| Location | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Website | https://www.stevehammond.org |
| Free Scottish UFO Casebook | https://www.stevehammond.org/_downloads/ScottishUFOCasebook-Free.pdf |
The Orion Nebula (M42) from last night, in between clouds and a bright Moon washing out everything.
Haven't done any "prettifying" on this to turn it into art, but as imaging data I kind of like it like this. Science!
Another of my #astronomy photos. Not aiming to be pretty, but for what it represents. This one is special to me.
In the 90s I wrote the story for #Amiga game Hired Guns. An astronomy book had diagram of the nearest stars. I picked one, Luyten L-789-6, to be the setting.
It's a red dwarf around 11 ly distant. Also known as EZ Aquarii.
Last month I took its photo. Grainy, noisy, processed, but there it is. In the centre of the photo as V* EZ Aqr.
Early Christmas morning, at 1am, I was outside in the cold and dark, but clear skies. The interstellar comet #3IATLAS was magnitude 11 and within reach of amateur scopes like the #Dwarf3 So I managed to get a 40min exposure (160 frames, 15sec each, stacked). It's there as a smudge, a bit smeared out. But the point wasn't to get a good picture, it was getting anything at all!
Bonus content: fortuitously getting asteroid 1584 Fuji too. #Astronomy
