James Cryer

✨ Star gazer
🎚️ Noise maker
🍻 Homebrewer
🤓 Coder

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Venus is very bright and high in the early evening northwestern sky at the moment. Like the moon, venus has phases!

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Mars, taken from the patio last night.

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Some old astrophotography images that needed better processing. Here are M27, M57 and a section of NGC6992. Really hoping for some clear nights soon!

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"The Hidden Galaxy" IC342. Viewed through the plane of our own galaxy, the intermediate spiral galaxy is partially obscured by the veil of interstellar dust and gas. Image taken last night.

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Bottom centre: NGC 206, a star cloud in the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Top right: M32, a dwarf satellite galaxy of M31. ~2 hours of data shot Friday night.

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Poor atmospheric conditions last night, but happy to have imaged something. Here's NGC9662, The Eastern Veil Nebula.

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The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). Taken from the patio last night.

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The Virgo Galaxy cluster. 2 nights of data was needed to create this image. I count 10 galaxies, an unfathomable number of stars and planets.

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Here's the brightened integration image before processing. See the dark halo structure? Two faint galatic arms forming a circle, unfortunatly blending with the distortion of light through the optics.

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M49, The Croc's Eye galaxy. Taken last night.

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The Western Veil nebula. The remains of a supernova, a bright celestial explosion that would have been seen by early humans over 10,000 years ago. Image was taken last June from my garden patio.

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The Whirlpool Galaxy M51 interacting with a neighbouring dwarf galaxy NGC 5195.

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When creating an image I have to reject a lot of individual photos because of wind movement, planes, satellites and ... I have no idea what this is.

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The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) and the bright star Alnitak.

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743 9sec exposures, 194 images discarded. 549 integrated pixel by pixel into a single image. Contrast, brightness and saturation enhanced, light pollution and vignetting digitally removed... The dark Horsehead nebula silhouetted against the red emission nebula IC-434.

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The Orion Nebula. Taken last week from the patio. I'm awestruck at the detail and colour. When I started this hobby I never imagined I'd be able to get images this good!

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Good to have had some clear skies this week. Here's NGC 2174 the Monkey Head Nebula, taken from the patio on Monday.

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Astrophotography can be disappointing when there are so few clear moonless nights. Still, I've been lucky enough to get a few grainy images of the wonders above. Seen here are: the Hercules globular cluster, the Draco galaxy trio, and the Fossil Footprint nebula

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Image of M82 (Cigar Galaxy) taken earlier in the week from my patio. It's in a northern region of sky that for me is less heavily effected by London's light pollution. The light used to create this picture took 12 million years to get here!