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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-26 at 23:37

The ATO scammers don’t know that tax day isn’t the same in Australia as in the US do they.

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-26 at 01:42

Imaging with the bahtinov attached. Much pro. So experience. Wow. 🤦‍♂️

[#]Astrodon

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-26 at 01:20

Oooh at my local aldi #potatochipwatch

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-25 at 22:31

After doing my main 6 hour imaging runs on the Large Magellanic Cloud overnight, there was still about half an hour of sufficient darkness after to snap an other target

The Eta Carina nebula is starting to get high enough to have a go at with the new scope, so that's what I did. This is 46 minutes of data with the hydrogen/oxygen filter on the camera.

I love the fine structure in the outer regions of the nebula, and the dark sculptures that stick out from the edges of the central dust lanes. Chances are, those dusty structures contain newly forming stars.

The big bright star near the middle is Eta Carina. Voted more likely to explode in your lifetime than Betelgeuse for years now ;-)

The whole lot is about 10,000 light years away. For comparison, the Orion Nebula is only about 1,400 light years away. Despite that, the Carina nebula is brighter in the sky.

[#]astrophotography #Astrodon #space

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-24 at 06:46

I didn't have my very wide lens with me last night, so the planetary line-up is a set of three separate photos at different focal lengths.

Saturn and Venus, Jupiter with the Pleiades and Hyades, and Mars with Castor and Pollux in Gemini.

All single 30 seconds snaps with a :sigma_200_lens: and :nikon_d750:

[#]Astrodon #astrophotography #space #planets #PlanetParade

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-23 at 12:12

From a dark site with a flat horizon and a proper camera, comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a stunner at the moment!

Easily visible with the naked eye, with the tail visually extending for about 10 degrees.

With a 30 second exposure at 70 mm f/8, the tail is maginficent! This is just a single snap. Yes, there are also fifteen 🤬 starlinks in this single photo. A new record for me 😡

[#]Astrodon #astrophotography #c2024g3 #space

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-23 at 10:57

“I can’t see anything. This #comet is nonsense.” says @kattekrab as I take this photo. #cometc2024g3

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-23 at 08:56

Signs are pointing to a clear night in the Wimmera tonight. ☄️

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-23 at 01:38

Oh dear. Hahndorf is currently 95% unfortunate lycra.

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-22 at 11:00

And some thin cloud in the west in Adelaide, so no #comet tonight.

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-21 at 12:24

And now that my @Siril_Official astrophotography processing tutorial is done, I can share the result of the sample data I collected for that tutorial.

100 x 180 seconds with the :wo_redcat_61: about a month ago.

[#]Astrodon #astrophotography #space #EverythingOpen

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-20 at 11:52

When you automate the camera bit, so you can use your eyeballs, you end up with time lapse data.

The camera was on a tracker, so the comet stays centered whilst the building rises up to meet it. #comet #Astrodon #c2024g3

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-20 at 11:41

And here is the proper camera result of C/2024 G3 (Atlas). Not stunning, given it's from the center of a city of 1.2 million people, but also not terrible. It was not too hard to spot the #comet by eye to aim the camera.

Single 10 second shot at 200mm f/8 ISO 100.

[#]Astrodon #c2024g3

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-20 at 00:22

Found it. Now to plan some screaming. #EverythingOpen

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Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-19 at 09:38

There is a lot going on in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is a quick fiddle with the results of an overnight imaging session. The big bright thing on the right is the tarantula nebula.

Because the Moon is still bright, I used a hydrogen / oxygen filter. Red is hydrogen, blue is oxygen.

The round thing towards the bottom is a superbubble. It formed when massive stars in the cluster at its center exploded all around thr same time and their shockwaves merged to clean out a relatively empty pocked in the gas cloud in which is is embedded. It is about 300 light years across (the whole lot is about 160,000 light years away)

[#]Astrodon #astrophotography #space :wo_redcat_61: :zwo_duo_filter: :zwo_294mc: :zwo_am5:

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