Seeking new data, the James Webb Space Telescope is observing objects that are old acquaintances to the Hubble Space Telescope. Magic Universe proposes a slow transition of the images of both devices in orbit to better see what is new in Webb's latest observations, activate this transition by placing the mouse over the image or clicking on touch screens. The objective of..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
I'm still waiting for those notifications to start streaming in about a geomagnetic storm! In the meantime, I guess I just have to settle for imaging that monster sunspot region. That chunky one in the lower left is the one to watch! (this image is from earlier today)
It's #MilkyWay season again here in the northern hemisphere.
I took this image using my phone last night around 2am looking south from my moderately light-polluted site in east Tucson. 5×90s subs captured in Astroshader were combined in Siril. A final stretch was applied in GIMP.
Further experiments last night. Here, I doubled the total exposure time (so, a total of 900 s). Same processing steps.
Having started in astrophotography about a million years ago using film, it blows my mind that my phone can collect the data used to make an image like this now.
Messier 53 (M53) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 53 reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around April 10th.
The excellent collaboration image between astronomers Mark Hanso and Martin Pugh shows the peculiar planetary nebula HFG-2, also cataloged as PK 247-04 1 among other designations. It is a sphere with a network-shaped structure, whose filaments connect with each other and shows a possible opening to the south. This planetary nebula appears to be..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Got another 1.5 hours of light last night from nearby(ish) galaxy NGC 3621 which features the recent supernova #SN2024ggi
Have now been grabbing light from this event over a few months and can see its colour/flux temporal evolution.
Caught it with VIVID’s extreme light pollution too! (VIVID is a very popular festival of light here in Sydney in which light pollution increases by several orders of magnitude!)
While I wait for suitable conditions for more imaging, I've been continuing my image processing education. I always love using my Rosette Nebula data--it's such a lovely target. Originally shot this in narrowband (Ha, SII, OIII) a year ago and this is a reprocess in SHO.
A rather blistering 5am start for the second virtual #astrophotography gallery event with the IAU and @futuremeetings! But a good crowd, and really fun to listen to the photographers describe how they took these photos with a smartphone (!).
This image shows the regions surrounding the Corona star cluster, better known by its English name, Coronet Cluster. Also cataloged as R CrA for its brightest star, it is located at a distance of about 400 light years from the Solar System and is located in the direction of the Corona Australis Constellation, isolated on the edge of the Gould Belt. The Corona Cluster is..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography