Mastodawn

The Milky Way, stretching as a luminous band across the night sky, a sight that, today, few people can experience due to light pollution, far from cities, in deserts, tundras, mountains or along remote coastlines.

AI can bring back this lost view as an illusion, painting the starry sky where it has long faded. But what it cannot replace are the other real consequences of light pollution, such as the decline of insects, much of which is caused by it.

#promptography #aiart #flux #aiprompt #generativeart #MilkyWay #NightSky #LightPollution #InsectDecline #EnvironmentalAwareness #StarryNight #NatureMatters #Stargazing #PlanetEarth

Dennis Wilkinson 12h ago

M51 (the "Whirlpool Galaxy") and its companion NGC 5195/M51B. Roughly 75 minutes of data out of 90 minutes of capture time, from my light-polluted back yard last night, using a SeeStar S30 Pro and processed in SiRIL (which I am still a n00b at using).

#photography #nightsky #astrophotography

Scozmo's Photery 19h ago

Interesting clouds and pale Aurora

https://makertube.net/w/mRfbnVSZBav1x5FqWtTyzT

Interesting clouds and pale Aurora

PeerTube

AstroPuNk 1d ago

STAR PARTY CHAOS

1 Night at a Star Party… BEST NIGHT EVER

one night. that’s all it took

rocked up to the Messier Star Party thinking it’d be a chill night looking at stars… yeah nah

ended up interviewing Norm about a planispheric astrolabe he literally designed and built, Hugh with his home-built 6" RC, and Phil from the radio astronomy crew about what they’re doing with the dish out at LMDSS

ran Messier Bingo, gave away prizes, pointed telescopes at the Sun, then spent the rest of the night imaging under stupidly good skies

and somewhere in between all that… just hung out with a bunch of legends I haven’t seen in ages

one night, way too much fun, zero regrets

#astronomy #astrophotography #stargazing #starparty #messier #spacescience #telescope #radioastronomy #deepsky #nightsky #space #astropunk

https://youtu.be/ujk5I5XRH-0

Tim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🪨🚴🌳1d ago

Sh2-142: The Wizard

Discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787, Sh2-142 is an open star cluster ~20ly across located ~8.5kly distant. A beautiful emission nebula and star-forming region.

Prints etc: https://shiny.photo/photo/Sh2-142--The-Wizard-679b4efdf1db2d8c36d1062f1b2d5559

#astrophotography #astronomy #photography #deepskyobject #nightsky #space

La🌓upla Diplomática 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116301261420060011

Protecting the #darkness in our skies 🌚 ✨ which helps us restore ourselves every night! A really enjoyable presentation about protecting the #nightsky from #interferences by institutional relations lawyer in training Betty Kioko 🌌
#earthhour #diplomaciacientífica #contaminaciónluminica 📡 🌃 🦋 ⚠️

Pomaranč 1d ago

The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) 🔭⭐🪐💫🌌🌖
——————————————————————————📸 @vaonis Vespera II, L-Quad filter, Bortle 5,

Edit: Tiff stacking app, Photoshop, Graxpert, RC-Astro, Lightroom #astrophotography #astronomy #stars #nightsky #photography #milkyway #nightphotography #moon #universe #astro #astrophoto #longexposure #nasa #galaxy #night #sky #telescope #nebula #science #ig #milkywaychasers #photooftheday #astrophysics #stargazing #deepsky #Vaonis #Astrophotography #wizardnebula #Vespera #space

Tim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🪨🚴🌳2d ago

The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) is a face-on spiral galaxy located 21 million ly away in Ursa Major.

Beyond its striking appearance, M101 is home to over 1,200 catalogued star-forming regions, an ultra-luminous X-ray binary system and around 150 globular clusters.

#astrophotography #astronomy #nightsky #galaxy #M101 #photography