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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
M45, The Pleiades. These wintry Daughters of Atlas set with the Sun during April. A reflection nebula, the new and bright Sisters appear shrouded by a veil of stardust. 🔭#astrophotography (sorry that it has been so long since I posted!)
the Pleiades, with Mocking Moon logo
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Here is last night's Eagle nebula shot. Presented preliminarily in anticipation of adding a few more hours of integrated time. Also a test of Bsky's higher res images. I will tag it to the feeds when I have more data. 1370mm focal length C8 no filter
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A detail from our Pelican Nebula post, earlier today. less than 25% of the larger image. Here the finer structure of the nebula is apparent. 👀
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The Pelican Nebula in Cygnus. Star formation occurs in these clouds, including Herbig-Haro objects like HH55, near the bottom left of frame. 435 minutes of subs C8 Hyperstar higher-res: flic.kr/p/2reTzFs it has been too long since I uploaded. thx for looking! 🔭 #astrophotography
The pelican nebula, a colorful region of gas and dust
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The Spoils System is back, Baby!
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
here is a less-harsh interpretation.
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NGC 2664, the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula in Narrowband RGB. The spring* constellation of Monoceros contains this interesting cluster and its associated nebulae. The Cone Nebula, upper left, is a "star-forming pillar of gas and dust." 🔭 #astrophotography #Celestron #vixen #zwo
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Does Trump really see Barr as a traitor, though? Or the scapegoat?
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"Crazy Eddie." Arrives before the cyclical collapse of civilization. When the pandemic begins, he shouts "Kill the Doctors!" A cultural archetype among a fictional alien people, who are called Moties by humans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mot...
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is he though?
Picture of a gay guy
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The photos are not "doctored," in a deceptive way, as you seem to imply, but they are taken using an "RGB" filter to combat light pollution. It limits the wavelengths observed to a few useful ones. I then adjust the images to increase the observability of the deep space objects.
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Also known as NGC 2237, it is 5200 Light years distant, and 65 light years across. The nebula, which is presented by Mocking Moon Observatory here today, is infested with newborn stars: 2/3
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Caldwell 50 is the star cluster, pictured here with the Rosette (or Skull) Nebula, in this photo from MMO, which was taken on the night of the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette... #Astrophotography🔭 1/3
160x60 second sub exposures. Celestron Celestar C8, Starizona Hyperstar v4, Antlia Triband ultra ii RGB filter, Vixen GP2, EQStarPro, Sharpcap Pro, GiMP
F1.9 390mm
Astrometry:

Center (RA, Dec):	(98.081, 4.858)
Center (RA, hms):	06h 32m 19.353s
Center (Dec, dms):	+04° 51' 29.810"
Size:	1.81 x 1.62 deg
Radius:	1.213 deg
Pixel scale:	2.45 arcsec/pixel
captured by Wes Chadwick
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Here's the #Horsehead nebula from the 7th, using my Antlia Triband Ultra II. I will soon capture broadband lights to mix in and, I hope, bring the blue and yellow wavelengths out. #Astrophotography🔭
a scene of red and black, some brilliant white stars and many smaller stars, more dim stars are seen on the left side of the image, which is divided by a wall of cloud. A dark bay juts out of the cloud, shaped like the head of a horse. a fine feathery cloud rises above it, and a nebula like a torch with dark lanes in the shape a tree trunk, the Flame nebula. 
Celestron C8, hyperstarV4, Antlia Triband Ultra II, ASI294mc PRO, Vixen GP2 with EQStarPRO, Sharpcap Pro,
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Another edit:
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A vastly expansive shell of gas surrounds the multiple star system HD 206267 in the constellation Cepheus. Clumps of gas and "dust" struggle against the raging stellar winds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephan... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_206267 🔭👀👀
A vastly expansive shell of gas surrounds the multiple star system HD 206267 in the constellation Cepheus. Clumps of gas and "dust" struggle against the raging stellar winds. 
I took this picture, 11/29/2024, it is a stack of <40 120 second exposures. Celestron C8, ZWO ASI294MC pro, Vixen GP2 mount, Sharpcap pro, GraXpert
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Clarksville, TN, May 10, 2024! Bortle 6! Directly overhead! (!!!!!)
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Now I see it! (I was just making a googly eye joke.)
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Oh, no! Was it this guy??
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
This is from a year ago www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Brown Recluse, didn't like being awakened. #arachnids #arachnology
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) Shot at f6.3 on my Celestron C8 (i think the dark lines at lower right are image anomalies) ASI294MC PRO (6) 52.5" exposures. Sharpcap Pro #astrophotography 🔭
a comet streaks silently through the sky, dust in its orbit streams along behind it
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Hello, advertise your account with one image.
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Tonight's comet. she's a Wonder now the whole world gazes skyward acknowledges a sunlit wanderer passersby, ephemerae #astrophotography #RandomPoem
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Comet A3 Tsuchinshan/Atlas in my stack of (12) 8 second exposures taken with my Canon EOS R7 at 75mm. The beautiful yellow color shows off, and the ant-tail is clearly visible. 🔭 #astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
he Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888 is an emission nebula 5000 ly away, lit by a Wolf-Rayet star's stellar wind. The brightest star above it is the Revenant of the Swan, a Hyper Giant blue variable, Mass=37 suns, Luminosity=610,000 suns! C8 Hyperstar ASI294MC pro Sharpcap pro SIRIL 🔭#astrophotography
he Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888 is an emission nebula 5000 ly away, lit by a Wolf-Rayet star's stellar wind. 

The brightest star above it is the Revenant of the Swan, a Hyper Giant blue variable, 

Absolute magnitude -7.9! 

Mass=37 suns, 

Luminosity=610,000 suns!
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
So that could be Hale
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
O, Cumberland I'm your faithful son No matter where I roam I hear you calling me #Tennessee
A morning in Tolkien's "The Shire."
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
We had an amazing, clear, and cold night here at Mocking Moon Observatory. Messier Objects 31, 32, and 110. NGC 206 is the blue star cloud at 8:00 low 120 seconds x 40 sub exposures. SiriL, GraXpert 🔭 #Astrophotography
the Great Nebula in Andromeda reclines precariously in the night sea, its disk perturbed by the pestering satellite galaxies
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Reflection nebula IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula, fish in mouth, stares down like the jawless head of a blue-eyed zombie. The right eye, 57 Cygni, is paired with another star, the pair resemble the eyes of Deadpool in their surrounding nebula. 🔭 #astrophotography @ Mocking Moon Observatory
Reflection nebula IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula, fish in mouth, stares out like the jawless head of a blue-eyed zombie. The right eye, 57 Cygni, is paired with another star, the pair resemble the eyes of Marvel Character Deadpool in their surrounding nebula. I dub it the Deadpool Nebula. 
The Northa America Nebula, NGC 7000 is partially visible in the lower half of the frame.
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Fantastic! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983MNRA...
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Dust lanes, Stars, Stars, and a Herbig Haro Object in the Pelican\North America region, Cygnus Celestron C8, ASI294mc pro, antlia triband filter, SharpCap pro @ Mocking Moon Observatory 🔭👀😍 #astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Sadr Region in Cygnus Celestron Celestar C8 Asi294mc pro Vixen gp2 w/EQStarPro Starizona Hyperstar V4 Antlia Triband filter Sharpcap live stack 🔭#astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
NGC 7000 The North America Nebula 👀🤩 Celestron Celestar C8 Asi294mc pro Vixen gp2 w/EQStarPro Starizona Hyperstar V4 SharpCap live stack 5 x 4minute subexposures 🔭#astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
The Western Veil Nebula in Cygnus. *Folks, I am just over the moons with this pic!* Celestron Celestar C8 Asi294mc pro Vixen gp2 w/EQStarPro Starizona Hyperstar V4 Antlia Triband filter 20 x 20" lights Asi DeepStack Siril, GIMP 🔭#astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Very cool. This may be the quote I had forgotten--->
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
M27 The Dumbbell Nebula In the Constellation Vulpeca Celestron C8 CST ASI294mc pro 🔭 #astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
Barnard's "E". dark nebula in Aquila Barnard 142, 143 94x10" exposures, calibrated Celestron C8 Wedge w/Hyperstar ZWO ASI294MC Pro cropped 🔭thanks for looking! #Astrophotography
A menacingly dark Letter "C" threatens to look like an "E" at any moment
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, and friends. This is the first calibrated, stacked photo from my Hyperstar'd Celestar C8 which I am fairly happy with. 🔭 #astrophotography Thx for looking! ZWO294mc pro 160x10" lights 50 sky flats 50 darks Cropped ASIStudio, SharpCap Pro, Siril, Gimp
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
High-footing it! The box turtle returns to our yard again this year #herp #turtle #herpetology #nature #photography #pixel7
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
This is the single exposure I took with my canon last week, for comparison. Very happy with the upgrade, so far. thx for looking!
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
M57, The Ring Nebula, and its distant companion, spiral galaxy IC1296. Blue-green oxygen and red hydrogen shone in my sensor from the nebula; IC1296 mostly shone red. Celestron C8 CST Wedge ZWO ASI294mc pro 15"x161 =2415" total exposure first stacked image from my scope. 😁🔭#astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
this is the single exposure I took a week or so ago with my canon. I am very pleased with the upgrade, so far!
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Messier 57 The Ring Nebula 30 sec exposure f/6.3 cropped #Canon #Celestron #astrophotography 🔭
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Earthshine #canon #astrophotography
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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Bumblebirds are real, and they are spectacular. #BirdsAreReal #canon #photography #NaturePhotography Tennessee Canon EOS Rebel t7
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