP gear 🀭

02.03.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It has finally arrived! #dwarf3
New phase on my #astrophotography adventure. Simpler, lighter.

02.03.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Venus - 29 days to Inferior Conjunction

2025-02-21 12:14 UTC
Elongation from Sun: 36.5 degrees
Illumination: 21.2%
Apparent Size: 44.3 arc sec
C9.25” F=2350mm, Touptek 678MC

ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

#astrophotography

22.02.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Huge prom on the western limb.
TS65Q, Daystar Quark Ha, ASI290MM
2025-02-20 02:52 UTC (10:52 am MYT)
ShahGazer Observatory, KL, Malaysia

#astrophotography

20.02.2025 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a picture of the earth and an asteroid with the national geographic logo Alt: a picture of the earth and an asteroid heading towards it

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting out planet in 2032 is now 1.5%, or 1 in 67.

The OVERWHELMING likelihood is that the asteroid will miss Earth.

But for the first time ever, we might have to seriously consider a deflection mission soon.

Let me explain. 🧡 (1/x)

04.02.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 819    πŸ” 331    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 272

Sure. That’ll awesome!

05.02.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last night I was enjoying another night away from city lights. It must be obvious that Orion the hunter is my favourite constellation but I never usually see so many stars visible in that region. This is a handheld 4 second exposure using a phone camera (no tripod). #astronomy #astrophotography

05.02.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 423    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pew, pew! β˜€οΈThe solar wind pours out from the Sun all the time, sending potentially dangerous particles in our direction.
But how does it get launched from the Sun in the first place? Thanks to @ESASolarOrbiter, we now have a surprising answer πŸ‘‰ www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
πŸ”­πŸ§ͺ

05.02.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Yup! Thanks! I am in KL.not the best place for stargazing but making the best out of it. 😬

05.02.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks. it was really tricky.

03.02.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mars
2025-02-02 15:14 UTC
Apparent Size: 13.6 arc sec
CM: 334.6ΒΊ
C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC
ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

#astrophotography

03.02.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Venus - 48 days to Inferior Conjunction

2025-02-02 11:40 UTC
Elongation from Sun: 44.7 degrees
Illumination: 36.7%
Apparent Size: 33.2 arc sec

C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC
ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

#astrophotography

03.02.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jupiter
2025-02-02 13:55 UTC
Apparent Size: 42.9 arc sec
System: CM I 17.3Β° CM II 271.7Β° CM III 71.0Β°
C9.25” F=2350mm (2x barlow) , Touptek 678MC
ShahGazer Observatory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

#astrophotography

03.02.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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