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Cosmic dust capturing pictures of other cosmic dust in Bortle 9 skies ✨
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#astrophotography #space #galaxy I spent 90 minutes photographing what looks like an empty patch of sky. Then I removed the stars — and dozens of galaxies appeared. This is the Perseus Cluster, one of the most massive structures in the known universe, sitting 240 million light-years away. Every faint smudge in the second half of this reel is an entire galaxy with billions of stars. The light hitting my camera that night left home before dinosaurs walked the Earth!! taken in Copper Breaks State Park by @astrowithdb
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2 months ago
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The Horsehead Nebulae, Barnard 33, is one of my favorite nebulae. Travelled to a Bortle 2 site too capture it in RGB and combined it with Ha data that I had from last year to create this HaRGB composition. Exposure Details Mount: @skywatcherusa Star Adventurer GTi Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Telescope: William Optics Redcat 51 Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 Bortle Scale: 2 for RGB and 7 for Ha Exposure Time: Ha - 30 * 300s - 2h 30m RGB - 71 * 180s - 3h 33m Filters: Optolong LPro, @svbony 220 7nm Ha-OIII Software: ASIAIR Plus, SetiAstro Processing suite Processing: PixInsight + Photoshop Animation: Starwizz #astrowithdb #astrophotography #space taken in Copper Breaks State Park by @astrowithdb
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9 months ago
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Pacman Nebula in SHO Palette. Really loved the way it turned out in the end!! Let me know what you think!!! The “Pac-Man Nebula,” also known as NGC 281, is a star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia, resembling the video game character Pac-Man. It’s characterized by a dark, dust-filled “mouth” and bright clouds of glowing gas. NGC 281 is located about 9,200 light-years away Exposure Details Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Air Telescope: Askar 103 APO Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 Bortle Scale: 9 Exposure Time: Ha - 69 * 300s - 5h 45m OIII - 74 * 300s - 6h 10m SII - 54 * 300s - 4h 30m Filter: SVBONY SV220 5nm SHO Filters Software: ASIAIR Plus, SetiAstro Processing suite Processing: PixInsight + Photoshop #highpointscientific #beamazed #galaxy #nebula #astrophotography #photography #astrowithdb #astro #MK127 taken in Irving, Texas by @astrowithdb
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a year ago
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Lion Nebula in HOO. This was very difficult capture from Bortle 9. But love how the colors have come out :) Located roughly 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus, Sh2-132 is an emission nebula shaped by the intense radiation and stellar winds of two Wolf-Rayet stars, WR 152 and WR 153. These massive, short-lived stars ionize the surrounding hydrogen and oxygen, carving the structure that gives the nebula its distinctive lion-like profile. 🔭 EXPOSURE DETAILS 🔭 Telescope: WO Redcat 51 📷 Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Air 🏗️ Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTI 🎯 Guide Scope and Camera: WO 32mm Uniguide Scope 🌈 Filters: SVBony SV220 and Askar D2 🌌 Bortle Scale: 9 ⏱️ INTEGRATION TIME 🔴 Ha - 46 * 300s - 3h 50m 🔵 OIII - 145 * 300s - 12h 5m 🟠 SII - 46 * 300s - 3h 50m Total Integration: 19h 45m 💻 SOFTWARE 💻 Computer: ASIAIR ⚙️ Editing: PixInsight + Photoshop ✨ Processing: Seti Astro Suite 💿 Annotations: Astrogram #space #astrophotography Infographics generated using Astrogram. Link in bio. Plate solving using Astrogram. Link in bio. taken in Irving - Las Colinas, TX by @astrowithdb
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14 days ago
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Lion Nebula. This was very difficult capture from Bortle 9. But love how the colors have come out :) Located roughly 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus, Sh2-132 is an emission nebula shaped by the intense radiation and stellar winds of two Wolf-Rayet stars, WR 152 and WR 153. These massive, short-lived stars ionize the surrounding hydrogen and oxygen, carving the structure that gives the nebula its distinctive lion-like profile. 🔭 EXPOSURE DETAILS 🔭 Telescope: WO Redcat 51 📷 Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Air 🏗️ Mount: Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTI 🎯 Guide Scope and Camera: WO 32mm Uniguide Scope 🌈 Filters: SVBony SV220 and Askar D2 🌌 Bortle Scale: 9 ⏱️ INTEGRATION TIME 🔴 Ha - 46 * 300s - 3h 50m 🔵 OIII - 145 * 300s - 12h 5m 🟠 SII - 46 * 300s - 3h 50m Total Integration: 19h 45m 💻 SOFTWARE 💻 Computer: ASIAIR ⚙️ Editing: PixInsight + Photoshop ✨ Processing: Seti Astro Suite 💿 Annotations: Astrogram #space #astrophotography taken in Irving - Las Colinas, TX by @astrowithdb
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21 days ago
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Add diffraction spikes to your astrophotography in seconds ✨ Meet AstroSpike, a free and open-source browser tool from DBAstroSuite. Upload your image, automatically detect the stars, choose your spike style, fine-tune the look, and export — all directly in your browser. No installation. No subscription. And your images never leave your device. Try it at dbastrosuite.com/tool/astrospike 🌌 #astrophotography #dbastrosuite #astrospike #astrowithdb taken in Irving - Las Colinas, TX by @astrowithdb
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a month ago
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That faint smudge drifting across the frame? That’s Andromeda — an entire galaxy of a trillion stars, 2.5 million light-years away. The light hitting my camera sensor left before humans existed. And you can see it with your naked eye under a dark sky. #astrophotography #milkyway #space taken in Copper Breaks State Park by @astrowithdb
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2 months ago
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Ever wonder why the Milky Way looks like a band instead of a swirl? Because we’re inside the disk, looking through it edge-on — like standing in a crowd and seeing a wall of people. Seven seconds of Earth spinning under 100 billion stars. The last time our solar system was on this side of the galaxy, dinosaurs hadn’t evolved yet. One galactic year = 230 million Earth years. Enjoy the commute. ✨ #milkyway #astrophotography #timelapsecorner taken in Copper Breaks State Park by @astrowithdb
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2 months ago
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One of the questions that I most often get asked is, how does the sky the sky look like in dark sky parks??? Well, this is a video that I took in copper break State Park, which is a Bortle two sky, and this is how the sky looks like to the naked eye. #galaxy #milkyway #astronomy taken in Copper Breaks State Park by @astrowithdb
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2 months ago
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You will fall in love with it every time you see it. A single exposure of 13s with Sony A7IV at f1.8 using Sony GMaster 20mm lens. #astronomy #milkyway #milkyway_nightscapes taken in Irving - Las Colinas, TX by @astrowithdb
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2 months ago
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Why do I travel 3hours and 180miles/300 kms to a dark sky site? Under Bortle 9 skies, light pollution drowns out faint nebulosity so badly that capturing a target can take 40+ hours of exposure time. Under Bortle 1 skies? The same result in just 2-3 hours. But we are losing dark skies at a record rate. Light pollution is growing ~10% every year, and most people alive today have never seen the Milky Way with their own eyes. Dark skies are a natural resource. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. We need to preserve them at all costs. 🌠 #DarkSkies #SaveOurDarkSkies #LightPollution #BortleScale #Astrophotography DarkSkyPreservation TexasAstronomicalSociety DarkSkyTexas InternationalDarkSkyAssociation NASA Astronomy NightSky MilkyWay DeepSkyAstrophotography AstrophotographyCommunity ProtectTheNight StarryskiesTexas taken in Irving - Las Colinas, TX by @astrowithdb
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2 months ago
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The Cygnus Wall, roughly 20 light-years long. If you placed it where the Orion Nebula sits in the sky, it would be a naked-eye showpiece. Instead, at ~2,600 light-years away with very low surface brightness, the whole nebula spans four full moons of sky yet most people have never seen it without a camera. The star that lights it up was a mystery for nearly a century. Everyone assumed Deneb powered the North America Nebula, but the true ionizing star — nicknamed the Bajamar Star (J205551.3+435225) — hides behind the dark dust lane that forms the “Gulf of Mexico.” It wasn’t confidently identified until relatively recently, because the dust dims its light by several magnitudes. So the star creating the glow in your image is literally invisible in your image. 🔭 EXPOSURE DETAILS 🔭 Telescope: Redcat 51 📷 Camera: ZWO ASI533MC 🏗️ Mount: Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 🎯 Guide Scope and Camera: WO 32mm + ASI290MM Mini 🌈 Filters: SVBony SV220/ Askar D2 🌌 Bortle Scale: 9 ⏱️ INTEGRATION TIME 🔴 Ha/OIII - 217 * 300s - 18h 5m 🔵 OIII/SII - 123 * 300s - 10h 15m Total Integration: 28h 20m 💻 SOFTWARE 💻 Computer: ASIAIR ⚙️ Editing: PixInsight + Photoshop ✨ Processing: Seti Astro Suite 💿 Infographics: Astrogram #space #astrophotography taken in Irving - Las Colinas, TX by @astrowithdb
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3 months ago
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