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

The Leo Triplet, from my backyards last night.

I am not a big fan of over-saturated colors we often see in #astrophotography , let me know what you think of this one!

Full: https://www.astrobin.com/full/35rqn2/0/

This is my first, very feeble, unstacked test-image of the Orion Nebula. Will be testing the whole stacking thing later on for the first time. But first, dinner.

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comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and the planet mars
#comet #planet #astrophotography #solarsystem

Last night's effort at imaging the Orion Nebula included some sort of optical flaw. Very frustrating as processing this was difficult enough already. *Image has been retouched* to remove the most obvious flaw. Since the telescope is still set up I'll probably try again tonight -- despite freezing temperatures! The #OrionNebula, due to its size and brightness, is an excellent target for burgeoning deep space astrophotographers. Still not as easy as one might think! #astrophotography #M42

The Moon reflecting the cloudy haze last night prevented proper autoguiding to get more subframes to do the Flaming Star nebula justice.
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Collecting some space horse photons tonight… my main project right now is taking a short break because the moon is almost full making it impossible to discern between photons from the sun, reflected by the moon and those of dim deep space nebulas.

The space horsey is relatively bright and with a hydrogen alpha narrowband filter gives pretty decent results even with the moon really bright.

This is a single 10-minute exposure.

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A closer look at Orion

I‘m blown away by the details of this photo that I took yesterday from our terrace. It shows the Horse Head Nebula as well as the Great Orion Nebula and a ton of stars from the Orion constellation.

I took 180 light frames at 200mm using ISO 1000 at f3.5 for 15 seconds each on the Canon EOS R with Canon EF 70-200 f2.8L IS USM II. Then I stacked and processed them using Siril.

#orion #space #astrophotography #staradventurer #deepspace #canon #eosr #siril

Can astronomy mastodon recommend a basic astro-webcam I can fit to my entry-level 1.25" lenses and which adapters I'd require?

Everything I've seen for sale looks like it threads onto the eyepiece, but I can't see on my lenses where it should fit.

I've been enjoying using a mobile phone adapter, I got this great pic of the moon last night, but it's a right faff.

#Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Astrodon

First picture is last nights full moon called the snow moon. Other pictures are just different phases of the moon that the moon goes through during the course of the month.

#astrophotography #astronomy #Space #moon #mississippi #nature #sky

A shot of the moon and Jupiter with 3 of its moons (Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa). I forgot I took this back in late Jan. Handheld through an RF 100-400mm @~174mm.

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(Nov/2022) Nebulosa #IC4628 acompañada por los cúmulos #NGC6242 y #NGC6231, en la zona del "falso cometa" de Escorpio, delimitada por las estrellas dobles ópticas μ1,2 y ζ1,2 Scorpii #Astrophotography #LaPalma #Hermine
https://www.astrobin.com/aqzuwr/ https://twitter.com/expanding_astro/status/1588546861991960576/photo/1

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #NightSky #Space #Comet

With Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) moving towards the east, I was able use my telescope tonight to get a few images of the comet. The comet now has a visible magnitude of 4.4, well within naked eye view but the bright moon makes it hard (really impossible) to see. Took 40 pictures at different exposure speed and ISO settings. These four are the best ones.

First image at 10 seconds, ISO of 3200.

Second image at 15 seconds, ISO of 3200.

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I've just added a certain "Mars and Pleiades" picture to my flickr gallery. This is the full resolution version.#AstroDon #Astronomy #Astro #Space #Astrophotography https://www.flickr.com/photos/115702842@N02/52666754148/in/dateposted-public/

Sneak preview of my next fine collection of photons from my driveway!

This is part of the **Seagull Nebula** in *Monoceros *(on the border to *Canis Major*); you're looking at the average of about 13 hours of 10 minute Hydrogen-alpha emission exposures, with stars removed.

Try to spot two things:
- *bow shock* of a star (looks like a thin crescent Moon)
- image artifact from a plane that happened to fly through

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