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Beatrice Heinze Photography @beatriceheinze.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NGC 2237 The Rosette Nebula (HSO) This is the first time I’ve created an astrophotograph using an HSO palette (Hydrogen-alpha/Sulphur/Oxygen). #astrophotography #astronomy #photography #processing #galaxy #art #space #science #PhotographersUnite @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social See more info ALT 👇

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The colours of late summer in south West of France #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #photography

A harvested field under a deep blue sky, with large round hay bales leading toward a small stone village in the distance. The foreground is softly isolated by a shallow depth of field.

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Tom Schopper Photography @tomschopperphoto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

BlueSky Art Show Series No. 0829 | Long Beach Island, NJ My submission for #BlueSkyArtShow on Saturday, August 29, 2026 - today's theme is #Summer. #tomschopperphotography #LBI #LongBeachIsland #NJ #JerseyShore

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 22/08/2026

Double exposure of a meadow. Nature's lovely riot. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Chaos all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments. #photography #nature #meadow #wildflowers #trees

Double exposure of a meadow running up to woods. Purple, yellow, and lavender flowers in tall grass. Repeated upside down

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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 21/08/2026

The lake surface got still on the morning of 8/14, perfect for making a star trail image with reflections! The bright trails on the right are the Pleiades and Hyades, center trails from Perseus. The patch of short streaks are satellites glinting earthshine. There are a few meteors. #astrophotography

colorful star trails circle Polaris. the brighter ones are reflected in a lake. airplane, satellite, and meteor trails brekl the symmetry

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ho Chi Minh City, where chaos has its own traffic rules. Hundreds of trajectories, almost no apparent order, and somehow it flows. #BlueSkyArtShow #Chaos #photography

A busy intersection in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, crowded with motor scooters. Several riders sweep across the foreground while a dense stream of motorcycles fills the street behind them. Narrow, mismatched buildings rise above the traffic, packed with balconies, shop signs, awnings, air conditioners and overhead wires. The scene looks chaotic at first glance, yet the riders move through it with a striking sense of rhythm and coordination.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Chaos, organized by magnetism. Plasma twists, erupts and flows across the solar chromosphere, shaped by forces we can only see through the structures they create. Our star, caught in a restless moment. #BlueSkyArtShow #Chaos #photography [details in Alt-text]

$Captured with a Sony A7S on a TS61EDPH, a 61 mm apochromatic refracting telescope, using a DayStar Quark Chromosphere. The Quark is a very narrow-band H-alpha solar filter centered on the hydrogen-alpha emission line at 656.28 nm, isolating light from the solar chromosphere and revealing filaments, plages and prominences that are largely invisible in ordinary white-light images. The final image combines 500 short exposures, aligned, stacked and reconstructed with my own Python processing code based on torchMFBD, a PyTorch implementation of multi-frame blind deconvolution. MFBD uses information from many differently distorted frames to jointly estimate the underlying solar image and compensate for atmospheric seeing and optical blur. The solar disk and the region outside the limb were processed separately: a restrained treatment preserves detail and contrast across the chromospheric surface, while a much stronger intensity stretch outside the disk reveals the far fainter prominences around the Sun's edge.$

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1/ Here is the timelapse of the Aug 12 eclipse, created by combining the footage from the two setups that accompanied me throughout this extraordinary adventure. Unfortunately, I am missing the corona and Baily’s beads entirely because of a problem during the totality. #eclipse #astrophotography

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Still refining my ultra-narrowband H-alpha solar imaging technique. 500 frames with a Sony A7S + TS61EDPH + Quark Chromosphere. I'm tuning my Python post-processing script around torchMFBD blind deconvolution (github.com/aasensio/tor...) #SolarImaging #HAlpha

$Full-disk view of the Sun imaged in ultra-narrowband hydrogen-alpha light. The orange-red solar disk shows the dense, filamentary texture of the chromosphere across its entire surface, with several bright active regions and small dark filaments. Prominences extend beyond the limb, particularly on the left and lower-right edges. The image was produced from 500 frames captured with a Sony A7S, TS61EDPH refractor and Quark Chromosphere filter, then restored using torchMFBD deconvolution.$

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Late post! My Aug 12 total solar eclipse timelapse from Spain. Frame alignment was a headache, none of my usual tools worked, so I ended up doing it manually before assembling the video. Sony A7S + Quark Chromosphere + TS61EDPH #Eclipse2026 #Astrophotography

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SkandiPhotographer @skandiphotographer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some more photos of the parcial eclipse of the sun yesterday, in south eastern Norway. #photography #eclipse #fujifilm #naturephotography #skandiphotographer

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Totality over the Basque Country, Spain. 12 August 2026, 20:28. #SolarEclipse #Eclipse2026 #TotalSolarEclipse

Three people sit and kneel beside a lake in the Spanish Basque Country, watching and photographing a total solar eclipse. The eclipsed Sun glows in a hazy evening sky, with its warm reflection stretching vertically across the water toward the observers. Dark wooded hills line the far shore.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 15/08/2026

The forest floor. One of my favorite places to exist. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Earth all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments. #photography #woods #nature #sunlight

Fallen leaves laying in shadow on the forest floor while tall trees blaze in the sunlight out of focus in the background

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Early morning, just after sunrise. Quiet water, distant mountains, and earth underfoot. #BlueSkyArtShow #Earth #photography

Early-morning view just after sunrise of a calm lake beneath a wide blue sky with streaks of white and gray clouds. A dark, muddy shoreline curves into the water in the foreground, with hazy mountains stretching across the distant horizon.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Finally, at the very last minute, I decided on a 10-hour road trip to Spain to be in the path of totality. #Earth, Moon, Sun. A perfect alignment. 📷 : TS61EDPH, Sony A7S and Quark Chromosphere. #BlueskyArtShow

A sequence of solar eclipse phases against a deep black sky, from a partially covered Sun to an extremely thin glowing crescent just before totality. The orange-red solar disk and delicate prominences trace the Moon’s passage across the Sun.

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Beatrice Heinze Photography @beatriceheinze.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NGC 6946 Fireworks Galaxy (HaLRGB) NGC 6946 is a grand design, intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus (core of the galaxy). #astrophotography #astronomy #photography #processing #galaxy #art #space #science #PhotographersUnite @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social See more info ALT 👇

NGC 6946 Fireworks Galaxy, in HaLRGB. Total exposure time: 5h18m. Astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze (Processing) and Telescope Live (Data).

It's an active starburst galaxy, located on the border of the northern constellations Cepheus and Cygnus. This galaxy is known for its high rate of supernovae, hence the nickname "Fireworks Galaxy".

The data was fully stacked and processed in PixInsight.

This was my first attempt at processing this galaxy, using tools and a workflow that were completely new to me, but I'm quite pleased with the result for the Fireworks Galaxy.

Data: Telescope Live
Processing: Beatrice Heinze

Telescope: Officina Stellare 70cm (27.5 inches) F8 with RC design (reflector telescope)
Camera: QHY 600M

Location: Oria, Spain (Northern Hemisphere) => Bortle scale 1

Total exposure time: 5 hours 18 minutes

Clear Skies!

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Beatrice Heinze Photography @beatriceheinze.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

NGC 5367 Reflection Nebula (LRGB) NGC 5367, also known as IC 4347, is a reflection nebula that reflects light from two bluish stars. #astrophotography #astronomy #photography #art #space #science #PhotographersUnite #BlueskyArtShow @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social (For more info click ALT 👇)

NGC 5367 Reflection Nebula (LRGB). Astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze (Processing) and Telescope Live (Data).

It is located in the Centaurus constellation (Southern Hemisphere) about 2,050 light-years away from Earth.

I did the stacking and processing in PixInsight.

It was the first time, I processed this nebula.

I think it's a stunning nebula. What's your opinion?

Telescope: ASA 500N, a 50-cm F3.8 corrected Newtonian telescope

Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado valley, Chile (Southern Hemisphere) => Bortle Class 1

Total exposure time: 4 hours

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just our Sun Getting ready for the August 12 eclipse, partial from my location. First light with my Quark Chromosphere (ultra-narrowband Ha). * Unfiltered Sony A7S + TS61EDPH * 120 images stacked Still some work to do on capture and processing, I’m completely new to this! #Astrophotography

False-colour H-alpha image of the full solar disc glowing orange against a black background. Fine chromospheric texture covers the surface, with dark filaments, sunspots, bright active regions and several prominences along the upper-left limb.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In Murano, just across the water from Venice, Watching glass come out of the furnace still glowing. #BlueSkyArtShow #Glass #photography

Close-up of a glowing glass furnace in a Murano workshop. A long metal rod enters from the left, holding a dark, molten gather of glass against the brilliant white-orange opening, surrounded by scorched industrial machinery.

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That Photo Guy @thatphotoguy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sunset over the river.

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Beatrice Heinze Photography @beatriceheinze.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

M8 Lagoon Nebula (HOO) Finally, I was able to finish the project I mentioned on June, 10th => bsky.app/profile/beat... What do you think of it? #astrophotography #astronomy #PhotographersUnite #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social Clear Skies! (See more ALT 👇)

M8 Lagoon Nebula (HOO). Astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze (Processing) and Telescope Live (Data).

I used the following software:
Astro Pixel Processor (stacking); PixInsight (processing) and the final touches I did in Affinity Photo V3, for which I also used a few of James Ritson’s macros, such as Live Denoise (Chroma) and Bandpass Sharpening (Fine).

Data: Telescope Live
Processing: Beatrice Heinze

Telescope: Planewave CDK24 (24 Inch/61cm)

Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado valley, Chile (Southern Hemisphere) => Bortle Class 1

Total exposure time: 1 hour 12 minutes

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

First light at the Marais d’Orx. At 5 a.m., the world is still holding its breath. #BlueSkyArtShow #Quiet #photography #art

The half-risen sun glows orange above a dark tree line at the Marais d’Orx. A thin layer of mist hangs over copper-colored water as two birds fly low across the still surface.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A candle breathing. Schlieren photography reveals the invisible currents of hot air rising above the flame. #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #Photography More details 👇

Schlieren photograph of a small candle flame against a dark background. The image is mostly black and white, except for the orange flame. Bright, twisting ribbons rise above it, revealing the changing density and turbulent movement of the heated air.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A crowded flower, and everyone wants the best seat 🌼🐝 #BlueSkyArtShow #Macro #Photography #BNWmacro

Macro photograph of a small dark bee standing on the bright yellow centre of a white daisy. A second tiny insect rests on a petal to the left, while another dark, blurred insect is partly visible behind the flower. The scene is sharply detailed against a smooth green background.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 20/06/2026

Alternate view in color of a favorite B&W piece I call "Peace Be With You". #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Curve all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments. #photography #statues #sculpture #moody #gloomy

Closeup of a large budha statue with his hands folded in his lap and his robes curving around him

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A quiet curve in the field. #BlueSkyArtShow #Curve #photography #blackandwhite Let’s see if this one gets labeled 😂

Black-and-white photo of a cow grazing in a field, seen from a low angle. Its back and lowered neck form a strong curve against the bright sky. Other cows and a farm building appear in the distance.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Cosmic Curves 🔭 M27, the Dumbbell Nebula, 📷 Newton 130/900 and Sony A7S. M27 glows as its white-dwarf core ionizes the star’s expanding outer layers. @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ? #BlueSkyArtShow #Curve #astrophotography #photography #M27 #DumbbellNebula

A wide-field astrophotograph of Messier 27, the Dumbbell Nebula, surrounded by a dense field of stars against a nearly black sky. The nebula is positioned near the center of the frame and appears as a softly glowing, irregular oval with two broad opposing lobes. Its brightest inner region is pale blue, cyan, and milky white, with translucent layers of gas overlapping around the faint central star. Curved reddish-pink arcs form parts of the outer shell, especially along the upper-left and lower-right edges, creating a rounded, expanding structure around the cooler blue interior. Fainter blue-green gas extends beyond the bright core as a diffuse halo. Hundreds of stars of different brightness fill the background, from tiny sharp points to several larger white stars with subtle four-point flares. Many stars show slight red and cyan fringes, adding small touches of color throughout the otherwise dark field. Captured with a Newton 130/900 telescope and a Sony A7S camera.

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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today's #BlueskyArtShow theme is #curves. I've posted images from here before. It is an oak hammock in the Apalachicola National Forest that periodically floods with heavy rainfall. When it does we wade and make images. #photography #landscape #ECK #rain #oaktrees #forest #longexposure #reflections

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

'Receding Tide, Distant Horizon' (2026) -- Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ME 'Restrict yourself to choice and refusal & exercise them carefully w/ discipline and detachment' ― Epictetus #Scape #Stunday #ImageAndVerse #TidesOutTuesday #Photography #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a vast stretch of sand recedes to the water's edge on an outgoing tide, in the distance, 2 young children play in hip-deep water, a shallow bay perfect for young kids to swim without waves or undertow

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Beatrice Heinze Photography @beatriceheinze.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

NGC 4038 & NGC 4039 Antennae Galaxies The Antennae Galaxies are two colliding galaxies in the Corvus (Latin for "crow) constellation, a small constellation in the southern hemisphere. #astrophotography #astronomy @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social (1/4) See also the annotated version below 👇

NGC 4038 & NGC 4039 Antennae Galaxies (LRGB). Astrophoto by Beatrice Heinze (processing) & Telescope Live (data). Total exposure time: 10 hours and 50 minutes.

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

'Forlorn Ascension' (2025) -- Middle of the Road, An Bang, Central Vietnam 'You become what you give your attention to' ― Epictetus #ImageAndVerse ✨ #Stunday ✨ #PaintByWords ✨ #Scape ✨ #UrbanGaze ✨ #BWFri ✨ #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

An old 2-lane offramp, worn down by decades of inclement weather, rises, somewhat forgotten, into the expansive, timeless sky, accompanied by lampposts from a forgone era

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