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Took a shot looking up at the zenith last night. That feeling when youโ€™re looking up at structures that extend 100โ€™s of miles into the atmosphere ๐Ÿคฏ

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@grb090423 same!! You got some good views of the display then? What was it like where you are?

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@grb090423 so great to hear that you got to experience that! The eye view might not quite have been as dramatic, but I think it was better in some ways, no camera could capture what it truly felt like to be immersed in the storm

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Bright aurora!! #Devon

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Happened to notice some anticrepuscular rays yesterday evening ๐Ÿ˜Œ

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Very glad to be back imaging after a bit of a pause!! This was Montes Appeninus on Tuesday night. I love the shadows cast by the tall peaks, and how the mountains are just dots at the far end of the range.

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The north. I am a fan of Mare Frigoris! Does anyone know anything about the horizontal rilles (or whatever they are) just catching the light here in Frigoris?

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Tonightโ€™s view. I went to try and get a snap of Pons-Brooks but got thwarted by some stubborn cloud unfortunately. Saw it visually through binoculars yesterday, it looked quite good. Still, a nice night to be out despite the occasional precipitation.

stargazerrob, to astrophotography
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My progress imaging Saturn:

From left to right:

  1. 2015 - 6" Maksutov, phone digiscope
  2. 2016 - Mak & DSLR
  3. 2020 - Mak & DSLR
  4. 2021 - Mak & ZWO ASI178MM
  5. 2022 - 8" Newtonian &178MM
  6. 2023 - 8" Newtonian &178MM

I was lucky to get some okay seeing last night - better than anything I had in 2022. Quite a bit of headroom left with my current setup I think.

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@johnefrancis thanks! Definite upside of planetary I think, the non-horrifyingnsss, what itโ€™s possible to get with budget gear. Some deep sky astro cameras alone cost more than my whole rig combined

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@mattkenworthy Thanks very much!

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@Barredo 8 inch diameter mirror on the telescope yeah, and 178MM is a model of astro camera from a company called ZWO. The M at the end is for monochrome, and I think the number does relate to something

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Last night's view of Saturn

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Part of this morningโ€™s moon.

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The terminator of last nightโ€™s 88% illuminated waning gibbous moon

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The far east of Mare Frigoris, Lacus Mortis, Hercules, Atlas, and Lacus Temporis amongst other things.

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Jupiter as seen from my garden this morning.

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@bartvdpoel Took this with an 8" reflector and planetary astrophotography camera. Quite a lot of processing too, using the 'lucky imaging' method

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@grb090423 thanks! ๐Ÿ˜Š

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@MarkMaguire thank you

Ruth_Mottram, to Astro
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This is probably one for :

My ace DMI colleague @Hotblack43 is sending a fancy camera up to the with on the mission this week + calling for people to make + post full moon snaps here in RAW or NEF format (NOT Jpeg) tagged

It's to help measure the earth's + perhaps solve an important puzzle

Deets:
https://entangledstates.org/2023/08/22/calling-all-citizen-scientists-lunar-photos-needed-for-climate-research/

stargazerrob,
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@grb090423 @Ruth_Mottram looks like a very cool project, thanks for thinking of me! I don't have the right gear for what's needed here

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Last night's Moon.
It was lovely. First time I've seen it for what feels like aeons! (There have been too many clouds.)

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@grb090423 yay! :ablobcatrave:

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Last night's view of Sagittarius

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@grb090423 thank you! Iโ€™m enjoying the Milky Way being back at a not too silly oโ€™clock time

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Last night's star trails. It doesn't get truly dark where I live at this time of year, we get to 'astronomical twilight' but that's it, no true 'night'

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