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Dylan O'Donnell

3 years

So I just checked .. I’ve done over 120 videos on YouTube about taking photos of SPACE. 🔭 If you want to learn about that in small digestible chunks from an Australian alcoholic … subscribe or whatever. 🍺

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

1 year

Just watched India’s space agency launch their moon rocket on YT then fly over my house 30 mins later! Congrats @isro ! Hopefully you stick the landing 💪🏼

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1 year

To celebrate my ISRO launch photo (seen from Australia🇦🇺) going viral in 🇮🇳 & getting me to 10k tweeps, here is a photo of Anna and I in Mumbai in 2006! You can't get me for cultural appropriation either: my mum was born in Bangalore so I've got a pass. Thx uncles and aunties!🚀

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1 year

I got drunk and went to bed and woke up to this post going crazy on multiple platforms. Hello new Indian followers! 🇮🇳 This was taken over eastern Australia 🇦🇺 and I’ll be paying more attention to Indian launches from now on! Thanks for blowing up my phone. #Astrophotography

Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

1 year

Just watched India’s space agency launch their moon rocket on YT then fly over my house 30 mins later! Congrats @isro ! Hopefully you stick the landing 💪🏼

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1 year

Good news everyone! A security researcher found the toilet telemetry in the ISS data feed so now you'l know in real time when an astronaut takes a wizz. Toilet is at 57% right now.

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@erfmufn

3 years

What kind of idiot would leave the lens cap on the telescope for 20 minutes while playing with focus and exposure lengths and wondering why nothing but black is showing on screen? Not me. I have a degree in astronomy. I’m a PROFESSIONAL. Ahem. 🙃

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4 years

Astro parents... should I discipline my 8yo or not? 🪐 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Dylan O'Donnell

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3 years

The C11 telescope - configured for 1960mm / F7 - is back in the observatory and it’s clear! What do you think I’m capturing? Wrong answers only. 🍷

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3 years

Ahh the difference a night of good seeing makes! Saturn from 30 minutes ago taken with @celestron C11, 2.5x powermate, ZWO 174mm camera. The "opposition surge" on the rings is still there! The inner transparent 'C' ring looks particularly cool. #astrophotography

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Dylan O'Donnell

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2 years

I wanted to capture tonight's totality with the star field around the moon while it was dim enough to reveal. As a bonus, Uranus is brightest blue "star" to the right. Note the blueish tinge of Earth's deep shadow. @SkyWatcherUSA 82ED (530mm), Star Adventurer GTI, @QHYCCD 247C

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1 year

@Choudhary_8106 @isro Half the population are below average IQ. Same as there.

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

5 years

Jupiter at Opposition today with some really funky equator activity and various storms visible through including the sort-of-pretty-good red spot. This is about at much detail as I can squeeze out of my Celestron 9.25" Edge HD Telescope + Powermate 2.5x + ZWO 174mm. #Celestron

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2 years

I'm still alive! This is a very magnified capture of the Rosette nebula. So small, if you click to zoom in (fullscreen) and look for the tiny dark blobs - they have little tails! Cometry Globules! Ooo, exotic. C11 EHD @ F7, EQ8rhPro, QHY268m : 5.45hrs (HaHaGO) #astrophotography

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

Went camping with my boys and my dog so couldn't go far from the tent, but here is a quick poke at the Southern Celestial Pole from Wollumbin (Mt Warning) NSW. 42 x 30s / F4 / ISO 800 / 16mm Canon 6D Mk II #astrophotography

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@erfmufn

3 years

Not flawless.. but still my best galaxy photo to date. They said it couldn't be done (very well), M31 Andromeda from way down in the Southern Hemisphere! You hear that Northern Hemisphere?? I took your galaxy. We're lovers now. Celestron Rasa 11" / EQ8Rh-Pro / QHY268M / 1.8hrs

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@erfmufn

3 years

Pictured here, Alnitak - widely regarded as the most annoying star in the universe ( @IsBetelgeuseOK may disagree). Alnitak photobombs several other less annoying nebula. Celestron 11” RASA, QHY268M, 2.6hours of grace through the worst summer weather ever. #Astrophotography 🇦🇺

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

After all my cynicism I got the “great conjunction” through a daytime sucker hole in the clouds 1hr before closest view! Far closer than expected, maybe 10 arc mins or 0.16 degrees! C11 / 2800mm / f10 / Canon 6D mk II / 20 x 1/4a iso 2500 stacked. Exposed high for Jovian moons.

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

2 years

1 like = 1 photon

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Dylan O'Donnell

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2 years

The GREEN of the comet is *not* special. You can make it in your kitchen! Just suck all of the air out of the room, and burn your toast at 3,500degC until the carbon atoms bond unstably into deadly C2 gas. Follow me for more DIY home science tips!

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

I photographed a galaxy .. which is rare for me! It took 8.5 hours of usable data in 5 and 10minute exposures over 4 nights. NGC 253 Sculptor with Hydrogen layer to show it’s local nebulae. Details in behind the scenes video :

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

Just a reminder, all my astrophotography work is FUNGIBLE (lol). You don’t need a token. You don’t need a license. It’s all worthless. Use that shit for your school bake sale or ISIS propaganda. I legit don’t give a fuck. No credit needed … go nuts 👉🏼

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@erfmufn

3 years

Sadly, handheld astrophotography with the new iPhone 13 pro max is not amazing (Or not as amazing as some other phones).

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@erfmufn

3 years

The sky cleared for long enough to squeeze some hydrogen out of it into my @Celestron 11" RASA telescope and the QHY268M camera. The Tarantula Nebula is in another galaxy. It's so big and bright that if it was in *ours* near M42 it would cast shadows on Earth. (HaHaOO, 2 hrs)

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

2 years

NGC3576 - "Statue of Liberty" Nebula 🗽 [PUBLIC DOMAIN] Some oxygen is thawed from the dusty clouds when the new stars burst into life (blue regions). Celestron 11” EHD Telescope QHY268M Camera SW EQ8Rh-Pro Mount Total : 5.1 hours Combined As HOO-RGB(43/57%) in PixInsight & PS

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

1 year

Since writing the tweet, someone just took a 4% tinkle! I've never felt so connected to space. #spacewee

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

I completely forgot I'd taken this photo of M17, the Omega or Swan Nebula and never shared it! But honestly life in AU has been a little weird lately. (HaSHO) @Celestron RASA 11" + @QHYCCD 268M Camera. Total Integration : 3.3hrs #astrophotography

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2 years

NGC6188 - The Krakken (Nebula) 🦑 [PUBLIC DOMAIN] C11” Edge HD Telescope / F7 QHY268M CMOS Camera Sky-Watcher EQ8Rh-Pro Mount + NexDome Processed as Ha-S/Ha/O – (17/69/39 x 300s) Total Exposure : ~10.4 Hours #Astrophotography

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@erfmufn

2 years

Google just stopped us from running an advertisement for an astronomy client because the word "SATURN" is a trademark. Good work capitalism. *slow clap*

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@erfmufn

2 years

THOR's HELMET 🔨 (NGC 2359) Taken 11/12th Feb '23 using @Celestron 11” EHD Telescope, @QHYCCD 268M Camera & SkyWatcher EQ8Rh-Pro Mount from Byron Bay Observatory. Worth a little click and zoom! 🔍

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@erfmufn

2 years

I bought a telescope to look into the cold, empty darkness of space. In the end, I learned it was inside me the whole time.

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@erfmufn

3 years

My 9yo got in trouble at school for “hacking” the reading eggs web app to show his score in the trillions. They threatened to call his parents. I wish they would’ve because I taught him how to edit HTML code in the first place. 🎓

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@erfmufn

2 years

Horsehead Nebula (IC434) & VdB 52 - Thanks to a record breaking summer of rain and flash flooding, this image was slowly exposed over several months. C11" EHD Telescope, SWEQ8Rh-Pro Mount, QHY268M Camera and lots of other stuff that costs way too much money. #astrophotography

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

I see your M16 spam and raise you, one more. My "Pillars of Creation" taken over the last few nights with @celestron C11 EHD ... 2.8 hours total integration. Behind the scenes video to follow. 🦅🔭

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@erfmufn

3 years

It was never going to be a Merry Christmas until those solar panels deployed. That’s the last view we get of JWST as it leaves Earth and heads to the Lagrange point where it does science if everything else works too! Merry fucking Christmas! 🎄

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

Comet SWAN from 1 hour ago (AU). My tracking wasn't great but I've got detail in the massive tail! You can see it's kinks and curve all the way to the edge of the frame! 105mm / 15 x 30s / f7.1 / ISO 6400 Canon 6D Mk II + Star Adventurer mount. No telescope required. #cometswan

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@erfmufn

4 years

So I had to wait to share this because I used the new Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2 which was just announced 30 mins ago.. but here is the Milky Way from my driveway! 5 x 120s / F3.5 / ISO 3200 / Canon6d Mk II / 28mm

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OMG I finally nailed it! Jupiter 2hrs ago using @Celestron 11” EHD / 2.5x powermate, RGB filters @zwoasi 174MM & WinJupos! Easily the best planet photo I’ve taken ever! I’ve never got this storm detail before especially near the poles! 🍻🇦🇺🔭

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Bleary eyed this morning but I also caught Mars looking incredible with it’s slight remaining phase as it gets closer and it’s polar ice cap! 1am AEST with C11 telescope :) 🍅

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@erfmufn

2 years

FUCK YEH JUST OPENED THE OBSERVATORY AFTER 6 WEEKS OF EARTH PROBLEMS CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW THIS ASTRONOMY SHIT WORKS AGAIN? POINT AND CLICK YEH? 💀

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@erfmufn

1 year

Gosh this took a long time! The “Dragons Egg” which is the only O type star with its own nebula! 26 hours of exposure. Deep dive on the photo and the science here :

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@erfmufn

3 years

I dunno, I think maybe my best galaxy photo to date! Sombrero M104 looking pretty fly. Zoom in if you want your mind blown. @celestron 11" EHD F10 / @QHYCCD 268M and 247C cameras... (3.1 hours total exposure integration). #Astrophotography 🛸

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@erfmufn

4 years

Comet SWAN about 2 hours ago. Taken with a 105mm lens and tripod only, f5.6 8second exposures stacked at ISO 6400 ... easy target for anyone! You just have to get out of bed at 4am.

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@erfmufn

3 years

The Messier Catalog is just Pokémon for adults.

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@erfmufn

4 years

My first attempt at shooting a galaxy at 2800mm😬 ... it was hard and this is sub-par BUT it does show off the incredibly tight field of view with the Celestron 11" Edge HD. Video roasting myself and explaining how I cheated on this image here (11 mins):

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

@SETIInstitute Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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@erfmufn

4 years

This thing fell out of the sky into my telescope over 2 nights! It's my first true L-R-G-B image where each channel was captured separately over 4 runs so shows M20's true and natural colour scheme. Celestron 11" Edge HD / 0.7x reducer / ZWO1600

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4 years

I can't believe how much detail I'm getting from the Celestron 11" I'd never seen before. This is a tiny fraction of M8 I'm calling "Mermaid Waters" because I framed the mermaid feature. Zoom in and count the Bok Globules! 22 x 180s from last night + colour from last year.

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

1 year

Spot the 5km asteroid booking it at 10kms per second in front of the Antennae galaxies colliding! 💥 And probably a starlink sat trail (sigh, I removed another 4). ASTEROID (71048) 1999 XA87 discovered by LINEAR. Captured by my little observatory last night. 🔭

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@erfmufn

3 years

Jupiter last night taken with the C11 @ 7000mm. It's big and bright right now because it's a "Full Jupiter" (opposition) but the seeing wasn't great. I know my setup can do better! Still, it's always nice to poke Jove :)

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3 years

Well she ain’t much but I caught a glimpse in my camera of Comet Leonard in the dying light as it sunk over the western sunset. 40 x 2” f5.6 ISO 6400 105mm / Canon 6D Mk II - Taken from St Helena lookout, Byron Bay. 🙂

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@erfmufn

4 years

Well this one was hard fought! M33 Triangulum Galaxy only gets to 31 degrees above the northern horizon here. Captured as Green-HaGB over many nights. Celestron 11” EHD, F7, 1960mm FL / ZWO1600 - Look at all that hydrogen nebulae!! 🔭🍷

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@erfmufn

2 years

I am no longer an amateur astronomer apparently. I’m a “professional” astronomer… lol. Thanks @CosmicRami for being my peer and @ProfAstroSarah for your teaching and MC’ing my graduation ceremony and after grad espresso martinis 😆 🍸

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1 year

@sdhrthmp @isro 2 second exposure

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2 years

ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY TIP - Ever had problems with astro and getting things right? Try throwing large sums of money at the issue. I’ve found this helps a lot. Follow me for more helpful astronomy tips and tricks.

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3 years

My car is not dirty, that’s the Milky Way. 🌌 I reckon I can do this better but it’s not an easy shot with dew, moon, time, angles, LP etc. Will try later in season with core. 30s / f2.8 / iso 6400 Canon 6d Mk II #tesla #Astrophotography

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@erfmufn

2 years

Hopefully NASA/ESA/CSA have enough funding to get up there and take the Bahtinov mask off now.

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@erfmufn

3 years

Astrophotographers be like “man I really screwed this up” then drop a dope ass pic of some cosmic wonder they just stacked …

JkbSahner

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I planned to do a good version of orion but I failed... I missfocussed and I had some problems with the stars :( All the problems will be solved in the next version with more exposure time!

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5 years

Well I think this may be the best deep space photo I’ve ever taken. NGC6188 “Fighting Dragons of Ara” in 2 hours with @Celestron RASA 8” .. behind the scenes video at #astrophotography

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@erfmufn

4 years

Astronomy Twitter right now

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@erfmufn

1 year

M78 Dark Nebula [PD] A dark shroud hiding a pocket of baby starlight reflection deep within it’s dusty womb. Spooky isn’t it? @Celestron 11" EHD Telescope @QHYCCD 268M Camera SW EQ8Rh-Pro Mount NexDome Observatory Total Integration time (RGB) : 4.5 hours.

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@erfmufn

3 years

Here's something you don't see every day. SL-17, the "Dark Wolf" Nebula in Scorpius. Why haven't I photographed this before? 😳 3.7hrs with @Celestron 11" RASA, @QHYCCD 268M & EQ8rh-Pro mount. It's a 10mb JPG / 4096px wide so worth a zoom in! #astrophotography

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2 years

Worth the zoom 🔎 "Thackeray's Globules" which are remaining clumps of dust and gas carved out of their surroundings as new stars are born. NASA writes "globules may actually be likened to clumps of butter put onto a red-hot pan." Taken with C11" EHD, SWEQ8Rh-Pro, QHY268M: 4.1hrs

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@erfmufn

4 years

This comet is outbursting so rapidly predictions are it will be naked eye visible by April/May near the sunset. In the old times people thought comets were a sign of some kind of earthly disaster ... 🧐 Add to list of things to do by yourself from home during earthly disaster.

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Hello Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas march 16 UT 22.40 26x5min filter blue 11"/2.2 RASA Asi 1600 cs Michael Jäger

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M20 Trifid Nebula [PUBLIC DOMAIN] It's no JWST, but it's not a bad poke from the backyard telescope! 😆 C11 Edge HD @ F7 / 1960mm Skywatcher EQ8-Rh Pro NexDome QHY268M Total : 5.5hrs

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3 years

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! One of my photos has ended up in Nature on a paper release about Y-ray magnetar emissions from NGC 253! Thanks @nature , and also Dr David Malin who pointed it out to me!

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2 years

I just quickly tested the @QHYCCD 533M on the closest star I could find (with Lunt 40mm scope & 2.5x powermate). It's a perfect fit for the sensor and the results are, well, stellar. Sun looks pretty busy. (Inverted)

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@erfmufn

4 years

A fresh Saturn appears! Didn’t manage to reveal the hexagon but it’s a touch better than previous attempts. Good surface banding. Celestron 11” Edge HD, 2.5x powermate, ZWO RGB filters and ZWO 174MM camera. 🪐 #astrophotography #byronbay #saturn

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4 years

Oh hey, I heard you liked observatory porn so I just took this salacious wide angle photo of the inside of my NexDome. I had no idea it was this pretty because I’m never inside it during the day! 🧡💜

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Saturn is at opposition today so I had a little poke at it tonight with my @Celestron 9.25" EHD + 2.5x Powermate + @zwoasi 174MM ... Never gets old looking at those ring divisions! Actual Saturn emoji coming later this year (the astrology version ♄ has been available since 1993)

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Lunar Eclipse from the easternmost point of Australia just over 1 hour ago. Little hint of the Pleiades. Wasn't sure if it would be visible at all as it rose after sunset, so this is nice :) 🇦🇺 (Canon 6D MkII 105mm 2s/F6.3/ISO1600)

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G'day M8! Lagoon Nebula here from the Byron Bay Observatory. I exposed myself deeply for 4 hours into a @Celestron 11" RASA and a @QHYCCD 268M riding atop a Skywatcher EQ8Rh-Pro. Ha/R/G/B ... oh yeh, all while IC4685 watched from the side. 🔭 #Astrophotography

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4 years

how it started how it's going

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4 years

Better practice not having any friends and spending all my time doing everything in self isolation, online and alone. OH WAIT

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2 years

Look at my stupid face in this thumbnail next to @DJSnM , @MarcusHouse and other legends for @fcain 's 200th Q&A Episode "TOP Space YouTubers Answering Your Questions" .. what an honour! Go watch 👉🏼 🚀

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Sunrise on Clavius Crater @ 7000mm Focal Length Best 10% of 1600 frame / 2 minute video (Red Channel) Celestron C11" Edge HD ZWO 174mm 2.5x Powermate

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3 years

Shoutout to all the astronomers trying to function in the real world today after unsustainable levels of sleep :) #newmoonproblems

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4 years

Ok I'm pretty happy with this.. Jupiter JUNO data in 3D! I realised making the 3D displacement based on luminance is actually accurate in this case, the light parts are close, the dark are further away. If you can do this prepare to have your mind melted.

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JWST vs what I can achieve from my backyard. JWST can "zoom" in 46x more than my Celestron 11" telescope. Happy to see they'd imaged something I'd already done though! "Gabriela Mistral" nebula in Carina. #jwst #nasa

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Jupiter tonight looks a bit like an abstract Picasso blowing you a kiss. 💋 ... Moon Europa off to the right and note the planet’s overall shadow growing on the left compared to the sunlit side. Celestron 11” EHD, zwo 174mm

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2 years

Astrophotographers are not "Fairweather Friends". If the weather is fair, they're busy. They are shit-weather friends.

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3 years

Check this out. If you set your planetarium (I’m using @FifthStarLabs SkyGuide) to France, June 22nd 1889 around 3am you’ll see what Van Gogh saw when he painted Starry Night through the bars of his asylum window. 🤯

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4 years

First light with the QHY268C colour camera grabbed this gorgeous view of M8 Lagoon’s bright core with 21 x 3minute exposures and the C11 Edge HD telescope last night 👌🏼 @QHYCCD

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Last night was much clearer! Allowing me to resolve inner details within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, all it's minor storms in the belts and the newer outbreak (white) moving away to the left of the GRS. Celestron 11" EHD / ZWO174mm / Firecapture / WinJupos Derotation from 1.5hrs

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4 years

I recently discovered that all my astrophotography is greatly improved with @AstroKatie "End of Everything" quotes on it, so I built a random generator👉🏼 Enjoy! #inspiration

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4 years

Globular Clusters like Omega Centauri, the biggest in the Milky Way, hang around galaxies in nice spheres and WE DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW. Are they failed galaxies? Do they have a black hole? How?? Shot w/ @Celestron RASA 11" & @QHYCCD 247C / 61x15s 4k Resolution (Find the Galaxies)

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SOUTH CELESTIAL POLE .. my god, it's full of stars. #monochrome #astrophotography

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3 years

NSW gov : “Don’t go more than 5kms from your home and only for essential reasons.” ME: Check out this complex terraced crater 371,613kms away! (Celestron 11” EHD @ 7000mm) 🔭

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2 years

Actual photo of my strategy for cable management in the observatory.

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4 years

New observatory mount has arrived! On a PALETTE. 😬 ... mount reveal at 1 million subs. 🌧⛈🔭

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1 year

M20 "Trifid" nebula fresh off the C11 @Celestron telescope and @QHYCCD 294M camera (..name a more iconic duo!) 4096px wide so you can ZOOM in and fly through space & pretend you won't die immediately. 36x3m R 40x3m G 35x3m B Total Integration : 5.5hours #astrophotography

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Dylan O'Donnell

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1 year

There is a lot of space, in space. But there is also everything. Sometimes a meteor hits a woman napping in her lounge room and sometimes your entire galaxy smashes into someone else’s. 12hr RGB exposure with C11, QHY294M, SWEQ8Rh-Pro & NexDome.

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

From this oyster of Hydrogen comes the new baby pearl - Al Niyat, 2 twin stars. 10x further away M4 floats in the background - filled with stars, aged, depleted & heading towards their life’s end. Taken with @Celestron 11" RASA SW EQ8Rh-Pro & @QHYCCD 268M (HaHaGB, 3 hours)

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

NGC1365 “Great Barred Spiral Galaxy” in Fornax is a smaller target I couldn’t quite get right but also couldn’t bare to throw away. C11 / F7 / zwo1600 / qhy247c / G-RGB #astrophotography

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

11 months

The view that electricity companies DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE…. 💡 Canon6Dii 8s f3.5 iso6400 35mm

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

2 years

The South Celestial Pole from my backyard last night. 🥰 #byronbayobservatory

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

4 years

The Milky Way core rising through an offshore lightning storm tonight off the east coast of Australia. With the lighthouse switched off, this stuff is much easier. 1 x 20s / ISO 2500 / f3.2 Canon 6D Mk II / Tokina 16-18mm @ 16mm #canonaustralia #astrophotographyf

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

Fresh off the telescope! Centaurus A, a disrupted galaxy with a black hole shooting relativistic jets out of it, hints of which I caught in the bottom left! 1.98 hrs total exposure. Taken with @celestron 11" EHD & @QHYCCD 268M/247C cameras. BTS vid (10m)

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Dylan O'Donnell

@erfmufn

3 years

A fairly deep exposure (20 minute subs, 11+ hours total) on the Helix Nebula! Some chromatic abberation with OSC, but the outer details came out pretty good! My longest integration to date. @celestron C11/F7, @QHYCCD 268M & 247C 👁

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