Somewhat clearer skies tonight, North America Nebula from my driveway, single 3.2 second exposure.
Somewhat clearer skies tonight, North America Nebula from my driveway, single 3.2 second exposure.
Dog got me up in the middle of the night. Northern Lights with night mode on iPhone.
Wow. I might use that photo as an inspiration for a watercolor exercise.
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Here's a rotated and cropped inset of the nebula photo there, so you can see where they got the "North America" part of the name from:
I just love the northern lights photo!!! Seeing them live is the only thing (currently) on my bucket list.
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Tonight, an experiment with an old-timey Petzval lens - it has incredible distortion built-in, which makes for sort of an artsy effect without bothering with an Instagram filter :-)
Another experiment from last night. 1840s-style astronomy :-)
bae, thank you for these photos. I've enjoyed them immensely.
I was setting up a small telescope last night to make some observations, and as is my practice I was assembling and testing the rig before my real target was even visible. It was 10:30PM, and not dark enough yet for any deep sky targets.
So, I pointed the thing at the Tsawwassen cargo terminal, 27.5(!!!) miles away from my deck here, across the border into British Columbia.
Bigger telescope tonight.
20 minutes of tracked exposure.
The Dumbbell Nebula, Messier 27. 1:30AM, July 24, 2022
A nebula surrounding a white dwarf star, 1360 light years from my driveway. Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
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