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#backyardastrophotography

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leece

We have been blessed/cursed by a very dry Djeran / Autumn period. Cursed because no rain after a long, hot Bunuru( Second Summer) and blessed because the nights are cold, and very clear.

This and @rdm having to be on Munich time for a few days prompted some enthusiastic astrophotography sessions ahead of the news that the clouds were finally coming to us with some rain.

We figured that we'd do a lot of astrophotography, and then write it up and share photos during the rainy cloudy bits to keep us going.

So here we are - this is my first post about it, and it's about the last day of the clear sky.

We have here NGC 4945 or Caldwell 83 - also known as the Tweezers Galaxy (I personally think it looks more like an orange peeler).

I was leafing through Astronomy Australia 2025 and found it as a target for May. I hadn't come across this galaxy before, and was thrilled to find a galaxy that's a big enough apparent size to suit my #dwarf3

These are great books and the last of this great almanac that they'll publish, after 30 years - so get yours today - quasarastronomy.com.au/product even though it's a yearbook it's still going to be useful down the track. If you're in Australia or close enough. #SouthernHemisphereAstronomy folks. I grabbed some of their back catalogue - incredibly cheap and plenty of interesting stuff in there, if only historically. 🙂

So, anyway, back to the galaxy - I plonked the #SmartTelescope on the roof later in the evening so it's only a few hours exposure. Gain was 80, exposure was 60. Got a few hundred frames in two sessions as I belatedly realised that I should get the telescope to shut down before the closest Sun made itself apparent.

So then, in the morning @rdm ran me through the Mega Stack and Stellar Studio provided through Infinity Lab within the telescope, which was super easy, and then I did some cropping in Snapseed.

And this is the result, I hope you enjoy!

A highly populated starfield, there are also a few little fuzzy yellow galaxies. In the middle a Seyfert type galaxy sits at an angle between two big blue white stars. Text in the corner reads Caldwell 83 Alicia Smith (c) 2025
#Astrodon#Astronomy#BackyardAstrophotography
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leece

Well, we've been quite busy over the last two weekends and such, and a lot of it has involved astrophotography.

Our Easter was quite peaceful so we chilled out and did some photography then - I took this of the Trifid and Lagoon #Nebula on Easter Sunday. I've got a Dwarf 3 (and 2) so we're used to landscape - but I rotated this in post, because it looked really good that way.

Tilt your head to see it in the original.

Portrait mode, and a heavily populated starfield, with some blue white stars, and in the bottom third the Trifid Nebula. There's some pinkish shading as we travel up the frame, and we can see the Lagoon Nebula in the top right corner, much larger. Copyright Alicia Smith 2025 can be read in the bottom right hand corner.
#Astrophotography#dwarf3#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy
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