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Been doing astrophotography for a very long time from Liverpool UK, light polluted as hell (Bortle 7/8). I take my images through a 12" f4.75 reflector and a QHY268 mono cam https://www.astrobin.com/users/fornaxtwo/

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M51 in LRGBHa

16.5h using a 12” f4.75 reflector QHY268M Camera from Liverpool UK. Processed in PixInsight. The galaxy cluster Zwicky 6057 is visible to the right of the frame, the main galaxy in the cluster is PGC 2293576 which is 66Mpc distant.

28.03.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crater Maurolycus, 12” reflector with a 5x Powermate. Crater is 69 mi in diameter

10.02.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NGC 2903

25.01.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the ...

πŸ”­ Light pollution threatens the Paranal Observatory in Chile. www.eso.org/public/news/...

09.01.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Jupiter through a hole in the clouds!

12” f5 reflector with a 2.5x powermate and a ZWO ASI462MC camera, around 1250. frames out of 5000 used, should of used an IR blocking filter, next time 😊 processed in Autostakkert and Registax 6

11.12.2024 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed Dave, quite amazing what can be seen in a few hrs exposure! Expect the quasars are just faint dots ☺️

02.12.2024 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NGC772 in Aries, taken from Liverpool, amazing that the SETIAstro script identifies 43 quasars in the image!

02.12.2024 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A beautiful image JoΓ«l, trying to image this one at the moment but it’s sooo cloudy πŸ˜•

24.11.2024 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just noticed it’s appeared very compressed on here πŸ˜•

19.11.2024 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting bored with no clear skies so here is M51 from a couple of years ago. 13.5h 12” f5 Atik 383L LRGBHa

19.11.2024 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Dave, how about posting your rosette 😊

17.11.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Taken through a 12” f4.75 reflector with a QHY268M camera, LRGB 20,5,5,5

Taken through a 12” f4.75 reflector with a QHY268M camera, LRGB 20,5,5,5

Comet C/2023 A3 in twilight

23.10.2024 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The wizard nebula NGC7380 10h RGBHa from Liverpool UK

09.09.2024 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crescent nebula in Cygnus #Astrophotography and a spectrum of WR136 the stellar wind from which is responsible for the nebula

03.09.2024 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic image, galaxies are my favourite subject, did you take this?

03.09.2024 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A favourite of mine, the planetary nebula NGC6781 in Aquila, 5h LRGBHa

02.09.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me too!

02.09.2024 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic image Andrea, very clever and complex processing

02.09.2024 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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