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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-24 at 16:01

A very large star cluster in Cassiopeia called Stock 2, or the Muscleman Cluster.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-24 at 15:43

@catherinerhyde (This from a person more scientific than me on Bluesky: Looks like a Falcon 9 first stage separation event with the second stage pulling away to orbit.)

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-24 at 14:33

This morning something happened in the sky that was unlike anything I've ever seen before. I’m waiting for someone to tell me what it was.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-23 at 20:25

This is a little over 11 hours of the Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster. I'm not all that happy with it, but I've been working on it for hours and I just can't get it any better than this.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-23 at 16:15

This is a starless version of the Heart Nebula. Four nights, twelve hours, and even that is after a massive weeding out of less successful images. For some reason the whole thing just turned to crap when I added the stars back in. I like this version and was not about to waste it.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-22 at 18:20

The moon is waning, I'm pleased to say.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-21 at 14:55

Third and final night of the Rosette Nebula. Almost 13 hours of exposure time overall. Likely cloudy tonight, but the next clear night I think I'll start on something new.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-20 at 16:04

This is two five-hour nights of IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, and it's definitely not there yet. After the first night I couldn't even process it into something I wanted to share. I hope to get another six or seven hours tonight. For some reason my dew system upstairs seems to be failing me.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-20 at 15:13

The Rosette Nebula with another five hours of data added from last night. I likely would have spent a little more time processing this if it was a final image, but I hope to work on this more tonight.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-19 at 13:57

This is my first night working on the Rosette Nebula. I hope to double or triple the exposure time over the next couple of nights, sky conditions permitting.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-14 at 23:36

Check out the size of this big honking sunspot. It's AR3959. All quiet for now, but...

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-14 at 14:59

This is the beginning of the occultation. Mars disappearing behind the full moon.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-14 at 14:39

Unfortunately the moon is overexposed in this little video, but hopefully you're looking at Mars anyway. This is the way the end of the occultation looked (only faster of course).

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-14 at 05:25

Here's one from the scope, with Mars just emerging on the upper right.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-11 at 18:43

I wanted to take some solar images to celebrate the NASA SOHO solar imaging being back online. Conditions were not great and this is the only one that worked out. So, for what it's worth, the sun in Calcium-K today.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-10 at 15:05

The open star cluster NGC 2232 in Monoceros. Hopefully you know that I'm working on all these star clusters because the moon is too full for much else.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-10 at 03:44

The moon with the Pleiades tonight. This is a composite image. I combined the stars from a stack of 1-second images with the moon from a stack of 1/500-second images.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-09 at 14:59

This is the open cluster NGC 1662 in Orion, under a pretty darned full moon. It has some weird artifacts in the background, which I don't understand, as this is a stars-only image with the background discarded. But if you don't zoom in too close it's a decent portrait of NGC 1662.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-09 at 02:24

What do you image when the moon gets too full? Why, the moon of course.

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Written by catherinerhyde on 2025-01-04 at 15:47

Lower's Nebula. 5+ hours from October and 5 hours from last night. But sky conditions weren't great last night and I had to throw a lot of images away. I might try to work on this one more night, or at least part of one. But clear nights are few and far between lately.

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