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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Boogeyman Nebula in the constellation of Orion #astrophotography

A mysterious man shaped cloud of dark gas and dust in front of red misty nebulosity

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

People chanting "USA, USA, USA" in St Peter's Square today is the most cringeworthy thing I've seen in a long time. #pope

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

CG 4, commonly referred to as God's Hand, is a star-forming region located in the Puppis constellation, about 1,300 light-years (400 pc) from Earth. It is one of several objects referred to as "cometary globules", because its shape is similar to that of a comet. #astrophotography #astronomy

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

CG 4, commonly referred to as God's Hand, is a star-forming region located in the Puppis constellation, about 1,300 light-years from Earth. It is one of several objects referred to as "cometary globules", because its shape is similar to that of a comet.

A pink and brown arm of gas appears to be reaching out to grab a distant galaxy

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Because I refuse to follow Bezos up Trump's arse, I'm now banning myself from purchasing anything more from Amazon. As a long term Kindle ebook user, I thought this might be difficult, but since discovering Kobo ebooks I've not looked back. Twitter/X ❌️ Amazon ❌️

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

From my backyard...Jupiter! This is my first serious attempt at planetary imaging. Taken with a Skymax 127 maksukov scope and 2x focal length extender. #astrophotography #astronomy

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

From my backyard...the Cosmic Reef, a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (1/2) #astrophotography #astronomy

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My first lunar images with my full astro rig. First clear night in Sydney and the moon is just laughing at us deep sky imagers, so if you can't beat em... #astrophotography #astronomy

Monochrome image of half of a brighky illuminated moon

Dark moody image of half of the moon's face

Monochrome image of a gibbous moon face, showing lots of craters and other features

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

NGC 346 is a young open cluster of stars with associated nebula (approx. 200 ly across) located in the Small Magellanic Cloud in the southern constellation of Tucana. It is a region of high mass star formation. #astrophotography #astronomy

The main central section of this nebula is a wispy blue and white, denoting ionised oxygen-3. Traces of red nebulosity, due to hydrogen alpha, are at the bottom and right. Stars are scattered across the image.

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I saw Saturn with my own eyes last night through the first eyepiece I've owned for ages. No photos, just visual. It reminded me of the first time I saw it through my little 2" Tasco refractor 50+ years ago...still just the most marvellous sight in the sky 🪐 #astrophotography #astronomy

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Eagle nebula, aka the Pillars of Creation. I'm not a fan of the Hubble palette but it seemed to work better here than the other versions I tried. #astrophotography

Pink and orange peaks and pillars of nebulosity on a blue-mauve background, with darker clouds of nebulosity at the top of the image.

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Any day now I'm expecting Trump to appoint Rudy Giuliani as Secretary of Media Events and Landscaping Supplies

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is part of the Vela supernova remnant...it's an image that I'm quite proud of #astrophotography

Bast clouds of red nebula on the left contrast to the wispy blue nebulae filaments on the right

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

NGC 3293, the Gem Cluster, is an open star cluster in the Carina constellation. It consists of blue supergiants and a 7th magnitude pulsating red supergiant, V361 Carinae. #astrophotography #astronomy #space

NGC 3293, the Gem Cluster, is an open cluster in the Carina constellation. It consists of more than 100 stars brighter than 14th magnitude in a 10 arc minute field, the brightest of which are blue supergiants of apparent magnitude 6.5 and 6.7. There is also a 7th magnitude pulsating red supergiant, V361 Carinae. This image shows a beautiful expanse of red nebulosity onto which the blue and red stars of the Gem Cluster are laid.

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FrankAlvaro @frankalvaro.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The Cosmic Reef and other colour splats (technical astronomical term) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. #astrophotography #astronomy

The Cosmic Reef is a region of nebulosity in the Large Magellanic Cloud, full of colourful nebulae and star clusters

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