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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

2026-04-10 M101 Pinwheel galaxy n friends Found myself second hand astro camera! Just finished calibrating and setting up. Here is my first results more to come. Gear:🤩 Omegon 571c on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Topaz Denoise #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

2025-12-23 IC 434 Horse head and Flame The night was pretty windy so I had to reject quite a bit of exposures due to shakes, but the result satisfied me. Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Topaz Denoise #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

2025-09-01 NGC7380 Wizard nebula MY CAMERA IS WORKING AGAIN! Turns out it just needed a bit of time to completely dry out. 5 hours of moonless night. Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Starnet++ #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

2025-08-19 NGC6992 Eastern veil nebula A bit sad start of the dark season, my gear got some rain during this shoot and the camera does not connect to the PC anymore.🥲 Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Starnet++ #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#stopkillinggames Dont forget to sign the EU citizen initiative (this is not petition)! This initiative asks for new games to have a EOL plan. eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Big thanks to Phillipp Dettmer and @kurzgesagt.org for the book. It was an inspiring and fun experience to read it. It was deep enough for my curiosity about life in cell scale, in this case the immune system. Im also grateful to be able to read it in my native language ❤️🤩

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

2025-04-01/03 Galaxy field around NGC4874 Everything here that is not a sharp point is a galaxy, good luck counting them all. total 101 * 7min exposures = 11hr 47min Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

2025-03-28 NGC6946 Fireworks galaxy Quite dim galaxy near the Milky-way main star axis. It made the galaxy hard to process since tons of stars make the image crowded. Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Starnet++ #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Omuamua is a spacecraft - confirmed! 🛸 😅

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

2025-03-06 M101 Pinwheel galaxy. I was planning to shoot the target 2 nights but moonlight increase from 47% to 57% made the results worse 65 * 4min = 4hr 20min Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Topaz Denoise #Astrophotography

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Ernestas Iš Plungės @oldfriender.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

2025-02-09 (moonlit) M106 Galaxy in Canes Venatici and the same target 2025-02-20 (DSD), notice the difference. 101 * 2 min = 3hr 22hr 29 * 4min =1h 56min Gear: Stock Canon 6D on SW Quattro 200/800 on ER-6R, Off-axis guiding. Soft: APT, PHD2, DSS, SiriL, Gimp, Topaz Denoise #Astrophotography

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