Last Night’s Astro Image

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

That appeared in S@N about a year ago – they are worse at updating their website than me!

Goodness knows what they've done to th colour balance on those images, it looks like they must have scanned a paper issue.

The original was bit of mountain bike suspension fork with interference fit knurled aluminium end caps but that was probably beyond most readers.

I've since taken it apart and anodised the end caps gold

Neil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 27/09/2018 20:06:55:

That appeared in S@N about a year ago – they are worse at updating their website than me!

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But it actually made the BBC website AND Apple's News Feed, Yesterday

… Which is why I linked it.

I think you have just had your Andy Warhol moment.

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Good grief!

On-topic, these were from the evening of the 24th. Not brilliant:

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

This is 4 hours of DSLR colour and 2 hours of narrowband DSLR Ha on the veil nebula, taken with my homemade scope over the last month, final session was last night.

[David TParticipant @davidt96864]

That is spectacular!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

A moon, yesterday. Right click and view image for full size (this is about 1/14 full size):

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Uranus is supposed to be very easy to see tonight (Oct 26 UK) to the left of the moon apparently.

No smutty schoolboy comments please!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by V8Eng on 26/10/2018 18:58:54:

Uranus is supposed to be very easy to see tonight (Oct 26 UK) to the left of the moon apparently.

No smutty schoolboy comments please!

Hope not, or you'll get a hernia.

It's a day or two past opposition so it was close to the moon yesterday when it was full. A good handspan to the right of it tonight.

I should have tried imaging it this evening it was pretty grim for anything else although I've had a go at M15 and the Double Cluster.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Stretching the topic a little : **LINK**

https://news.sky.com/story/mystery-of-dark-matter-may-have-been-solved-by-oxford-scientists-11572089

MichaelG.

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Anyone planning to look at the comet that is set to pass by earth on the 16th of Dec (  Comet 46P/Wirtanen ) not sure if will be visible worldwide though .

I started reading that in the news Michael but it just made my head hurt !

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Edited By XD 351 on 06/12/2018 04:16:53

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by XD 351 on 06/12/2018 04:10:54:

Anyone planning to look at the comet that is set to pass by earth on the 16th of Dec ( Comet 46P/Wirtanen )

I plan to take a peep

From a couple of nights ago:

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Mars and Neptune conjunction this evening, I tweeted my preliminary imaging results:

#Mars and #Neptune in conjunction this evening. Here are my images of the two planets. Next, overlay these on my wider-angle shot of the pair to create a wide field image. #Astrophotography #astronomy #telescope pic.twitter.com/SGtx9BKdor

— StubMandrel (@StubMandrel) December 7, 2018

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Some folks may have heard about Comet 46P/Wirtanen:

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Nicely done, Neil

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Thanks Michael.

The slight elongation of the core is how much the comet moves in two minutes. Not everything happening in the heavens is slow!

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Looks like as usual the clouds have descended on Sydney for the next few days so I won't get to see anything !

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I reprocessed my comet image from the 13th…

And made a GIF:

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

It's got flyback

Is that because your Dad was in the TV business ?

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 16/12/2018 22:33:22:

It's got flyback

Is that because your Dad was in the TV business ?

MichaelG.

You need a more modern monitor

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

A "phone call" not an image … but this is truly astonishing: **LINK**

https://news.sky.com/story/nasa-spacecraft-phones-home-after-historic-journey-to-distant-world-ultima-thule-11596209

MichaelG.

[Chris TriceParticipant @christrice43267]

We need a "Like" button. Very cool.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Not many cloud free nights this month, but a good night on 27th and I managed a few hours last night as well.

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Ok, I recognise the top one as the Orion Nebula with the Trepezium above it, but what's the second? It looks less regular than the Hercules cluster, and too dense for the Triangulum irregular galaxy.

[Bob McParticipant @bobmc91481]

Mick B1…. you beat me to it…. I don't know that one either…, but due praise to Neil, great pictures taken with a small scope.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

M1. the Crab Nebula

A supernova remnant, Chinese astronomers recorded the 'guest star' so the expansion of the nebula in 1054.

At the scale of my image it's growing at a rate of about one pixel every 6 or 7 years.

If I am able to repeat my imaging in, say, 20 years I should actually be able to detect small differences.

Neil

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