Elizabeth Howell PhD (she/her) @howellspace@social.cleverlibre.org

Ta-dah! Felted planets, as seen in visible light, designed and entirely handmade by me. Do you like? #science #crafts #hobbies #felting #space

My shot of the gorgeous green ZTF comet gracing our skies right now ☄️

This is the result of ~200 stacked images over the course of half an hour, from my courtyard, with a vaonis vespera

#vespera #comet #astrophotography https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn8EH7hIr2q/

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the trees. Clouds rolled in before he got above the treeline at 3:30am (again). *sigh*
#astrophotography #comet

Comet ZTF and Kochab (beta Ursae Minoris). 28 January 2023. #AstroDon #Astronomy #Astro #Space #Astrophotography

This isn't really my handiwork, as the telescope did all the work, and I haven't done any post processing, but I wanted to share my first #astrophotography, Caroline's Rose cluster. From my tiny, light polluted back yard, no filters

A first attempt at processing some images of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) captured last week whilst the comet was scooting through the stars of Draco. I'm pleased to have picked up both the dust tail and the fainter ion tail. I need to spend more time on processing... This was 120x60s exposures at ISO1600. Vixen ED80 on an EQ5, Canon 6D camera. #Astrophotography #Comet

#orion #stargazing urban #astrophotography (I tried)

These night shots on the #pixel7pro are not difficult, the difficult part is having the dog stand still long enough to take them 🙂

It's also amazing how much light pollution there is even in the unlit ruined cemetery these were taken in.

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#photowalkmyworld #photography #astrophotography #shotonpixel #basingstoke

A bit streaky as I did have my telescope aligned accurately enough for imaging but here's a pic of the comet everyone's talking about took from my back garden.
#astronomy #astrophotography

Evening all. My most recent image of IC410, the Tadpole nebula. I've recently discovered a new bunch of tools and scripts within PixInsight and have enjoyed putting them to good use. #astronomy #astrophotography #tadpole #pixinsight #altair

🔥Flaming Star Nebula🔥

I rescued some photons from crashing into my driveway, and about 37h later I got this image!

Also they should have called it the 🍤 nebula. Now I’m hungry.

#astrophotography

The notoriously faint Witches Head nebula IC2118. They said it couldn’t be done from a suburban night sky in the UK…..they are probably right. 😜 ! But I’ll put it out there anyway, just 5 hours on this target and boy does it need more!
#Astrophotography

Day 3 of attempting to photograph #cometztf, this time at 200mm with about 30 stacked exposures of 2.5 seconds.

Still trying to get the exposure and focus right for a cleaner image and post-processing to get it looking pretty, but my new lens is serving me well. My attempts to do flat frames to get rid of vignetting went... poorly.

looks like the next few nights are gonna be cloudy, but hopefully I can get the comet again when it's at its closest at the end of the month! #astrophotography

The Great Nebula in Orion - M42
This is one of the visibly largest objects in our night sky but it requires a long exposure to see all the nebulosity, it is located at what appears to be the central star of Orion's sword which is in fact a star factory made up of massive amount of gas, mainly Hydrogen Alpha.
This is 1,344 light years away so you're looking back in time 1,344 years.

#orion #nebula #m42 #stars #space #astrophotography #nightsky #nature #universe #astronomy