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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I made an allsky camera out of spare parts and poo pipe from Bunnings. Saved myself like 2 grand by not buying something off the shelf. Video here if you’d like to do something similar : youtu.be/pN4XNNMMjl8

In the end the stars were the friends we made along the way.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thanks Rami! What a huge honor … I was one of their first collabs on their young instagram and now I’ve come full circle on their 3m+ account !

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hanging with FILLIPO from @PrimaLuceLab and the Testar crew at @IAC2025sydney ! They wouldn’t let me take the new focuser because it’s the “only one in Australia”. Pshhh 😅

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Anyone going to the 76TH INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS (Sydney) next Friday? Apparently it’s a free day so I’ll be hanging around 🍻

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

10% talent/tylenol, 10% effort, 40% equipment and 40% weather/conditions! NGC 6729 - Old Mate Yoda Apertura 75Q (Reduced F4) QHY Minicam 8 + OAG SkyWatcher 100i mount 63 x 2m Red 70 x 2m Green (oops) 65 x 2m Blue Total : 6.6hours #astrophotography #qhyccd #skywatcher

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

M17 Omega is like the TEMU version of M42 Orion. It kind of has the same shape and colours but looks like it's been hitting the crystal pipe and has fallen on hard times. Apertura 75Q (Native) QHY Minicam8 + OAG SkyWatcher 100i 35 x 2m R 11 x 2m G (oops) 35 x 2m B Total: 2.7hrs

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

You guys aren’t ready for this level of sophistication.

One of the most important steps in astrophotography.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If the DOD is now the Dept. of War … surely US Space Command can be STAR WARS again too? Make America Dorks Again! 🇺🇸

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Any other aussies wake up at 3:30am on a work day Monday? 😅 Quick single exposure to see the stars close to totality. Next one in March is at a much more forgiving evening time.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Saturday night's 97% Moon. When it hits 100% around 3:30am AEST tomorrow, it will go blood red as we enter the totality of a full lunar eclipse. Not the best time for those of us with day jobs, but there will be an evening one in March 2026 if you miss this one. Apertura 75Q / 300mm / F4

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Breaking 🚨 - The Dark Sky Preservation petition is the #1 open petition by signatures before the Australian Parliament right now!!! Sign here : www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... 🇦🇺

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Debugging the equipment in the observatory.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We have TWO WEEKS to get 7k Australian 🇦🇺 signatures on this official parliamentary petition to deal with the insanity of street lighting and light pollution. Please add yours mates. Or you know, (pictured). www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Zoom in and leave your (numerous and significant) Earth problems behind. M8 Lagoon Nebula 🏝️ Apertura 75Q Telescope 🔭 QHY Minicam 8 📷 SkyWatcher 100i Mount HaRGB Ha 52 x 2m ❤️ R 33 x 2m ❤️ G 28 x 2m 💚 B 33 x 2m 💙 Total : 4.8 hours exposure.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Where is the outrage over Apple’s logo? We could’ve been rocking this bad boy on our doom bricks.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Imagine having your solar daytime astronomy session ruined by a *f#+king* streetlight. Is that irony or just basically unfortunate?

It’s like raaaaaiiiiiin on your wedddding dayyy

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

HAVE YOU NOTICED THE MOON ISN’T “HOT” ANYMORE SINCE I STARTED POSTING ABOUT SOLAR? I WILL MAKE SOLAR ASTRONOMY GREAT AGAIN. SOME PEOPLE SAY IT’S AT MAXIMUM THANKS TO ME, UNLIKE THE SOLAR MINIMUM I INHERITED AFTER OBAMA - I FIXED IT. THNK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

M20 - They call me Tripod Apertura 75Q / 405mm / F7 🔭 QHY MiniCam8 Camera/Filters 📷 Sky-Watcher 100i Mount HaRGB Ha – 106 x 2m R – 31 x 2m G – 17 x 2m B – 65 x 2m Total : 7.3 hours I think it turned out amazing for such a tiny little portable setup!

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I got a great new job and I’m straight up just not going to tell LinkedIn. *takes a long drag on cigarette and flicks it into the gutter*

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

… when you take the dog for a piss and it’s low key majestic AF …🥹… Milky Way core tracked Canon 6D mk2, Move shoot move pocket sized rotator. 43 x 30s / f4.5 / iso 3200 #astrophotography #milkyway #byronbay

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I'm a speaker at this astronomy event in Geelong, VIC in a couple of weeks if anyone wants to come get hammered with me. events.humanitix.com/vastroc-2025

They put the speakers in order from worst to best.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The Dusty Eagle (Lupus) - Shot over 2 nights, an amazingly rich Southern Hemisphere area! Worth a widescreen zoom in. 🔭 Apertura 75Q – 405mm 📷QHY MiniCam8 SkyWatcher Wave 100i LRGB Lum: 47 x 2m Red: 44 x 2m Green : 51 x 2m Blue : 50x 2m Total: 6.4 hrs.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It doesn’t look like the “Cat’s Paw” at this magnification (3910mm) so I’m going with claw. 😆 C14” EHD 🔭/ ZWO2600MMDUO 📷 / SW8RH-PRO 🦾 (HOO) 39 x 10m – Hydrogen 50 x 10m – Oxygen[III] Total : 14.8 hrs exposure

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I've evolved from being the guy who shares his guiding graph on social media to the one getting it published in the latest issue of Scope Trader. That's how insufferable I am now.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New shot! “Dragon’s Egg” Celestron 14” EHD / F11 / 3910mm ZWO 2600 MM DUO SkyWatcher EQ8 RH PRO HOO 120 x 3m Hydrogen Alpha 75 x 3m Oxygen[III] Total 9.75 hours. BTS Video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvGE...

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Dragons, vertical for your pleasure. NGC 6188 “Fighting Dragons of ARA” Apertura 75Q / QHYMinicam 8 / SW GTI HOO-RGB Hydrogen 21 x 3m Oxygen 25 x 3m Red 36 x 10s Green 39 x 10s Blue 33 x 10s Total 1.67 hrs usable data.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Had some school talks yesterday. After an answer about black hole spaghettification one kid goes “so.. if I put my penis into the black hole first …” 😂

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Handy graph that shows my feelings towards the Moon plotted over time since becoming an astrophotographer.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Mystery of where all my guitar picks go has been solved.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Stay on the lookout for the failed 1972 Soviet venus lander Cosmos 482 which will crash land anywhere on Earth at any moment from now. It would be real funny if the parachutes still worked. 🪂.. uncertain tracking data via @skyguide for iOS.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We've been enjoying a giant sunspot 4079 seen here in this inverted scan of the sun about 30m ago. A huge "filaprom" has also been showing off this week in the top left, snaking around the limb. The sunspot has been relatively quiet. (SGH700 / SW82ED / SWEQRhPro / QHY678M ) - May7th, Byron Bay Obs

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The only thing more delicious than these Vegemite shapes is watching this sea of Labor red on this landslide election result with my mates :) 🍷

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There’s no sweeter sound to an astronomer than the sound of chainsaws from the neighbours property. That’s another 30 mins on the Carina nebula region right there!

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Rename this nebulae so it's less woke. NGC 3603,3576 Apertura 75Q Quintuplet Refractor QHY Minicam8 SkyWatcher GTI Mount HOO-RGB H 57 x 60s O 23 x 60s R 15 x 30s G 18 x 30s B 18 x 30s Total 1.75 hours

The Mother of Exiles, if she was mostly hydrogen.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Happy birthday YouTube! 20 years old today. My first embarrassing upload was 18 years ago, so it’s now legally allowed drink. It only has this many views because you guys have been creeping on me ;) Thanks for everything @youtube ❤️

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Scanning the sun with a spectroheliograph gives you a lot of different bits of data to choose from in a single shot! If you want to know how this works see my latest video demo of the SHG700 (sold out, waiting list until June!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOmZ...

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

TIL a woman imaged the eclipse with her retina! (Exposure time - 6s)

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Reposted by Dylan O’Donnell

Celestron @celestronuniverse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Captured in 8 hours using a HaGB palette & his Celestron 11" EdgeHD telescope, Team Celestron member @dylanodonnell.bsky.social was able to see details in Centaurus A that he had never seen before. Hop over to Dylan's YouTube channel for his breakdown of Centaurus A: bit.ly/3UPSOrL

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I’m dialing in the spectroheliograph SHG700 better with every try! My best result so far. Today’s sun. Happy 420 yo! #astrophotography

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Tonight’s second rig ✅👏🏼 2 NINAs, 1 backyard. 📷

$The itty bitty frac committee (75q + minicam8)$

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I look forward to going back to the USA one day, but ima wait this one out.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The sun, about 30 mins ago. Sunspot region 4060 is super flary (dark patch) in this inverted image. It measures 120,000kms end to end. Captured with the MLAstro SHG700 spectroheliograph, QHY678M and SkyWatcher 82ED, Processed in Jsol'Ex 3 and AS3. #solar #astrophotography

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Handy checklist of things to do when visiting Jupiter.

Jupiter sucks because of its extreme mass.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This very long photo is the result of the QHY Minicam8's quite long sensor! Great Carina Nebula... 📷 Apertura 75Q Itty Bitty Frac 405mm / F5.4 QHY Minicam 8 Camera SkyWatcher GTI Mount HaGO-RGB 30 x 1m Ha 30 x 1m O[III] 24 x 1m Red 27 x 1m Green 24 x 1m Blue Total : 2.25 hours

You know what they say about a guy with a long photo…

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I did some telescope maintenance today and it looks real pretty. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

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