Somewhat clearer skies tonight, North America Nebula from my driveway, single 3.2 second exposure.
https://i.imgur.com/j9lDnJE.jpg
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Somewhat clearer skies tonight, North America Nebula from my driveway, single 3.2 second exposure.
https://i.imgur.com/j9lDnJE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n3Wy1ri.jpg
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.
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:
https://i.imgur.com/Fev4qMS.jpg
I just love the northern lights photo!!! Seeing them live is the only thing (currently) on my bucket list.
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 :-)
https://i.imgur.com/WBVn12K.jpg
Another experiment from last night. 1840s-style astronomy :-)
https://i.imgur.com/v7D9X1M.jpg
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.
https://i.imgur.com/QutrAf3.jpg
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.
https://i.imgur.com/UZGLPUl.jpg