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@drbecky.bsky.social Saw your short about being back to youtube, and it made me realized I hadn't shared my latest shots from Feb (only had 5 clear nights in the whole month). Glad to see you're feeling well again, and I'm looking forward to your next vid 😄

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Messier 94, the croc's eye galaxy, sits amongst a handful of stars and displays its characteristic spiral center with a diffuse halo that makes up the outer reaches of the galaxy

IC2177, the seagull nebula, is shown in partial due to its angular size on the sky. This dense and bright nebula glows strongly with reds and a few blues as the gas is ionized by the many stars in this region. It is made up of a round nebula above a much straighter one that stretches from the lower left to upper right of the image. A dark nebula obscures part of the round nebula, giving this nebula one of its distinctive features that gives it its name. The straight nebula extends outside of the frame to make up the "wings" of the seagull, while the round nebula with a dark strip makes up the "head".

Finally have some more #astrophotography to show off. These are M94 - Croc's Eye Galaxy and IC2177 - The Seagull Nebula (close up).

Taken over the course of 5 nights, with a total of 12.5 and 11hr total integration respectively

#photography #space #nebula #galaxy #astro

My images come out so much better with the exact same hardware, and I've been bumping up my exposure time to be as long as possible. The longer your exposure time the better (with caveats), and the more subs the better (with caveats). I highly recommend it

When I first started doing AP I was so eager to capture as many things as I could in a night, sometimes >10 targets. What I've learned the hard way is that's just quantity over quality. Now (last 6mo) I do 2 a night, split about evenly, and won't share them until I have at least 2 nights per target.

You should be able to get better results with a dwarf 3 still. Comparing to other dwarf shots online, I think all you need is better conditions and more exposure time. Get as much time as you can! You'll be surprised at how good it'll look with >10hrs total, especially when there's no clouds 🙂

The bottom right looks like you got some clouds streaking through, might need to cull some bad exposures :/

Would you mind sharing your rig specs and exposure settings? It's a messier object, it should be more than bright enough to capture even with modest optics.

😢 there's an imax near me, but they don't aren't showing it

To me it looks like either a Wood Thrush or Hermit Thrush, both of which are reported on Merlin as being rare this time of year for your area. Maybe the cold weather down south has forced some birds to migrate early in search of food, I know my feeders have been busy with single digit temps in AR.

I hope you got to visit some of the national parks in the south too. Utah is one of my favorite states for landscapes, and the big 5 parks do not disappoint. We were there last summer visiting Capitol Reef and it was a blast!

What should I image over the next few nights? Latitude of ~34.5 deg, set up at 700mm FL and a FoV of about 1x0.7 deg. Currently considering the Medusa Nebula and/or Croc's Eye Galaxy. If I can take photos of your suggestion I'll send you the final edit :)

#astrophotography #astro #photography

I'm hoping to be able to get back out tonight, it's been cloudy (and snowy) for too long!

oh, I definitely have some uses for these

Riccardo Paterniti is developing free Python tools, driven by passion for astrophotography. VeraLux is an independent research project focused on physically-faithful image processing for astrophotography, developed as a Python toolset for Siril.My work explores transparent, reproducible

If you've been using the #VeraLux scripts in #siril for #astrophotography, consider supporting the dev over at buymeacoffee.com/riccardo.paterniti. These tools are 100% free, and have gotten good enough that I'm canceling my adobe subscription, I just don't need photoshop anymore. Ricardo's awesome!

two men are looking at a piece of paper with a caption that says i could make a hat Alt: two men are looking at a piece of paper with a caption that says "i could make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl", from the movie Airplane!

I could make an igloo

I've found that it works better than sirilic for me, and being in Python I have a lot more control over the exact steps it performs. Every data set points at its own calibrations too, so it's very repeatable. Glad to know others have gone down the same path with sirilic too.

I've used sirilic before, it's the reason why I made my own scripts. If I were to add mono support I would also keep things organized like you are. The big benefit is if I set things up right I can run one command to stack a target, with progressive stacks for each night.

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It was inevitable.

What process do you use for pulling in old data? I've developed some siril scripts that make it pretty easy, but I'm curious about how others do it.

Looking good! I am looking forward to when I can buy a mono camera and some filters to do this myself. It'll probably be a couple of years unfortunately, but I can collect a lot of RGB in the meantime!

The aurora tonight from Fairbanks, Alaska filmed in real-time (not sped up). Insane show!

I'm still having to do a lot of test prints to get a design right (especially ones that print well), and I still feel daunted by complex parts (especially if they move). I'm looking around for resources myself, but hoped I could crowdsource some too.

Anyone have some good resources for learning more advanced #3dcad? I've been playing around in #onshape for about a year now, and while I can design stuff to 3d print fairly well, I feel like I could do so much more if I had more of a proper education. #diy #3dprinting #cad

I'm hoping to get up to around 20 hours for Thor's Helmet, and however many hours I get on the other two. I'm currently about halfway there, as I can only get about 4 hours on Thor's Helmet a night. It still looks good enough to share now, though.

#astrophotography #photography #space #astronomy

Thor's Helmet Nebula - NGC2359

Bubble Nebula - NGC7635

Bode's Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy - M81

Some WIP astro images, been pointed at the Bubble Nebula, Thor's Helmet, and Bode's Galaxy. All three were edited entirely in Siril, using a custom pysiril processing pipeline that is handling a combination of exposure times across multiple nights.

The y-axis is a "travel index", meaning it's probably a number the AUS govt computes based on other measurable values. Likely a normalization to make it easier to compare countries. The chart author probably didn't want to put that in the series labels as well as the chart title.

I took tomorrow off, been a long week and I have some hobby stuff to take care of, but now I have a 10 video playlist to put on in the background. One of my favorite traditions, along with the big fat quiz of the year.

Markarian's Chain of Galaxies, appearing to make a lopsided S shape laying on it's side.

Here's my recent Markarian's Chain. Only got a few hours on it, and I'm going to be swapping my telescope while I have a cloudy night. I'm still processing the nebulae, I got a lot more data on them and they require more involved processing. It'll take me a few more days, but I'll post them too!