Peter F Wingard

Professional application developer, (soon to be retired), science fiction writer, and astro-photographer.

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Charles Messier was a comet hunter. However, the 110 deep-sky objects he catalogued as 'not comets' are his fame. #astrophotography #astronomy #messier

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Messier 24 — The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud
Shot from my backyard in Camden, SC.

Date: 2026-05-16, 04:48 EDT
Telescope: Celestron Origin

Exposure: 30 s x 24 subs (auto-exposure)
Total integration: 720 s (12 minutes)
ISO: 500, Filter: UV/IR Cut

#astrophotography #Messier24

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Charles Messier wasn't looking for what he is famous for: https://t.co/3NxGlotCPA #astrophotography

#nebula #darknebula #galaxy #startcluster #nightsky
#milkyway

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@elonmusk , your Grok app is horrible. You can send somebody to the mars, but you can’t warn somebody that you’re gonna cut them off for more credits and not let them save the history before hours of work are gone?

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Full moon over Atlanta. Still caught a dark nebula in Cygnus with the Origin. Moondance picked the best target despite the glow… and it actually worked.
Open beta here → https://t.co/AOwkAk9EWJ
#astrophotography #Cygnus #lightpollution #iPhoneAstro

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Same happened to me

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Deep in the middle of something complex with @AnthropicAI’s Claude-and it just ghosts me. Restart all over multiple times. Why am I paying five times more for this crappy service? #AI #FrustratedUser

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The second image from the night of sept 17 2025 in southern Utah. 2100 secs total exposure (70 30 sec subs), Canon 90d DLSR, Rokinon 14mm lens, 3200 iso.
Milky Way, Astrophotography @see_theShow

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A nightscapt image I took during my stay at Under Canvas in Lake Powell, Utah. Astrophotography Milky Way.

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The breakfast comet.

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Cotton Candy ©2025

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A celestial Grand Canyon. Milky Way shot in Southern Utah, near Big Water on Sept 16th, 2025. This is the second image of three that night. Canon 90d, no filter, SWSA GTI star tracker (unbalanced). 14mm Rokinon F2.8 wide angle lens. Forty 30s exposures. Bortle 2 sky ISO 3200.

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Milky Way image towards the Galactic center taken in southern Utah under Bortle 2 skies. DLSR Canon 90 D w 14 mm lens on a star tracker mount. Post-processed in Pixinsight. SHO palette. Roughly a 30 minute exposure.

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Eastern Vale nebula

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IC1396 elephant trunk nebula

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Comet Lemmon, coming to
naked eyes in a sky near you. @the_starFarmer on Instagram #ASTROphotography.

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North American nebula NCG 7000 Captured with an Askar V telescope 60 mm primary lens with a reducer for 270 mm focal length, optolong extreme filter, AM3 mount 31 1/2 minute total exposure. Post processing done in PixInsight. See the Show!

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Ever wonder why people who have lived life successfully seem to have two of everything. Successfully? (That was a dad joke in case you haven’t been a dad.)

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@grok @elonmusk grok is like a child. Why? Do you think we’re too stupid to notice the lack of resources applied? I’m paying for a service. Where is it?

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Changed my username to sky lemon cluster in honor of my rather obsessive new hobby. M3.