Spring is approaching, and targets visible from my south-facing balcony are about to disappear for the next few months.

One thing that is always there, though, is our Sun. Setting up my telescope takes longer than taking the actual pictures, which is nice.

#astrophotography #sun #space #sunphotography

@cthon1c At least there are multiple people who saw it

https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2026/1402

You could check some of the AllSky cameras in the area. Usually they create a timelapse video of the past 24h which can be viewed a day later.

https://www.thomasjacquin.com/allsky-map/

Had some fun experiment with my data of M81 and M82, aka. Bode's Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy. I wanted to figure out how well I can combine different focal lengths. Back in April 2025, I captured 9 hours of exposure time in pure RGB at a focal length of 400 mm.

Someone on a community Discord server shot the same target at 250 mm with a similar camera, but in narrowband H-Alpha & OIII. He kindly made his data available to me.

#astrodon #astrophotography #space #astronomy