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24 days

Here are the best meteors that I captured overnight last night. The Perseid meteor shower is underway. If you have clear skies and look for a while you might see a good one! #Astronomy #meteorshower #PerseidMeteorShower

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Here are some of the better meteors I captured overnight last night (8/12-8/13). #meteor #meteorshower #PerseidMeteorShower #Perseids

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24 days

A very nice meteor this morning. We are entering the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I captured several very nice ones overnight. Stay tuned for more meteors. #Astronomy #meteor #PerseidMeteorShower

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Here is a closer crop of the nice meteor from this morning. The Perseid meteor shower is in progress and expected to peak around 8/12-8/13. #Astronomy #meteor #Perseids

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7 months

@BrianSweet1970 Amateur radio operators can bounce a radio signal off of the moon and the time it takes the signal to come back matches predictions given that distance. We know how fast the signal is moving because if we were wrong we would build antennas incorrectly.

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7 months

@BrianSweet1970 It is a pretty reliable way to verify the distance to the moon whether you believe it or not.

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6 months

@usnational7 If you photograph meteors like I do you will see there are many satellites up there. Just look at all of them!

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@James_Hawke1 Two spheres reflecting sunlight and showing the same phase.

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7 months

@CryptoStu3 If you did meteor photography like I do you would discover satellites are all over. Yes, just look at all of them!

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6 months

@CryptoStu3 Through my telescopes.

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25 days

Here is another nice meteor I captured last night. The Perseid meteor shower is very active right now and expected to peak 11/12-11/13. Stay tuned for more meteors. #Astronomy #meteor #meteorshower #Perseids

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6 months

@AJamesMcCarthy It sure was. Here is my result from that session.

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6 months

@AJamesMcCarthy I had starlink satellites do this while setting up to image C/2022 E3 (ZTF) with Mars but I never let that fleeting moment worry me.

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25 days

Here is one of the nicer meteors I captured last night. The Perseid meteor shower is very active right now and expected to peak 11/12-11/13. Stay tuned for more meteors. #Astronomy #meteor #meteorshower #Perseids

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22 days

Here are a few images of some of the better meteors from overnight last night. #Astronomy #meteor #PerseidMeteorShower #Perseids

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7 months

@BrianSweet1970 No one would have to land on the moon for this to happen. Radio signals can be bounced off of the surface of the moon. The signal takes just as long as would be expected given the distance.

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@AJamesMcCarthy I spotted it in your image. I happened to image that galaxy about 24 days before the discovery of SN 2023ixf. Not visible in my image as far as I can tell.

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6 months

@TheGlobeIsDead Now show them in focus with proper exposure.

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5 months

@rachelrogers81 If you photograph meteors like I do you will see there are many satellites up there. When the sun is below the horizon satellites being high enough to be in sunlight become obvious.

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7 months

@CryptoStu3 The globe makes much more sense.

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6 months

@sergioa94679493 Hocus pocus. Learn to focus!

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5 months

@carlos_castillo @AJamesMcCarthy I am still working on my own HDR composition. My initial results also support that it is definitely the moon. No one will ever prove otherwise. Cope is all they have. 🤣

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6 months

@CryptoStu3 Of course we are not in the Andromeda galaxy. That's why we can get such nice views of the entire Andromeda galaxy from Earth.

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I captured a really nice meteor this morning. It may have been an early Perseid. The Perseid meteor shower peaks around 8/12-8/13 and is already active. #astronomy #meteor

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6 months

@AJamesMcCarthy It definitely was a starlink train. Likely from from launch: Starlink G5-3, 02 February 2023 07:58. Was imaged on 2/11/2023. Here is a chart from Heaven's above. You can see the trail goes by Mars which is in the upper left of my frame.

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Meteors overnight last night. The Perseid meteor shower is active and expected to peak around 8/12-8/13. There are a few other active showers as well. #Astronomy #meteor

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@RCederfjard Scarlet Tanager

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5 months

Here is another animation of the 2024 total solar eclipse. This one is a closeup of the shorter exposures to show prominence detail. #Astrophotography #astronomy #SolarEclipse2024

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I captured 4 more meteors overnight last night. Based on their direction of travel they may all have been early Perseids. The Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak 8/12-8/13. #Astronomy #Meteor

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6 months

@AJamesMcCarthy lol. Luckily it all happened while I was just doing the preview shots. Another frame with even more trails from the same train. This one was during guiding calibration. :)

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24 days

Here are images of some of the better meteors I captured overnight last night. Also have video of all of these and plan to post a few more clips. #Astronomy #meteor #PerseidMeteorShower

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21 days

Here is a composite of Perseid meteors I captured the night of 8/12-8/13. Also visible is a conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the upper left of the frame. #meteor #Perseids #PerseidMeteorShower #Perseids2024

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16 days

Hare are a couple more composite images of meteors from the night of 8/12-8/13 during the Perseid meteor shower. There is a hint of airglow or extremely faint aurora. #Astrophotography #meteor #Perseids #PerseidMeteorShower

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24 days

A couple more of the better meteors I captured overnight last night. Stay tuned for more meteors. #Astronomy #meteor #PerseidMeteorShower #Astrophotography

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5 months

@waterfindslevel Meteor rates and the fact that we experience annual meteor showers is pretty good evidence for a rotating, moving Earth.

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@James_Hawke1 Two spheres reflecting sunlight and showing the same phase.

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@thefepodcast I found the moon moving in front of the sun during the eclipse.

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@BrianSweet1970 🤣

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@ViewFromShikhar Fox Sparrow from Minnesota, USA

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@clicks1222 Taken April 8th from Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

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@MandyLSimard Reflection of a meteor from the North shore of Lake Superior. 8/13/2018

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6 months

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks last night from my backyard. This time processed to show star trails as the comet moved. #Astrophotography #Astronomy

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4 years ago today I captured this image of the East Veil Nebula (NGC6992). This one is on my list of images to re-process. I don't think it's too bad but the stars could be controlled a little better. #Astrophotography

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@GhostGone420 Hocus pocus. Learn to focus!

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5 months

@RedsRhetoric It seems there is no evidence they will accept if it goes against their fantasy. I happened to catch the exact moments that I captured earthshine on video including the clicking of the shutter. (this is a clip, I have the full 4+minutes)

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5 months

@malphesius @madbunting @Logicaphoto

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6 months

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks last night from my backyard. Details in image description. #Astrophotography #astronomy

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7 months

I got some more data on IC2169 the night before last. 6hr 30 min total. Details in image description. IC2169, reflection nebula in Monoceros #Astrophotography #Astronomy

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25 days

Here is a time-lapse showing a persistent train left by a bright meteor this morning. Hopefully the next meteor like this can be fully in the frame. 🙂 #Astronomy #meteor #meteorshower

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Seven years ago today I experienced my first total solar eclipse from Casper, Wyoming. Here is a time-lapse of frames I captured using my 110mm f/7 ED refractor and a Canon Rebel T4i (modified). #Astronomy #eclipse #Astrophotography

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7 months

@TheGlobeIsDead So you don't believe this? Maybe you should invest in a telescope and learn how to focus it.

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@TheGlobeIsDead 2 spheres reflecting sunlight showing the same phase.

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Here is cropped video of all of the meteors I captured the night before last. Some very slow moving. Also have a couple stills I will post later. #Astronomy #Meteor

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3 months

@ViewFromShikhar A meteor and the milky way from my backyard in Southern Minnesota.

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2 months

4 years ago today, Comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) 7/16/2020 #Astrophotography #astronomy

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@Cmdr_Hadfield @SkyandTelescope I have already started seeing some good meteor rates. I managed to catch this really pretty one last week.

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5 months

@AstroBackyard Great capture. I happened to image M101 about 1 week (if I remember correctly) before that supernova. From 4/25/2023:

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@MandyLSimard If you blinked you might miss this meteor I captured on 8/1. If you didn't blink, may your wish come true! 🙂

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4 months

@carlos_castillo Here is a single exposure I took that also shows that it was the moon. First is unaltered accept to resize to post. 2nd is with some levels adjustments to bring out the lunar surface detail. 92mm f/5.5 refractor. 1/2sec exposure at ISO 100

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@RyanVoutilainen I sometimes wonder about this one I captured in 2010. Streamer of just a reflection in the lower right? Through glass with water drops which may have added to reflection possibilities. Captured numerous much brighter strikes without the effect same night.

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6 months

@TheGlobeIsDead We can use filters too. Here is an image of the sun I took using a hydrogen-alpha filter.

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6 months

@Incogni17422663 The ISS does look like a dot to the human eye but through a telescope you can resolve detail.

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6 months

@ViewFromShikhar My favorite subject. :) Geminid meteor shower 2023 composite The Andromeda Galaxy My most recent capture of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks from 3/9/2024 Comet Neowise from 7/16/2020

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6 months

A little over 3 weeks until the total solar eclipse! Here is a time-lapse of the 2017 total solar eclipse I captured from Wyoming.

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5 months

@madbunting @nickyperry82 @AndySeddon74 @malphesius Quack.

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My radio meteor detection system is showing signs of aurora propagation from Southern Minnesota. The dot and the narrow line are from meteor propagation. The constant wider fuzzy line is what aurora propagation looks like. #Auroraborealis

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5 months

Timelapse of stars rising last night with an owl that happened to show up.

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Here is another meteor from last night. This was a particularly slow moving one so probably not a Perseid. Setting up again tonight. Good luck to anyone going for meteors or aurora tonight!

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@ViewFromShikhar Spicebush Swallowtail

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A couple nice meteors from last night. I captured at least 45 meteors overnight. Lots of processing to do. The Perseid meteor shower is very active right now and expected to peak 8/12-8/13. #Astronomy #meteor #meteorshower #Astrophotography

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@ViewFromShikhar From Poplar Bluff, Missouri 2 days ago. 😀

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@haykeekpics Male and female rose-breasted

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@ViewFromShikhar From this morning.

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6 months

Finally processed the non-trailed stars version of my image of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks from Saturday night. #Astrophotography #Astronomy

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@ViewFromShikhar House Wren 8/18/2018 Canon Rebel T4i, 300mm f/9.1 1/250 sec ISO 400

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@latestinspace I was lucky to catch a pic of the impact crater from a plane in 2005.

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@CryptoStu3 Meteor rates and the fact that we experience annual meteor showers is pretty good evidence for a rotating, moving Earth.

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@TH3LFI5TMFI7V @Rainmaker1973 Much of it evaporated but not all of it. Many meteorites have been recovered. Here is my little 82.7 gram meteorite specimen from that crater.

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@MAstronomers I would love to capture a lunar occultation of Saturn. Here is a time-lapse from the lunar occulation of Mars I captured 12/7/2022.

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13 years ago today I captured this image of NGC 7635 (The Bubble Nebula) with open cluster M52. 110mm f/7 ED refractor+EOS-20D(modified) Original (left) a re-process I did today (right) using modern tools Blur/Noise and StarXTerminator. #Astrophotography

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Caught a few nice meteors this morning from my backyard. #Astrophotography #Astronomy

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21 years ago today I took this image of Mars. The sad thing is in 21 years I haven't captured a more detailed view of the red planet. Hopefully I will get around to it this next opposition with modern gear. 🙂 Mars 8/8/2003

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@AJamesMcCarthy That is beautiful. I have only failed to capture an ISS lunar transit due to a cloud that covered the moon at the exact wrong moment.

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@CryptoStu3 Why would I cry about it? The universe is so beautiful the way it is. I am new here. I am surprised I even have 4 followers.

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@rachelrogers81 Did you calculate the opposing forces or just suppose? Show us your math or your argument is weightless.

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@ViewFromShikhar Scarlet Tanager

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@lughquaid Meteor rates and the fact that we get regular annual meteor showers are pretty good evidence for a rotating, moving Earth.

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About 1 month until the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I am already excited about it. Here is a time-lapse of a persistent train left by the best meteor I have ever seen from last year's Perseid meteor shower.

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Captured some more really nice meteors overnight from my backyard including one really bright one. #Astrophotography #Astronomy #meteor

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6 months

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks last night from my backyard. This is my initial process of the data. Definitely showing some interesting structures. Details in image description. #Astrophotography #Astronomy

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Storm coming. Southern Minnesota. Putting on quite a show. #mnwx #lightning

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@TiptreeGazers @skyatnightmag It was an amazing comet. Here are some of my favorite captures of it from 7/13, 7/14, 7/16 and 7/21 2020.

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@pronounced_kyle Very cool. Years ago I built a quadrifilar helix antenna for receiving these. I still receive these once in a while. Here is an image from the same satellite from years ago showing the great lakes and the manicouagan crater if you know where to look.

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@ViewFromShikhar Barringer Crater in Arizona in 2005 I consider this my luckiest shot. I purposefully booked my flight so the sun would be at a good angle if I happened to be able to see the crater from the plane.

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