Bernd Flachsbart

A long-exposure nighttime photo of a city highway, showing vibrant, colorful car light trails under a starry dusk sky with a crescent moon and layered clouds.

Nightfall on the city

After several trials and errors, I got a decent image using exposure stacking:
- 5s exposure at high ISO and f/2.4 for the sky,
- 30s at low ISO and f/5.6 to keep both fore/background sharp, and to capture the trails.

#scape #nightphotography #cityscape #moon #nightscape

Great photo 😀

Image of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000), an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The red coloration is due to hydrogen-alpha emission from ionized hydrogen gas energized by nearby hot, young stars. Dark dust lanes carve through the glowing gas, shaping the nebula’s continent-like silhouette. Captured using a Sony A7S camera and a 130mm f/7 Newtonian reflector telescope (130/900).

Cosmic Shores

A glowing stretch of hydrogen gas forms the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) in Cygnus, its vivid reds the signature of ionized hydrogen.

📷 Sony A7S + Newton 130/900

#RedWed #ColorADay #astrophotography

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

Very nice shot ! 👏

Wow, the outer shell looks amazing 🤩

Space is full of wonders! 😀

M57 The Ring Nebula! A planetary nebula in the constellation of Lyra. 2570 light years away from Leeds UK where I shot it from. 19 and a half hours of data used, shot over shot over numerous short summer nights. #astrophotography #astronomy

Very nice, what a beautiful target 🤩

Fenrir, the Dark Wolf is a dark nebula that looks like the silhouette of a wolf on a background of red. The wolf's 'head' is at centre-right, with its body in the centre of the frame. The red comes from Hydrogen alpha emission, and the black from obscuring gas and dust, blocking the light behind. Skywatcher MN190 telescope and ZWO ASI 2600mc camera.

Fenrir, the Dark Wolf (SL-17).
This dark nebula is named after the monstrous wolf from Norse mythology. I captured this from my Sydney backyard during a batch of good weather in late June. 6 hours of Ha (ALP-T filter), with 30 minutes of colour (L-Pro filter) for the stars. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Wow! What an outstanding image and a really amazing target 🤩👏

Merci beaucoup, Julien! 🙂

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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 ?

Beautiful image! The framing is very nice 👍

Thanks a lot, Fatima! Nice to meet you here 🤗

Thank you so much, Rob! 🙂

Thank you!

Merci beaucoup, Martial ! ☺️

Merci beaucoup! ☺️

Thank you!

Thanks a lot, Andreas! 🙂 It looks a bit like Abell 33 at first glance but I like the perfect spherical shape of Abell 39. Like a bubble in space 🤩

Haha! You won’t regret it! 😀

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

Very nice and beautiful star colours! Great job, Andreas 👏

Thanks!

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?

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Never thought of it but you’re right! It looks a bit like a paw 🐾😀

Thank you!