As I was already laying in bed this saturday I noticed the sky clearing up, so I got up again for a very spontaneous session in the backyard. Image is nothing crazy, but it tells me that the framing is quite nice for a session today - if the weather allows. Bottom right artefact is a fence and at the bottom of the image the clouds rushed in :/
Exif: 30 x 120s subs ~ 1h;
Iso 200;
Sony A7M3 hA modded;
50 mm Samyang1.4 @F2.2;
MSM Nomad tracker #astrodon#orion#astrophotography
This is my first attempt at a meteor shower composite! I stuck my DSLR outside with a 14mm lens on and let it run for several hours capturing 12 second exposures and then waiting 20 seconds. I'm going to try again tonight shooting continuously on a higher ISO and really focusing my exposures on the peak meteor time between 1 and 2am.
#SpacePolitics
“It got funded as a #rocket to #nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it,” #Garver says. Legacy contractors like #Boeing continued to receive large bonus payments 💰 for working on the #SLS, despite delays and mushrooming #costs.
Critics of the #SLS argue that the rocket is #unsustainable by #design, relying on an old and potentially quite #expensive way to get to #space. Much of SLS is a holdover from the #spaceshuttle. But while the shuttle #orbiter, #engines, and external #tanks were designed to be #reusable, SLS and its engines were not.
“They’ve designed a rocket that is basically #unsustainable, because it’s completely #throwaway. The only bit that comes back is #Orion”
Ms. Stirone is a space writer. Dr. Chiao is a former NASA #astronaut. Ms. Garver is a former deputy administrator of NASA. Dr. Grinspoon is an #astrobiologist
The following shot of the #Orion#nebula is 2.5 hours of integration using the Celestron C11 at f/10 and using a dual band Ha/OIII filter. Then stretched in #Siril to try to balance the Ha (orange) and OIII (blue) bands. This was taken on the 11/5. In other words I’ve spent the last 5 days fussing over it. #astrophotography#Astrodon
🛰️🌑 Au centre Kennedy, les tests du vaisseau #Orion d’ #Artemis2 ont commencé avec les premiers essais électriques depuis le couplage entre la capsule et le module de service
📷 NASA
Well, isn’t that lovely: our JWST image of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster is today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day 🖖🙂🤘
Thanks to everyone who’s sharing the images & don’t forget that you can download them at full resolution under a CC BY-SA licence via the link in the next toot 👇
After the release of the sublime image of the Horsehead Nebula by Euclid, here is a tribute to earlier endeavors, with this beautiful 1977 cover of Science Magazine, featuring a photographic plate by the National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey