Mastodawn

🎬💫 Oh, look! Rod's cosmic selfies made it to the end credits of a movie nobody watched! 🙄🎥 Because who needs Hubble when you have a backyard telescope and a dream? 🌌📸
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Rod Prazeres Astrophotography in Project Hail Mary End Credits | || Rod Prazeres || Astrophotography

Rod Prazeres shares how his astrophotography was licensed for Project Hail Mary’s end credits.

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Hacker News 1d ago

My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary

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#HackerNews #Astrophotography #MovieProjectHailMary #SpacePhotography #SciFiArt #HailMary

Rod Prazeres Astrophotography in Project Hail Mary End Credits | || Rod Prazeres || Astrophotography

Rod Prazeres shares how his astrophotography was licensed for Project Hail Mary’s end credits.

|| Rod Prazeres || Astrophotography

Jim Carey 3d ago

NASA's Hubble, Webb Telescopes Survey Pinwheel Galaxy https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/55150964901-45196b40b6-o/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NASA #HubbleTelescope #JamesWebb #PinwheelGalaxy #SpacePhotography

Frank Adler Mar 18

Messier 106
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That galaxy has four arms — but two of them aren't made of stars.

M106 in Canes Venatici is a Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus powerful enough to drive jets of hot gas out of its own disk. The glowing blue structures flanking the spiral are shock-heated plasma, not star-forming regions. Also in the frame: the edge-on NGC 4217, the gravitationally entangled pair NGC 4231/4232, and a handful of fainter background galaxies.

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 1.0x Flattener
Camera: ZWO ASI 294MC Pro
Filter: Svbony UV/IR-Cut
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Guiding: SkyWatcher Evoguide 50ED with ZWO ASI 224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro
Focusser: ZWO EAF

Integration time: 7hrs 25min

Full version and print available at:
https://adfr.io/astro/20260317_m106

#Astrophotography #M106 #NGC4258 #NGC4217 #DeepSky #DeepSkyObject #GalaxyPhotography #Galaxies #Astrophoto #ChasingPhotons #Nightsky #SpacePhotography

JD Gadina Mar 16

M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy: a spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away.
ZWO Seestar S30.
150mm, f5, 1592 exposures of 10’’.
#telescope #telescopes #zwo #zwoasi #zwoseestar #zwoseestars30 #seestar #seestars30 #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #galaxy #galaxies #pinwheel #pinwheelgalaxy #m101 #messier101 #messier

JD Gadina 🦄Mar 16

Jim Carey Mar 13

Good Morning, Moon https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-2026-science-calendar-march/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NASA #Moon #LunarReconnaissanceOrbiter #SpacePhotography #Astrophotography

Frank Adler Mar 10

The Question Mark Nebula
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2,600 light-years away in Cepheus, a cosmic question mark is being written in gas and dust. Sharpless 171 (NGC 7822) is an active stellar nursery spanning over 100 light-years, powered by Berkeley 59 — a star cluster just two million years old. Its brightest member, BD+66 1673, burns at nearly 45,000 Kelvin, sculpting the surrounding cloud into the elephant trunks and dark pillars you see here. A two-million-year-old star carving a hundred-light-year nebula. The universe doesn't do things small.

The foreground scatter of stars in the upper part of the frame belongs to NGC 7762 — an unrelated open cluster that is 2.5 billion years old and just happens to share the same patch of sky. Ancient stars looking on as new ones are born.

Two-panel mosaic captured over two nights from Chemnitz, processed in Hubble Palette (HSO). 🔭

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 0.6x Reducer
Camera: ZWO ASI 294MC Pro
Filter: Antlia Tri-Band RGB Ultra
Mount: SkyWatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Guiding: SkyWatcher Evoguide 50ED with ZWO ASI 224MC
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Pro
Focusser: ZWO EAF

Integration time: 16hrs 50min

Full version and print available at:
https://adfr.io/astro/20260310_sh2-171

#astrophotography #deepskyobject #narrowband #hubblepalette #emissionnebula #sh2171 #ngc7822 #questionmarknebula #cepheus #starforming #stellarnursery #berkeleycluster #hso #pixinsight #astronomyphotography #spacephotography #nightsky #cosmiclandscape #astrophoto #nebula #Sternenfotografie #Astrofotografie #deepsky #mosaic #longexposure #fromchemnitz