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I am an astrophotographer and amateur telescope maker and would like to share with other like-minded individuals.
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Time-lapse of the transit of the shadow of Titan across the face of Saturn, the night of 3/4 September: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i628...
08.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
Number 5 (is alive)! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_C...
Arts and crafts for today
15.06.2025 03:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is what a lunar eclipse looks like... from the surface of the Moon.
That dark circle is Earth.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander took this image last night.
Phases of 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse
My wife, granddaughter, and I were playing peek-a-boo with the Northern Colorado cloud cover last night, but I managed to get enough decent photos to make a collage of the Total Lunar Eclipse #lunareclipse
14.03.2025 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Rosette Nebula - an emission nebula in Monoceros. Mosaic of two 30-minute integrations from the Celestron Origin; processed with DeepSkyStacker, Siril, and Photoshop
27.02.2025 05:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Collage of the Lunar-Planetary parade the past 9 days
10.02.2025 02:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moon and Saturn, 31 Jan 2025
Moon, Venus, and Neptune, 1 Feb 2025
The Moon is beginning its February Planet Parade. First Saturn, then Venus (and a very dim Neptune)
02.02.2025 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Horsehead and Flame nebulas in Orion. The bright star is Alnitak, the left-most star in Orion's belt. (as seen from the Northern hemisphere). Mosaic of 2 images from Celestron Origin, 30 min total exposure at ISO 200 in each image. Mosaiced and brightness/contrast/sharpness tweaked in Photoshop.
29.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very cold day birding in Pueblo, Colorado today! photos.app.goo.gl/bDES4TbihMem...
21.01.2025 02:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice! I made a movie, despite very soupy Colorado turbulence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zL-...
15.01.2025 00:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Moon occulted Mars last night - I assembled a video from about 18,000 images taken through a telescope: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zL-...
14.01.2025 22:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jupiter at opposition last night. Stack of the best 300 of 3000 images (100 each of red, green, blue). Moons left-to-right are Io, Europa, and Ganymede. 8-inch SCT telescope with 2.5x Powermate, ASI174MM mono camera with 200 gain and 10ms exposure. Sharpened and color-balanced to taste in Photoshop
08.12.2024 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More Polar Bears - video of a pair sparring.
youtu.be/I3KD1DvIM3g
Polar Bears! My wife and I took a trip to Churchill, Manitoba. The bears gather there every fall, waiting for the sea ice to form so they can go hunt seals. Sadly, the ice-free season is lengthening with climate change, endangering this population. More photos at photos.app.goo.gl/sdgpidnozybB...
19.11.2024 13:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinchan ATLAS on 21 October 2024. Mosaic of 5 stacked 13-image sequence, 10 second exposure at ISO 200 and F/2.2. Taken with a Celestron Origin.
25.10.2024 00:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Om nom nom. Great Horned Owl with vole dinner. Northern Colorado, 16 Oct 2024
17.10.2024 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) this evening, 13 Oct 2024
14.10.2024 02:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All-sky time lapse of the Oct 10 Aurora Borealis www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwR...
12.10.2024 01:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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