We're getting toward the end of National Science Week in Australia, so I polished this up for you with the help of @rdm 's handy spiff-up-your-photo guide.

It was a result of multiple sessions and stacking in my #DwarfLab #SmartTelescope #Dwarf3

This is The String of Pearls Galaxy or NGC 55.

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We're getting toward the end of National Science Week in Australia, so I polished this up for you.

It was a result of multiple sessions and stacking in my #DwarfLab #SmartTelescope #Dwarf3

It's a nice subject and one I think I'll revist.

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Sh2-157 Lobster Claw from the 2024 Fall Bootleg Astronomy Star Party. More details in Telescopius or Astrobin. Thanks for looking, Clear Skies!

TSOptics 60
SW EQ6R Pro
ZWO 533MC Pro
Optolong L-Ult
75x300s

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We have been blessed/cursed by a very dry Djeran / Autumn period. Cursed because no rain after a long, hot Bunuru( Second Summer) and blessed because the nights are cold, and very clear.

This and @rdm having to be on Munich time for a few days prompted some enthusiastic astrophotography sessions ahead of the news that the clouds were finally coming to us with some rain.

We figured that we'd do a lot of astrophotography, and then write it up and share photos during the rainy cloudy bits to keep us going.

So here we are - this is my first post about it, and it's about the last day of the clear sky.

We have here NGC 4945 or Caldwell 83 - also known as the Tweezers Galaxy (I personally think it looks more like an orange peeler).

I was leafing through Astronomy Australia 2025 and found it as a target for May. I hadn't come across this galaxy before, and was thrilled to find a galaxy that's a big enough apparent size to suit my #dwarf3

These are great books and the last of this great almanac that they'll publish, after 30 years - so get yours today - https://quasarastronomy.com.au/product/astronomy-2025/ even though it's a yearbook it's still going to be useful down the track. If you're in Australia or close enough. #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy folks. I grabbed some of their back catalogue - incredibly cheap and plenty of interesting stuff in there, if only historically. 🙂

So, anyway, back to the galaxy - I plonked the #SmartTelescope on the roof later in the evening so it's only a few hours exposure. Gain was 80, exposure was 60. Got a few hundred frames in two sessions as I belatedly realised that I should get the telescope to shut down before the closest Sun made itself apparent.

So then, in the morning @rdm ran me through the Mega Stack and Stellar Studio provided through Infinity Lab within the telescope, which was super easy, and then I did some cropping in Snapseed.

And this is the result, I hope you enjoy!

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