Kevin Karjono

Part-time Gamer, Part-time College Student, Part-time Photographer, but mostly Gamer :) | IHS 19' Top 10 | Physics Olympics MVP

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Unfortunately, the lens used for the primary was a last minute rental because I forgot to reserve the lens I actually wanted, thankfully there was something within the 200mm focal range, but even that was just barely available.

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Preliminary partial eclipse animation. Will need about a week or so. Couldn't get much of the post maximum due to clouds and rain :(

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These are also some snapshots I got with my phone

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Random Orion single exposure with slight cloud cover. Looked pretty cool 😎

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Moon was so bright and the sky was clear so I took out my camera and dusted off my vintage lens to take a shot.

I've been so busy with classes I haven't had much time to do anything astro. Hoping for more time soon 😄

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One of the only videos I managed to get with my new 360 camera. I fumbled around too much because there was so much happening constantly that I focused on just taking pictures 😆

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Went to see a Blue Angels practice session! The weather wasn't ideal, but at least I didn't waste my rental lens 😅

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On a side note, I took 1 hour and 40 minutes of exposure time and completely forgot that the comet moves 😂. What a surprise realization when the first stacked image came out like this HAHAHA!

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It was one of the first clear nights all month long and I had to at least attempt getting the Green Comet (aka C/2022 E3 (ZTF)). While I will never get this opportunity again in my lifetime at least I can say that I took a picture of it! I took 10 and 15 min stacks.

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Definitely not going to be able to photograph the quadrantids this year... Peak is going to be when thunderstorms hit.

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Tonight was mostly clear but the moon was obscuring many deep sky-objects so I decided to do some moon shots today. Tried to take a dual exposure image of the moon and clouds but during the edit I pressed the wrong button, but I accidentally created something kinda cool hahaha!

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Clear night. I tried a different lens with Andromeda (M31) as the main target. M110 is visible but M32 is a blob 😂. Total exposure ~20 minutes with 1705 0.8s frames untracked. Still saving up for a tracker 🙏.

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@mrcontephysics Thanks! Since I live on the edge of a Bortle 4 sky now and since the moon is below the horizon for most of the night you can faintly see the nebula with the naked eye! It's amazing! I'm going to try imaging Andromeda tonight although it's 30° outside 🥶

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First time trying deep sky astrophotography. I went for one of the easiest beginner object first; M42 aka the Orion Nebula. The result wasn't exactly what I expected, but it's not too shabby for a first attempt. Over 400 1-second exposure images stacked.

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I also edited together a timelapse of the eclipse with some stars (not real relative positions) in the background. @mrcontephysics What do you think?

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Finally got around to processing the lunar eclipse images. Quite a stark difference between the two images I took 3 years apart. I'm pretty satisfied with the results however, I hope I can do even better in 2025 with EVEN MORE expensive equipment!

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Hopefully, I can finally replace this old profile picture from the January 2019 eclipse with my better gear. 3 years 9 months 17 days since that last eclipse.

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Going to maybe pull an all-nighter to shoot the lunar eclipse tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I will post a couple past moon shots and a shot of Jupiter I got yesterday.

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Full moon picture. It was shockingly clear out with no clouds after a week of cloudy days. I also saw Saturn but my lens doesn't quuuiiiittee have enough reach to resolve it.