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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Leo Triplet Some more Seestar S30 action from the dark skies of Nusa Lembongan in beautiful Indonesia 🇮🇩. The tiny aperture of the S30 isn't really suited to galaxy work but I thought I'd give it a go. 🔭 Clear skies all! #astronomy #seestarS30 #astrophotography #zwo #seestar

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Sh2-129 - Flying Bat and Squid Nebula This was one of the most difficult targets I shot last year. The faint Oiii signal in the Squid Nebula is really more suited to a mono setup and required over 20 hours of integration to really pull the details out using an OSC.🔭 #astrophotography #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Lagoon and Trifid nebulae. Been away on the beautiful island of Nusa Lembongan in Indonesia. Dark skies gave me an opportunity to let the Seestar S30 do it's thing. 🔭 Clear skies all! #astronomy #astrophotography

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

NGC 7380 - Wizard Nebula With the recent weather in Jakarta not allowing any astrophotography, I thought I'd reprocess some data I shot from back in September/October of last year. Shot from the backyard in Somerset. 🔭 Clear skies all! #astronomy #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Messier 82 - Cigar Galaxy Shot this again over christmas using the Touptek ATR585C this time. This starburst galaxy is very active and the hydrogen jets give an interesting spectacle. Shot from my backyard in Somerset UK. Clear skies all! #astrophotography #astronomy

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hey everyone let's all welcome Antonio to BlueSky! Looking forward to seeing some amazing work. #astronomy #astrophotography

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AntonioAstro 🪐🔭 @antonioastro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello bluesky! I am a lecturer of Electronics and Physics, and an amateur astronomer. I share all of my astrophotography, astronomy tips, and other photography to my socials. I have recently switched away from X, Facebook, Instagram, and am now only on Bluesky.

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Veil Nebula and Pickering's Triangle When a star dies, its outer material gets thrown off and can leave behind beautiful structures in the night sky. These gases can go on to produce new stars. The beauty of rebirth. Shot from my backyard in Somerset UK Clear skies all! #astrophotography

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Well, the weather here in Jakarta hasn't allowed the Seestars to produce anything yet, so here is a throwback to when I used an APS-C astronomy camera to image the moon through my 8 inch Newtonian 🔭. 126GB of data were used to make this. Clear skies all! #astrophotography #moon #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A wider look at Messier 31. Really enjoying using the Samyang 135mm lens. Really gives a different perspective to so many familiar objects in the night sky. As ever, shot from my backyard in Somerset UK Clear skies all. 🔭 #astrophotography #space #spacepics #astronomy

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Messier 27 - Dumbbell Nebula Another of my favourites. Sitting in the constellation of Vulpecula around 1300 ly away, this was the first 'planetary' nebula discovered by Charles Messier. 🔭 Shot from my backyard in Somerset UK in Sept 2024. Clear skies all! #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Messier 45 - Pleiades Cluster A winter favourite here in the northern hemisphere. This beautiful open cluster reveals it's nebulosity when imaged using standard DSO long exposure astrophotography, through a modest telescope 🔭 Clear skies all! #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

More Seestar testing. This time the S50 is trying it's hand at lunar. Hitting the RAW button allows the scope to capture .avi video files that can be stacked and processed just like with any other planetary setup. Clear skies all! #astrophotography #moon #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

@astropotamus.com As promised here is M42 from the Seestar S50 for comparison with the S30 shot i posted yesterday. Roughly same integration time. #astrophotography #space ##spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

M42 - Seestar S30 testing. So what can you do with 30mm of aperture, a tiny planetary camera, all wrapped up in a tiny form factor and controlled by your phone? I wasn't expecting much from the little @zwoasi Seestar S30 but I'm actually quite impressed. 🔭 #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

2024, my second year doing astrophotography. It's been a year of progression with some some truly mesmerising moments. Capturing and witnessing the aurora twice from the southern UK being the highlight. Clear skies to you all in 2025! #astrophotography #space #spacepics 🔭

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The Crab Nebula - Messier 1 is a vibrant supernova remnant located in the constellation Taurus, about 6,500 light-years away. Shot from my backyard in Somerset, UK. Clear skies all! #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Back in the UK and back with the astro rigs. Managed one night of imaging last week before the clouds came. Here's a widefield look at the Flaming Star/Tadpoles region in Auriga. Shot from my backyard here in Somerset. Clear Skies All!! #astrophotography #widefield #nightsky #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

One from the back catalogue while I'm on my astro hiatus. 🔭 M81 and M82 - Bodes Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy. The Cigar Galaxy is particularly interesting as it's a starburst galaxy and very active. There is likely tidal interaction between these two causing this. Shot this between Jan-Feb 2024

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

IC1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula Approx 2400 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus is this beautiful star forming region. Can you see the Elephant's Trunk or do you see another shape or shapes in the gas? Shot from my backyard in Somerset. Clear skies all! #astrophotography

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

On an #astrophotography hiatus here in Jakarta, Indonesia at the moment. Missing seeing the stars and missing my scopes!! Here's a city sunset though. Clear skies all! #travelforwork #indonesia #sunset #jakarta

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Deer Lick group. This beautiful little cluster of galaxies gives a handy perspective on cosmic distance. The larger galaxy, NGC7331 is 40 million light years away. The smallers ones in the cluster are likely as large but sit around 300-350 million light years away! Shot from my UK backyard. 🔭

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Melotte 15 - The Heart of the Heart Nebula A closer view. Sky-Watcher 200P-DS Touptek ATR585C Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro Altair Astro 4nm Dual Narrowband Ha Oiii 18 hrs 30 mins integration. Shot from my backyard in Somerset. Clear skies all! #astronomy #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Chepheus shares up some dusty delights. 29 hours of integration on a widefield project through September and October. The dusty IFN combined with flares of Hydrogen Alpha made this a challenge to process. Clear skies all! #astrophotography #astronomy #widefield #space #spacepics

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello Bluesky #astrophotography and #astronomy peeps. What's your favourite night sky objects and are you a visual or EAA observer? Share your setups and your favourite objects and lets talk all things #space. Clear skies all!

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Heart Nebula and Melotte 15. From a wide field of IC1805, Heart Nebula to a detailed close up of the "Heart of the Heart", Melotte 15. Deep sky objects never fail to captivate me. Shot from my backyard in Somerset. #astrophotography #astronomy

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Messier 106 Well we're heading back towards galaxy season, will hopefully get some more data on this beastie and finally add the hydrogen jets that make this galaxy such a glory to behold! Clear skies all! Sky-Watcher 200P-DS Touptek ATR585C Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro #astrophotography

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Hello neighbours!! Galactic neighbours that is. Here is Messier 31, Andromeda Galaxy, a cool 2.5 million lightyears away and speeding straight towards us. Shot from the glorious dark skies of Dartmoor earlier this year. RVO Horizon 72ED RisingCam ATR3CMOS26000KPA EQ6R-Pro #astrphotography

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

More Comet goodness from Thursday evening at Trinity Hill, Devon. Using my Samyang 135mm f/2 lens I tried to focus on the anti-tail. This fainter tail points away from the comet's direction of motion while the primary tail is from the solar wind. Clear skies all! #astrophotography

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan A beautiful evening down at Trinity hill shooting the comet. Nikon D750a Nikon 24-120mm f/4 ED VR 6s at ISO 1600 #comet #astrophotography ##nightsky #nightscape

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Arp 107 - colliding galaxies. Webb + Hubble data. Processed by Алексей Кудря (Alex_A_Lex on X). 🔭 🧪

A mesmerizing cosmic collision captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Two galaxies, one spiral and one elliptical, are locked in a gravitational dance, their shapes distorted and intertwined. The larger spiral galaxy features prominent, swirling arms, while the smaller elliptical galaxy appears more compact and spherical. The image is filled with vibrant colors, showcasing the diverse celestial elements within this galactic interaction.

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Borderlands- Cepheus and Cassiopeia More widefield goodness from the Samyang 135mm. So many nebulae in this region. 24 hrs 35 mins total integration #astrophotography #astronomy #amateurastrophotography #amateurastronomy

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Trying to achieve true SHO with a one-shot colour camera. I've added just over 9 hrs of data with an Askar Colour Magic C2 Sii Oiii filter. With the 12 hrs of Ha Oiii data collected previously, this is the reault..... #astronomy #astrophotography #space #spacepics

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Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia- 7.5 hours and counting.... #astrophotography #astronomy

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Sergio 📷🔭🌲 @sergiospototo.com · 17/09/2024

A trip along our Solar System the same night. Not the best conditions, wind and clouds, but I won't complain at all 🔭 📸🌿📷 #astrophotography #photography #nature #sky #planetary

Collage wth the 4 planets visible these nights, in order of distance, Mars, small, with a brownish tone., Jupiter, showing the bands, isn't a very sharp image this.time. Saturn with its ring visible in a very perpendicular position to us, and Uranus, far, a pale blue dot. Images taken from videos of 2 minutes, stacking only the best 20% in the best case this time.

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Mike Christie @mikechristie.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

NGC6781 or the Snowglobe Nebula in the constellation of Aquila. Imaged with @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social remote Murrell 12” Newtonian in Spain. Processed in PixInsight and heavily cropped to show detail in the nebula.

The Snowglobe Nebula, a planetary nebula in the constellation of Aquila. An outer red ring, with an inner blue or blue-green gas and a central white dwarf star, set against a background of blue and yellowy stars.

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Open cluster NGC 602. Processed JWST/NIRCam data by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

The image showcases NGC 602, a star cluster located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The image, captured by the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, reveals a captivating cosmic scene. The star cluster is surrounded by a vibrant nebula, filled with gas and dust that are illuminated by the intense light from the young, massive stars within the cluster. The intricate details of the nebula, including its filamentary structures and swirling patterns, are brought to life in stunning clarity. The surrounding cosmic landscape is also depicted, with distant galaxies and stars scattered across the vast expanse of space.

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Thomas Hanrath @astrocamp.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Cygnus Loop - a fresh astrophoto This 22-hour project fits nearly perfectly within a full-frame sensor. The Cygnus Loop is an excellent late summer target, and I consider this project a significant milestone. Blog: astrocamp.eu/en/astrophot... Baader APO 95 | EOS R(a) #astrophotography #astronomy

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Naztronomy @naztronomy.com · 15/09/2024

Couple of good friends got married today (on International Observe the Moon Day) so I took this pic for them. This was taken with my 300mm Lens. Stacked 7 frames & did some color balance, saturation, & sharpening in Photoshop. I wish I had the energy to take out a telescope. #Astrophotography 🧪🔭

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Rob Tilsley @stargazerrob.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

My first look at the ringed planet this season. Great to see it again! Rings so much more closed now 🪐 View here is the red channel in monochrome. Taken at 3000mm with an 8" reflector, best 9% of 5,000 frames. #Astrodon #Saturn #Astrophotography

Telescopic view of Saturn - monochrome, north 'up'. Planet as a disc in the centre with some hints of horizontal bandings. Rings quite closed, there is a slither of black between the planet and the rings on either side.

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Lt Nono @ltno2.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

A close up view of NGC1499 the #California nebula...loads of Hydrogen and Sulfur 😇. ASI1600GT - Astronomik 6nm SHO filters - EQ6-R pro. All subs 180s : 40xHa - 40xOIII - 32xSII. RPi5 running Stellarmate OS. Processed with Pix Insight. #Astrophotography 🔭📷

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

The North American Nebula - A wider view This gorgeous bright emission nebula region in Cygnus contains the classic North American nebula, the Pelican nebula and more. Really enjoying these wide fields and will hopefully get more over the autumn. Clear skies all!

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

NGC7635 - Bubble Nebula One of my favourites. I've tried to recreate an image that inspired me. Back in 2016 @nasahubble released an image of the Bubble nebula that I always found captivating. #astrophotography #astronomy

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Cocking about with planetary astrophotography while admittedly not having a clue what I'm doing..... #astrophotography #astronomy #planetary #saturn #wheredoesthiscablego

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

A little trip down to a local dark sky site and here we have.... The Heart and Soul Nebulas, with a cheeky appearance from the Double Cluster at lower left. Clear skies all!

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Tulip Nebula - Cygnus Shot from my backyard in Somerset, I just love all the features Cygnus has to offer. Sky-Watcher 200P-DS 1000mm f5 RisingCam ATR3CMOS26000KPA Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro Altair Astro 4nm Dual Narrowband Ha Oiii 2" filter. Clear skies all!

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

The Iris Nebula My first attempt at a dusty IFN type nebula. This is 10.5 hrs of data split across 4 nights, 2 in Cornwall and 2 at home. Processing this was quite challenging. Still so much to learn in PixInsight! Clear skies all! #astrophotography #astronomy

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

The recent #aurora combined with the #perseidmetorshower as seen from Somerset. I've been so lucky to witness and capture the aurora twice this year from this far south. Mesmerising beauty that reminds us we leave on a beautiful planet. #astronomy #astrophotography #space #spacepics #northernlights

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Nelz Astro @nelzastro.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Sh2-129 - Flying Bat and Squid nebula Well hello! Thought I'd have a look on here and post some content. #astrophotography and #astronomy are my thing. I love to capture the night sky from my home in Somerset and dark sites around the UK. Clear skies all!

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