IC 443 - Quallen-Nebel
ca. 2 Stunden jeweils 30s Belichtungszeit mit meinem #dwarf3 .
Nachbearbeitet in Stellar Studio (aus der #dwarflab app) und in #siril mit VeraLux HMS und VeraLux SC.

#astronomy #astrophotography #naturephotography

Finally, some clear skies to play with my #Dwarf2

Raw and enhanced views of Orion from Christmas night.

#DwarfLab #astro_photography #Space

If I've time over the holiday break I might even take a trip to see it 🚀
#EliteDangerousOdyssey

https://www.edsm.net/en/system/id/347921/name/PMD2009+48

It is the end of #Kambarang and the start of #Birak here in #Noongar Country. With that the Emu is setting early in the evening. As compensation, we are now getting the #EtaCarinaNebula instead.

So last night I did a mosaic shot of with with my #Dwarf3 #SmartTelescope from my back yard.

Only a couple of hours effective exposure, but I am really happy with the results.

2hrs 13 minutes, 60s@60, Ha/OIII filter.

Postprocessed in the #DwarfLab Stellar Studio and #snapseed.

#astronomy #astrophotography #astrodon #southernHemisphere #southernskies #backyardAstronomy

This morning, as I emerge from a week of HMPV (a respiratory illness), I have an unusual (for me) treat.

Last night, while I slept, I had my #Dwarf3 up on the patio roof just outside the door to the games room I am isolating in. The games room is elevated, so the patio roof is at eye level. This makes it perfect for putting the telescope on, and then crawling into bed. The downside is that the field of view is quite limited, as the games room roof overhangs the patio roof by a goodly amount.

But the view to the North and East is not bad. And it turns out that, while Andromeda is blocked by the houses next door, #M33 is not.

Now here in Perth, it does not get very far above the horizon at the best of times, but last night I managed to snag an hour and a half of it.

(Edited to include what I've been sick with.)

So here we are: The #TriangulumGalaxy , Dwarf3 #SmartTelescope . Postprocessed in the #DwarfLab #StellarStudio, #Snapseed, and #GooglePhotos

#Astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography

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.

#Astrodon #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #Galaxy #Astronomy #BackyardAstrophotography #DrivewayAstronomy

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.

#Astrodon #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #Nebula #Astronomy #BackyardAstrophotography #DrivewayAstronomy

I've written a bit more of a long-form post about my #astrophotography post-processing procedures.
https://rdmasters.lympago.com/2025/08/adventures-in-astrophotography-post.html

#Astronomy #Astrodon #SmartTelescope #Dwarf3 #DwarfII #DwarfLab #Snapseed

Over the last three nights - a break in the weather for us here in #Boorloo ( #PerthWA ) - I've been targeting the same target after midnight and through to astronomical twilight. It is another target that is familiar to me - #C63 or #HelixNebula sometimes known as the Eye of Sauron Nebula or the Eye of God Nebula.

This is the largest planetary nebula visible to us, only about 200 parsecs away, and is about 2.8 light years across, making it about 22 arcminutes across for the main body, and is about 6500 years old.

So back to the making of this image. Each night I got about five hours of shooting in with my #Dwarf3 , for about fifteen hours total. I had to ditch a bunch of frames as they had dodgy data (atmospheric distortions, musktrails, and, in one case, a passing jet), which brought me down to thirteen hours and thirty-six minutes (816x60s@80). These I restacked using the "Megastack" function of the #DwarfLab app (about 3 hours - executed entirely within the telescope), and then passed the result to the #StellarStudio part of the app (running in the cloud) to optimize the FITS file and run a star removal.

I then exported a PNG of each version, and started post-processing. This consisted of passing the starless image into #Snapseed and boosting the saturation, darkening shadows and so on. Then I took the optimized version and took the shadows to maximum darkness, and reduced the overall brightness somewhat, leaving me with a reduced star version, with almost no nebula visible. Lastly, in Snapseed again, I used the double exposure tool to stack the two parts together.

And here is the result.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #Astrophotography #C63 #HelixNebula

Last night's effort, with some #Snapseed and Google photos editing with advice from @rdm for OCl 999.0 with Prawn Nebula.

#SmartTelescope #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophotography #DwarfIII #Dwarf3 #DwarfLab #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy #DrivewayAstrophotography