Silver Owl

Silver | Amateur Astronomer | Celestron NexStar 130SLT 🔭 Tracking, Observing and Exploring The Universe 🌕

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Every major leap in astronomy has changed humanity’s view of itself.

Galileo.

Hubble.

James Webb.

Vera Rubin may be next.

The most exciting discoveries are often the ones nobody was looking for.

#Astronomy #Space #VeraCRubin

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🔹 We’re entering a new era of astronomy.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun what could become the greatest astronomical survey ever attempted—capturing the entire southern sky every few nights for the next decade.

#Astronomy #RubinObservatory #Space

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#Celestron #Astronomy #TheMoon

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🔹 First session with new 130SLT

Holding my iPhone 15 camera to the lens proved very difficult to remain steady. I absolutely need to get the Canon EOS R7 attached ASAP! Lens look super clear though.

#Astro #Moon #Telescope

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@AJamesMcCarthy This is what makes lunar transits so fascinating. You’re catching something moving at orbital speed against an object nearly 400,000 km away, and the whole thing depends on being in the right place at the right second. Really impressive shot.

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🔹 Celestron NexStar 130SLT

My new scope just arrived. Bit of an upgrade from my older Starsense Explorer DX130

#Celestron #Telescope #Astro

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@konstructivizm Mars never stops being strange. Seeing a dust storm on that scale really shows how active the planet still is, even without oceans or life as we know it.

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@konstructivizm This is the kind of thing that makes space feel impossible to judge by eye. You see a galaxy like M94 and it feels tiny because it’s so far away, but then comparing its apparent size to the Moon completely changes your perspective. Also, 82 hours of exposure is unreal!

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@konstructivizm It’s wild that Voyager 2 only had one flyby of Neptune, yet still gave us details like this. Those bright cloud streaks make the atmosphere look so much more active and complex than you’d expect from a planet that far out.

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@konstructivizm It’s crazy to think a single volcano could reshape the landscape on that kind of scale. Mars really has some of the most dramatic features in the Solar System.

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@spacevibex You can honestly never get tired of seeing the Moon like this. It always feels a bit unreal.

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@Expansao_Astro This is the kind of thing that makes astronomy so fascinating. The more you learn about scale, the more unreal the universe feels.

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🔹 Mundaring Weir, Perth. WA.

Simple setup, unbelievably clear skies.

#Astronomy #Astro #Moon

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🔹 Perth Observatory, 22.09.25.

Some places make you look up a little differently.

#PerthObservatory #Astronomy