John Peddle

Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN Seestar

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) from a few nights ago. It comes by here every 650 or so years. It’s in a really ‘starry’ part of the sky now which makes it extra nice.

2 1/2 minutes of 10 second images, processed with Siril and a touch up in cosmic clarity.
#Seestar

Moon, seestar 57% waning

Tonight's Moon, 57% waning, processed with autostakkert and Registax.
#Seestar
#newfoundland

Frolov 1, NGC 7788 and NGC 7790, Cassiopeia, Open Cluster

NGC 663, Cassiopeia, Open Cluster

Messier 103, Cassiopeia, Open Cluster

A collection of clusters from Cassiopeia.
#Seestar
#Astrophotography
#Newfoundland

Thanks!

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 7479 in the constellation Pegasus

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 7479 in the constellation Pegasus. 30 minutes of subs, processed with Siril, Graxpert and Cosmic Clarity.
#Seestar
#Astrophotography

heart nebula constellation Cassiopeia

Heart of Gas...the Heart Nebula, a big area of gas and dust shaped like a heart and reddish in color in the constellation Cassiopeia. It's as big as 4 full moons but unfortunately too dim to see without a camera.
#Seestar
#Astrophotography

Moon Mars Conjunction

My Moon & Mars conjunction from last night.
#Seestar
#Astrophotography

Barnard's Star constellation Ophiuchus

Barnard's Star, in the constellation Ophiuchus (it's the red star close the center of the image). The closest star that can be seen from the northern hemisphere and one of the fastest moving stars, relative to us, in the sky.
#Seestar
#Astrophotography
#Newfoundland

Caugh an ISS transit of the sun this morning. The sky wasn't completely clear but clear enough you could see the ISS pass by.
#SeeStar

Comet C/2025 F2 Swan Seestar

My version of comet C/2025 F2 Swan, taken Saturday morning from Signal Hill, NL 1.5 hours before sunrise. Five minutes of 10-sec images, processed in siril,graxpert with a touch up in photoshop.
The Seestar put the comet dead center when I searched for it.
#Seestar
#astrophotography
#Newfoundland

Al Minliar al Asad, Kappa Leonis, constellation Leo, processed with Siril, Graxpert

Al Minliar al Asad or Kappa Leonis. An orange giant in the constellation Leo. 30 10-second subs, processed with Siril, Graxpert and starnet.
#Seestar
#astrophotography

My Seestar video of the eclipse was more jittery, hoping for better results from the solar eclipse in two weeks.

They’re highest priority now is to come up with a new nickname for Carney.

Thanks!!

Stars telescope Muliphein Canis Major

I've been collecting pictures of stars with my telescope the last little while. I have over 200 now. This is one of my latest ones, Muliphein in Canis Major. I think the all the background stars and their colors look pretty cool.

#Seestar
#astrophotography
#Newfoundland

Kelvin Helmholtz clouds

Kelvin Helmholtz clouds, from Bauline last night. They’re like waves in the sky.
#Newfoundland
#nlwx

Seestar

The seestar was a trooper tonight, spent 5 hours out in < -5 degrees C weather, captured images of 32 stars, no problems whatsoever. The only reason we stopped was clouds.
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I love the stories behind the constellations. The Greeks and many others saw whole soap operas playing out before their eyes in the skies each season.

It very well could have, the light from its explosion could be racing towards us now.

Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion.

Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse!!!
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#Astrophotography
#Newfoundland

That’ll me too shortly.

Love that bubble stash beer, one if my favs.

Is that JD Vance?

Full moon

Tonight's full moon, it's like a big spotlight in the sky.
#Seestar

I didn’t have any set process for this. I created a FIT file from a raw video and played around with it in Siril and Photoshop until it looked ok. I tried to get some of the moons in too but then Jupiter washed out.

Jupiter

Saturn

Jupiter and Saturn with my seestar
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#astrophotography

Pinwheel Galaxy - Messier 101

NGC_2403

Cocoon Galaxy - NGC 4490, with the star Chara off to the left

Some more galaxies I've captured with my Seestar;

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#astrophotography
#astronomy

Owl star cluster

Love the owl cluster, here’s my image if it, very easy to see an owl with outstretched wings.

International Space Station transiting the sun

International Space Station transiting the sun

International Space Station transiting the sun

International Space Station transiting the sun

The International Space Station transiting the sun, captured by my Seestar and extracted from a a video. You can find out when the ISS or the Chinese space station Tiangong transits the sun or moon from your location using this site, transit-finder.com .
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Now that would be a challenge with the Seestar. Pickering’s triangle fits nicely within the FOV, maybe add that next clear night.