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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New addition to the solar capable scope and hydrogen alpha filter. This tilts the camera to remove Newton Rings. Whole disc shot 10th August from 12 individual panes. The Sun is 109 x wider than the Earth making some white coloured sunspots greater than the surface area of the Earth. #astronomy

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Sunday 15th June so few prominences but enormous sunspots. This cluster named 4114 experienced a solar flare on the 16th seen as the large white mark in the middle I this NASA photo.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This weekend saw a very active Sun! Sol is reaching Solar Maximum after 12 years and soon will decline to solar minimum over the next 12. This was all Saturday 14th June.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The enormous star cluster M13 in Hercules... 500,000 stars bunched up in a small region of space.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Some amazing surface detail in black and white (which is how I record it) and false coloured later. The horizontal lines are due to Newtonian Rings; how light bounces between a flat (camera) surface and another surface (the filter). The effect is off set by tilting the camera a few degrees.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Sun is 109x wider than the Earth. If it was a sphere 22cm wide the Earth would be 2mm or 0.08in....

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

With the summer in full swing it's Solar Season... 1st June Inc the 3 white dots that are sun spots that caused the Aurora event in the US and Canada later that day....

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Galaxy Season - the Black Eye Galaxy - a thick dark area of dust blocks a portion of the light from the bright core. 17 million light years away.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Galaxy Season - the Sunflower Galaxy - a flocculent spiral type 27 million light years away. Its bright core the result of millions of aging stars.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Galaxy Season - The Needle Galaxy - an edge on grand spiral type similar to the Milky Way. The dust lanes are easily seen over the bright core bulge. #galaxy #galaxySeason

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Galaxy Season - The Whale and Hockey Stick galaxies - both deformed by gravitational effects of nearby objects - bending them out of shape.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Galaxy Season - M81 and M82 12 million lights years away in Ursa Major - M81 is having a gravitational effect on M82 causing active Hydrogen to be pulled away from it, triggering a huge amount of star formation.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You're on blue sky?! Yay! This is one of the funniest... the foot hahaha

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025!! Our kickstarter project has just gone live! A photobook celebrating the lives of 77 women in STEM in their own words. Started back in 2022,we've worked to bring this book to life - today. #IWD2025 #IWD www.kickstarter.com/projects/ast...

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Some close ups of the solar photos. Huge prominences many time the size of the Earth leap off the edge of this glowing ball, whilst huge threads of glowing plasma creep across the surface. #astronomy #sun #solar #astrophotography #astrophoto #physics

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This is a manual composite of the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha taken midday UK on Saturday. The awesome display of energy, a glowing ball of plasma that has existed for 4.5 billion years and will last another 4.5 to 5 billion. It is hard to believe all light and heat we see and feel outside comes from this

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Ooo what's that? Where how when? I'm back on the Fringe sauce again because it is so good....

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Another fab presentation! This tike at @pierroadcoffeeart.bsky.social ! Everyone was so lovely and loved the cliffhanger interlude! Thank you to my hosts for a great set up including blocking out all of our Suns light... ironic as I talk a lot about our Sun!

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

1m x 90cm / 3ft x ~3ft M42 Orion Nebula print in customers frame. If you want to buy a print, contact me for a size/price. Non UK I can arrange for a local printer to print and dispatch to you. Let's talk #astronomyart #framedpicture #art #astronomyprint #astrophotographers #astrogift #printgift

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Another happy customer! A 90cm x 100cm print of the Orion Nebula! Framed version coming soon. I can have my deep sky, solar and Lunar images (planetary in the future) printed to order. Drop a comment if interested. #astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky #orionnebula #printing

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What does the camera see?? Each object emits or reflects (or both) in various wavelengths. Filters help us "see" this light. The Orion Nebula here in Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur shows a rich region of star forming material. Most of this glow is due to 4 very hot new stars called the Trapezium!

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

M42 The Orion Nebula in 3 using different wavelengths mixed into different colour schemes - SHO (Sulphur, Hydrogen and Oxygen), RGB (Hydrogen as red, Sulphur as green and Oxygen as blue) and finally HOO (A more traditional slant of Hydrogen as red, Oxygen as green and Oxygen also as blue). #colours

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Same data but RGB. When shooting astro photos, each element is recorded as a black and white photo... hydrogen (typically assigned to red), sulphur (green) and oxygen (blue). What if we put Sulphur into Red? Hydrogen into Green? We get SHO! #PixInsight provided superior tools to reprocess too

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Flame & Horsehead Nebulae in Orion - the blue stars left and upper middle are two of his famous Belt. This was shot in 2021 using 4nm Dualband filters and reprocessed in 2024 using PixInsight into an SHO layout. Hope you will agree the colours look amazing. #astrophotography #astronomy #STEM

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thank you! It's my Altair 102 refractor using a 26c and an LPRO Max LP filter - just lots of short exposures. Then I used a 4nm dualband Ha and Oiii filter to capture the Ha clouds and merge them on Pixinsight.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

2.73 million light years away lies M33 the Triangulum Galaxy. It contains 40 bil stars & gigantic star forming gas clouds. They were spotted in the 1780s and catalogued. NGC 604 (big red blob bottom right) is 40 x the size of the Orion Nebula and apparently would outshine Venus if in our Galaxy.

A spiral galaxy with a white core with large lumps of pinkish red surrounded by countless stars of our own Galaxy.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

You're ~35 miles from me yay. Catch up over a Sunday pint and pub meal? #canOnlyButAsk

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Love it! I still can't nail down a good Andromeda like you. Well done.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Oh yes it's there but I think there is only supposed to be 3 per shortlist :) And one entry per category.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

So a follow up to the AstroFest imaging competition.... apparently ALL images being considered for shortlisting were posted on the website which was marked The Shortlisted Entries. 🙈 Lot of surprise in the Astro community at this mistake. So fingers crossed I actually do get Shortlisted. 😄

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Extremely happy to announce my image of the Soul Nebula has been shortlisted in the European AstroFest Deep Sky photography competition! #astrophotography #astronomy #lifegoals europeanastrofest.com/imaging-comp...

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@chrislintott.bsky.social Hey Chris - would you be interested in taking a look at our non-profit photobook celebrating women in STEM? Written by them using their own photos, to inspire other women and girls wanting to get into STEM subjects? We're after feedback as we prep our crowdfunder. Thank you

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Amazing Cygnus Loop. Taken using Narrowband 3nm Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen iii and Sulphur ii filters. ~20,000 years ago, a huge star went supernova, its core of iron destroyed and fusing into new elements like lead, iron, gold, calcium and more, scattering them to space #astrophotography #space

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Inverted Hydrogen Alpha image of the Sun using a 102 refractor, Ha Quark and 174m high speed camera. Taken July 2024. Enormous planet sized sunspots. #sun #solar #astronomy #astrophotography

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

@stephenking.bsky.social If only there was a way to put your writing and my astro pics together in a film. Dang it...Alien got there first...

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The amazing Horsehead Nebula in SHO 4nm filters 26c camera. Starless reprocess in #Pixinsight. #astronomy #astrophotography #STEM

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is the North America and Pelican Nebulae in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. Their designation is NGC7000. Shot on the Altair 70Quad 3nm Sii, Oiii and Ha filters and 26m. The nebulae are a vast swathe of star forming gas about 2300 light years away separated by a section of dark dust.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The Flame Nebula is ~1500 light years away in Auriga. The bright star in the "curl" of the flame is AE Aurigae - a hot blue giant. The Tadpole Nebula surrounds the star cluster NGC 1893 and is 12,000ly away. The Tadpoles gets its name from the two streams of gas winding away from two knots.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I can't tell if that's on water? Looks lovely.

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just 4 of the amazing women on our journey!

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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Astronomy With Claire @astrowithclaire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What's up World? Meet the Soul Nebula! Personally I think it looks like a baby. Imaged on an @altairastro7.bsky.social 70Quad scope plus SHO 3nm filters and 26m camera. 7500 light years away in Cassiopeia... meaning this light set off in ~5475BC.

The Soul Nebula shot in S H O filters to show bright colours along the edge and in the middle. It looks a bit like a baby on its side.

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