Comet Lemmon on Oct 21, 2025. I really like how the ion and dust tails are clearly visible. This image is a stack of 226 ten second exposures. Total exposure about 40 minutes.
Comet Lemmon from last night. Nice coma and tail can be seen.
Taken with Nikon Z6 with 70-300 lens at 300mm f/5.8. 30x10sec exposures stacked in Siril. Focus wasn’t perfect. Will try again tonight with a refractor.
There was a song playing on the radio today… “strawberries and cigarettes always taste like you”.
Wouldn’t it be really insulting to tell someone that they taste like cigarettes?
I am so glad that I don’t personally know anyone remotely like Bam Pondi. I’d have a massive headache and will vomit my guts out every time I interacted with them.
Learning about different color palettes that are used in processing Hubble images. That process can be applied to amateur one-shot color astrophotos too and there is a SIRIL script to do that. Here is the same data for Wizard nebula that I posted earlier in SHO palette.
The Wizard nebula (NGC7380) is an open star cluster and star-forming region, located about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. More details at Wikipedia.
This image is a stack of 82 five-minute exposures taken with a refractor attached to an astrophotography camera.
Had a slow leak in the bike tire. Decided to fix it. Couldn’t find any patches so decided to replace the tube. While putting the tire back, pinched the tube. Had to do it all over again. Pinched the second tube too. Now I am out of replacement tubes and bike shops don’t open till Tuesday. AARRGH!
North American and Pelican nebulae. I really like the intricate details in the dark nebulosity that lies between them. The total exposure time for this image is 6 hours (72x5min). For the first time, I kept my scope imaging all night while I slept. 😄
It is already the last quarter of 2025! Wish the time slows down a little.
Also can’t wait for 2029.
Started watching “Slow Horses” season 5 episode 1 and during the recap couldn’t recall all the things they were showing. So, promptly stopped that episode and started watching season 4 again. Done with 2 episodes already.
Went out to the boat launch last night to catch a glimpse of couple of comets that are in the evening sky. Didn’t see them because of clouds on the horizon but the sky was quite pretty.
This view is extra special when you cycle up to it.
Another A+ day whipped up for us by Acadia National Park. We did an e-bike ride around the carriage roads. It was so much fun!
Night sky is quite dark in Acadia NP. This Milky Way photo was taken at Eagle lake with iPhone15. Will process the images from other camera when I get home.
