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  1. A Beechcraft Duchess caught in perfect light — motion frozen just enough to feel the air move.

    ✨ If you enjoy catching motion in still moments, you’re in the right place.

    #Photography #Aviation #Beechcraft #Colorado #Skywatch #ScottKissPhoto

  2. Typically modest the #Draconids might break tradition this year! Forecasts predict a burst of 150–400 #meteors per hour on October 8. Moreover this may be the last Draconid outburst until 2078! 🌠🐉 #Space #Astronomy #MeteorShower #SkyWatch #DraconidShower #Stargazing #Cosmos #CelestialEvent #Science

  3. Typically modest the #Draconids might break tradition this year! Forecasts predict a burst of 150–400 #meteors per hour on October 8. Moreover this may be the last Draconid outburst until 2078! 🌠🐉 #Space #Astronomy #MeteorShower #SkyWatch #DraconidShower #Stargazing #Cosmos #CelestialEvent #Science

  4. Typically modest the #Draconids might break tradition this year! Forecasts predict a burst of 150–400 #meteors per hour on October 8. Moreover this may be the last Draconid outburst until 2078! 🌠🐉 #Space #Astronomy #MeteorShower #SkyWatch #DraconidShower #Stargazing #Cosmos #CelestialEvent #Science

  5. Typically modest the #Draconids might break tradition this year! Forecasts predict a burst of 150–400 #meteors per hour on October 8. Moreover this may be the last Draconid outburst until 2078! 🌠🐉 #Space #Astronomy #MeteorShower #SkyWatch #DraconidShower #Stargazing #Cosmos #CelestialEvent #Science

  6. Typically modest the #Draconids might break tradition this year! Forecasts predict a burst of 150–400 #meteors per hour on October 8. Moreover this may be the last Draconid outburst until 2078! 🌠🐉 #Space #Astronomy #MeteorShower #SkyWatch #DraconidShower #Stargazing #Cosmos #CelestialEvent #Science

  7. 🚨 Mysterious Objects Spotted in US Skies! 🚨 SUV-sized unidentified flying objects have been seen over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, sparking investigations by the FBI and local law enforcement. Are they aliens, spy balloons, or drones? 👽👾 The FAA has banned drone flights near key locations. Stay tuned for updates! #UFOs #newz #MysteryObjects #SkyWatch 🌌🔍 Read more: theregister.com/2024/12/12/mys

  8. 🚨 Mysterious Objects Spotted in US Skies! 🚨 SUV-sized unidentified flying objects have been seen over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, sparking investigations by the FBI and local law enforcement. Are they aliens, spy balloons, or drones? 👽👾 The FAA has banned drone flights near key locations. Stay tuned for updates! #UFOs #newz #MysteryObjects #SkyWatch 🌌🔍 Read more: theregister.com/2024/12/12/mys

  9. 🚨 Mysterious Objects Spotted in US Skies! 🚨 SUV-sized unidentified flying objects have been seen over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, sparking investigations by the FBI and local law enforcement. Are they aliens, spy balloons, or drones? 👽👾 The FAA has banned drone flights near key locations. Stay tuned for updates! #UFOs #newz #MysteryObjects #SkyWatch 🌌🔍 Read more: theregister.com/2024/12/12/mys

  10. 🚨 Mysterious Objects Spotted in US Skies! 🚨 SUV-sized unidentified flying objects have been seen over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, sparking investigations by the FBI and local law enforcement. Are they aliens, spy balloons, or drones? 👽👾 The FAA has banned drone flights near key locations. Stay tuned for updates! 🌌🔍 Read more: theregister.com/2024/12/12/mys

  11. 🚨 Mysterious Objects Spotted in US Skies! 🚨 SUV-sized unidentified flying objects have been seen over New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, sparking investigations by the FBI and local law enforcement. Are they aliens, spy balloons, or drones? 👽👾 The FAA has banned drone flights near key locations. Stay tuned for updates! #UFOs #newz #MysteryObjects #SkyWatch 🌌🔍 Read more: theregister.com/2024/12/12/mys

  12. From a location in Estes Park, under a clear, half-moon lit sky, between 9:00 and 9:02 local time I saw a bright red object with no aircraft strobe appear suddenly almost directly overhead, then extremely rapidly silently cross the sky in a southeast direction. I was able to track the object until it went below the horizon, bearing 160°

    Nothing shows up on flight radar. Is there any open source radar that might have shown the object? NOAA weather radar is down at the moment. Could it have been #starlink?

    #cowx #estespark #colorado #skywatch #aircraft #astronomy

  13. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography Last night was clear for a change and Cassiopeia was visible to the east all night. So I captured over 7 hours of exposure of Navi, a bright star in the Cassiopeia constellation. My real subjects, however, were IC59 and IC63, the Ghost of Cassiopeia. The Ghost is not an easy subject because both nebula are faint and dark and the bright presence of Navi makes them particularly challenging to image.

  14. Begonias in this year's hanging planter, Norway spruce fronds, Japanese anemones against a fence, and a particularly dramatic evening sky.

    #Bloomscrolling #skywatch #animegrannylooksup

  15. Begonias in this year's hanging planter, Norway spruce fronds, Japanese anemones against a fence, and a particularly dramatic evening sky.

    #Bloomscrolling #skywatch #animegrannylooksup

  16. Begonias in this year's hanging planter, Norway spruce fronds, Japanese anemones against a fence, and a particularly dramatic evening sky.

    #Bloomscrolling #skywatch #animegrannylooksup

  17. Begonias in this year's hanging planter, Norway spruce fronds, Japanese anemones against a fence, and a particularly dramatic evening sky.

    #Bloomscrolling #skywatch #animegrannylooksup

  18. Begonias in this year's hanging planter, Norway spruce fronds, Japanese anemones against a fence, and a particularly dramatic evening sky.

    #Bloomscrolling #skywatch #animegrannylooksup

  19. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a dark, dense globule of interstellar gas about 2400 light years away in the Cepheus constellation. The bright sinuous rim of the trunk is the surface of the gas cloud being illuminated by the bright star on the right edge of the image. I captured the 100 three-minute (5 hours total) exposures that make up this image overnight 2 nights ago.

  20. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography #LunarPhotography Before last night's spectacular light show put on by the Aurora Borealis, I was excited to capture the crescent moon with still enough sunlight to see a hint of the rest of the lunar disk. This is called earthshine because the disk is being illuminated by sunlight reflecting off the Earth's surface. What a night!

  21. #SkyWatch Weeks of overcast skies with no chance for #Astrophotography but it's a clear day today after a huge spring snowstorm yesterday. #AnotherSunrise #SpringInNH

  22. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography The Blackeye Galaxy aka M64 is a relatively isolated galaxy 17.3 million lightyears away in the Coma Berenices constellation. This means that it took the light recorded in this image 17.3 million years to reach my camera's sensor. The 41 three-minute exposures for this image were challenging to process in order to pull out the distinctive dark dust lane near the galaxy core that gives the galaxy its name.

  23. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography The Seagull Nebula is a cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other gasses 3700 lightyears from Earth near Monoceros and Canis Major. The head of the Seagull contains a triple star system HD53367 that is emitting red hydrogen. The blue in this area is from dust and gas reflecting the light of HD53367. I captured 47 two-minute exposures of the area using my AT102ED telescope with a UV/IR filter so I could capture both the emission and reflection nebulosities

  24. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography I find the Owl Nebula aka M97 to be one of the most fascinating objects in the night sky. It is about 2030 lightyears away from us. It formed about 8000 years ago when a star exploded, quickly expelling its gaseous fuel to form 3 concentric shells. Its central star is now a white dwarf about 1/10 the size of our Sun. I captured 60 three minutes exposures a few nights ago and processed them in PixInsight to create this image.

  25. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography M81 aka Bode's Galaxy is 12 million lightyears away in the Ursa Major constellation. Its diameter is 96,000 lightyears and it contains 250 billion stars. I captured 45 thirty-second exposures for this image with my #Seestar50

  26. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography Since I got my #Seestar50 telescope in October, I have captured about 500 exposures of the area around Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. The exposures are of different lengths (10, 20, and 30 seconds) and have a variety of framings. As an experiment, I decided to stack and process them all together. The Horsehead Nebula is the only part of the area that all of the exposures had in common so this image is the result of my experiment

  27. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography #Seestar50 M108 aka the Surfboard Galaxy in the upper left is 28 million light years away in Ursa Major. Its mass is 125 billion times that of our Sun. It contains 3 supernovae found in 1969, 2015, and 2023. M97 aka the Owl Nebula in the lower right is 2030 light years away and formed 8000 years ago when a star exploded, expelling a shell of gas traveling at speeds of 2.7-3.9 km/s. I captured 126 20-second exposures last night and processed them entirely on my phone

  28. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography Finally some clear skies to get out under the stars again. This image of M101 aka the Pinwheel Galaxy is 192 thirty second images captured with my #Seestar50 last night and stacked and processed this morning with PixInsight. M101 is 21 million light years away in the Ursa Major constellation. It is 170,000 light years across and has a mass of about 100 billion times our Sun. #ClearSkies

  29. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography NGC1499 aka the California Nebula is an emission nebula 1000 lightyears away in the Perseus constellation. Because it is very dim, it is almost impossible to see visually despite the fact that it stretches almost 2.5 degrees across the sky. This image is 145 ten-second exposures captured with my #Seestar50 and stacked and processed in Pixinsight.

  30. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography IC1795 aka the Fish Head Nebula is a star-forming area 6000 lightyears away in the Cassiopeia constellation. This image is 215 10-second exposures captured with my #Seestar50 telescope. We have a forecast full of clouds for the next week so I'm processing images from the Seestar that I previously only shared with the scope's live-stacking process. It's good practice!

  31. 20 seconds of Jupiter from last night. You can see how much Earth's atmosphere affects how well you can see the planet at any given moment. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography #Jupiter #Seestar50

  32. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography The Triangulum Galaxy aka M33 is a face-on spiral galaxy 2.7 million lightyears from Earth. It contains about 40 billion stars, has a diameter of 61,100 lightyears, and is the 3rd largest galaxy in the Local Group, behind Andromeda and our own Milky. This image is 149 ten-second exposures captured with my #Seestar50 smart telescope and processed by me using Pixinsight.

  33. #Astrophotography #SkyWatch NGC2174 aka the Monkey Head Nebula direct comparison: screenshot of a single 5 minute exposure with my big rig (Redcat 51, ZWO 533MC pro, AVX mount) and no processing on the left vs. screenshot of 30 ten-second exposures (5 minutes) live stacked by the #Seestar50 and enhanced on my phone on the right. The Seestar50 does a great job for the money and ease of use but there really is no comparison.

  34. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography M97 aka the Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula about 2030 lightyears away in the Ursa Major constellation. It formed about 8000 years ago. The nebula is expanding as its central star condenses to a white dwarf. This image is 171 ten second exposures (28.5 minutes) captured last night with my #Seestar50 smart telescope in partly cloudy skies. I edited the raw exposures without calibration frames using my regular workflow.

  35. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography #StarTrails This photo is pointed at Polaris aka the North Star which was used historically for navigation because it moves very little while the rest of the sky rotates. I exposed this photo to preserve natural star colors but set up my intervelometer incorrectly so there are gaps in the trails which i decided looks cool. #StillLearning

  36. #SkyWatch #Astrophotography #StarTrails This photo is pointed at Polaris aka the North Star which was used historically for navigation because it moves very little while the rest of the sky rotates. I exposed this photo to preserve natural star colors but set up my intervelometer incorrectly so there are gaps in the trails which i decided looks cool. #StillLearning