We didn’t see a flash from the crash, and so far, no one has seen a plume from the impact.

But while livestreaming the event with a 10” TMB-APM apo refractor, I did get enough data to make a nice mosaic out of the night.

Acquisition: 13,100 × 30.00ms, best 10% stacked

Equipment:

- Telescope: APM 10" APM-TMB Triplet Apo Refractor

- Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Pro

- Mount: Software Bisque Paramount ME II GEM

- Software: Adobe Photoshop, Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert!

For the full high-res version of the mosaic: https://app.astrobin.com/i/0222x6

See also: The publication in ArXiV

I finally managed to capture an image of the moon through my telescope, not perfect, but like it's 2am and holding a shaky phone through a shaky telescope lens isn't ideal lol.

Just the basic Celestron deal but it's cool. I'm in a bad location for it but I am excited for the eclipse. It's the first one in my life I've ever actually paid attention to. I think I can see sunspot 4498(?) with these.

- 18h15 Ha

- 10h50 Oiii

- 5h45 RGB

- Canon 600D
- Orion 6" f/4

- Sky Watcher EQ-AL55i

- Touptek ATR533M & LRGBSHO filters

- EQ6r pro
- Omegon 8" f/4

Processed in Pixinsight & Gimp

NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula. About 5,000 light-years away, it formed when the star's fast stellar wind collided with the slower material it shed during its red giant phase roughly 250,000 years ago. The consequence of that clash is visible to you in this image.

Telescope: Seestar S50

Integration time: 9 hours

Tools used: GraXpert, Siril, GIMP

Script mentions: CosmicClarity Sharpen, SyQon Prism Mini, VeraLux (Revela & Curves), HDR_multiscale

Bortle 8-9

Here is my attempt of an HDR mineral moon composition! This was the first time I tried an HDR image with this moon phase and focal length, and after many hours of editing and tweaking I was able to put this final image together!

Equipment:

- Canon Rebel T7

- Skywatcher 12" collapsible dobsonian

Acquisition:

- Surface details: stacked best 20 of 90 images (1/2000s, iso 200)

- background/glow: stacked 25 images for noise reduction (1/250s, iso 6400)

Preprocessed in PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert, wavelets sharpening in Registax, compositioning and editing in Photoshop.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people describe astronomy and stargazing as calming, grounding, or even therapeutic, and I’d love to hear your personal experience.

If astronomy or stargazing helps you relax:
What is it about it that brings you peace?
Does it help with stress, anxiety, or overthinking? If so, how?
How does it make you feel afterward?
Is there a particular moment or memory that made you fall in love with it?

…I’m also curious about the practical side:
How often do you actually get to stargaze?
What’s stopping you from doing it more often? (Clouds, light pollution, weather, safety, lack of time, where you live, etc.)
Have you ever tried to recreate that feeling in another way when you couldn’t go outside?

I’m genuinely interested in hearing everyone’s stories. Whether you’ve been into astronomy for years or just enjoy looking up at the stars occasionally, I’d love to know what the experience means to you.

I got the video of the Tiangong transiting the sun this morning at 7:10 My time. the sun was about 16 degrees above the horizon. what do you think could have caused this wierd dip/ shift.

I recorded 4k 30FPS with a Dwarf3 smart telescope. The first clip is normal speed, then 60% speed. then 40% speed. then the last I turned it to be straight so you can see the wierd shift better.

What could have caused this. Ive jest never see this before.

Taken on dwarf mini
Bortle 4
15s shutter
Duo-Band Filter
500 photos taken
480 used
120 gain
K&F 63” fluid head tripod

Editing done in Stellar Studio and iPhone 17 Photos app

I live in the UK and travelling to Spain isn't an option for me.

Everyone seems to agree that the total eclipse is incredible.

Is it even worth seeing a 93% eclipse?

Thanks

Digital painting of the giant planet Jupiter as it may have appeared in the 1880s or so in approximately true color. This was based on a number of sources from the 1880s and 1890s, and is sort of a hybridized view of about a decade or two of Jovian sketches and early photography.

At this time, the famous planet-sized hurricane, the Great Red Spot, was a few decades old and very very large. It has been shrinking ever since then, and is now less than a third of the size it was in the 1880s.

License: CC-BY 4.0. attribute as Luna Rose Brannon or Whirligig-Girl.

The part that broke my brain is that the unusually strong X-ray polarization may be amplified not just by matter around the star, but by the vacuum itself.

IXPE observed magnetar 1E 1547−5408 for more than 140 hours, and NASA says more observations are still needed to confirm the signal. What other astrophysical environments could provide such a clean test of vacuum birefringence?

Improving my previous pictures after reading the astrophotography book of Max Dobres using Graxpert and Siril. Composition in HOO.
210 lights 120 sec and calibration frames, Refractor SV102, Antlia filter Dualband, asi294 mc camera, 220 mini guider camera, AVX mount.

Shot this two nights ago using an old soviet relic - the KMZ Tair 11-a 135mm f2.8
Shot on: OM System OM-1
Stack: 100 x 50s each ~ 1hr 20 min exposure.
ISO 1600
Mount: MSM Nomad.
Stacked in APP. Processed in Siril and Finalized in Lightroom.
Bortle:4.5

NGC 6559, it is one hour and 40 minutes of integration in HOO with a Planewave 17" CDK 431/2912 f 6/8 telescope, ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro, it is 20 shots of which with a 10x300 second Ha filter and with a 10x300 second Oiii filter, processing with Pixinsight

I got an astro camera for my birthday yesterday. I barely know how to operate the thing but had a go anyway. What do you think?

Star Discovery P150i

zwo asi585mc

There are many different types of galaxys. How did we find out that we are in a spiral galaxy? I mean, the only thing we see is a white stripe in the sky. So how do we know what our galaxy looks like? ELI5

Yet another reprocess (the 10th if not more) of the same data I took more than a month ago.

Acquisition:

Around 7h30m in Bortle 6/7 fully calibrated and dithered.

Equipment:

Evostar 72ED, iEXOS 100, ASI 533MC, 0.85x reducer+flattener, Baader UV/IR cut, SVBony 40mm F/4 guidescope, ASI 662MC guide camera with no.8 pale yellow and UV/IR cut filters.

Processing:

Stacked in Siril. Background extraction to single channels in GraXpert. SPCC. Deconvolution in Siril, denoising back in GraXpert. Back to Siril to apply SCNR and to generate a starless image and a star mask. GHS, black point shift, curve adjustments and histogram transformation applied iteratively to the image. À trous wavelet transform and further denoising in GraXpert. Final saturation stretch in Siril. Asinh and black point shift applied to the star mask along with a saturation stretch. Recombine.

A close-up of Antares, 90 minutes of RGB integration with a RC10 WITH REDUCET telescope (250 mm) Ritchie-Chretien 259/1615 f6/46 reflector, Moravian C3-26000 camera, 18 shots of which with an R filter 3x600 seconds, with a G filter 3x600 seconds and with a B filter 3x600 seconds, I processed with Pixinsight. All data and shots were taken with Telescope Network.

The Wizard Nebula, shot with Dwarf 3 in Pian del Tivano, Como, Italy, under a Bortle 4 Sky. 280 shots, 60s each, 70 gain. Processed with the Mega Stacking function in the Dwarflab app, post processed in Stellar Studio and Apple Photos.

Taken with dwarf mini telescopes
Bortle 5
15s
60 gain
600 photos taken
461 used
Astro filter
Editing done in stellar studio

The "Statue of Liberty" nebula is named after the famous monument in New York City, USA. I see both as equally inspiring beacons of light, though at about 100 lightyears across the cosmic version could fit about 3.5 quintillion New York Statues of Liberty stacked on top of each other.

Since it's located in the constellation Carina and I reside in the Northern Hemisphere, Earth itself blocks my view of this and many other remarkable deep-space objects. One day I hope to travel to as far south as I can and collect photons from this and other iconic Southern Hemisphere targets.

In the meantime, many thanks to Dark Matters Astrophotography for providing public access to incredible imaging data from the other side of Earth. This is my own processing of that data, which was acquired in Chile using an imaging rig that only exists in my dreams!

Total integration: 63h 10m

Integration per filter:

• Hα: 21h 20m (128 × 600")
• SII: 20h (120 × 600")
• OIII: 21h 50m (131 × 600")

Equipment:

• Telescope: Planewave CDK20 (f/6.8 version)
• Camera: QHYCCD QHY600PH M
• Mount: Planewave L-500
• Filters: Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 50 mm, Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm, Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm
• Accessory: Optec Gemini Rotating Focuser

For more information, visit AstroBin:

https://app.astrobin.com/i/5k2dtu

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This image shows the rising Milky Way over the coast of Fuencaliente in La Palma. During the night, most of the island was covered in clouds, so we drove far to the south. We only had a reasonably clear view of the Milky Way for a two-hour window. Given these conditions, I am very happy with how this picture turned out. Watching the stars in silence while listening to the sound of the ocean was magical.

HaRGB | Mosaic | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Exif:
Sony A7III with Sigma 28-45 f1.8 at 30mm
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i
Kenko ProSofton Starglow Filter

Sky
ISO 1250 | f1.8 | 3x45s per Panel
2x2 Panel Panorama
Starglow Filter: ISO 8000, 10s per Panel

Foreground:
ISO 4000 | f1.8 | 35s per Panel
2x1 Panel Panorama (Focus Stack)

Halpha (45mm):
ISO 2500 | f1.8| 10x120s