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Playing around with #seestars50: #m51 #jupiter #moon #m81

Because the UK sky gods continue to smile upon me, here’s some more #SeestarS50 #Astrophotography
This is NGC 3631, a ‘small’ spiral galaxy seen face on. You can find it in Ursa Major, and it’s an absolute gem.
An hour of imaging here. Noise reduction by Seestar, black point and definition tweaks by iOS.

So just below M86 here is a wee smudge of pixels. They are vaguely pinkish (zoomed in here so the colour is an artefact).
Those pixels a PGC169281 a galaxy that is A) travelling away from us at 11% the speed of light & B) is 2 BILLION light years away!

Blows my mind. Photons travelled for 2+ BILLION YEARS & then got captured by an image sensor. When they set off, life round these parts was basically unicellular. Incredible. The most distant object I've ever seen.
#Astrophotography #SeestarS50

Right then! For the first time this year basically I got a GOOD night of #Astronomy and #Astrophotography with the #SeestarS50. And it’s Galaxy Season. And I got the scope to do 20s subs with basically NO rejections. Truly the astronomy gods smiled upon me last night. So here’s a wee thread of the captured photons. For all bat two of these I watched the light come in as well. Old Skool me. 1/

Picture of #NGC891 better known as the #SilverSliver.  Quite a bit of light pollution, but I'm still continuously impressed with my #seestars50 

#astrophotography #space #galaxy #DeepSpacePhotography

IC 447 IC 2169 NGC 2245 NGC 2247 #seestars50

M81. 50 minutes. Seestar S50. Bortle 4. Processing in Siril

#astronomy #seestar #seestars50

Some images from last night.
We have Centaurus A, the Jewel box cluster and southern Pleiades (IC 2602) from the Dwarf and a mosaic of the running chicken nebula from the Seestar.
#seestarS50 #dwarf3 #astrophotography

For the first time, I put my #seestarS50 and #dwarf3 out in the same location, looking at the same object, at the same time for supposedly the same length of time. I have felt that the Dwarf was better but didn’t ’zoom in’ enough, so the Seestar would get me closer to an object. Now I have some evidence and no, the Dwarf wins even in that domain. Consider the images.
The dwarf has a wider field of view but a much higher resolution so you can zoom in on the image and get a closer in view of the object than the Seestar.
The image is less noisy on the dwarf (both had their respective denoise algorithms applied)
I’m sure there are situations where the Seestar will shine, but for this #astrophotography, I will stay with the Dwarf.

Note that both were scheduled for 1 hour of airtime but frames were dropped because of reasons I am not sure about, but probably because of streaks, blurs or planes flying through leaving trails.

Nice and clear for a change. M1 and Cone Nebula and surroundings. #seestars50

M42, the Orion Nebula. Captured on a SeeStar s50 in Mosaic Mode. LP filter on, 17 minutes, alt/az mode. #SeeStar #SeeStarS50 #M42 #OrionNebula #Astronomy

A big whopper. #Sun #SeestarS50 #sunspots

Comet 24P/Schaumasse on January 6, 2026.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 379 exposures of 10’’.
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Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) on November 3, 2025.
ZWO Seestar S30.
150mm, f5, 142 exposures of 10’’.
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NGC2403 - a spiral galaxy 11 million light-years away.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 2257 exposures of 10’’, 6 hours 16 minutes across 2 nights.
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IC434 - Horsehead & Flame Nebulae.
Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 2258 exposures of 10’’, 6 hours 16 minutes across 5 nights.
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy.
More data with the S50 - 9h 51 minutes across 5 nights.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 3548 exposures of 10’’.
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Motion of Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN).
A timelapse created from the first 200 sub-frames I took on October 28, 2024.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 200 exposures of 10’’.
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I was "developing" a shot of #M81 and #M82 when I started to get side-tracked and got curious about those nifty #Siril scripts. Notably, the #Galaxy Annotation script. And oh boy, is it marvelous.

Here is a picture of M81 and M82, and _a lot_ of other stuff ... mostly blotches, but still... those are some exceptionally old photons!

Question; is this really what we are seeing here?

Warning: _LARGE_ (as in 9k Pixels in height) picture.

#astrodon #astrophotography #seestar #seestars50

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) on November 3, 2025.
The motor on my Celestron is unfortunately out of order, so I did what I could with the Seestar.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 145 exposures of 10’’.
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The Hidden Galaxy - IC342, an intermediate spiral galaxy 12 million light-years away.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 2561 exposures of 10’’.
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