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[LBN 406, 413, 415 - Faint nebulosity in Draco]

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Astrophotography / More light than dark from Pett...

Last post by Roberto - Today at 17:54:32

Another potpourri of what the weather allows:

LBN 406, 413, 415 - Faint nebulosity in Draco

This is very faint.  Not even after close to 11hrs of L did it show much. A couple of clear nights were "ruined" by the glow of the aurora throwing the OSC frames completely off and reducing the contrast in the L.  In any case, details here:  https://www.astrobin.com/8xwd5i/C/





Dates:  7 - 9 May 2024, 11 - 13 May 2024, 16 May 2024
Frames:  OSC - 129×300″(10h 45′)
L - IDAS LPS-P2 50 mm: 70×600″(11h 40′)
Integration: 22h 25′

And from this weekend:

Sun WL and Ha - 19 May 2024 - 11:34UT - AR13685



Taken with the 10" f/20 Mak in "white light" under below average seeing. Details here:  https://www.astrobin.com/zlqdl1/0/

Same morning:

Sun Ha - 19 May 2024 - 9:17UT - plus Prominence Animation

Taken with the 94mm f/7 refractor using a (double-stacked) front mounted Ha etalon.  Details here:  https://www.astrobin.com/rarpat/?nc=user



Close-up of prominence and animation:



Roberto

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Astrophotography / Re: Timelapse video of the aur...

Last post by Roberto - Today at 17:34:31

Amazing!   

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Alerts! Questions? Discussions... / Anyone in Spain or Portugal se...

Last post by Rick - Today at 10:22:08

There was a spectacular fireball over Spain and Portugal on the night of 17th/18th May. It had an elongated comet-like orbit. It came in at over 40kms per second, and the lowest part of the incandescent path was up at 60kms, so there are no new meteorites on the bottom of the Atlantic. Speculation is that it was a large chunk of cometary ice...

More: https://www.emeteornews.net/2024/05/19/spectacular-fireball-over-spain-and-portugal/

More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-69034415

...and: https://twitter.com/i/status/1791985487319642321 (dashcam footage...)

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Astrophotography / Re: Timelapse video of the aur...

Last post by The Thing - Today at 09:42:38

Fantastic

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Astrophotography / Re: M101 from DSC

Last post by Carole - Yesterday at 13:32:47

Thanks Fay and Roberto

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Astrophotography / Re: M82 HaLRGB

Last post by Roberto - Yesterday at 11:08:51

Excellent John. Lovely detail and colours.

Roberto

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Astrophotography / Re: M101 from DSC

Last post by Roberto - Yesterday at 11:08:27

Very nice field Carole 

Roberto

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Astrophotography / Re: A Rose after a Heart? Val...

Last post by Fay - Yesterday at 10:19:33

Fantastic Roberto, such a nice subject. You orpington imagers put a lot of work into your images

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Astrophotography / Re: NGC1499 California Nebula ...

Last post by Fay - Yesterday at 10:14:34

Lovely John, I do like this nebula....

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Astrophotography / Re: M101 from DSC

Last post by Fay - Yesterday at 10:13:18

Lovely Carole, again, a lot of hard work to get this good result