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  1. Galaxies are not what my little Seestar is best at, but I persist with this one. I've now got 3257 good 30 second exposures of it, i.e. just over 27 hours in total.

    It's NGC 300, a.k.a. the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy, discovered in Parramatta in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.

    As usual processed in Siril, with RC Astro, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Stacking all these images in one go pushed my computer to its limits and took hours. I may have to start stacking subsets and then stacking the stacks in future.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #SmartTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  2. Galaxies are not what my little Seestar is best at, but I persist with this one. I've now got 3257 good 30 second exposures of it, i.e. just over 27 hours in total.

    It's NGC 300, a.k.a. the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy, discovered in Parramatta in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.

    As usual processed in Siril, with RC Astro, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Stacking all these images in one go pushed my computer to its limits and took hours. I may have to start stacking subsets and then stacking the stacks in future.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #SmartTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  3. Galaxies are not what my little Seestar is best at, but I persist with this one. I've now got 3257 good 30 second exposures of it, i.e. just over 27 hours in total.

    It's NGC 300, a.k.a. the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy, discovered in Parramatta in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.

    As usual processed in Siril, with RC Astro, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Stacking all these images in one go pushed my computer to its limits and took hours. I may have to start stacking subsets and then stacking the stacks in future.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #SmartTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  4. Galaxies are not what my little Seestar is best at, but I persist with this one. I've now got 3257 good 30 second exposures of it, i.e. just over 27 hours in total.

    It's NGC 300, a.k.a. the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy, discovered in Parramatta in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.

    As usual processed in Siril, with RC Astro, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Stacking all these images in one go pushed my computer to its limits and took hours. I may have to start stacking subsets and then stacking the stacks in future.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #SmartTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  5. Galaxies are not what my little Seestar is best at, but I persist with this one. I've now got 3257 good 30 second exposures of it, i.e. just over 27 hours in total.

    It's NGC 300, a.k.a. the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy, discovered in Parramatta in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.

    As usual processed in Siril, with RC Astro, GraXpert and VeraLux scripts. Stacking all these images in one go pushed my computer to its limits and took hours. I may have to start stacking subsets and then stacking the stacks in future.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #SmartTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  6. An easier target, Ptolemy's Cluster (M7), an open cluster of stars set against a dense region of the Milky Way.

    This is much brighter and really doesn't need much exposure time even with lots of light pollution and some moonlight, but I used it as a filler target and still put over 4 hours into it. Again processed in Siril, with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  7. An easier target, Ptolemy's Cluster (M7), an open cluster of stars set against a dense region of the Milky Way.

    This is much brighter and really doesn't need much exposure time even with lots of light pollution and some moonlight, but I used it as a filler target and still put over 4 hours into it. Again processed in Siril, with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  8. An easier target, Ptolemy's Cluster (M7), an open cluster of stars set against a dense region of the Milky Way.

    This is much brighter and really doesn't need much exposure time even with lots of light pollution and some moonlight, but I used it as a filler target and still put over 4 hours into it. Again processed in Siril, with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  9. An easier target, Ptolemy's Cluster (M7), an open cluster of stars set against a dense region of the Milky Way.

    This is much brighter and really doesn't need much exposure time even with lots of light pollution and some moonlight, but I used it as a filler target and still put over 4 hours into it. Again processed in Siril, with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  10. An easier target, Ptolemy's Cluster (M7), an open cluster of stars set against a dense region of the Milky Way.

    This is much brighter and really doesn't need much exposure time even with lots of light pollution and some moonlight, but I used it as a filler target and still put over 4 hours into it. Again processed in Siril, with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  11. I'm continuing to put the Thirty Millimetre Telescope to work every night that the skies are at least mostly clear. The latest result of that is this image of the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula near to the bright star Rigel.

    This faint nebula is a fairly challenging target for a small telescope under light polluted skies (Bortle 7) so I ended up putting over 14 hours of exposure time into this. All processing in Siril with RC Astro, GraXpert & VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  12. I'm continuing to put the Thirty Millimetre Telescope to work every night that the skies are at least mostly clear. The latest result of that is this image of the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula near to the bright star Rigel.

    This faint nebula is a fairly challenging target for a small telescope under light polluted skies (Bortle 7) so I ended up putting over 14 hours of exposure time into this. All processing in Siril with RC Astro, GraXpert & VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  13. I'm continuing to put the Thirty Millimetre Telescope to work every night that the skies are at least mostly clear. The latest result of that is this image of the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula near to the bright star Rigel.

    This faint nebula is a fairly challenging target for a small telescope under light polluted skies (Bortle 7) so I ended up putting over 14 hours of exposure time into this. All processing in Siril with RC Astro, GraXpert & VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  14. I'm continuing to put the Thirty Millimetre Telescope to work every night that the skies are at least mostly clear. The latest result of that is this image of the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula near to the bright star Rigel.

    This faint nebula is a fairly challenging target for a small telescope under light polluted skies (Bortle 7) so I ended up putting over 14 hours of exposure time into this. All processing in Siril with RC Astro, GraXpert & VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  15. I'm continuing to put the Thirty Millimetre Telescope to work every night that the skies are at least mostly clear. The latest result of that is this image of the Witch Head Nebula, a reflection nebula near to the bright star Rigel.

    This faint nebula is a fairly challenging target for a small telescope under light polluted skies (Bortle 7) so I ended up putting over 14 hours of exposure time into this. All processing in Siril with RC Astro, GraXpert & VeraLux scripts.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #GraXpert #VeraLux

  16. While it's not as colourful as the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex the Corona Australis molecular cloud region also makes for a decent photo, if you're patient enough.

    To get this with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope from my light polluted suburban Sydney backyard I stacked a total of 3909 individual 30 second exposures, i.e. 32.6 hours total exposure time. All processing was done in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  17. While it's not as colourful as the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex the Corona Australis molecular cloud region also makes for a decent photo, if you're patient enough.

    To get this with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope from my light polluted suburban Sydney backyard I stacked a total of 3909 individual 30 second exposures, i.e. 32.6 hours total exposure time. All processing was done in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  18. While it's not as colourful as the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex the Corona Australis molecular cloud region also makes for a decent photo, if you're patient enough.

    To get this with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope from my light polluted suburban Sydney backyard I stacked a total of 3909 individual 30 second exposures, i.e. 32.6 hours total exposure time. All processing was done in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  19. While it's not as colourful as the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex the Corona Australis molecular cloud region also makes for a decent photo, if you're patient enough.

    To get this with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope from my light polluted suburban Sydney backyard I stacked a total of 3909 individual 30 second exposures, i.e. 32.6 hours total exposure time. All processing was done in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  20. While it's not as colourful as the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex the Corona Australis molecular cloud region also makes for a decent photo, if you're patient enough.

    To get this with the Thirty Millimetre Telescope from my light polluted suburban Sydney backyard I stacked a total of 3909 individual 30 second exposures, i.e. 32.6 hours total exposure time. All processing was done in Siril with RC Astro and VeraLux scripts. Full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #VeraLux

  21. Another image I could keep reprocessing forever and never be entire satisfied with: the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.

    A total of 3143 individual 30 second exposures went into this 4 panel mosaic image (over 26 hours total exposure time), all taken with my little Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope in my suburban Sydney back yard (Bortle 7, at least). Processed in Siril with RC Astro, SyQon and VeraLux scripts. Scaled down to 50% size for posting, full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    The big challenge here is removing the sky background gradients when there's basically no truly empty patches of sky to use as references. To really improve on this I think I'd have to take my Seestar away from Sydney's light pollution and get images that don't have lots of background light in them to start with.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #SyQon #VeraLux

  22. Another image I could keep reprocessing forever and never be entire satisfied with: the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.

    A total of 3143 individual 30 second exposures went into this 4 panel mosaic image (over 26 hours total exposure time), all taken with my little Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope in my suburban Sydney back yard (Bortle 7, at least). Processed in Siril with RC Astro, SyQon and VeraLux scripts. Scaled down to 50% size for posting, full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    The big challenge here is removing the sky background gradients when there's basically no truly empty patches of sky to use as references. To really improve on this I think I'd have to take my Seestar away from Sydney's light pollution and get images that don't have lots of background light in them to start with.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #SyQon #VeraLux

  23. Another image I could keep reprocessing forever and never be entire satisfied with: the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.

    A total of 3143 individual 30 second exposures went into this 4 panel mosaic image (over 26 hours total exposure time), all taken with my little Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope in my suburban Sydney back yard (Bortle 7, at least). Processed in Siril with RC Astro, SyQon and VeraLux scripts. Scaled down to 50% size for posting, full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    The big challenge here is removing the sky background gradients when there's basically no truly empty patches of sky to use as references. To really improve on this I think I'd have to take my Seestar away from Sydney's light pollution and get images that don't have lots of background light in them to start with.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #SyQon #VeraLux

  24. Another image I could keep reprocessing forever and never be entire satisfied with: the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.

    A total of 3143 individual 30 second exposures went into this 4 panel mosaic image (over 26 hours total exposure time), all taken with my little Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope in my suburban Sydney back yard (Bortle 7, at least). Processed in Siril with RC Astro, SyQon and VeraLux scripts. Scaled down to 50% size for posting, full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    The big challenge here is removing the sky background gradients when there's basically no truly empty patches of sky to use as references. To really improve on this I think I'd have to take my Seestar away from Sydney's light pollution and get images that don't have lots of background light in them to start with.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #SyQon #VeraLux

  25. Another image I could keep reprocessing forever and never be entire satisfied with: the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex.

    A total of 3143 individual 30 second exposures went into this 4 panel mosaic image (over 26 hours total exposure time), all taken with my little Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope in my suburban Sydney back yard (Bortle 7, at least). Processed in Siril with RC Astro, SyQon and VeraLux scripts. Scaled down to 50% size for posting, full resolution version here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    The big challenge here is removing the sky background gradients when there's basically no truly empty patches of sky to use as references. To really improve on this I think I'd have to take my Seestar away from Sydney's light pollution and get images that don't have lots of background light in them to start with.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCastro #SyQon #VeraLux

  26. OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

    I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

  27. OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

    I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

  28. OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

    I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

  29. OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

    I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

  30. OK, that's it. Need to stop fiddling with this now. Same as the previous one with a slight tweak of the black level.

    I think this crop is a better picture than the full mosaic too. Full res here: drhotdog.smugmug.com/Nature/Se

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT #Siril #VeraLux #RCastro

  31. Another glow up, though this time I also had some additional data to add to the stack as well as updated processing methods.

    It's the Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  32. Another glow up, though this time I also had some additional data to add to the stack as well as updated processing methods.

    It's the Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  33. Another glow up, though this time I also had some additional data to add to the stack as well as updated processing methods.

    It's the Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  34. Another glow up, though this time I also had some additional data to add to the stack as well as updated processing methods.

    It's the Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  35. Another glow up, though this time I also had some additional data to add to the stack as well as updated processing methods.

    It's the Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  36. Applied the same compositing tricks and other learnings to reprocess my image of the Dragons of Ara. It's the same data underlying these two versions, the only difference is in the processing.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  37. Applied the same compositing tricks and other learnings to reprocess my image of the Dragons of Ara. It's the same data underlying these two versions, the only difference is in the processing.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  38. Applied the same compositing tricks and other learnings to reprocess my image of the Dragons of Ara. It's the same data underlying these two versions, the only difference is in the processing.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  39. Applied the same compositing tricks and other learnings to reprocess my image of the Dragons of Ara. It's the same data underlying these two versions, the only difference is in the processing.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux

  40. Applied the same compositing tricks and other learnings to reprocess my image of the Dragons of Ara. It's the same data underlying these two versions, the only difference is in the processing.

    #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #TMMT #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #Siril #RCAstro #VeraLux