Connor Matherne

A published planetary scientist and astrophotographer with DSW Observatory

[Connor Matherne @MatherneConnor]

I may not be Webb, but here is my favorite I've taken of a different galaxy. This is the Whirlpool Galaxy

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@AJamesMcCarthy @konstructivizm Thank you for being active on Twitter even if my ass isn't 🫡🫡🫡

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@Yzd_08 Thanks my guy. New Year's resolution: be more active on social media 😵‍💫

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My photo of the Elephant Trunk Nebula.

Amazing what can be captured on Earth, even from thousands of light years away.

[Nature Astronomy @NatureAstronomy]

The winner of #NAstroCoverComp 2022 is… the wonderful image of Centaurus A from @Benjy_man et al.! Another winning image of Cen A, to add to the 2021 winner; this time with @mwatelescope. Congratulations to everyone involved!🏆
(Read the paper here: https://t.co/UqGjuP9bV0)

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Set my telescope on Christmas Eve and caught something unexpected...

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@LSUResearch @NASA Could not be happier to be an alum of a great school and support the faculty and future Tigers any way I can 💪

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@astrofalls The non-flat or no calibration camps of astrophotography are... interesting.

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@Chapman_Histo Broken up into multiple nights :)

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I used 24 hours of exposure to create this photo of the Witch's Head nebula. Always amazes me what beautiful colors are contained within the swirling gas and dust of the cosmos.

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Super sad to hear that Artemis 1 was scrubbed today, so here is a closeup photo of the moon I took to hold you over.

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@FreedomFeens Oh yeah of course Dean, I can see how my title may have been interpreted to mean that only I call it this / I am naming it or something. Of course I recognize that is its common name. Probably could have chosen better wording.

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33 hours of exposure on a small portion of the sky using a telescope. I call this one the Dolphin Nebula.

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@rromea @PMurphyWWL @WWLTV 😂😂😂 Times are tough and books I have

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@HalGray217 @AJamesMcCarthy Sadly, the moon is about the size the continental US. That would essentially be the same as asking me to circle the flag in your front yard on a photo of the whole USA.

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@JulioCJuarezR No, no film. All digital cameras!

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My longest exposure time ever for a single image. This is 107 hours of exposure on the Eye of God, a planetary nebula very near to our own solar system

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@jakedowns @AJamesMcCarthy Different locations. I'm in Louisiana, he in Arizona

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@PMurphyWWL @WWLTV @AJamesMcCarthy dad, look!

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@nennneh @Enceladus_99 @AJamesMcCarthy Is this not clear?

[Paul Murphy @PMurphyWWL]

MOON SHOT. A planetary scientist from Mandeville teamed up with another “astrophotographer” from Arizona to capture this incredible image of the moon. It shows the lunar surface in spectacular detail like we’ve never seen it before. 6 ⁦@WWLTV⁩ ⁦@MatherneConnor⁩

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@CowleyRhees @AJamesMcCarthy Which middle crater? Can you highlight it?

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@lucky_budd Rokinon 135mm, and I used my ioptron skytracker I believe (it was 3 years ago ish)

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I took this during a night under the stars in Joshua Tree. Amazing what can be seen when you are nowhere near a city.

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@nennneh @Enceladus_99 @AJamesMcCarthy We do have (insanely) clear photos of the moon's surface though