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Dr David Mills<p>This was ~7h on a <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> telescope in automatic mode, 15sec exposures. Bortel 7-8 skies in early May 2025.</p>
Stefan Schmidt-Bilkenroth<p>Wo Sterne geboren werden…</p><p>M 16 „Adlernebel“ mit den „Säulen der Schöpfung“</p><p>Ca. 180 Aufnahmen mit je 30s Belichtungszeit von meinem <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> .<br>Nachbearbeitung mit <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/siril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siril</span></a> und <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/graxpert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graxpert</span></a> .</p><p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a></p>
rdm<p>Over the last three nights - a break in the weather for us here in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Boorloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Boorloo</span></a> ( <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PerthWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerthWA</span></a> ) - I've been targeting the same target after midnight and through to astronomical twilight. It is another target that is familiar to me - <a href="https://aus.social/tags/C63" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C63</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HelixNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HelixNebula</span></a> sometimes known as the Eye of Sauron Nebula or the Eye of God Nebula. </p><p>This is the largest planetary nebula visible to us, only about 200 parsecs away, and is about 2.8 light years across, making it about 22 arcminutes across for the main body, and is about 6500 years old. </p><p>So back to the making of this image. Each night I got about five hours of shooting in with my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> , for about fifteen hours total. I had to ditch a bunch of frames as they had dodgy data (atmospheric distortions, musktrails, and, in one case, a passing jet), which brought me down to thirteen hours and thirty-six minutes (816x60s@80). These I restacked using the "Megastack" function of the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DwarfLab</span></a> app (about 3 hours - executed entirely within the telescope), and then passed the result to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StellarStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StellarStudio</span></a> part of the app (running in the cloud) to optimize the FITS file and run a star removal.</p><p>I then exported a PNG of each version, and started post-processing. This consisted of passing the starless image into <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a> and boosting the saturation, darkening shadows and so on. Then I took the optimized version and took the shadows to maximum darkness, and reduced the overall brightness somewhat, leaving me with a reduced star version, with almost no nebula visible. Lastly, in Snapseed again, I used the double exposure tool to stack the two parts together. </p><p>And here is the result. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/C63" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C63</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HelixNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HelixNebula</span></a></p>
leece<p>Last night's effort, with some <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a> and Google photos editing with advice from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rdm</span></a></span> for OCl 999.0 with Prawn Nebula.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartTelescope</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DwarfIII</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DwarfLab</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrivewayAstrophotography</span></a></p>
rdm<p>Last night one of my targets was an old favourite - C77, the Hamburger Galaxy or Centaurus A.</p><p>This galaxy has an incredibly strong radio source at it's core, and this stunning dust cloud in front of it.</p><p>Dwarf3, 245x60s@80. Postprocessing in Stellar Studio and Snapseed.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/C77" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C77</span></a></p>
Paul Williams<p>I’m over the moon! Left my <a href="https://eigenmagic.net/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> telescope out all night for the first time and ran a schedule of 12 different nebulae. Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@leece" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>leece</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rdm</span></a></span> for tips! I’m still learning and I realise now, I need to be more aware of the size of things! They may look awesome in Hubble but a little backyard telescope ‘ain’t gonna see so much!’ So some of the photos are just very impressive star fields but I did get my favourite nebula. Helix, which is very pretty. <br>So amazed at the clarity of such a ‘toy’! </p><p><a href="https://eigenmagic.net/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a></p>
leece<p>Hello everybody and I hope you’ve been getting some clear skies for your telescoping if you’re into it. If you’re not into it, that’s cool, this may not be of interest to you. </p><p>It’s clagged over for me, but before it did, I was very busy with the sky indeed. Let me take you on a journey - the journey of the Leece’s ClusterFudge.</p><p>People who are familiar with my astronomy writings may remember that once I had a telescope of the smart persuasion I found I liked hunting Nebulae.</p><p>I thought they were beautiful and cool and interesting, and really gave one the impression of 3 dimensionality in the night sky, that space was indeed filled with vast depths. </p><p>Clusters, I said, especially Globular Clusters were not very interesting. They all look the same, I said, and they’re not really going to be on my dance card.</p><p>So I set my Dwarf II and Dwarf III for long periods to capture all sorts of nebulae and was happy over the course of a year and a half, during which time we volunteered at the Perth Astrofest and showed thousands of people how cool smart telescopes were, and I won an astrophotography prize.</p><p>We got Covid 19 and got great comfort from being able to put our telescopes out by barely leaving our recovery room, and watching the images build. I found by accident while chasing nebulae that some open clusters were quite interesting and beautiful, although nebulae were still where it was at for me.</p><p>We visited the Gravity Discovery Centre for one of their Astronomy Nights, and listened to the Chief Astronomer talk about globular clusters, and how some people thought that they all looked the same. </p><p>Yep that’s me I thought, but I listened and his enthusiasm touched me. Hmm, yes okay I thought, maybe I’ll take a look. Great tour, by the way, recommended. </p><p>So I had a look, and something started ticking away in my mind thoughtfully. These clusters sure are bright I thought. I bet they don’t need much time. Maybe if I lined up a lot of Globular Clusters next to each other, I could see the differences and develop an appreciation of them. </p><p>It might be fun to see just how many clusters I can take in a period of darkness. I’ll have to fudge together a schedule. And thus the inception of the LCF Catalogue- the Leece’s ClusterFudge Catalogue.</p><p> I started testing as to what the shortest period my telescopes could be set for during a scheduled shoot. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DwarfLab</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf2</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a></p>
rdm<p>A couple of days ago I posted about the new <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> astro mosaic mode.</p><p>That night I tried it out again, this time on the Carinae Nebulae region. This time I got 160 minutes of data across the four quadrants, made up of 30s subframes.</p><p>I then identified a bunch of dud frames, stripped them out, and reprocessed them using the inbuilt Stellar Studio service. One pass of this was to de-star the image, and the other to generate a clean mosaic, which I then upped the contrast and darkened the shadows on.</p><p>Finally I combined those two images to create a reduced star version.</p><p> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackYardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackYardAstronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartTelescope</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a></p>
rdm<p>So a couple of days ago <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarflab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarflab</span></a> dropped a new update for the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a>. This one added the ability to shoot a 2x2 (well 1.8x1.8 allowing for overlap) mosaic in Astro mode.</p><p>This comes with a bunch of limitations - you must be in equatorial mode, and you are limited to 15s @ gain 60. You can specify how many stacks, and you can combine sessions, so it is not all bad news. </p><p>Last night I tried it out on the reflection nebula region around Rho Ophiuchus. In these shots we have: <br>IC4603/4604/4605 NGC6093 (M80) and some more significant stars.</p><p>The results are interesting. Dwarf still have a little bit of work to do on equalising the exposures, but this region is particularly challenging in that respect. Post processing tends to bring out these issues, and I'm sure that manually processing the subs in Siril would completely remove them.</p><p>The new update also includes a watermarking feature, which is neat, but could stand to have the RA/Dec data included.</p><p>All-in-all a really useful update!</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackyardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackyardAstronomy</span></a></p>
Paul Williams<p>So yesterday a <a href="https://eigenmagic.net/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> telescope arrived and I was disappointed because it was cloudy and raining but I poked my head out at about 10pm and saw stars so I thought I’d give it a try. Easy to set up and in minutes I was finding stars. Took my first photo of the Lagoon Nebula and I’m thrilled! Then the clouds returned. So hopefully next weekend I’ll get some good ones. <br>Here is my Lagoon Nebula photo. 40x15s photos stacked up and then processed to reduce noise. </p><p><a href="https://eigenmagic.net/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a></p>
leece<p>We have been blessed/cursed by a very dry Djeran / Autumn period. Cursed because no rain after a long, hot Bunuru( Second Summer) and blessed because the nights are cold, and very clear.</p><p>This and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rdm</span></a></span> having to be on Munich time for a few days prompted some enthusiastic astrophotography sessions ahead of the news that the clouds were finally coming to us with some rain. </p><p>We figured that we'd do a lot of astrophotography, and then write it up and share photos during the rainy cloudy bits to keep us going.</p><p>So here we are - this is my first post about it, and it's about the last day of the clear sky.</p><p>We have here NGC 4945 or Caldwell 83 - also known as the Tweezers Galaxy (I personally think it looks more like an orange peeler). </p><p>I was leafing through Astronomy Australia 2025 and found it as a target for May. I hadn't come across this galaxy before, and was thrilled to find a galaxy that's a big enough apparent size to suit my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> </p><p>These are great books and the last of this great almanac that they'll publish, after 30 years - so get yours today - <a href="https://quasarastronomy.com.au/product/astronomy-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">quasarastronomy.com.au/product</span><span class="invisible">/astronomy-2025/</span></a> even though it's a yearbook it's still going to be useful down the track. If you're in Australia or close enough. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</span></a> folks. I grabbed some of their back catalogue - incredibly cheap and plenty of interesting stuff in there, if only historically. 🙂 </p><p>So, anyway, back to the galaxy - I plonked the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartTelescope</span></a> on the roof later in the evening so it's only a few hours exposure. Gain was 80, exposure was 60. Got a few hundred frames in two sessions as I belatedly realised that I should get the telescope to shut down before the closest Sun made itself apparent.</p><p>So then, in the morning <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rdm</span></a></span> ran me through the Mega Stack and Stellar Studio provided through Infinity Lab within the telescope, which was super easy, and then I did some cropping in Snapseed.</p><p>And this is the result, I hope you enjoy!</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackyardAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackyardAstrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrivewayAstrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Galaxy</span></a></p>
rdm<p>So I'm attending a tech conference in Munich this week - virtually. This means I am keeping CEST, and that lunchtime is 6pm local. </p><p>So at lunchtime, I set up my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> on the back roof, and let it run for the 'afternoon'. </p><p>My target was Messier 6 aka NGC6405 aka "The Butterfly Cluster". There is some very nice nebulosity right next to it. so I framed things a little off, and also got the smaller open clusters NGC6383 (aka NGC6374) and the tiny NGC6404.</p><p>I ended up with 240 frames out of 300, at 60s per frame - or 4 hours of usable data.</p><p>I then ran it through the Dwarflab postprocessing tools, and finished off with some work in Google photos and Snapseed. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nebula</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OpenCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenCluster</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/M6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>M6</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC6383" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGC6383</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC6406" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGC6406</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Scorpius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scorpius</span></a></p>
rdm<p>Today we have a mosaic of two images, both taken the same night by two <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartTelescopes</span></a> from the roof of the studio at the back of our house, where we left them running all night, with the help of a pair of 10Ah USB-C powerpacks.</p><p>I targeted The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC6334), while <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@leece" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>leece</span></a></span> targeted part of the nearby NGC6357. We both made sure to have the individual nebulae off-centre frame enough that we could get a slight overlap.</p><p>For both we have around 7 hours of exposure - 420ishx60s@80, both with the internal Ha/OIII filter.</p><p>We ran both images through the Dwarflab Stellar Studio to do a star removal, and recomposed both images with a star mask. Some final tuning in Snapseed, and then a manual combining of the two shots.</p><p>All up, about 2 hours actual effort, over three days.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC6334" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGC6334</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC6357" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGC6357</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MosaicImage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MosaicImage</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nebula</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarflab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarflab</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a></p>
rdm<p>A couple of nights ago I let my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> stay out all night with a stellation mask, which bagged me about 8 hours worth of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Antares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antares</span></a> , <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Messier4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Messier4</span></a> , and other goodies, including the Antares <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ReflectionNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReflectionNebula</span></a>. </p><p>I ran it through the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DwarfLab</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StellarStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StellarStudio</span></a> tools, and then did a bit more cleanup in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GooglePhotos</span></a> - about 15 minutes work.</p><p>I'm pretty darned pleased with the results. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartTelescope</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nebula</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Star" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Star</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GlobularStarCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobularStarCluster</span></a></p>
Stefan Schmidt-Bilkenroth<p>Dark Side of the Moon</p><p><a href="https://gruene.social/tags/astronomie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomie</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/mond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mond</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://gruene.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a></p>
leece<p>Well, we've been quite busy over the last two weekends and such, and a lot of it has involved astrophotography.</p><p>Our Easter was quite peaceful so we chilled out and did some photography then - I took this of the Trifid and Lagoon <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nebula</span></a> on Easter Sunday. I've got a Dwarf 3 (and 2) so we're used to landscape - but I rotated this in post, because it looked really good that way.</p><p>Tilt your head to see it in the original.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrivewayAstrophotography</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackyardAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackyardAstrophotography</span></a></p>
Dr David Mills<p>A quick snap of the sun with my <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> and the solar filters. There was some high, hazy cloud, so it's not very sharp, but you can see sunspots. </p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dtl/shares/04c8xh4F61" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/dtl/shares/0</span><span class="invisible">4c8xh4F61</span></a></p>
HugeOne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://8bitorbust.info/@dtl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dtl</span></a></span><br>Give Stellar Studio a try in the album section of the Dwarflab app. It makes the images coming straight out of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> look even better. I'll be intrigued to see your comparison with more traditional equipment.</p>
Dr David Mills<p>A quick 30 min test of my <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dwarf3</span></a> telescope on M81 &amp; M83. No post processing, just a straight stack of 120 X 15s subs. <br>I'm pretty happy with this. I'll have to have a test against my big telescope soon. <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/astrophotgraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotgraphy</span></a></p>
rdm<p>Last night I left my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dwarf3</span></a> out all night.</p><p>After a few hiccoughs, I targetted The Southern Pinwheel - <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC5236" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGC5236</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/M83" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>M83</span></a>, for about four hours.</p><p>After running the results through the DwarfLab destar routine, I did a little cleanup in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snapseed</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/googlephotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>googlephotos</span></a> </p><p>And this was the result. I'm pretty happy!</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophotography</span></a></p>