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rdm

Over the last week I've been going out every couple of nights and shooting C/2024 G3 Atlas as it slowly disintegrates after the front fell off.

Here are a couple more of my Dwarf3 shots, along with one from my phone. One is very heavily processed to bring out the side-tails.

20-50 frames of 15s at 80.

A comet without a head.There are faint secondary tails to the right.
A comet without a head, heavily post-processed to bring out the side tails, which form faint triangles to the right.
A wide-angle shot of the horizon and the sea, with most of the frame taken up with the evening sky. There is still a faint orange glow near the horizon, a long with the glow of the lights of three ships and Wadjemup. Near the middle of the frame is a comet, diving for the horizon.
#dwarf3#c2024g3#Comet
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rdm

Just over a week ago, @starstryder posted a wonderful piece on the life of open clusters. If you missed it, wander over here... astrodon.social/@starstryder/1

This inspired me to do a quick one night tour of the features she described.

To my shame, I had never heard of the Hyades Cluster, so that was a particular adventure for me. It also proved too much of a challenge for my little Dwarf3 - the 3 degree FoV is just not quite enough to capture the whole cluster.

Now, these are not the greatest shots of these features - I had work the next day, so I had to cram everything into about 1 1/2 hours. Great astrophotography this is not. But what it is is a tour through time. It was, however, also a chance to test out the scheduling feature of the beta software for the Dwarf.

Astrodon - The Astro CommunityDr Pamela L Gay (@starstryder@astrodon.social)One of my favorite things to do with students in the late fall is to take them outside and point first to the Orion nebula, then to the Pleiades, and finally to the Hyades cluster, saying, “These are snapshots in the evolution of open clusters.” Each of these systems is the home of young stars, but while the Orion nebula is very much a stellar nursery, with stars just 10 million years old or younger, the Pleiades, is more like a daycare center with stars 100 million years old or younger. At the same time, Hyades is more like an afterschool program for stars 730 million years old or younger. All these systems are filled with celestial children. In their youth, these stars still gather in clumps. But, as they age, the stars will drift apart until, as adults, they have no memory of the place they were born. Our Sun is one of these solitary stars and every time I introduce my students to these three open clusters, they ask what happened to the open cluster where our Sun was born. The truth is, the cluster and our Sun had a falling out. Read more on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/starstryder/p/our-suns-lost-family
#astronomy#astrophotography#OpenClusters
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leece

Our new Dwarf 3 telescopes have arrived. Naturally, conditions weren't great, and then we had to have an early night when things settled down, BUT here's some initial images. Clicky on them to see them biggerer.

This is the Orion Nebula, already showing more colour and detail in less time than the very good images from the Dwarf 2.
Not edited! Just from my roof in the suburbs.

Last night we drove down to Mettam's Pool, whose toilet block roof is a great observation platform.


I have been really wanting to say goodbye to Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. It's on its way out, but it still has a little tail.
I'm going to do a CTA special post one day, because we have been following it, in the east as it rose, in the west as it set,
and cross the sky as it travelled around and away from the sun as well.

Here it is a bit after sunset, still a bit of sky glow, bushfire smoke and the rising full moon and coastal lights to contend with. But it was okay.
If my research is correct that other bright object is HR 7076.

The Andromeda Galaxy, only about a 100 frames, but a good feel for things.

It's going to be around for a while, but I wanted to catch the comet before it went, so it got the focus at first.

Oh, check out this game on Kickstarter - kickstarter.com/projects/draco

Cheers for now!

Straight out of camera, the Orion Nebula
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on its way out, tail shortened but evident.
100 frames of the Andromeda Galaxy
#astronomy#Astrodon#astrophotography
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Last night, despite a full moon, I played with stacking from the wide angle lens on the #Dwarf3 .

Here is Orion, as seen in the Southern hemisphere, with some moon glow off in the bottom right.

120*6s@80. Post in #snapseed

A dark sky with Orion upside down. The Orion Nebula is visible as a red smudge in the sword.
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