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#81
Astrophotography / Re: A Rose after a Heart? Val...
Last post by Carole - Feb 19, 2024, 10:42:27This is beautiful and really needs to be admired in full resolution.
Carole
Carole
#82
Astrophotography / A Rose after a Heart? Valenti...
Last post by Roberto - Feb 16, 2024, 08:45:18Only 3+ hrs in each Ha and RGB (OSC). Added some OIII from a 2019 shot with another camera.
Details here:
NGC2239 - The Rosette Nebula - HaRGB with a touch of SHO
https://www.astrobin.com/buzlym/D/
Dates: 18 Jan 2024, 1 Feb 2024 11 Feb 2024
Frames: OSC - 39×300″(3h 15′)
Astrodon H-alpha 5nm 50x50 mm: 10×1200″(3h 20′)
Integration: 6h 35′
Ha
HaRGB with some SHO
Full resolution: https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/EFIUlhzVqlX-_16536x0_UyysOTOH.jpg
Roberto
Details here:
NGC2239 - The Rosette Nebula - HaRGB with a touch of SHO
https://www.astrobin.com/buzlym/D/
Dates: 18 Jan 2024, 1 Feb 2024 11 Feb 2024
Frames: OSC - 39×300″(3h 15′)
Astrodon H-alpha 5nm 50x50 mm: 10×1200″(3h 20′)
Integration: 6h 35′
Ha
HaRGB with some SHO
Full resolution: https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/EFIUlhzVqlX-_16536x0_UyysOTOH.jpg
Roberto
#83
In the Media... / Private moon lander lifts off ...
Last post by Rick - Feb 15, 2024, 09:31:26Private moon lander lifts off aiming for first US lunar touchdown in 52 years
A moon lander built by the Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first US lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft.
The Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1am EST atop a Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk's SpaceX from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
Although considered an Intuitive Machines mission, the IM-1 flight is carrying six Nasa payloads of instruments designed to gather data about the lunar environment before Nasa's planned return of astronauts to the moon this decade.
Thursday's launch came a month after the lunar lander of another private firm, Astrobotic Technology, had a propulsion system leak on its way to the moon shortly after being placed in orbit on 8 January by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket making its debut flight.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/15/private-moon-lander-lifts-off-aiming-for-first-us-lunar-touchdown-in-52-years
A moon lander built by the Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first US lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft.
The Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1am EST atop a Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk's SpaceX from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
Although considered an Intuitive Machines mission, the IM-1 flight is carrying six Nasa payloads of instruments designed to gather data about the lunar environment before Nasa's planned return of astronauts to the moon this decade.
Thursday's launch came a month after the lunar lander of another private firm, Astrobotic Technology, had a propulsion system leak on its way to the moon shortly after being placed in orbit on 8 January by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket making its debut flight.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/15/private-moon-lander-lifts-off-aiming-for-first-us-lunar-touchdown-in-52-years
#84
In the Media... / Venus has a quasi-moon and it'...
Last post by Rick - Feb 13, 2024, 10:01:18Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason
The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week published a bulletin [PDF] in which it gave 29 small celestial bodies their very own names.
One of the newly named bodies has been given the moniker "Zoozve" and it is remarkable – for several reasons.
One is that it's the first identified quasi-satellite of a major planet.
Zoozve is an asteroid that, as described by its discoverers in a 2005 paper, has an orbit that "takes it quite far afield from Venus – it dives in towards the Sun, passing within the orbit of Mercury, and travelling outwards just beyond the orbit of the Earth at its furthest from the Sun." That path traces a shape that resembles a butterfly shape that comes about because the asteroid and Venus are travelling around the Sun nearly in lock-step.
More: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/13/venusian_quasi_moon_named_zoozve/
...and why?
Read this Xwitter thread: https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544
The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group (WGSBN) – the folks responsible for assigning names to minor planets and comets – last week published a bulletin [PDF] in which it gave 29 small celestial bodies their very own names.
One of the newly named bodies has been given the moniker "Zoozve" and it is remarkable – for several reasons.
One is that it's the first identified quasi-satellite of a major planet.
Zoozve is an asteroid that, as described by its discoverers in a 2005 paper, has an orbit that "takes it quite far afield from Venus – it dives in towards the Sun, passing within the orbit of Mercury, and travelling outwards just beyond the orbit of the Earth at its furthest from the Sun." That path traces a shape that resembles a butterfly shape that comes about because the asteroid and Venus are travelling around the Sun nearly in lock-step.
More: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/13/venusian_quasi_moon_named_zoozve/
...and why?
Read this Xwitter thread: https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544
#85
Astrophotography / Re: A Heart for Valentine's? ...
Last post by Hugh - Feb 12, 2024, 13:12:22The central crop is just beautiful with a lovely starry background 
~ Hugh
~ Hugh
#86
Astrophotography / Re: A Heart for Valentine's? ...
Last post by The Thing - Feb 11, 2024, 10:44:25Quite astonishing Roberto. 
#87
Astrophotography / Re: A Heart for Valentine's? ...
Last post by Carole - Feb 10, 2024, 14:05:22I love Melotte 15. Your result with your mixed filters as per your quote
Just curious why you decided to do that.
QuoteThe NB palette was a mix of SHO and HSO.has given it a softer look than the traditional SHO.
Just curious why you decided to do that.
#88
Astrophotography / Re: A Heart for Valentine's? ...
Last post by Roberto - Feb 10, 2024, 09:37:34Here's a crop of the central region (Melotte 15) at full resolution:
Roberto
Roberto
#89
Astrophotography / Re: A Heart for Valentine's? ...
Last post by Carole - Feb 09, 2024, 10:44:11I just amended the above post as I didn't notice the planetary nebula when I first replied.
You must have posted at the same time.
Amazing.
You must have posted at the same time.
Amazing.
#90
Astrophotography / Re: A Heart for Valentine's? ...
Last post by Roberto - Feb 09, 2024, 10:41:52Hi Carole
Thanks! Yes, top image is from 2005. I'll post a crop of the central region of the new one to compare later.
Roberto
Thanks! Yes, top image is from 2005. I'll post a crop of the central region of the new one to compare later.
Roberto