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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

So many #Galaxy around #MarkariansChain! Captured at 250mm f4 over about 4 hours from a Bortle 3-4 sky.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The #WhaleGalaxy #NGC4631 at 1700mm f7 over about 220 minutes.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Another take of the #TotalLunarEclipse last night. Super thankful for a bit of good weather in the middle of a bunch of rain. #Moon #LunarEclipse #Astro #Space #LAAS #GMARS #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Sony A7R-V, Sony 200mm, 2X tele-convertor, cropped about 50%, Sharpened in Topaz, captured on the west side of Los Angeles

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm fascinated by this music/video made with AI to tell the story of mixing AI with Human art. All of the broken AI that would normally be distracting is part of the story... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1l...

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Choke Me #choker #chokeme #ai #aiart #ravens #skull #skullgirls #crow #braces #lips #lipstick #goth

YouTube video by HalluciNaition

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

4c and rainy in #PalmSprings last night means snow in the hills.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I grabbed a #Timelapse out at #GMARS this weekend, and threw together a quick #StartTrails from the same clip. Fun to watch it build. #StarTrax #Astro #Astronomy

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TimeLapseGMARS4 4K

YouTube video by Ben Guthrie

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A while ago I made some #StarTrails images, and I also made this video of them forming. The video shows all of the scars from the planes and satellites forming, where in the resulting image that can be stripped out. #LAAS #Astro #StarStax

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StarTrails forming over about 9 hours, facing Polaris

YouTube video by Ben Guthrie

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

In mediocre skies this week end I got a wide shot of the #FlamingStarNebula, #TadpoleNebula, #SpiderNebula, #TheFlyNebula, and the #StarfishCluster which are fairly tightly grouped. #LAAS #GMARS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography

RedCat51, 2600mm, Antlia V-Pro LRGB filters, unguided from a Bortle 3-4 for 4.5 hours.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Just back from a night in the desert. Hope to have something new to share after processing. Here are a few #iPhone snaps I took while out there. #LAAS #GMARS #Astro #Astrophotos #Astrophotography

A bit of light painting on a Joshua Tree

My RedCat51 at 250mm, and EdgeHD 9.25” at 1700mm.

Remnants of a SpaceX launch from Vandenberg just before dark.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

So many #Nebula call for a creature or thing seems pretty arbitrary. The #PelicanNebula actually seems to make sense to me from this angle. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO #Space

EdgeHD 9.25, Hyperstar, asi2600mcpro, ASIAir, Eq6-R pro, 113 images 60 seconds long, and 113 images 120 seconds long

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

#Moths have such amazing fur/feathers/scales. They are so incredible up close. #Macro #Bugs

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

#M16 the #EagleNebula, and #M17 the #OmegaNebula or #SwanNebula were close enough to each other that I could get them both in frame with this #RedCat51 telescope. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO #Space #Stars #Eagle #Swan #Omega

RedCat51, AM5, and asi2600mmPro with Antlia 3nm filters from a Bortle 3-4 site.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In the core of the #ElephantTrunkNebula there is this silhouette that looks more like a person than an elephant to me. Captured in #OneShotColor this target comes through mostly red. In Narrowband these other colors are revealed. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #Space #ZWO

Celestron EdgeHD 9.25" x 0.7 reducer at 1700mm, asi2600mcpro color cooled dedicated Astro camera, on an Eq6-R pro using the ASIAir to control.

RedCat 51 at 250mm, asi2600mmPro cooled Monochrome camera, AM5 unguided.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The #WizardNebula captured with cooled, color #Astrophotography camera. These tend to provide simple color palettes, mostly in red where they see #Hydrogen with a bit of blue where they see #Oxygen. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #ZWO

EdgeHD 9.25" x 0.7 reducer for 1700mm focal length, using an asi2600mcPro aps-c 26mp color cooled camera on a Eq6-R Pro tripod/mount.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The #LagoonNebula is the perfect target to look for after Orion and Andromeda. Its fairly bright and has a lot of detail for many different #Telescope sizes.

Explore Scientific ed102 710mm, ac2600mcpro, ASIAir Eq6-R Pro

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The #RingNebula with a 710mm scope is tiny... but I love to see these huge open views with just a few #galaxies and #nebulas to find. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #Space

Explore Scientific ed102, asi2600mcPro, Eq6-r Pro

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Imaging and processing images of space things is a bit of a journey. I was trying to understand what focal length was better for #M13 the #GlobularCluster in #Hercules, and found a way to get more from my data. 1700mm on the left, and 710mm on the right. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography

EdgeHD 9.25" x 0.7, 2600mc, stacked in AstroPixelProcessor and processed in Pixinsight using the BlurXterminator.

Explore Scientific ed102, 2600mc, stacked in AstroPixelProcessor and processed in Pixinsight using BlurXterminator.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Another #StarTrail image from near the Celestial Equator. A full circle would be 24 hours, so this would have been 8-9 hours (a full night) with the shutter open as much as possible. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #StarTrails #Space #StarStax

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Because of the wobbly air we tend to use video compressed down to a single frame for tighter crops of the #Moon. It's a bit like looking through water when the 'Seeing' is bad, but that 'wobble' is averaged out with the many frames in the video. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophotography #Lunar #Space

A single frame from a 26mp APS-c camera on a 1700mm telescope

1000 frames of 1080p video simmered down to one frame from a 1700mm telescope.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Many of these #Astrophotography images are actually captured with #Monochrome Cameras. A filter is used to gather specific spectrums that are later merged into a single image. #LAAS #Astro #Antlia #Astrophoto #Space #ZWO

This is the blend of RGB Stars, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III and Sulfur II

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

For #ValentinesDay it seems appropriate to share this image of the #HeartNebula. It's a #Nebula I have shared before with different framing from different #telescopes, but I love this shot because it shows the details in the middle so well. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Space #Love #Valentines

Explore Scientific 102ed, asi2600mcPro, Eq6-r Pro, ASIAir

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#Comets have such terrible names, usually named after the year and group when first spotted. This is C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS around mid October near Los Angeles. If you knew where to look, it was visible to the naked eye. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophotography #Comet

Capture with a Celestron EdgeHD 9.25” and asi2600mc pro.

Captured with an iPhone 16 pro max near Playa Del Rey, and a decent reference for what it actually looked like.

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

More original content on 🦋 from the person who made it :) Sunrise on Clavius Crater @ 7000mm Focal Length Best 10% of 1600 frame 2 minute video (Red Channel) Celestron C11″ Edge HD ZWO 174mm 2.5x Powermate

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Astronight Observatory @astronight.com · 13/02/2025

Here's Messier 78 and the Northern section of Barnard's loop in Orion #astrophoto #astronomy #astrophotography #astronight

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We set up our #Telescopes to track the stars and offset the motion of the Earth. This allows for very long exposures, often 5 to 10 minutes. You can see the #Telescope locked on the stars in this #Timelapse. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophotography

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SKAS Nov 6th - A night of Astrophotography

YouTube video by Ben Guthrie

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The #Monarch spend a lot of time in our yard eating milkweed, so we see them at all stages. The dark #Chrysalis right before they emerge has these beautiful gold accents. #bugs #Insects

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#MarkariansChain is this amazing chunk of sky that’s just loaded with #Galaxies. The more you pan around the more you can see. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophotography

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Francesco Meschia @frank-mz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Angel nebula is a wonderful combination of emission, reflection, and dark nebulae found in the constellation Monoceros, next to Orion's right leg.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The #TrifidNebula captured with #EdgeHD9.25 and #asi2600mcPro using the #ASIAir, and processed using the #RCAstro suite in #Pixinsight.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A couple attempts with a dedicated #Solar #Telescope made by #Lunt. Like most things in this hobby, they are quite easy to get started, and quite hard to get good at. These images are from a monochrome video, refined down to a single image. #LAAS #AstroPhotography #Astro #ZWO

asi174mm, Lunt 60 with a 2X power mate, recorded to FireCapture on a MacBook

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Debra's Astrophotography @debraceravolo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

M81, Bodes galaxy, a Grand Spiral, is one of the brightest galaxies in our sky cause it's not that far away from us. So we are able to photograph a lot of detail like the pink starbirth regions and dust lanes surrounding its supermassive blackhole at the centre. #astrophotography #space #galaxies

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#BodesGalaxy captured at 1700mm focal length from the hills north of LA. #LAAS #Astro #M81 #Astrophotography #Astrophoto #ZWO

EdgeHD 9.25” x 0.7, asi2600mcPro, eq6-r pro,

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happened to be in #DeathValley when what looks like and #F22 flew overhead.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It seems fitting to share my #Astro image of the #EagleNebula today, along with the #PillarsOfCreation at the heart of it. Go #Eagles! #LAAS #Eagle #Nebula #Astrophotography #Astrophoto #ZWO

65 exposures 3 minutes long, asi2600mcPro, ASIAir, eq6-r Pro EdgeHD 9.25” x 0.7

https://app.astrobin.com/u/ibguthrie?i=51msru#gallery

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The #BubbleNebula! This image actually looked pretty terrible on #Instagram, but looks pretty great on #Bluesky. This place is way better. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO #Space #Nebula

225 images at 60 seconds using the asi2600mcPro, on the EdgeHD 9.25” x 0.7 Eq6-r pro.

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

#DarkNebula like this #SharkNebula can be very difficult to capture with most #Telescope, but the #Hyperstar makes it possible very quickly and easily. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO

Capture with an EdgeHD 9.25” Hyperstar, ASIAir, Eq6-r

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The slow progression of improved skills and equipment constantly rewards. These images are about a year apart as I moved from a normal camera and lens to a dedicated cooled #Astro camera and #Telescope. #Orion #LAAS #Astrophotography

Canon 7D mark 2, Explore Scientific 102ed

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Love the simplicity of this image of the #CrescentMoon lit up by #EarthShine, taken on a road trip from #Texas to #California. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto

Taken handheld with an Ha modified Canon 7D mark2 and Canon 70-200mm

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A #Galaxy like #NGC4656 doesn’t have the stereotypical spiral shape as we are looking at its edge. This one gets called the #HockeystickGalaxy or #CrowbarGalaxy, I assume because of the shape we can see from here. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #AstroPhotography #ZWO #Space

EdgeHD 9.25” x 0.7, ASIAir asi2600mcPro

https://app.astrobin.com/u/ibguthrie?i=ktxg5s#gallery

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

During the summer on #SaltspringIsland we came across a dehydrated #Bat under the canoe. I’ve not been this close to one until now. Amazing fur!

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

From the mountains north of LA, when the timing is right, we can see the #Starlink train of #Satellites crossing the sky. #LAAS

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

When exposed just right during #Eclipse #Totality you can see the #Sun #Corona, and even a few #Solar prominences. Given that we had a thin film of clouds over us our view wasn't ideal, but it was an amazing experience all the same. #Astro #LAAS #Astrophotography

Captured with a Canon 7D mark2 with a Hydrogen Alpha modification and a Canon 70-200mm, mounted on an AM5 tracking mount set to Solar. I polar aligned the night before so that it stayed in frame through the day.

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