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➡️ The Aurora Éire team is looking for photos of last year's auroras over Ireland

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A dance of two pairs!

While the two Magellanic Clouds shine upon the Atacama Desert in #Chile, two Auxiliary Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer point up to the sky.

Just like our cosmic neighbours move around the Milky Way, the Auxiliary Telescopes can be moved along rails and arranged in different configurations when observing the sky.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2545a/

📷 J. Looten/ESO

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Just a little something I whipped up for you overnight.

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A couple of weeks ago I shot IC434 - the Flame Nebula along with Barnard 33 - the Horsehead Nebula.

I added another 2.5 hours to that shot overnight, and the extra detail is amazing, even though the restacking rejected a lot of frames from both. In the end I got an extra hour of exposure.

The image is centred on Alnitak - one end of Orion's Belt. Off in the corner we have the middle of the belt, Alnilam.

To the right of Alnitak is NGC2024, and above and to the left is IC434 - The Flame Nebula, with the Horsehead Nebula on the right hand edge. In between the two nebulae, though, is a third one - NGC2023.

Also scattered around are three other tiny and/or faint nebulae - IC431, IC432 (both below NGC2024) and IC435 (to the right of NGC2023).

Lastly, in the top left quadrant we have Sigma Orionis.

So we have a lot going on, and it makes for a pretty composition (in my opinion).

Shot on a Dwarf3, 3hr 58 minutes, 60s@80, OIII/Ha filter. Post processed in Stellar Studio and Snapseed.

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Martian Memories

The Alagnak ridge captured by Perseverance - Sol 629 (November 26, 2022)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/sol-0629-alagnak-pdi-mastcam-z-mosaic

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An evening stroll #GravitationalWave candidate #S251108fi

If real, the source is probably a binary black hole (chirp mass ~11–44 solar masses)

False alarm rate 1 in 24000 yr
GraceDB https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S251108fi/
GCN https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42624
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Crescent Nebula | NGC 6888 | HOO

Finally was able to collect a few more hours of data before the fog covered my camera/view.

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