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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 25/01/2025

Thank you! I wish I had more time on it, but clear nights have been few and far between!

Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 25/01/2025

A nice gathering of nebulae and stars in the Auriga region, including The Flaming Star, Tadpoles, Spider, and Fly nebulae, plus the Starfish Cluster. This was around six and a half hours of data with a OSC camera and narrowband filter. #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #astro #space

Colour deep space photo of various red and yellow nebulae, pkus some stars and star clusters.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 21/12/2024

Great image! It's a target I've never attempted before.

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Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

To Astrophotographers: I'm building a bot to perform astrometry on your astrophoto posts. Mention @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social , and it’ll reply with calib data, detected objects, an annotated image, and a sky map. Before investing more time, do you find this useful? See the bot's response below.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 10/12/2024

An astrolandscape shot from when I was exploring Kazakhstan (Almaty region) back in the summer. #astro #astronomy #landscape #astrophotography #landscapephotography #photography #kazakhstan

A blueish monochromatic image of a lake surrounded by mountains. The core of the Milky Way stretches across the night sky, from the top left to the bottom right. The image has a serene quality to it.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 02/12/2024

Too kind! And always willing to help out!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

I'm super impressed by my AM5 mount!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

I actually really want an Edge HD at some point soon. Probably the 9.25. I'd prefer the 11, but my wallet says no.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

Thank you, Kat! It's an oldie, but it has always been one of my favourite scenes.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

I think it works tremendously well, especially with the diffraction spikes! That's one thing I'm missing with my Pleiades photos and need to rectify that soon!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

I was very lucky to see blue hour! Hopefully you'll get to see it some day as well.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

I did a quick re-edit of a very old photo from over a decade ago. This image of a fisherman with his cormorants was taken in Southern China during the morning blue hour. It was very early, and incredibly humid! #photography #art #landscapephotography #travel #travelphotography #landscape #china

A Chinese fisherman stands on a small raft in a river, along side four cormorants, all reflected in the water. The background is a series of pointy karst mountains with clouds around the base. The whole scene is blue due to the morning twilight.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 01/12/2024

Thank you so much for your very kind words!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 30/11/2024

Thank you so much, Kat! I started as a travel and landscape photographer before I got so into space photos!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 30/11/2024

Beautiful detail in the surrounding dust clouds!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 30/11/2024

The wild horses near Cappadocia in Turkey with a beautiful stratovolcano in the background. It took me a long time shooting and several thousand shots to capture this scene. Other photographers can relate! #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #wildlife #turkey #nature #naturephotography

A group of dark brown horses run through the scene from right to left, with a gorgeous snow-capped volcano in the background. In the immediate forground right at the centre of the scene is one white horse. The light from the setting sun illuminates everything from the right-hand side.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 29/11/2024

I'm enjoying it! Much more than Twitter these days! (Also realised I wasn't following on IG, so rectified now!)

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 29/11/2024

Thank you! Could have been better if I wasn't in a city, but that's where I live!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 29/11/2024

Thank you! It's pretty lengthy for just one evening!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 29/11/2024

This was my second attempt at my favourite galaxy to image - The Triangulum Galaxy (M33). This had a total integration time of 7 hours and 30 mins over one evening. Feel free to like it and share it if it's your thing. No worries if not! #astronomy #astrophotography #astro #photography #space

Photograph of the Triangulum galaxy - a spiral galaxy surrounded by stars and some tiny pinkish nebulae.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 27/11/2024

After recently finishing, "Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat", I'm now halfway through, "Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop" by the same translator and I'm really getting into my Korean healing fiction! #booksky 📚💙 #books #reading #ilovebooks #healingfiction #korean

Book cover of, "Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop".

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 25/11/2024

One of the most surreal scenes I've ever photographed! Any guesses as to where this is?! #art #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #travel #travelphotography

A ruined 2-storey building stands slightly toppled over, completely surrounded by water in the ocean.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 25/11/2024

One of my favourite parts of Scotland!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 24/11/2024

I'm coming from a landscape photography background into astrophotography, so I tend to process the images differently to a lot of other astro people! Whether that's good or bad, I'm not sure!

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 24/11/2024

Saw Audioslave as a consolation.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 24/11/2024

I haven't listened to Superunknown since... earlier this morning when I was playing the drums to Fell On Black Days.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 24/11/2024

I'm glad to be a radar maker. I'm not sure of the terminology.

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Conor MacNeill (@thefella) @thefella.com · 24/11/2024

It was a ground-breaking soundtrack when it came out. I quite enjoyed the movie as well, in a 90s way.

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