Grant Petersen

Planetary dedicated astrophotographer

If you can't be good, be colourful!
- Pete Conrad.

[Grant Petersen @GP_O11]

I captured #Saturn about 30 minutes before sunset. C9.25 - 2 x barlow - ZWO ASI224mc #Astrophotography

[Paolo Palma @PaoloPal_ma]

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Here are the COLOURS of ALL the STARS up to the 6th magnitude in the #Hydra, the longest #constellation in the sky and one of the yellowest in the night sky.

#Collage of 119 shots deliberately taken out of focus. Dobson Sky-Watcher 18" and smartphone A5.

[Michael Terhune @SharpStarAstro]

My image of the North America nebula what a summer beauty!

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

The simple fact of this case is that the police thought Henry Nowak was a racist and that meant that they did not feel obligated to extend to him any form of human decency

They killed him because someone accused him of racism

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

A Sikh man murders a British boy, he and his family blame the boy, and his mother hides the knife.

The British police handcuffed that boy and left him to die in the street.

And this is the coverage from the @BBC??

The Sikhs are the victims??

You don’t hate the media enough.

Not
Nearly
Enough.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Incredible statement from Amnesty International UK on Henry Nowak:

Not a single word of conveying outrage or horror over the brutal murder, or of how police left him to die without dignity.

Instead, their statement is about policing the *political commentary* around the case.

I kid you not.

What a grotesque betrayal of any moral purpose.

These NGOs aren’t just useless - they actively despise you. They are hostile to everything you value and everything you hold dear.

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

Pete Conrad, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab astronaut, was the third person to walk on the Moon. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on this day in 1930.

[Angel Media @Angel_Media_]

They dragged and cuffed a nearly lifeless boy. He repeatedly told them he’d been stabbed and couldn’t breathe. He could barely get out the worlds and they laughed and let him suffer and die. They acted as if he was resisting arrest because he couldn’t physically move himself.

They deserve life in prison for aiding a murder

[spiked @spikedonline]

Israelophobia is rotting Ireland’s soul. The cultural elites have been completely conquered by the Euro-malady of anti-Zionism. They spend more time raging against the Jewish nation than they do fixing the Irish nation. It’s madness, says Brendan O’Neill

https://t.co/0AigeaP860

[Andrew Gold @AndrewGold_ok]

.@piersmorgan I like and respect your show, and don’t agree with them banning Cenk, just as they shouldn’t have banned people on the Right.

I also haven’t made a habit of following the pronouncements of Cenk, aside from a video I saw of him appearing to push for the legalisation of sex with animals.

However, the one time he and I shared a platform - yours - he and the two other guests claimed that the Muslim grooming gangs were an entire fabrication invented by Israel and ‘the Epstein class’ to deflect from Epstein.

I’m a free speech advocate so…so be it. Better to air this man’s ugliness.

But in response to your specific claim here: if that’s not anti-Semitic…if that’s not hateful bigotry against an ethnicity…then I feel we should all just retire the dictionary and take up astrology.

[ZWO @zwoastro]

Two Years of Progress, One Nebula.

From a first attempt to a 40-hour masterpiece.

Credit: Elizabeth Jongerden-Armarégo

The stunning Trifid Nebula (M20), located 5,200 light-years away in Sagittarius, is one of the most fascinating objects in the night sky—combining an emission nebula, reflection nebula, and dark nebula all in a single target.

For this 2026 version, Elizabeth applied new processing techniques to better preserve the intricate core details and keep the stars sharp and well-defined. Sulfur data was carefully mapped into the yellow channel, revealing even more of the dusty structures hidden within this stellar nursery.

The comparison with her image from two years ago tells the story best: same target, but years of learning, practice, and refinement have unlocked an entirely new level of detail.

🔭 ASKAR 120 + ASI2600MM Pro
⏱️ 40 hours integration
📸 Ha, SII, LRGB | 3nm Antlia filters
🌠 180-second subs
Sometimes the most rewarding comparison isn't between two nebulae—it's between who you were two years ago and who you are today.

#ZWO #Astrophotography #TrifidNebula #DeepSky #NightSky #Astronomy #Space #AstroProcessing #Stargazing

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Telescopic views of Saturn and its beautiful rings often make it the star of star parties.

But this stunning view of the outer gas gaint planet's rings and night side just isn't possible from telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth.

Peering out from the inner Solar System they can only bring Saturn's day side into view. In fact, this image of Saturn's slender sunlit crescent with the planet's night shadow cast across its broad and complex ring system was captured by the robot spacecraft Cassini.

After a seven year long journey from planet Earth, Cassini called Saturn orbit home for 13 years (from 2004 - 2017) before it was directed to dive into the atmosphere of the gas giant on September 15, 2017. This magnificent mosaic is composed of frames recorded by Cassini's wide-angle camera only two days before its grand final plunge.

And Saturn's night will not be seen again until another spaceship from Earth calls.

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Mindaugas Macijauskas

[Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras]

NGC4236, a galaxy in Draco 🌌

[Jason Major @JPMajor]

A view of Saturn's rings captured by Cassini 16 years ago on May 30, 2010 🪐

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Gen Zers don’t remember a time when this country wasn’t horribly divided.

If your political memory starts with George W Bush and only includes Obama and Trump you probably just assume we were always this dysfunctional.

But we weren’t. We used to all hang out together and make fun of each other and stuff.

Politics just weren’t that big a deal; besides abortion our biggest arguments were over crap like marginal tax rates.

I don’t see it happening again any time soon, but I’m glad I got to at least experience it.

I hope my kid gets to one day, too.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[🔭AstroBackyard @AstroBackyard]

The Eagle Nebula (Smart Telescope Edition)

I used EQ mode and 30-second exposures, and honestly, I’m still a little surprised by what this little scope was able to pull out of the sky.

The Eagle Nebula is one of the most exciting deep-sky targets to shoot this time of year, and seeing this much structure from a compact, one-click smart telescope is pretty wild.

Notice the 'Pillars of Creation' in the center? 🤯

Astrophotography has changed a lot over the past few years. A target like this used to mean a much more complicated setup, polar alignment, guiding, dedicated astro camera, laptop, cables… the whole deal.

Now, you can set a smart telescope in the backyard, tap the target, and start collecting light. What a time to be alive 🥹

IMAGE DETAILS:

180 x 30 seconds
1 Hour, 30 Minutes Total

EQUIPMENT:

S30 Pro: https://t.co/PgtsqUOdNR

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UNRWA: “Hey, it's only a few bad apples...”
USA: We are investigating 1500 of your staffers.
UNRWA: “Hey, it's only 1500 bad apples...”

[StephanZA @GamingGrifter]

Why is Capitalism better than communism?

When you pay a company to provide a service and they fail you stop paying them.

When government fails to provide a service and you stop paying them they put you in jail.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

A lot of people have spent a lot of time normalizing this stuff. Many of us will never forget it.

[Rad van Mad @rvanmad]

🔭 Messier 27 (NGC 6853) - the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula.
A planetary nebula formed by an aging star shedding its outer layers into space.
📏Distance: cca 1,360 ly.
📷 1007 × 10s with Seestar S50.
#M27 #astrophotography #astronomy #nebula #deepspace #nightsky