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  1. youtu.be/h2ThT3TWZEw

    USBSID-Pico (v1.3 PCB) with 2x MOS8580 in stereo mode

    playing: Outerversal (2025)
    by: @Abyxus-r6r
    with player: Vice VSID SDL2

    Audio recorded with Audacity
    Voices rendered with JSidplay2
    Oscilloscope done with SidWizPlus
    Video rendered with KdenLive

    #c63 #chiptunes #retro

  2. Next, on the #Dwarf3 I targeted the same thing - #C63 again, but this time with an #OIII / #SII dualband filter.

    The result is quite a surprise. I was not expecting the level of intensity in the outer layers. The H-a really wipes it out normally.

    #Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy

  3. Last night was the last night of clear weather for a week or so for us, so, despite the full moon, we popped the Dwarves up on the roof.

    First up let's look at what I got the #DwarfII to do. I thought I'd revisit my old favourite, #C63 the #HelixNebula . What I got surprised me greatly.

    Here is the same scene - about a fortnight apart - one shot on the #Dwarf3 and the other on the DwarfII. In both cases there is about 7 hours of exposure, at gain 80, and both are using a dualband #OIII / #HII filter.

    Both were post processed in the #StellarStudio and finished in #Snapseed .

    I am utterly amazed at just how good the Dwarf2 stands up. No, it is not as good as the Dwarf3, but it is still a solid image, and one I am very pleased with.

    #Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy

  4. Last night was the last night of clear weather for a week or so for us, so, despite the full moon, we popped the Dwarves up on the roof.

    First up let's look at what I got the #DwarfII to do. I thought I'd revisit my old favourite, #C63 the #HelixNebula . What I got surprised me greatly.

    Here is the same scene - about a fortnight apart - one shot on the #Dwarf3 and the other on the DwarfII. In both cases there is about 7 hours of exposure, at gain 80, and both are using a dualband #OIII / #HII filter.

    Both were post processed in the #StellarStudio and finished in #Snapseed .

    I am utterly amazed at just how good the Dwarf2 stands up. No, it is not as good as the Dwarf3, but it is still a solid image, and one I am very pleased with.

    #Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy

  5. Last night was the last night of clear weather for a week or so for us, so, despite the full moon, we popped the Dwarves up on the roof.

    First up let's look at what I got the #DwarfII to do. I thought I'd revisit my old favourite, #C63 the #HelixNebula . What I got surprised me greatly.

    Here is the same scene - about a fortnight apart - one shot on the #Dwarf3 and the other on the DwarfII. In both cases there is about 7 hours of exposure, at gain 80, and both are using a dualband #OIII / #HII filter.

    Both were post processed in the #StellarStudio and finished in #Snapseed .

    I am utterly amazed at just how good the Dwarf2 stands up. No, it is not as good as the Dwarf3, but it is still a solid image, and one I am very pleased with.

    #Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy

  6. Last night was the last night of clear weather for a week or so for us, so, despite the full moon, we popped the Dwarves up on the roof.

    First up let's look at what I got the #DwarfII to do. I thought I'd revisit my old favourite, #C63 the #HelixNebula . What I got surprised me greatly.

    Here is the same scene - about a fortnight apart - one shot on the #Dwarf3 and the other on the DwarfII. In both cases there is about 7 hours of exposure, at gain 80, and both are using a dualband #OIII / #HII filter.

    Both were post processed in the #StellarStudio and finished in #Snapseed .

    I am utterly amazed at just how good the Dwarf2 stands up. No, it is not as good as the Dwarf3, but it is still a solid image, and one I am very pleased with.

    #Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy

  7. Last night was the last night of clear weather for a week or so for us, so, despite the full moon, we popped the Dwarves up on the roof.

    First up let's look at what I got the #DwarfII to do. I thought I'd revisit my old favourite, #C63 the #HelixNebula . What I got surprised me greatly.

    Here is the same scene - about a fortnight apart - one shot on the #Dwarf3 and the other on the DwarfII. In both cases there is about 7 hours of exposure, at gain 80, and both are using a dualband #OIII / #HII filter.

    Both were post processed in the #StellarStudio and finished in #Snapseed .

    I am utterly amazed at just how good the Dwarf2 stands up. No, it is not as good as the Dwarf3, but it is still a solid image, and one I am very pleased with.

    #Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #BackYardAstronomy

  8. Over the last three nights - a break in the weather for us here in #Boorloo ( #PerthWA ) - I've been targeting the same target after midnight and through to astronomical twilight. It is another target that is familiar to me - #C63 or #HelixNebula sometimes known as the Eye of Sauron Nebula or the Eye of God Nebula.

    This is the largest planetary nebula visible to us, only about 200 parsecs away, and is about 2.8 light years across, making it about 22 arcminutes across for the main body, and is about 6500 years old.

    So back to the making of this image. Each night I got about five hours of shooting in with my #Dwarf3 , for about fifteen hours total. I had to ditch a bunch of frames as they had dodgy data (atmospheric distortions, musktrails, and, in one case, a passing jet), which brought me down to thirteen hours and thirty-six minutes (816x60s@80). These I restacked using the "Megastack" function of the #DwarfLab app (about 3 hours - executed entirely within the telescope), and then passed the result to the #StellarStudio part of the app (running in the cloud) to optimize the FITS file and run a star removal.

    I then exported a PNG of each version, and started post-processing. This consisted of passing the starless image into #Snapseed and boosting the saturation, darkening shadows and so on. Then I took the optimized version and took the shadows to maximum darkness, and reduced the overall brightness somewhat, leaving me with a reduced star version, with almost no nebula visible. Lastly, in Snapseed again, I used the double exposure tool to stack the two parts together.

    And here is the result.

    #Astronomy #Astrodon #Astrophotography #C63 #HelixNebula

  9. Last night we had an unexpected gap in the clouds after coming home from the drive-in. (Wolverine and Deadpool - good solid ultraviolent fun. Hugh Jackman is having a ball.)

    So I targetted the Helix Nebula - NGC7293. I was aiming for 500 subs, but the clouds rolled in and I only got 380.

    Still, a pretty planetary nebula, and one that is uncommonly large as far as these object go, spanning 20-odd arc-minutes.

    DwarfII, 380x15s@80, Dwarf UHC filter, post processed in Snapseed and Google Photos. Astrometry image by astrometry.net .

    Center (RA, Dec): (337.561, -20.965)
    Center (RA, hms): 22h 30m 14.739s
    Center (Dec, dms): -20° 57' 54.016"
    Size: 2.42 x 1.36 deg
    Radius: 1.385 deg
    Pixel scale: 2.97 arcsec/pixel

    #astronomy #astrophotography #dwarfII #Snapseed #GooglePhotos #nebula #HelixNebula #NGC7293 #C63 #Movie #deadpool3wolverine

  10. Coole Farbe, nur die Felgen sollten mal ausgebessert werden.

    #amg #c63 #amgC63

  11. VIDEO & REVIEW: #Mercedes, through obvious climate- and policy-related pressures, has electrified its new #AMG #C63 hero sedan. Here's how it goes. whichcar.com.au/reviews/2023-m

    #cars