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thereisnodog · @thereisnodog
53 followers · 426 posts · Server mas.to

when you are so hungry you cannot walk around the bowl to get to the low side
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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
200 followers · 203 posts · Server geekdom.social

The Nebula aka is about 6400 light years away in the Orion constellation. It doesn't come to view for me right now until about 2am so the sky was full of challenging fog when I captured nearly 3 hours of exposure for this image. It's one of my favorite subjects so I'm sure I'll image it again as Orion rises earlier and earlier.

#skywatch #astrophotography #monkyhead #ngc2174 #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
200 followers · 201 posts · Server geekdom.social

Today's waning gibbous processed to more clearly show the large crater near the center of the image

#skywatch #astrophotography #moon #tycho #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
200 followers · 200 posts · Server geekdom.social

I tried some new techniques on this morning's waning gibbous

#skywatch #astrophotography #moon #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
199 followers · 198 posts · Server geekdom.social

The North America is nebula is part of a large hydrogen alpha emission area near Deneb, the bright star at the end of tail in Swan of the Cygnus constellation. The bright cloud along the edge that looks like Mrxico is the Cygnus Wall, an active star formation area. This image is 48 five minute exposures captured with my 571mm optical train under a nearly full moon.

#skywatch #astrophotography #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
197 followers · 196 posts · Server geekdom.social

Day 1614 The aka is an emission nebula 7500 light years from earth in the Persus arm of our galaxy. The center of the Heart contains a newborn (1.5 million years old) star cluster called Melotte 15. This image is 2.5 hours of exposure (30x300 seconds) that I started at 2 this morning under a nearly full moon (not ideal conditions).

#dailyphoto #skywatch #astrophotography #heartnebula #ic1805 #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
196 followers · 195 posts · Server geekdom.social

The Nebula is 2300 light years from Earth in the Cepheus constellation. In 2011, the extremely faint Squid Nebula was discovered in the center of the Bat. This image is nearly 5 hours of exposure salvaged from the night when I forgot to turn on my dew heater and so things look a bit messy despite my best efforts and there is no sign of the Squid.

#skywatch #astrophotography #flyingbat #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
195 followers · 194 posts · Server geekdom.social

Day 1608 The California Nebula is a large, faint nebula in the constellation. It is about 1000 light years away. Its fluorescence comes from the hydrogen beta gas being energized by O7 star which is the bright blue star in this image. I salvaged about 3.5 hours of exposure from a few nights ago when I forgot to turn my dew heater on. This explains why I wasn't able to get much detail in the nebula itself.

#dailyphoto #skywatch #astrophotography #perseus #menkib #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
194 followers · 191 posts · Server geekdom.social

If you leave your equipment out overnight, dew can form on it as it cools down. To prevent that happening on the lens, we wrap a dew heater around it to prevent dew from forming. Although I plugged my dew heater in last night, I forgot to turn it on. Luckily, it will be cloudy for at least the next 3 nights which will give me plenty of time to think about not making mistakes the next time out.

#astrophotography #skywatch #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
193 followers · 188 posts · Server geekdom.social

is surprisingly hard. I'm still working on focus and proper exposure. But I thought the clouds were interesting, and the sunspots are cool. Never photograph the sun without a proper solar filter!

#skywatch #astrophotography #solarphotography #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
191 followers · 187 posts · Server geekdom.social

The Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is 2.5 million light years from Earth. This means that the light from its more than 1 trillion stars left the galaxy 2.5 million years ago. It is approaching the Milky Way at approximately 68 miles per second and the two galaxies are expected to collide in 3 or 4 billion years. This image is 112 two-minute exposures that I captured last night.

#skywatch #astrophotography #andromeda #stilllearning

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crankytechdad · @crankytechdad
10 followers · 22 posts · Server fosstodon.org

I created my first skit on this shit flopped but it was fun. I more or less was just looking to practice some through the

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
192 followers · 185 posts · Server geekdom.social

The blue star near the left edge of this image is Sadr, which is the central star in the cross-shaped Cygnus constellation. The Sadr region contains many emission and dark nebulae, including the Butterfly to the left of Sadr and the Crescent in the lower right. This image is 90 minutes of exposure made with my 100mm lens last week.

#skywatch #astrophotography #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
192 followers · 185 posts · Server geekdom.social

The Heart (lower right) and Soul (upper left) nebulae are both emission nebulae in the Cassiopeia constellation. The Heart is about 7500 light years away while the Soul is about 6500 light years away. They are about 600 light years across. This image is five and a half hours of exposure captured last week.

#skywatch #astrophotography #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
192 followers · 183 posts · Server geekdom.social

Taking pictures of the sun can damage your equipment and, more importantly, your eyes. It's also challenging. I bought a solar filter so I could do it safely and am reasonably happy that I captured two sun spots in this first image.

#skywatch #astrophotography #sun #solarphotography #stilllearning

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Hugs4friends ♾ · @Tooden
873 followers · 17029 posts · Server aus.social

@CatHat See, I never read? that.

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
192 followers · 183 posts · Server geekdom.social

I went out last night to see whether I could capture some meteors from the meteor shower which will peak Saturday. I got a few like the one at the top of the in this single 25-second exposure captured with my 14mm lens on my DSLR. The color at the bottom is the core of the Milky Way.

#skywatch #astrophotography #perseid #milkyway #stilllearning

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Cathie LeBlanc · @cathieleblanc
190 followers · 179 posts · Server geekdom.social

I have posted photos of the before but not ones created with my 250mm lens. This wider field of view shows the Crescent (lower right corner) amidst the hydrogen gas clouds of the region in the center of the constellation. The Crescent is a shell caused by colliding gasses after a star explosion.

#skywatch #astrophotography #crescentnebula #sadr #cygnus #stilllearning

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woodrat :gnulightened: · @woodrat
0 followers · 40 posts · Server social.linux.pizza

i can't believe i learned *today* that i can encrypt a file with vim

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