The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, which peaked at 6:54 am UT on May 10, 2024. The Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observes the Sun constantly, captured an image of this event, as seen in the bright flash towards the center of the image. Solar flares are powerful explosions of energy that can affect radio communications, electrical power grids, navigation signals and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
#SkyWatch#Astrophotography The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a dark, dense globule of interstellar gas about 2400 light years away in the Cepheus constellation. The bright sinuous rim of the trunk is the surface of the gas cloud being illuminated by the bright star on the right edge of the image. I captured the 100 three-minute (5 hours total) exposures that make up this image overnight 2 nights ago.
Sun and moon combo: I finally got some OK skies overnight last night and few enough clouds to shoot through during the day today to get another moon/sun combo. These images were captured a little over 9 hours apart.
Looking towards the southern constellation of Circinus, NGC 5315 appears, a planetary nebula located at a distance of about 8,000 light years from the Solar System. It is located 5.2 degrees west-southwest of Alpha Circini. Although its progenitor star called HD 120800 shines with a magnitude of 14, the nebula has an apparent magnitude of 9.8, much..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This scattered collection of stars is actually an irregular dwarf galaxy called Holmberg IX. It resides just off the outer edge of Messier 81, a large spiral galaxy located 11.8 million light years from the Milky Way and located in the direction of the Ursa Major constellation. This image taken by the Space Telescope shows that Holmberg IX belongs to a type of..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Picture of the day: This wild-looking supernova remnant is nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula. Supernovas produce some of the strangest objects in the night sky.
The image by astronomer Lóránd Fényes shows the dark cloud Barnard 344, which lies ahead of a larger complex called the Gamma Cygni Nebula, to which it is closely related. Dark clouds like Barnard 344 become visible when in front of bright objects, such as emission nebulae or dense star fields. These clouds contain a large amount of dust and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The image by astronomer Lóránd Fényes shows the dark cloud Barnard 344, which lies ahead of a larger complex called the Gamma Cygni Nebula, to which it is closely related. Dark clouds like Barnard 344 become visible when in front of bright objects, such as emission nebulae or dense star fields. These clouds contain a large amount of dust and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Hier ist ein Vergleich von gestackten Bildern, die ich von M101 mit meinem #EvoGuide 50ED und #SkyWatcher Az-GTi aufgenommen habe.
Das erste Bild wurde letztes Jahr im Juli mit einer ASI224MC aufgenommen. Es ist ein Stack von 2550 Bildern mit jeweils 3s Belichtung, insgesamt 7650s.
Obwohl es letzte Nacht windig war, konnte ich 50 Bilder mit 120s Belichtungszeit aufnehmen (6000s Gesamtbelichtungszeit). Diesmal wurde eine ASI533MC-Pro verwendet.
The International Astronomical Union (#IAU) are hosting an #astrophotography gallery in #VR! The event is on May 27 from 11am - 12:30pm UTC and May 28 from 8pm - 9:30pm UTC, and showcases astronomical photographs captured with a smartphone 📱🌌
The event is being held in spatial.io, which is accessible from a VR headset (Quest), or just from your computer browser (i.e. no headset needed).
Das sind die Nordamerika (links) und Pelikan Nebel (rechts) im Sternbild Cygnus. Getrennt werden die beiden Emissionsnebel durch die so genannte "Great Wall", eine gigantische Staubwolke.
Die Aufnahme ist als HOO Variante entwickelt, also als Falschfarbendarstellung, um die Verteilung der verschiedenen Gasgebiete zu zeigen.
ESO 593-8 is a stunning pair of interacting galaxies with a feather-shaped galaxy crossing the companion galaxy. This spectacular galactic dance was nicknamed by astronomers as The Bird, due to its shape in old images. It is likely that in the future the two components will merge to form a single galaxy. The couple is adorned with several star clusters of..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
While we were all oohing and aahing over the Southern Lights on Saturday night I had my trusty Dwarfii with me. We'd been joined by a middle aged lady with a cellphone and enthusiasm but no knowledge, so between Aurora visits I cast about for an interesting galaxy to show her.
Rob suggested Centaurus A. This amazing celestial spectacle might be a spiral galaxy colliding with a larger elliptical galaxy, and there's a relativistic jet emitting from the supermassive black hole in the middle of it - heady stuff.
What is known for certain, from the party observing on Saturday night was that it looks a lot more like a hamburger than the galaxy nicknamed the Hamburger Galaxy ( NGC 3628 looks more like a hotdog to me) - specifically something from the Hungry Jack's / Burger King stable.
So I'm going to call it the Aussieburger Galaxy. It's possible that the supermassive black hole is the beetroot. We could definitely see the sesame seeds and the pickles.
This image is less than 200 frames, but with a bit of tweaking in Google photos it's acceptable viewing, and a bit of fun. I think the cloud coming in might have halted my stacking. I'd like to revisit this one again soon.
And the nice lady who'd wandered down to get a shot of the aurora with her old iphone? With the help of some advice and my monopod she caught it, and apparently is all fired up to get a Dwarfii of her own, and we have already set a stardate with her this week. Lovely!
The Aurora from Washington, from a star party in Duval.
It started a bit slow, but then we had this moment where it became incredibly bright & lit up the entire sky. At that moment everyone started cheering together, it was an amazing shared experience.