drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧1d ago

So just below M86 here is a wee smudge of pixels. They are vaguely pinkish (zoomed in here so the colour is an artefact).
Those pixels a PGC169281 a galaxy that is A) travelling away from us at 11% the speed of light & B) is 2 BILLION light years away!

Blows my mind. Photons travelled for 2+ BILLION YEARS & then got captured by an image sensor. When they set off, life round these parts was basically unicellular. Incredible. The most distant object I've ever seen.
#Astrophotography #SeestarS50

drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧4d ago
Right then! For the first time this year basically I got a GOOD night of #Astronomy and #Astrophotography with the #SeestarS50. And it’s Galaxy Season. And I got the scope to do 20s subs with basically NO rejections. Truly the astronomy gods smiled upon me last night. So here’s a wee thread of the captured photons. For all bat two of these I watched the light come in as well. Old Skool me. 1/
Nina Felwitch Mar 10

M81 and M82, 277x10sec
M101, 394x10sec

Both stacked in Siril, edited in Siril, Graxpert and Gimp. I've tried using the denoising and background correction in Siril, but the results in Graxpert are still so much better.

#Astrophotography
#Seestar
#SeestarS50

Show threadNina Felwitch Mar 6
35 minutes definitely isn't enough for the pinwheel galaxy (it took me much longer to get that 35 minute exposure). But I got a good photo of the #moon on my way home.
#messier101
#seestarS50
#astrophotography
Nina Felwitch Mar 6

First photo of today, and of this year. I was afraid this night would be overcast, but it's actually fantastic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_81

#astrophotography
#messier81
#seestarS50
#seestar

stonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾Mar 6

Picture of #NGC891 better known as the #SilverSliver.  Quite a bit of light pollution, but I'm still continuously impressed with my #seestars50 

#astrophotography #space #galaxy #DeepSpacePhotography

Keiþ 🔭Mar 4

Horsehead nebula

60mins of 10second exposures with Seestar S50, processed in Siril. The moon was nearly full. This thing is good fun.

#horsehead #seestar #seestars50 #astronomy #siril

Jeroen van DorpMar 2
IC 447 IC 2169 NGC 2245 NGC 2247 #seestars50
Keiþ 🔭Feb 25

M81. 50 minutes. Seestar S50. Bortle 4. Processing in Siril

#astronomy #seestar #seestars50

Show threadPaul WilliamsFeb 19
Some images from last night.
We have Centaurus A, the Jewel box cluster and southern Pleiades (IC 2602) from the Dwarf and a mosaic of the running chicken nebula from the Seestar.
#seestarS50 #dwarf3 #astrophotography