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Colliding Neutron Stars Created a Sphere So Perfect It's Shocked Physicists : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/colliding-neutron-stars-created-a-sphere-so-perfect-its-shocked-physicists

The #SolarSystem simulator shows weird things can happen. Watch closely as a big planet (just below the central large mass) encounters a small body and causes it to enter a very elliptical and reverse direction orbit.

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Color scheem
black - asteroid
magenta - rocky planet
red - gas giant

Here's another #SolarSystem simulator mp4. In this case a large (red) planet ejects a small (black) small object. Big against small usually means only the small object shows any deviation.

Color Scheme:
black - asteroid
magenta - rocky planet
red - red giant

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@MaryMcIntyreAstro
Thanks for bringing those features to attention. I wasn't aware of them. I have a number of photos of the moon I've taken over the years and looked through them to see if I happened to have picked up those features.

Alas, as your article states, these are transient views that are only visible for perhaps a few hours, so sadly I didn't happen to capture most of them. But I captured one. The eyes of #Clavius.

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@davehigginsnaples
Good shot. Very wide field.

Here's my best comet shot of the same era, #HaleBopp in 1995.

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I only have old (but decent) #telescope gear. I have a decently mounted 6 inch f/5 #Newtonian for example. The mount is a motor driven but manually controlled #EQ.

From what I'm seeing, to get to a point to get digital photos through an #AutoTrackingMount, I'd need a new electronically controlled mount, an #autoguider, and a #DigitalCamera capable of time exposures. Right?

That would easily cost 2k or more from what I see.

Am I seeing this right?

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@Jerry
Or it could be that this is the situation:

An astronomer stared into space
To see who else lived in the place
So far science has found
That no others abound
Except for our pitiful race

Found at Cafepress/keendesigns

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#extraterrestrial

Larry Smith
@stargazersmith
Retired #computerscientist (PhD) with supporting background in #physics and #math. #AirForce #veteran. Worked mostly in #AerospaceEngineering (guidance) and some in #astronomy (interplanetary space study and lunar induction.)

Currently participating with spouse of 50+ years in spoiling preschool granddaughter. Making good progress.

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@noom
Nice image. I was just reading about your scope. Sounds like a flexible package.

I have just about the opposite type of refractor, a #60mm f/17 long (very long) focus refractor. It, like your scope, can deliver fine images, though I've only tried lunar/planetary photography. And I certainly cannot do the wide field photography you do.

Here's a shot of #Tycho through my 60mm using a stack of around 50 frames.

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A very informative tutorial on #leptons.

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Leptons: The elementary particles explained | Space https://www.space.com/leptons-facts-explained

@catherineryanhyde
That's a terrific photo.

I tried the #RosetteNebula with the #MicroObservatory, and barely got an image. Their photo equipment is beyond most amateur astronomers' equipment, but is old. Plus the web site allows a max of a 60 second exposure. That just isn't sufficient for that target.

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@photo
Clear atmosphere always helps. So from what I'm reading the objective lens is about 90mm in diameter?

You did better than my #M42 effort using the publicly available #MicroObservatory 6 inch Mak-Newts.

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Another hopeful planetary find.
#astronomy #planets #TESS #StarGeezer

NASA Just Discovered a Rare Earth-Sized Planet in a Habitable Zone : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-discovered-a-rare-earth-sized-planet-in-a-habitable-zone

@sundogplanets
When looking at night wonders, the words in Neil Diamond's song "Done To Soon" tend to come to mind.

They have sweated beneath the same sun
Looked up and wondered at the same moon
And wept when it was all done
For bein' done too soon
For bein' done too soon

Maybe I recall those lyrics because as Joe Namath puts it, I'm in the 4th quarter.

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@philo
Very nice. Mesmerizing in fact.

The #DoubleCluster is one of favorite targets in my 6 inch #RichField reflector.

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@PhilipPugh
I've never tried stacking solar images. Mine are all just 35mm snapshots. Like this #Venus transit of 2012.

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@DavidBflower
#Orion is one of my favorite star targets. But I guess I'm getting old, I didn't get out there to see the #Trapezium this observing season.

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@arialdo
I'm in the #VIM crowd. One of my employees once told me she just decided to learn #VI because every #Unix and #Linux she'd work on in the future would have it already installed.

I thought that good advice, learned VI, then found I usually could install VIM for more functionalality.

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I tried for a couple of days to use the publicly available Micro Observatory to get a color image of the Andromeda galaxy. But during the times my request was enacted weather was always poor.

So I did the next best thing and went to their image archive for the last few days and found a time when the weather was clear, and found an r, g, b set of Andromeda images. I processed and aligned the components and was able to get the following color image of M31.

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