Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos

[Andy Resnick]

I tried out one of my medium tele lenses in the afternoon on the Moon with some buildings in the foreground a couple of days ago. I noticed there were some small black spots in the photo close to the Moon, so I digitally magnified the photo to see what it was:

Ordinary birds, or... much worse? To my eye some of them look suspiciously similar to Klingon Warbirds.

Heh: "moonwatching".

http://www.eebweb.arizona.edu/courses/ecol484/images/MoonWatchInstructions.pdf

https://ca.audubon.org/news/moon-bi...ittle more information,by some: here and here.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Had a few clear nights, here's M101 @800/5.6, 3.6 hours, (near) full frame image:

and a 1:1 crop:

and a 2:1 crop of NGC 5474:

Not as good as this one, but not bad for urban astrophotography...

 

[Andy Resnick]

And here's the Sunflower galaxy (M63), also @ 800/5.6, 1.8 hours integration time:

 

[Keith_McClary]

SkyGems "preview" of M104 (Sombrero).
Observatory: Hakos iDK 20"
Filter: Luminance
Duration: 800 seconds
Charged with: 4.228 points

Due to a software issue the raw data was lost on the way from Namibia, so they refunded me. So now I have 6 points (need more suggestions).

There are some nice examples on their Results page, they are not just pretty pictures .

 

[bruha]

Hello, this is Registax 5 images stacked+Gimp sharpening and light/shadows little adjusting (older images).
Here in Prague is almost two weeks bad weather -heavily cloudy

 

[DennisN]

Hello, this is Registax 5 images stacked+Gimp sharpening and light/shadows little adjusting (older images)

Very nice!

 

[bruha]

Hello, here is Sun green filter with SV Ebony eyepiece camera .. maybe little better granulation imaging then with mobile camera ...
Have nice day

 

[DennisN]

Earth Restored

Only 24 people have journeyed far enough to see the whole Earth against the black of space.
The images they brought back changed our world. Here is a selection of the most beautiful photographs of Earth — iconic images and unknown gems — digitally restored to their full glory.

Photo page with many fine photos is here: http://www.tobyord.com/earth

Example (what a photo! ):

 

[Devin-M]

 

[bruha]

Hello, this made yesterday again by SV Ebony eyepiece camera-I have some problem with focusing...

 

[Andy Resnick]

Markarian Chain and surroundings in Virgo @ 400/2.8, 4hr integration time:

(part of a plane trail in upper left corner)

Astrometry.net output:

 

[bruha]

Hello, here is Arcturus by SV Ebony eyepiece camera Capt 00001: exp.t. 31 ms, Capt 6: 125 ms, gama and gain cca 100.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Skygems found my m104 data (along with 55GB of other peoples!). I (over)stretched it using GIMP.

 

[bruha]

Hello, here is sunspots (green filter) from yesterday+highlighted by GIMP
lot of succes

 

[Keith_McClary]

xkcd

 

[bruha]

Hello, I would like to ask ..I have problem to upload image 640 kB its reported "too big". Do you know what is size limit for attachment?

thanks and lot of succes...

 

[bruha]

And 209 kb is too big as well...

 

[bruha]

Hello, I attach two sun images from today -one sunspot appearing...
Lot of succes

 

[bruha]

Hello, I attach two moon image ( corrected by affinity photo.. I think better thean Gimp software), second is
with added artificial light source...

 

[bruha]

Next I attach three Spica images (all is made with eyepice SV Ebony webcam) while last one is with removing background (Afinity function)...

 

[bruha]

 

[bruha]

Hello, it is two sunspots from yesterday (Gimp corrected. ..)Although is clear sky nowadays is bad condition for observing as astronomical night is very short...

 

[bruha]

And some with green filter.. here is only one but more significant,,,

 

[bruha]

Hello, I attach sun spot images from today (on second white I got little different shape)

 

[chemisttree]

What was your shutter speed for the white? The green? What time of day do you take your images?

 

[bruha]

Hi, it was about 4 afternoon and made by SV EBONY eyepiece camera with exposure adjusted on cca 2.0 ms
and very low gain cca 2 for all images. Subsequently I made little sharpening and highlighting of spots in Gimp.

 

[DennisN]

China on Mars...

Source: China's Zhurong Mars rover takes a selfie
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57441757

By the way, I'm looking for more powerful tele lenses.
I am thinking of something like this :

 

[DennisN]

A slice of the Moon

I saw a nice, small Moon yesterday evening, so I fetched my gear and took some shots before it disappeared behind the trees, using my vintage Tokina 400mm f/6.3 tele lens (set at f/8). Camera settings: ISO 1600, shutter speed 1/500 s.

The Moon before it disappeared behind the trees:

 

[bruha]

(I plan moon images too but unfortunately getting quite low horizont already after sunset...)

 

[bruha]

Hello, here is sunspot from today (original and Gimp corrected) as seen spot has structure with dark core and brighter outer area )