Astronomy With Claire

It's real! :) It's a solar flare

New addition to the solar capable scope and hydrogen alpha filter. This tilts the camera to remove Newton Rings. Whole disc shot 10th August from 12 individual panes. The Sun is 109 x wider than the Earth making some white coloured sunspots greater than the surface area of the Earth. #astronomy

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Sunday 15th June so few prominences but enormous sunspots. This cluster named 4114 experienced a solar flare on the 16th seen as the large white mark in the middle I this NASA photo.

This weekend saw a very active Sun! Sol is reaching Solar Maximum after 12 years and soon will decline to solar minimum over the next 12. This was all Saturday 14th June.

The enormous star cluster M13 in Hercules... 500,000 stars bunched up in a small region of space.

Some amazing surface detail in black and white (which is how I record it) and false coloured later. The horizontal lines are due to Newtonian Rings; how light bounces between a flat (camera) surface and another surface (the filter). The effect is off set by tilting the camera a few degrees.

The Sun is 109x wider than the Earth. If it was a sphere 22cm wide the Earth would be 2mm or 0.08in....

With the summer in full swing it's Solar Season... 1st June Inc the 3 white dots that are sun spots that caused the Aurora event in the US and Canada later that day....

Galaxy Season - the Black Eye Galaxy - a thick dark area of dust blocks a portion of the light from the bright core. 17 million light years away.

Galaxy Season - the Sunflower Galaxy - a flocculent spiral type 27 million light years away. Its bright core the result of millions of aging stars.

Galaxy Season - The Needle Galaxy - an edge on grand spiral type similar to the Milky Way. The dust lanes are easily seen over the bright core bulge. #galaxy #galaxySeason

Galaxy Season - The Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies - both deformed by gravitational effects of nearby objects - bending them out of shape.

Galaxy Season - M81 and M82

12 million lights years away in Ursa Major - M81 is having a gravitational effect on M82 causing active Hydrogen to be pulled away from it, triggering a huge amount of star formation.

You're on blue sky?! Yay! This is one of the funniest... the foot hahaha

Our local star. 12.30pm UK Saturday 8th March.

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Some close ups of the solar photos. Huge prominences many time the size of the Earth leap off the edge of this glowing ball, whilst huge threads of glowing plasma creep across the surface. #astronomy #sun #solar #astrophotography #astrophoto #physics

This is a manual composite of the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha taken midday UK on Saturday. The awesome display of energy, a glowing ball of plasma that has existed for 4.5 billion years and will last another 4.5 to 5 billion. It is hard to believe all light and heat we see and feel outside comes from this

Ooo what's that? Where how when? I'm back on the Fringe sauce again because it is so good....

Another fab presentation! This tike at @pierroadcoffeeart.bsky.social ! Everyone was so lovely and loved the cliffhanger interlude! Thank you to my hosts for a great set up including blocking out all of our Suns light... ironic as I talk a lot about our Sun!

1m x 90cm / 3ft x ~3ft M42 Orion Nebula print in customers frame. If you want to buy a print, contact me for a size/price. Non UK I can arrange for a local printer to print and dispatch to you.

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Another happy customer! A 90cm x 100cm print of the Orion Nebula! Framed version coming soon. I can have my deep sky, solar and Lunar images (planetary in the future) printed to order. Drop a comment if interested.

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What does the camera see?? Each object emits or reflects (or both) in various wavelengths. Filters help us "see" this light. The Orion Nebula here in Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur shows a rich region of star forming material. Most of this glow is due to 4 very hot new stars called the Trapezium!

M42 The Orion Nebula in 3 using different wavelengths mixed into different colour schemes - SHO (Sulphur, Hydrogen and Oxygen), RGB (Hydrogen as red, Sulphur as green and Oxygen as blue) and finally HOO (A more traditional slant of Hydrogen as red, Oxygen as green and Oxygen also as blue). #colours

Same data but RGB. When shooting astro photos, each element is recorded as a black and white photo... hydrogen (typically assigned to red), sulphur (green) and oxygen (blue). What if we put Sulphur into Red? Hydrogen into Green? We get SHO! #PixInsight provided superior tools to reprocess too

The Flame & Horsehead Nebulae in Orion - the blue stars left and upper middle are two of his famous Belt. This was shot in 2021 using 4nm Dualband filters and reprocessed in 2024 using PixInsight into an SHO layout. Hope you will agree the colours look amazing. #astrophotography #astronomy #STEM

Thank you! It's my Altair 102 refractor using a 26c and an LPRO Max LP filter - just lots of short exposures. Then I used a 4nm dualband Ha and Oiii filter to capture the Ha clouds and merge them on Pixinsight.

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