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My 'observatory' under a dust sheet to keep a little more of the sunlight off.

I love dry periods where there are several clear nights in a row as I only need to make the multiple trips to/from my garage, polar align etc. once. However, ...

#astrophotography

Very creative 😃

No foxes in my back garden, but a foraging hedgehog in the undergrowth nearby is hard to ignore, and we have at least three who include us on their rounds 😉

"Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors … Won't you please, please, help me?"

I doubt John & Paul were thinking about astronomy - but I've benefitted from so much help and advice and encouragement since picking up my teenage stargazing (now astrophotography) hobby in retirement.

Love it!

Infrared image of man sat in front of a laptop and telescope, dressed for the chill.

I can't compete with that 🫡

I occasionally put out an old wildlife camera for the local hedgehogs - it captured me back in the spring. I guess the only eccentricity is the generic one associated with all astronomy enthusiasts. (My laptop is hidden in a pop-up 'tent' sold for pets😉)

😂 Maybe not, but at least it's high Summer - and if you can't be just a little eccentric at our age (forgive the presumption) then when?

What a shot!

Far too cloudy here - and to be honest I was far too tired after three consecutive clear nights playing with my astro toys 😉

Wow!
Sadly, cloud-covered down here.

Same here - together with a depressing level of light pollution ...

Ah, you're ahead of me on that one - I have some targets in mind, including that one, but I think that may be a few steps ahead 😉
Unfortunately, Andromeda is visible only from my front garden and I suspect the D3 is eminently stealable. If I have to babysit it I'd be better off going out of town 🙂

A wise course.
I'm still learning - e.g. when to select the default timing (15/30/60) so I don't have to retrace my setup steps ... again 😉
I've barely begun on the in-app processing options etc.
However, having it do its complementary thing whilst I wrangle my old-school setup is becoming a joy.

Reddish nebulosity in the rough shape of North America. A field of view of ~2.9 X 1.6 °

I'm slowly getting the hang of my Dwarf3, and what it's good at. Last night I pointed it at the North America nebula; the result using only on-phone processing - is quite pleasing.

The lesson for me was clear: play to the strengths of the kit and stop attempting like-for-like comparisons 😉

Frustrating isn't it.

I love your posts 🙂

It's no wonder one still has to explain the difference - the gulf - between astrology and astronomy 🙄
Oh well, it got them studying the sky carefully ... 😉

Nice shot 🙂

The only other thing I've tried is to loosen the compost by mixing in something granular like grit or vermiculite.

It was an interesting thought though.

Definitely not high 2nd - in fact mostly 2nd hand. However, I'm hoping it was good enough to facilitate capturing an image of a recent supernova in another galaxy.

Definitely. I have had a go using my refractor - but that was the time I learnt what can happen when one cools a camera chip too quickly and dogs everything up. Oh well, we live and try to learn 😉

Is it absolutely essential? I'd value an expansion of this statement.
(My own diction is 'average', perhaps that explains my mediocre writing 😉)

Well done; I empathise. In my case I went to bed at 4 am, having spent time with my telescope under an all-too-rare clear sky.

Image shows many stars, a star cluster and extensive dust/gas clouds the Bubble nebula is in the centre, tinged red.

Impressive
I had my first outing with mine last night. I chose the Bubble nebula because I had a good view of it and an idea of what it 'should' look like. I've had no time to process the subs yet but the raw live-stack looks promising.

Well done. I got to bed about the same time as it turns out - imaging the new supernova in NGC7331 using my old 80 mm refractor ... and using my new Dwarf3 for the first time. We've had weeks of short and cloudy nights and it was good to get back out there in one of my 'happy places' 🙂.

Whereas mine is totally cloud-covered, though less windy.

Oh my word, that's beautiful.

I'd have loved one of these - about the same level of safety as the chemistry sets I had 😉

She's right: a lovely book 🙂

Not sure I'd call it 'fun' 🫢
The only one that occurred whilst I was in your part of the world I slept through 😴