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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Running Chicken Nebula in the constellation Centaurus taken with the Seestar S30 Pro. The image is a stack of 186 exposues of 60 seconds each for a total of 3hours 6min. #astronomy #astrophotography

A star field with a red gaseous nebula in the shape of a chicken.

A small telescope with some red and green lights, mouted on a camera tripod in a driveway.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tonight's waxing crescent #moon with clouds drifting through. #Seestar S30 Pro

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I will be live streaming the March 3 #LunarEclipse on YouTube from my observatory at Hazelbrook (Australia) starting at 8.30pm AEDT (0930 UTC). #bloodmoon #eclipse youtube.com/live/LKU-p-i...

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Total Lunar Eclipse LIVE - 3rd March 2026

YouTube video by The Wonky Astronomer

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I observed an occultation of binary star Antares by the moon. The smaller star of the pair reappeared on the moon's dark limb a few seconds before the brighter star. #astronomy #occultation #moon

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Tonight I'm live steaming from Hazelbrook Observatory. Two asteroid occultations in 12 minutes. Starting at 12:30 UTC March 13. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OMi...

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Two Occultations in 12 minutes - March 13 2025

YouTube video by The Wonky Astronomer

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My friend Martin Ratcliffe recently shared his photo montage of the 2023 annular solar eclipse over Bryce Canyon, Utah. I may be biased, but I think it's spectacular (and it got selected for an astronomy picture of the day). 🧪🔭 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23101...

This timelapse series captured on October 14 is set against the sunrise view from Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon, planet Earth. Of course on that date the New Moon caught up with the Sun in the canyon's morning skies. Local temperatures fell as the Moon's shadow swept across the high altitude scene and the brilliant morning sunlight became a more subdued yellow hue cast over the reddish rocky landscape. In the timelapse series, images were taken at 2 minute intervals. The camera and solar filter were fixed to a tripod to follow the phases of the annular solar eclipse.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

On Sunday night, at a club observing session with the 30-inch telescope, I took this 30 second exposure of the scene and accidentally caught #comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the background. The bright object on the right is the crescent moon. #Astronomy

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🇺🇦 @aireseo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Saturn, the Moon and Venus, tonight (1 Feb’25) over Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne. (Neptune is in there too for those with good eye-sight). @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Dylan O’Donnell @dylanodonnell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Europa and it's shadow transits across Jupiter! Beautiful sequence taken over 2 hours with a Celestron 14" EHD telescope and QHY678m camera. (R, 3910mm FL) 📷🔭

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#Asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact Earth on Dec. 22 2032 (1.3% chance). Official statement from the International Asteroid Warning Network. iawn.net/documents/NO...

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Kym @ The Evening Sky Map @skymaps.com · 28/01/2025

🌟 This stunning image of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was captured just 2 hours ago from southern Australia. The streamers of gas and dust, known as synchrones, are caused by the breakup of the comet's nucleus.🔭 #astrophotography #comet Exp: 23 x 30s Scope: Askar SQA55 Rig details: skymaps.com/ir0/

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Debra's Astrophotography @debraceravolo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A long ago collision of two galaxies stirred up this far off star system called the Black Eye Galaxy (M64) and resulted in all this dark galactic dust obscuring the active starburst core. I photographed this using a 16 inch vintage telescope and modern ccd camera #astrophotography #space #galaxies

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

23rd: The shadow of Titan transits low across #Saturn's disc between 15:28 and 21:00 UT this evening.

Stellarium graphic showing the shadow of Titan transiting across Saturn's disc on 23 January 2025.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

So I guess the crew of Artemis 3 will be four straight white guys. #DEI

Memo to NASA employees announcing the end of DEI across the agency.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/01/2025

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

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Kym @ The Evening Sky Map @skymaps.com · 18/01/2025

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS photographed about one hour after sunset tonight from West Beach, located near Adelaide in South Australia. Despite the twilight conditions, many passersby were able to see the comet with just their eyes. Exposure: 1x10sec Equipment: skymaps.com/ir0/ Credit: Kym Thalassoudis

The image shows a comet with a long arching tail set against a colourful twilight sky featuring red, orange, pale blue and dark blue colours.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I took this photo of the #moon 12 years ago today with an iPhone 5 through my 12-inch Dobsonian telescope. Not sure I could do any better with a modern phone! #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

While here in eastern Australia we have clouds and rain for the next week…

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Video of #Mars egress from behind the #moon by Jean-François Gout. Recorded at ~2FPS with an ASI2600MC on a C8 at F/7.0. Played back at 12x real speed. youtu.be/_hc6Q3b53oM #Occultation

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Mars egress

YouTube video by Jean-François Gout

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Messier 83 (Southern Pinwheel) is a spectacular face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra at a distance of 14.7 million light years. The galaxy is quite bright, so the image appears instantly when my telescope lands on it. Using a monochrome camera helps. #M83 #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Shahrin Ahmad (Shah) @shahgazer @shahgazer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Lunar occultation of Elnath just now from Kuala Lumpur.Due to very cloudy sky, I couldn’t make any good recording with the IOTA-VTI .I was frantically adjusting the exposure in & out! In fact I thought I might have totally missed it 30 seconds before ingress! #astronomy #astrophotography

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A nice video of the occultation of Saturn (and triple star 83 Aquarii) on Jan. 4th from Poland. credit: Janusz Wiland. #Astronomy #Saturn #moon www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqO...

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Zakrycie Saturna 4.01.2025

YouTube video by Janusz Wiland

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

A night at Linden Observatory. The Beames Dome contains a vintage 24-inch telescope which is not in useable condition. The second pic shows a 16-inch dobsonian telescope in use while the red light on the battery pack lights the scene. #Astronomy

The Beames Observatory dome at night with the milky in the background and a smaller telescope on the ground.

An observer on a stepladder at night, looking through a telescope with the milky way in the backgroud.

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Björn Jónsson @bjornjonsson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

An animation showing how Io's specular highlights change with changing viewing geometry. The illumination geometry is constant. The highlights are rendered using a preliminary illumination model - the specular reflections are based on the Phong specular reflection model. vimeo.com/914591010

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Io specular reflections

An animation showing how the specular highlights on Jupiter's satellite Io vary when the viewing geometry changes. The illumination geometry is constant. The…

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, located in the constellation Orion about 1400 light years away. The Bright star between them is Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's belt. This image is stack of 36 x 30sec exposures with a ZWO ASI533MC camera. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The dark Horsehead Nebula seen against a red background. The white Flame Nebula at bottom left.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

space fireworks to celebrate the new year 🎆

Taking up the central area of the image is the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190, which is made of intricate tendrils of cosmic material glowing in shades of purple, yellow, orange, and blue. The edges of the image are black and scattered with red and purple-ish stars.

$Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.$

The giant nebula NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy, about 20,000 light-years away. Within its core is nestled a stellar "jewel box" of thousands of sparkling young stars, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The cluster is surrounded by purple clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw material for new star formation. This bubble provides an unobstructed view of the cluster and reveals stages in the life cycle of stars.

A prominent, eight-pointed star shines in bright white at the center of this image. A clumpy cloud of material surrounds this central star, with more material above and below than on the sides, in some places allowing background stars to peek through. The cloud material is a dark yellow closer to the star, and turns a pinkish purple at its outer edges. Combined together, the central star and its cloud resemble the delicate petals of a cherry blossom. The black background features many smaller white stars scattered throughout.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

47 Tucanae is the best globular cluster in the sky (and M13 isn't even second best!) It's a dense, spherical collection of ancient stars about 14,000 light years distant - pretty close for a glob. This image is from Dec 26 - a stack of 45 x 4 sec exposures. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

47 Tucanae, a dense ball of millions of stars.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

NGC 1365 is one of the nicest looking spiral galaxies in the sky, located in Fornax at a distance of 74 million light years. I photographed it on Dec 26. We also observed this galaxy visually through the Evans 30-inch telescope on Dec 28 at my club's observing night. #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Spiral galaxy NGC 1365 in a medium density star field.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Had a great night at Linden Observatory last night viewing with the huge Evans 30-inch telescope. I caught the #ISS (the streak in the photo) making a bright pass in the north-west just above Venus. #Astronomy

The night sky with Venus near the tree-line and the International Space Station forming a streak from left to right in this 100 second exposure. The Evans 30-inch telescope and its roll-off shed are in the foreground illuminated by red light.

Looking up at an observer on a ladder to reach the eyepiece of the 30-inch telescope. Part of the constellation Orion is in the background sky while other observers stand around.

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Wonky Astronomer @wonkyastronomer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

First results with a new colour camera (ZWO ASI533MC). The Great Orion Nebula #M42, in the sword of Orion is a star-forming region about 1,300 light years distant. Stack of 10 exposures of 60 seconds each. #Astronomy #AstroPhotography

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Intriguing new JWST image just dropped. It shows the Sombrero Galaxy in (literally) a whole new light, revealing the galaxy's iconic "brim" as a dusty, clumpy ring. 🧪🔭 webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

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