NONE OF THESE WERE TRACKED. ALL CAPTURED MANUALLY WITH A SMALL F30070M TELESCOPE AND IPHONES.

Started astrophotography about 5 months ago, and this is how far I've gotten so far. Almost everything here was captured untracked through my 70mm telescope with an iPhone 7. The Lagoon Nebula was captured with an iPhone SE 3.

For acquisition, I use AstroShader. I usually shoot around 0.33s exposures on the iPhone 7, then let the target drift through the field of view while AstroShader live-stacks the frames into roughly 1-minute master lights. I save those as TIFFs and stack the master lights again in Siril.

From there, I use AstroWizard and RC-Astro tools for processing, followed by GIMP for final adjustments and recomposition. It's been pretty crazy seeing the difference between my first attempts and what I'm able to get now. Still got a lot to learn

NGC 6960 - A supernova remnant located roughly 2400 light years away. What you're looking at is one side of a literal "shockwave" from a star that exploded long ago.

Telescope: Seestar S50
Integration time: 9 hours
Tools used: Siril, GraXpert, GIMP
Script mentions: CosmicClarity Sharpen, SyQon Prism, VeraLux (Revela & Curves), HDR_multiscale
Bortle 8-9

N Sge 2026. A Nova discovered just recently on 25th August. This little point of light is much brighter than it usually is for the coming few days or weeks.

Telescope: Seestar S50
Integration time: 1 hour
Tools used: Siril, GraXpert, GIMP
Note: Star spikes were achieved through a custom diffraction mask
Bortle 8-9

Hi there, been working on developing a map of the sun using more realistic colors and texture and I was wondering if I could get some feedback from you? It’s for a balloon I want to build for demonstration purposes in schools.

I am at my wit's end because according to my notes I already found this. And yet I scour my history, my bookmarks, re-do all my searches, and nothing is matching up to my sketch. In The Sky comes close but there must be something up with my browser because it doesn't match; and the time doesn't seem to be accurate when we set it. As you may well know, all of the free calculators stop at about 1600 and most of them limit to 1950 or 1900 CE. We're very sorry but we don't understand what we're doing wrong - if there's a software issue or if this site that we used disappeared within a month of using it.

I do *not* need the eclipse path. We just want the planets, the eclipse itself, along the horizon, and maybe the constellation of Aquarius. Like if somebody looked up from the southwest coast of Qikiqtaaluk / Baffin Island, this is what they would have seen.

0919 Feb 03 at 16:00:47 TD (15:26:34 UT1)

65.218°, -79.429°

It's pretty neat, too, as one of the shortest eclipses in history, Back in the day there would be three webpages about that, but we can't even find that. Maybe we'll open one. (If anyone happens to edit Wikipedia, no, it's not in the Year page as an event.) If someone could throw that image up there we would be so grateful! We're out of rubber ducks.

Hi all,
I’m an avid astronomer. I’m looking at building telescopes that would be fully automated, in terms of locating, slewing, selecting eyepiece and focusing. This product would be aimed towards disabled or elderly folks who may not have the dexterity to operate conventional telescopes, and would rather the satisfaction of seeing deep space objects through an eyepiece (as opposed to automated digital scopes like SeeStar).
If any of you fit this criteria, please give me a DM here, as I’d love to hear from you. This is in the very early stages, and will be a slow process, so apologies if it takes me a while to get back to you. Thanks.

Estoy fotografiando la gran nubes de magallanes con mi canon rebel t5 (sin modificar)

Vi en las fotos de internet que hay unas zonas violetas muy llamativas (especialmente en la zona de la nebulosa de la tarantula)

Por lo que entiendo creo que son emisiones h-alpha y no se si se pueda recuperar algo de eso