Darren Carver

It’s the clear outside app. There is a web version as well at www.clearoutside.com I’m in Northwest England

M17 - the Omega Nebula. 17 hrs in SHOrgb.

Disaster! 2 full nights of subs removed due to a focus glitch! AHH!

Recovery: Skimmed a few hrs here & there & got it back up to 17 hrs!

Full story with processing walk-thru here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m17...

#Astrophotography

Hello darkness my old friend! Astronomical darkness returns tomorrow. It’s a shame it’s brought the clouds along for the ride. #Astrophotography #DarknessReturns #Astronomy

Happy Birthday 🖖🏻

It's my birthday!

The Pleiades at the bottom right, the California Nebula at the top. The background Milky Way with dark nebulae between the two.

Am redoing my personal website to host my #astrophotography work - it'd be a shame to have stuff just on my hard drive or on social media accounts.

Reprocess of my Pleiades to California Nebula mosaic from last January.

Eagle Nebula or Messier 16. Home of the famous Pillars of Creation. It is 7,000 light years away, so we're seeing what it looks like 7,000 years ago. There's speculation that the Pillars are already gone, we're just seeing a 'delayed broadcast'.

#astrophotography #sydney #australia

#astrophotography #galaxy #M33 #photography #nature

RCW 85 – A Chaotic Bubble in the Galactic Plane RCW 85 is an emission nebula located in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 5,900 light-years from Earth. This turbulent H II region is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars, which ionise the surrounding hydrogen gas and sculpt the nebula's structure. The bubble-like morphology and complex filaments suggest the presence of stellar feedback from winds or past supernova activity. Also catalogued as G305.1+0.2, RCW 85 resides within a rich star-forming complex in the southern Galactic plane. The dominant emission in this false-colour image comes from doubly ionised oxygen (O III), with additional structure revealed in sulphur (S II) and hydrogen-alpha (Hα) wavelengths. Star colours are rendered using RGB broadband data to preserve natural hues. Total Integration Time: 18.4 hours • 🔴 S II: 96 × 240s • 🔴 Hα: 77 × 240s • 🔵 O III: 129 × 240s • ⭐ R: 32 × 60s • ⭐ G: 32 × 60s • ⭐ B: 32 × 60s Captured using: • Telescope: 800mm Reflector • Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro • Filters: Narrowband (S II, Hα, O III) for nebula, RGB for stars • Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro • Software: NINA, PixInsight

RCW 85 is an emission nebula located in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 5,900 light-years from Earth. Imaged using SHO and RBG filters to capture the nebula and the stars. The nebula is shaped by ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Anther good’un David 👍

The Moon at full rising above the sea with a light blue sky background.

I've always had a liking for taking Moonrise pictures. This one I captured from the beach at Whitley Bay, UK, in 2016. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

This data is from Lukomatico and I used his process with a few of my own additions to create this final product.

The North American Nebula.

#nebula #space #outerspace #astrophotography #photooftheday #growthmindset

Our first attempt at the Eagle Nebula, specifically the heart of the eagle.
97 300 minute images stacked and processed in Pixinsight, final touches in Photoshop.
Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 scope
ZWOASI2600mcpro duo camera
ZwoAM5 mount
ZWOASI Air plus
#astrophotography #astrosky #astronomy #nebula

Hi all. This is my first post on Bluesky. But of an experiment, this one: North American and Pelican Nebulae taken with my PlayerOne Uranus C Pro, on a vintage Takumar 135mm M42 lens. Zwo duo band and UVIR cut filters. I struggled with haloes a bit. Processed in Pixinsight. #astrophotography

1/ After all the time wasted in the futile attempt to capture Rho Ophiuchi this year, I decided to console myself by returning to another classic summer target that I had only dedicated a few hours to last year, the Trifid Nebula (M20).
These are about 9 hours of integration. 🔭

#Astrophotography

NGC7331 and Stephan Quintet shot from my backyard with a 130mm refractor and PlayerOne Poseidon-M monochrome camera.

Hi all of you! What I love about #Astronomy 🔭 is that you can literally witness the past from your backyard. Billions and billions of worlds as they were millions and millions of years ago : NGC7331 and friends + the Stephan Quintet. #astrophotography 🔭📷. What do you see @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?

NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. #astronomy #astrophotography #telescope #sky #deepsky #space #universe #nebula #bubble #video #animation

1 hour version, #astronomy #astrophotography 🔭 @siril.org @gimpofficial.bsky.social

“Gytha?”

“Yes, Esme?” said Nanny Ogg innocently.

“I can feel you grinnin”. You can save the tu’penny-ha’penny psycholology for them as wants it.”

-from Witches Abroad

#quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WitchesAbroad

For several years I have been drawing characters from T. Pratchett's Discworld. Now I will show them here too. Granny Weatherwax

#pontpilat #discworld #GrannyWeatherwax #pratchett #art #cartoon #gameart #concept #character #пратчетт #арт #ветровоск #плоскиймир

M8 The Lagoon Nebula Unistellar Odyssey 📷 26 minutes integration time

M8 The Lagoon Nebula
What an absolute beauty it is; easily in my top 3 fav targets this summer 🔭 #astrophotography #M8

Abell 39 is a faint planetary nebula about 3800 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Hercules. Its shell has a radius of about 1.4 light years and has a nearly perfect spherical shape. It looks like a bubble in space!

Abell 39 captured from my patio on seven nights in June 😊🔭

This bubble like planetary nebula was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of 27 hours in mono using Ha and OIII narrowband filters and RGB filters for the stars.

#Astrophotography

@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

Outstanding 🫡

Foto des Kugelsternhaufens Messier 13 (M13) im Sternbild Herkules, aufgenommen mit einem Teleskop Celestron C8 bei rund 1400 mm Brennweite und einer Gesamtbelichtungszeit von 4 h 8 min (Summenbild aus 459 Einzelbelichtungen mit einer Astrokamera ASI183mc Pro)

Over the course of 7 nights in May and June, I took test images of the Hercules cluster M13 with the ASI183mc Pro camera, which was kindly provided by @astrophil.de. Also tested different filters, and I'm quite happy with the final stack of all frames #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Lords and Ladies is our pick for a perfect Pratchett summer read!
Drawing from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," only with elves that are truly terrifying, and the added menace of Morris dancing, Terry's tale of evil magic is as eerie as it is enchanting!🧙‍♀️🧝‍♀️
www.discworldemporium.com?s=lords%20an...

NGC6888 (Crescent Nebula) is a cosmic bubble shaped by the interaction of a Wolf-Rayet star's stellar wind with material ejected by the star when it was a red giant. It is about 5000 light-years distant. Hubble palette on right. 20 hrs. exposure 7/05 to 7/13 2025 from backyard.

#astrophotography

Center of Rho ophiuchi cloud complex, 7.5h LRGB. #astrophotography

Rho Ophiuchi. #astrophotography #astronomy #nebula #stars #clouds #space #universe #telescope #animation #video

The Giant Squid Nebula (OU4) was discovered by Nicolas Outters in 2011. A very unusual and beautiful object although quite hard to image. 🔭
More about the discovery: outters.fr/wp/?page_id=...
Large version of my image: app.astrobin.com/i/60i5js
#astrophotography #astronomy #trevincaskies

Nicely done 👍