Skywarden got a significant update last night - refreshed UI design, equipment profiles, and a fix for a nasty bug that suppressed all recommendations during summer nights at high latitudes, when astronomical darkness is never reached.

More on the project page: https://adfr.io/projects/skywarden
Or try it directly: https://skywarden.app

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Skywarden

Your smart astrophotography planning companion.

Frank Adler :: Astrophotography & Web Engineering
Jupiter and Venus.....I think....looking at western sky
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The Bubble Maker
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WR134 is a Wolf-Rayet star - one of the rarest and most extreme stellar types in our galaxy. A relentless stellar wind hurling matter into space at thousands of kilometres per second has, over millennia, compressed and shaped the surrounding gas into the spherical emission bubble you see here. It glows in OIII, the light of doubly ionized oxygen, set against the vast red curtain of the Cygnus H-alpha complex. Also in the field: the open cluster NGC 6883 and the double star β² Cygni.

What draws me to Wolf-Rayet objects is the violence made visible. This bubble is not decoration - it is the direct record of a star slowly destroying itself, pushing its own outer layers outward until they pile up and glow. WR134 will likely end as a supernova. For now, it makes bubbles.

Scope: Askar 103APO
Lens: Askar 1.0x Flattener
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: 13hrs 15min

Full version and print available at:
https://adfr.io/astro/20260522_wr134

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A last run

Being a rather warm day, we only got walks and swims in until about ten (by which timeit was only warm and not hot), The dug was stir crazy and I was not much better. He is no heat lover, although the silly chump would run himself silly given half the chance. So, head torch on and we got 12.5k on the roads . The sky above the cottage was lovely as we returned with a bright half moon.

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Just finished these two little constellation paintings. They've been languishing in my studio while I worked on bigger things, but I finally felt able to get back to them this week.
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A continuous atmospheric livestream above Leipzig, Germany. Clouds, sunsets, rain, birds, aircraft and changing skies in real time — created for calm evenings, focus, study and relaxation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf7wklyuf84

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A Peaceful Saturday Morning Above Leipzig — SLOW HORIZON

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This thing hanging around casting light everywhere was not helping, no matter how pretty it might be.

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