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rdm

Over the last three nights - a break in the weather for us here in #Boorloo ( #PerthWA ) - I've been targeting the same target after midnight and through to astronomical twilight. It is another target that is familiar to me - #C63 or #HelixNebula sometimes known as the Eye of Sauron Nebula or the Eye of God Nebula.

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.

So back to the making of this image. Each night I got about five hours of shooting in with my #Dwarf3 , 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 #DwarfLab app (about 3 hours - executed entirely within the telescope), and then passed the result to the #StellarStudio part of the app (running in the cloud) to optimize the FITS file and run a star removal.

I then exported a PNG of each version, and started post-processing. This consisted of passing the starless image into #Snapseed 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.

And here is the result.

A bright blue disk of nebula with just a few stars, surrounded by a yellow ring and then an orange outer ring with two darkened 'ears'. In the bottom corners are the captions "Rob Masters" "Dwarf3" "2025.06.28 09:17" "Helix Nebula | 13h 36 min" and "Duo Band".
#Astronomy#Astrodon#Astrophotography
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rdm

Last night one of my targets was an old favourite - C77, the Hamburger Galaxy or Centaurus A.

This galaxy has an incredibly strong radio source at it's core, and this stunning dust cloud in front of it.

Dwarf3, 245x60s@80. Postprocessing in Stellar Studio and Snapseed.

A bright eliptical galaxy at 45 degrees, angled down to the right. Almost bisecting it horizontally is a dust bad shaped like a integral sign.
#Astronomy#astrophotography#Astrodon
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GoogleWatchBlog

#GWB - Android: Das ist Googles kostenlose Bildbearbeitung – Snapseed bringt jetzt viele starke Möglichkeiten - googlewatchblog.de/2025/06/and #snapseed #Google

GoogleWatchBlog · Android: Das ist Googles kostenlose Bildbearbeitung - Snapseed bringt jetzt viele starke MöglichkeitenFür viele Menschen gehört die Bildbearbeitung zum Alltag, denn viele Fotos werden vor dem Teilen oder der anderweitigen Verwendung mit einfachen Werkzeugen optimiert. Wer etwas größere Pläne zur Bildmanipulation hat, muss meist zu kostenpflichtigen Apps greifen, deren vollen Umfang man dann doch nicht versteht. Es lohnt sich aber auch ein Blick zu Googles kostenloser Fotobearbeitung Snapseed, die gerade erst wieder zum Leben erwacht ist.
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newo

Been experimenting with my Pixel's cameras, and I'll guess you could say that this is the second official photo that is taken with my pixel :3
(Photo is edited with #snapseed)

The "first official photo" is a pet photo, so I can't share that here :/

Do note that my work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, tho feel free to boost :boosts_ok_gay: this post! :neobun_heart:

#teampixel#googlepixel#GooglePixel7Pro
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appgefahren.de - Tech-Blog

Jahrelang hat sich nach der Übernahme vom #FotoEditor #Snapseed durch #Google nichts getan, bis auf gelegentliche Mini-Updates mit „Fehlerkorrekturen und Verbesserungen“ gab es keine Neuigkeiten. Es war davon auszugehen, dass Google das Projekt Snapseed aufs Abstellgleis gestellt hat. Nun meldet man sich aber sehr überrasched mit einem großen #Update für Snapseed im deutschen #AppStore zurück.

Mehr zum Thema: appgefahren.de/?p=380906

Startscreen von Snapseed in Version 3.0.0 auf einem iPhone, das umgeben von bunten Glasplatten ist.
#appgefahren#Apple#AppleBlog
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rdm

A couple of days ago I posted about the new #Dwarf3 astro mosaic mode.

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.

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.

Finally I combined those two images to create a reduced star version.

A swirling orange nebula with small scattered stars. A"Y" shape of dust lanes split it into three, and there is a secondary cloud of nebulosity below the lower right section, separated from the main mass by a broad gap. Just above the fork of the "Y" is one bright star. In the corners are "Dwarf3", "Rob Masters", and "HD 92741 2h40min"
#Astronomy#Astrodon#astrophotography
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