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Naantali, Pintahalo
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Kokkola, Satellite
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Kuhmoinen, Starry sky image
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Orimattila, Artjärvi, Viestikallio, Telescopic comet PanSTARRS
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Kempele, Aurora rays
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Saarijärvi, Lunar corona
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Vaasa, Satellite
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Outokumpu, Aurora rays
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Kangasniemi, A fireball at night, brighter than the venus
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Puumala, A fireball at night, as bright as a full moon
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31.3.2023 at 21.25
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1.4.2023 at 04.10 - 05.30 - Kuhmoinen
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Ilkka Taponen, Ursa (Etelä-Suomi)
M99
30.3.2023 at 22.50 - 22.35 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The night went by three tubes, exoplanet observation with eVscope, Messier objects with Vesper and testing with Dwarf II tube. The northern lights were also in the sky for about 20 minutes saying hello. In this picture, M99 captured on Vespera.
Markarian's Chain (M84, M86, M87)
29.3.2023 at 22.54 - 23.53 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
It was a bit too much adjustment for the evening at once. I watched the rocket launch at about 22:30 onwards, while the Vespera tube imaged the M86 mosaic, eVscope had two supernova alerts lined up, at At 23:00 the second supernova recording ended and I started a new one over a minute at 23, I checked again that the trees do not come in front of the observation and at the same time with the side eye if the rocket launch can still be seen, then I thought I would have time to send the report to the Seti Institute on the computer inside and quickly go back outside to see if the rocket could be se...
Markarian's Chain
27.3.2023 at 23.10 - Kuusamo
Voitto Pitkanen, Ursa (Pohjois-Suomi)
This shooting destination of mine is traditionally one of the last of the season. Shots with a 600mm combination. The crescent moon lit up the landscape quite a bit, but the glow of the aurora borealis was gone. In total, 25 min of exposure (1-1.5 min/time) and 15 shots.
M78
22.3.2023 at 21.00 - 23.30 - Kuopio
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Jussi Koponen
I have described this beautiful reflection fog several times, the subject is really challenging, the trees and the Moon have interfered with several partial exposures and many have had to throw frames in the trash. Exposure time about 8 hours. bigger picture on my website: https://astro.galleria.fi/kuvat/2014 Deepsky/M78_full.jpg
NGC 7023
21.3.2023 at 22.50 - 03.39 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Someone has swept some of the dust from space around the Iris Nebula. A bit tricky to shoot with an osc camera and a light pollution filter. Light exposures for 4.25 hours. EDIT: Added version with calibrated star colors.
Images: 2 pcs
NGC 7000
20.3.2023 at 23.46 - 03.29 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
North American fog with a color camera and dual narrowband filter. Direct stacked and via channel extraction. This is also an interesting experiment.
Images: 4 pcs
IC 2118
20.3.2023 at 22.12 - 23.59 - Kuopio
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Jussi Koponen
From my location, I photographed this gas nebula, nicknamed the "Witch's Head", located very low in the southern sky. The tops of the tree came very quickly and the exposure time was a troublesome few hours. The focal length of the imaging tube was 600mm. The picture can be found in a larger size on my website: https://astro.galleria.fi/kuvat/2014+Deepsky/NoidanpääSumu.jpg
NGC 6888
17.3.2023 at 00.35 - 03.40 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
The Crescent Mist climbed from a rather low place in the east, little by little higher. I've tried this before, now with better tools.
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
17.3.2023 at 00.23 - Kalajoki
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Topias Tanhuala, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)
A rare clear night, so I decided to take pictures with my phone. The street lights turn off at midnight and I got a nice foreground from the street light. I was able to see the stars surprisingly well. The Lyra constellation is nicely visible in the picture and the bright star of the picture is Vega
Starscape image
17.3.2023 at 00.14 - 00.21 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The quiet night of the moon, silence and peace. Exoplanet observation going on in the northern sky. This is the everyday life of a star enthusiast.
Coman galaxy cluster
16.3.2023 at 23.49 - 04.17 - Virolahti
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Tero Hiekkalinna, Ursa (Helsinki)
The object of the second night of the Virolahti star tour was the Coma galaxy cluster, whose central region is located approx. 321 million light years from Earth. The cluster includes more than 1000 galaxies. Exposure in the picture is 3 hours and 50 minutes.
Images: 5 pcs
NGC 5473
16.3.2023 at 23.30 - Ulvila, Kullaa
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
NGC 5473 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on April 14, 1789. The galaxy is part of a small group of galaxies, the other members of which are NGC 5475 and 5485. Visually, the galaxy appeared as a small, round hazy patch, with some kind of central brightness standing out in the middle. The visual size of the galaxy is about 1' x 2'. #Herschel 400
NGC 4051
16.3.2023 at 23.10 - Ulvila, Kullaa
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
NGC 4051 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major. The galaxy has features of both a regular and a bar spiral galaxy. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on February 6, 1788. Visually, the galaxy appeared as a roughly 5' x 2' oblong hazy and dim patch. The long axis of the galaxy is roughly northwest-southeast. An almost star-like central glow can be seen in the middle of the galaxy. #Herschel 400
M31
16.3.2023 at 21.35 - 23.27 - Jyväskylä
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Juuso Ratilainen
16.3.2023 On Thursday, there was a cloudless and moonless sky. I went for the first time to try to photograph the Andromeda galaxy. The photo was taken in Jyväskylä from Tuomiojärvi near Haukkalanranta.
M87, M86, M84, M89, M58, M90
16.3.2023 at 21.34 - 23.05 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
A nice group of galaxies in the constellation Virgo fit into the image, not to mention the IC and NGC objects. I won't start to separate them here, you can look more closely at the second picture.
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
16.3.2023 at 20.10 - Kuopio
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The birch and the star (Sirius) were so nice in the hall that I had to take a picture of it when the Swedish barium rocket launch had now been cancelled. Despite the short exposure times (1.6 s), Flame Mist and Rose Mist stand out.
IC342
16.3.2023 at 00.12 - 00.50 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
As the northern lights blazed, I photographed the "hidden galaxy" for 39 minutes. The features are shown surprisingly well with such a short exposure.
NGC 7129
15.3.2023 at 23.32 - 00.03 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The aurora lights light up nicely at the same time that I was shooting an exoplanet with a science tube and Vespera was shooting the cosmic rose nebula.
Markarian's Chain (M84, M86, M87)
15.3.2023 at 23.23 - 04.30 - Virolahti
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Tero Hiekkalinna
We went on a traditional star tour in Virolahti to photograph spring galaxies and on the first evening the target was the Markarian's Chain galaxies.
Images: 5 pcs • Comments: 4 pcs
Starscape image
15.3.2023 at 21.29 - Puerto de la Cruz, Teneriffa, Espanja
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Jari Huttunen
Photo from the hotel balcony in the direction of Teide, Orion and Isokoira at least visible.
M64
15.3.2023 at 21.00 - Paimio
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Eeva-Kaisa Ahlamo, Turun Ursa
The bad ass of the galaxies, M64, or the Black-Eyed Galaxy, has carved out quite a lot of space for itself in the otherwise galaxy-filled constellation of Berenice's hair. The other galaxies wisely stay further away from the challenger's vicinity. William Herschel described the galaxy M64 in his notes in February 1787 as follows: "...it has a bright spot, like a star, with a small black arc below it, thus reminding one of the so-called black eye, born of a fight." (At that time, galaxies were not understood as galaxies, but as "nebulas".)
M3
12.3.2023 at 23.41 - 01.53 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Ball M3 with a short (550 mm) focal length. With a longer tube, the stars in the middle area would appear more separate, of course. An interesting experiment, though.
NGC 1499
12.3.2023 at 22.00 - 23.35 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
Vespera captured this California nebula while eVscope was passing Kepler-170b, part of NASA's UNITE project. This is a functional combination (Vespera / eVscope) when you can take advantage of the fun and benefit at the same time. Adjusted the tones of the second and third image.
Images: 3 pcs
Coman-Virgon galaxy cluster
12.3.2023 at 21.15 - Paimio
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Eeva-Kaisa Ahlamo, Turun Ursa
In March, the race against spring begins, you try to use all moonless, clear evenings to your advantage by looking at the sky. I went to Kevola to see if any galaxies would catch the observation network. And I caught them full of the camera (or in this case the 80/600mm Skywatcher). I have never stacked pictures, so learning (and motivation to learn) is still needed. For the first tests, however, it was quite fun, I marked (I think) the galaxies shown in the picture for the latter. It was nice that M87 could also fit into the picture with a rather blind shot. (You can only see the M86 / M84 on...
Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 1 pcs
IC1805
11.3.2023 at 20.00 - 03.00 - Kuopio
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Jussi Koponen
I found an old Samyang 85mm f1.4 manual lens in the sock drawer, which I then pointed in the direction of Kassiopeia. The image field of the lens is so large that two star nebulae and a spectacular double star cluster could fit in the same frame. Link to a larger picture on my page: https://astro.galleria.fi/?v=28c42eb2bad68c8857e72d8922e4c5134c6756da
NGC 2359
10.3.2023 at 22.07 - 23.00 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
I took the previous photo of the Witch's Head Nebula and Thor's helmet was nearby, so here is a short exposure of NGC 2359. It is difficult to get a good picture of this object. Waiting for the perfect Seeing air with the name tag.
Images: 2 pcs
IC 342
10.3.2023 at 21.39 - 00.14 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Hidden Galaxy as a filming location. It is large and bright in itself, but is so close to the level of the Milky Way that interstellar dust 'hides' it. Actually an autumn destination. Quite high also in the north.
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
10.3.2023 at 21.13 - 21.34 - Porkkala
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Tommi Ropponen, Ursa (Etelä-Suomi)
I went to shoot at the southern tip of Porkkala in quite a wind and praised the good decisions: Extra weights to support the tripod & a hot drink in the thermos. Several horned creatures could be seen in the nearby terrain of the beach cliffs, and when we came back, there were two gentlemen by the fire at the Merikotka campfire site. The place can be found when you first drive to the address Tullandintie 184 Kirkkonummi and walk from there for about 1.4 - 1.5 km. behind my back. This very southern point of the cape is probably the darkest place that can be found in the vicinity of the pk regio...
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
10.3.2023 at 20.44 - 20.54 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
NGC 1909
10.3.2023 at 20.00 - 21.20 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
Maybe I chose the wrong night to photograph the witch's head fog, when nothing else cleared, there seemed to be ice fog on the horizon. Of course, the exposure could have been more than an hour and a quarter. I adjusted the tone a little for the first picture
Images: 2 pcs
M31
10.3.2023 at 19.08 - 19.30 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
I wouldn't have put this picture here otherwise, but for people who are interested in the DWARF II tube. This photo was taken with a tube weighing only 1.2 kilograms. And this pipe is not expensive. Maybe this works better for nature photography, can track flying birds automatically, can also take video or even a billion pixel landscape photo. The software still seems to be Unfinished.
IC 410
9.3.2023 at 20.28 - 23.24 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Mallet fog in severe frost. However, the heating works. Duo Narrowband (3 nm) filter and OSC camera test runs. The clubs came out quite moderately. Two images via channel extraction, with slightly different 'hardnesses'. Third straight.
Images: 3 pcs
NGC 2237
8.3.2023 at 21.19 - 22.08 - Tampere
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Tapio Lahtinen, Tampereen Ursa
While waiting for the main destination, I photographed this 'artistic fast food' from a familiar destination.
Caldwell 9
7.3.2023 at 21.02 - 04.09 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Cave fog in the bitter cold. The mouth of the cave was frozen (ice in the lens), so it had to be framed like this. Duo 3nm Narrowband Filter: straight stack, color channels extracted and the latter also without stars.
Images: 3 pcs
NGC 1499
4.3.2023 at 19.00 - 02.00 - Mysen, Norja
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Esa Viitala
Equipment used: ASI2600mc pro, am5, Askar FRA500, Zwo mini guide, Asi120mm guide camera. Postprocessing in Pixinsight & Lightroom. Moon, waxing gibbous, 89%
M101
27.2.2023 at 00.13 - 01.30 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
In the glow of the aurora borealis, I tried to photograph objects in the deep sky, here the Windmill Gala of the Big Dipper constellation.
NGC 4565
26.2.2023 at 22.21 - 00.05 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The northern lights came to take my attention away from the photos and I left the tube to shoot, while I myself went to the lake ice to admire and photograph the northern lights. After midnight I remembered to change the destination. Another photo observation of the fleet.
Images: 2 pcs
NGC 4490
26.2.2023 at 21.23 - 21.18 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
NGC 5907
26.2.2023 at 20.49 - 21.15 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
M51
26.2.2023 at 20.02 - 20.45 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The starting point of the evening is the ever-so-impressive vortex galaxy M51
Starscape image
26.2.2023 at 20.00 - 21.45 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
From the beginning, there was only one hyperlapse shot of the northern sky.
Images: 2 pcs
Exoplanet HAT-P-22b
26.2.2023 at 19.36 - 00.18 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
February 26th was a beautiful aurora at the same time as I was going to observe the exoplanet HAT-P-22b It was proven that the northern lights do not interfere with the observation, although a little beforehand I was afraid that they would affect the final result. Also included are pictures of the observation of the aurora borealis
Images: 7 pcs
Starscape image
26.2.2023 at 19.30 - 19.38 - Vihti
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Maarit Vatanen
M42
25.2.2023 at 20.00 - 20.30 - Karstula
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Jussi Halttunen, Jyväskylän Sirius
I photographed Orion's large gas nebula with a 16-inch mirror telescope, where the prime focus was a Canon EOS 6D camera and a coma-corrector lens. The image is a single image with an exposure time of 40 seconds ISO4000.
Comments: 3 pcs
LDN 1455
23.2.2023 at 01.00 - Fregenal de la Sierra, Espanja
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Tapio Lahtinen, Tampereen Ursa
These projects seem to want to drag on. I took the first frames for this picture in mid-January and the last ones on 23.2. In the final stage, the shooting time was only 3 hours/night. However, I am quite satisfied with the end result. These dark fogs require a lot of exposure time.
Images: 2 pcs
Exoplanet GPX-1b
22.2.2023 at 22.08 - 02.10 - Hankasalmi, Murtoinen
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Harri Kiiskinen, Jyväskylän Sirius
After the comet observations, I also made an exoplanet observation of the brown dwarf GPX-1b found in 2020.
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
21.2.2023 at 22.00 - 22.20 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
In the evening I got an alert about a new supernova, while the telescope was cooling down I took a couple of pictures of the starry sky with my phone. In the picture, the constellations of Orion and Taurus, also the sieves, and Mars are clearly visible. Those with sharp eyes can even see Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Images: 2 pcs
M44
21.2.2023 at 20.20 - 23.20 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
The starry sky has -as you might expect- also constellations, in addition to nebulae and distant galaxies (which, of course, also have stars). Praesepe on a frosty night. Fortunately, the remote control allows filming in the warmth of the living room. With and without booster spindles.
Images: 2 pcs
IC 443
14.2.2023 at 22.29 - 16.01 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
I've tried to photograph the jellyfish habitat before, but now I used a better narrowband filter. Seeing was moderate. The guidance was almost spot on: the cumulative inaccuracy was on the order of 0.7 seconds of arc.
IC434, NGC 2024
14.2.2023 at 21.11 - 21.55 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The clouds cleared for a moment, so I pointed the tube towards the Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula of the Orion constellation. This image was taken with CovalENS panorama mode and dual narrowband filter. I removed the stars from the second picture. Exposure time 40 min
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
14.2.2023 at 18.37 - Eura
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On the evening of Valentine's Day, by chance, I was photographing the Orion pattern, a satellite appeared. As if there were four stars. The ZTF comet is not visible.
NGC 7635, M52, NGC 7538
13.2.2023 at 23.20 - 00.00 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
A gust of strong wind presented a challenge to the evening's filming. Here is the last object of the evening, the bubble nebula and M52, and NGC 7538
NGC 3938
13.2.2023 at 23.05 - Ulvila, Kullaa
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
NGC 3938 is a Sc type spiral galaxy located in the Ursa Major constellation discovered by William Herschel on February 6, 1788. The spiral galaxy is located in such a position that we look at it directly from above. The galaxy appeared visually as a dim and hazy, round patch. It is difficult to find out about its exact shape and position. The galaxy would appear to be slightly elongated, the long axis would appear to be in the southeast-southwest position. In the middle of the galaxy, a faint central brightness stood out. The visual size of the galaxy is approximately 4' x 3'. #Hersche...
NGC 3813
13.2.2023 at 22.45 - Ulvila, Kullaa
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
NGC 3813 is an Sb-type spiral galaxy located in the Ursa Major constellation, discovered by William Herschel on April 28, 1785. Visually, the galaxy appeared as an elongated, hazy and dim patch. The long axis is roughly east-west. The length of the galaxy is clearly greater than the width. The galaxy is uniformly luminous and has no discernible internal structure. Visual size approx 4.6' x 1.7'. #Herschel 400
NGC 3888
13.2.2023 at 22.20 - Ulvila, Kullaa
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
NGC 3888 is an SBc-type spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on April 14, 1789. Visually, the galaxy appeared as a small, nebulous, round, quite dim spot. The galaxy is uniformly luminous and has no discernible internal structure. Visual size approx 2' x 1.5'. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel, but is not part of the Herschel 400 list.
NGC 3898
13.2.2023 at 22.10 - Ulvila, Kullaa
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
NGC 3898 is a Sa-type spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on April 14, 1789, located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy appeared as a small and hazy patch, with a clear central brightness in the middle. The galaxy is oblong in shape, with a long axis roughly in the east-west direction. Visual size is approximately 3' x 2'. In the middle of the galaxy, a faint star-like brightness stood out. #Herschel 400
NGC 2174
13.2.2023 at 22.04 - 22.28 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
A gust of strong wind presented a challenge to the evening's filming. The description of the monkey's head was a bit short when the tree came in front. The exposure was only 24 minutes.
Starscape image
13.2.2023 at 19.21 - 19.56 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
Comet filming going double. Stars can be photographed surprisingly well with a phone these days.
Images: 3 pcs
Nova AT 2023bne
13.2.2023 at 19.18 - 19.38 - Imatra
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Rauno Päivinen, Etelä-Karjalan nova
A faint nova discovered on 10.2 is visible in the triple galaxy M33. I tried shooting this with the C14, and I could see it just fine. The estimated brightness of 11.2 is 16.9 mag. The nova can be found near the bright NGC 604 HII region of the triangular galaxy, I'll also include a picture of the center of that galaxy from the same evening, you can use that to orientate yourself if someone else wants to spot it.
Images: 2 pcs
M42
13.2.2023 at 18.30 - Helsinki
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Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)
I imaged Orion's gas nebula M42 by stacking 23 2-second exposures with DeepSkyStacker. I post-processed the image with the Photo Director 365 program.
Images: 2 pcs
M42
13.2.2023 at 18.00 - Kempele
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Marko Haapala
As a child, you had to stare at the earth and the starry sky on the tin roof, then at the current location you could see a little more of them, even in winter. 30 years ago, the first camera was used to zoom towards the shape of Orion's hourglass, and there that reddish dot was visible as a blur and a little wider than the stars next to it. Time passed and slowly we got a little closer to the target, but the result was miserable and noisy and a disappointed photographer. Still, that time passed and the photographer also had time to develop during that time, in addition to everything else. ...
Comments: 1 pcs
Supernova SN2023bee
12.2.2023 at 02.18 - 02.39 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Kari Laihia, Toni Veikkolainen, Porin Karhunvartijat
SN2023bee +NGC 2708 Type Ia supernova in the Aquarius galaxy NGC 2708 was imaged on the second night of the 2023 February talcos. The supernova was discovered by the telescope network of the Las Cumbres Observatory on 2023/02/01.750 by DLT40. The DLT40 search program includes galaxies below 40Mpc (Mega parsecs), which are monitored at least every 24 hours and discoveries are usually reported within an hour of discovery. Source https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaa07d . The monitoring of the program covers a total of approx. 400-600 bright nearby galaxies. Discovery location ...
Supernova SN2022 aagp
12.2.2023 at 01.52 - 02.13 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Kari Laihia, Toni Veikkolainen, Porin Karhunvartijat
SN2022 aagp supernova in the amorphous galaxy NGC 2777 was imaged on the second night of the 2023 February talcos. SN II type Supernova was discovered by ZTF 2022-11-14.393 15.5mag in Kravu constellation RA 09h10m41s.911, Decl. = +07°12'20".44 Instrument: ZTF-Cam Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin . The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a wide-field search program for supernovae and other rapidly changing objects based on Samuel Oschin's 48" Schmidt telescope and wide-field camera. Figure 1. L 11x120s total image stacked by stars, stack mean time 2023-02-12T 00:02:12 JDUT2459987.50153, su...
NGC 3521
12.2.2023 at 00.46 - 01.46 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Toni Veikkolainen, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair
At the Ursa Solar System meeting, we also got to photograph a few DS objects. This nice-looking spiral galaxy is located in the southern part of Leijona, far from the famous triplet.
NGC 3044
11.2.2023 at 22.41 - 23.02 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Toni Veikkolainen, Jani Katava, Kari Laihia, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair
It was decided at the Solar System meeting, between photographing comets and asteroids, to also include the rarely photographed bar spiral galaxy visible from the side.
M45
11.2.2023 at 21.30 - Lieksa
Satu Juvonen, Ursa (Itä-Suomi)
M95, M96
11.2.2023 at 21.02 - 22.00 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
In the evening I was going to a party, so I programmed Vespera to automatically start at 19:00 and start. The third target at: 21:00 was M95 with an hour exposure, M96 came on the market. The robot tube took care of the job while the host was at the party. Apparently, there has been light cloud at this point, when you look at the picture. Vespera took only 269 pictures, shooting time 44 minutes. I could conclude that it was cloudy for about 15 minutes, but I don't know since I wasn't there myself.
M42
11.2.2023 at 21.00 - Lieksa
(I)
Satu Juvonen, Ursa (Itä-Suomi)
Very rarely has there been an opportunity to practice using the tracking stand. Yesterday the sky was clear, so I braved the wind and the frost and went to try what would come. Orion was handsome in the sky. The wind was freezing, the camera was shaking and swaying. Polar aiming succeeded so well that with the 200 mm lens it was difficult to take one-minute exposures. I took 8 pictures of the fog, 4 of which I passed for further processing. I stacked and processed the images in Photoshop. The pictures are cropped quite a bit. The end result was a positive surprise, how much details and colors ...
Images: 2 pcs
Hevosenpääsumu, Barnard 33
11.2.2023 at 21.00 - 21.30 - Parikkala
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Markku Poutanen, Ursa (Helsinki)
Mehr Licht! More light! According to the story, the last words of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe. And the first words of the signer when I looked at the first version of Horse Horse Fog after DSS processing. Even after image processing, this iconic (i-koni?) object remained a bit anemic. Forty 30s exposures, or only twenty minutes in total, but when the opportunity comes, more exposures must be made and added to the previous ones. This is easy to find. The bright star in the middle is Alnitak, the leftmost star in Orion's belt, m = 1.9. The north is down; I left it in this position because I th...
M33
11.2.2023 at 20.38 - 21.38 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Toni Veikkolainen, Jani Katava, Kari Laihia, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair
The legendary Triangle galaxy was once again the subject of an exposure series with Alluna, but this time I tried the triple rather than double binning that is typically used with it. There didn't seem to be anything interesting on the edges either, so I cut them off.
NGC 1499
11.2.2023 at 20.16 - 03.26 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
An old familiar destination. I photographed the fog with a 135 mm lens, so it fit in its entirety in the frame. Still have to try separating the Ha-OIII channels and combining the images. Would the colors of hydrogen and oxygen come out better.
Images: 2 pcs
M33
11.2.2023 at 20.00 - 21.00 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
In the evening I was going to a party, so I programmed Vespera to automatically start at 19:00 and start. The second target at: 20:00 was the triangular galaxy M33 with an hour exposure. The robot tube did the job when the host was at the party, convenient.
Starry sky image
11.2.2023 at 19.50 - Urjala
Markku Ruonala
I didn't see the zodiac light, but then I photographed the starry sky from a nice observation point. I turned my attention to Sirius' active twinkling. I decided to photograph the twinkling from a tripod by "sweeping" from field to field with a long exposure and a long tube slightly out of focus.
Comments: 2 pcs
Starscape image
11.2.2023 at 19.28 - Kurikka
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Marko Myllyniemi, Lakeuden Ursa
Visible in the western starry sky, e.g. Andromeda constellation, stacked with Sequator for five (5) different exposures, post-processing in Photoshop. Several satellites crossed the image during the exposures, one of which was quite bright.
Starscape image
11.2.2023 at 19.23 - Kurikka
(IV)
Marko Myllyniemi, Lakeuden Ursa
Starry sky in the direction of Orion, 8 exposures of different lengths (10s-22s) stacked on Sequator. The effect of light pollution (orange background sky) was reduced by adjusting the color tones in a more bluish direction in Photoshop.
NGC 7023
11.2.2023 at 19.00 - 19.58 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
In the evening, I was going to go hunting, so I programmed Vespera to automatically start at 19:00 and start with an hour exposure of its first target, NGC 7023 Iris nebula. The robot tube did the job when the host was at the party, convenient.
NGC 2237 Rosette nebula
11.2.2023 at 18.30 - 21.00 - Riihimäki
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Jorma Yksjärvi, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
After a long time, a couple of consecutive clear moonless evenings on February 10-11. The Rosette Nebula has been at the top of the target list for a long time, and now its filming finally took place. Small challenges appeared during the shooting when I noticed that the target is not exactly in the middle of the image field. For some reason, I didn't notice this on Friday night, and Saturday I had to go with the same alignment so that I can combine the stars and fog from consecutive nights in the post-processing without any problems.
Starscape image
11.2.2023 at 18.20 - 00.15 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Juha Ojanperä, Porin Karhunvartijat
I photographed starry sky time lapse again on Tähtikallio during the solar system meeting on the night between Saturday and Sunday, i.e. 11/12/2/2023. Unfortunately, I only found out afterwards that the white balance setting was wrong, and the whole set of pictures (about 700 pictures over a period of 6 hours) had the wrong white balance setting. I use GIMP as an image processing program, and I have not yet found the possibility to process a large number of images at once, I should be able to process all 700 images with a certain script, in which case I would be able to adjust the white balanc...
Simeis 147
10.2.2023 at 22.36 - 04.20 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Spaghetti fog, a very challenging object due to its vast area and weak surface brightness. Getting the Samyang 135mm/2 lens on board with the rest of the equipment required a bit of improvisation. On the INPUT side, the filter is L-Ultimate, with step-down adapters. Added some vignetting and asymmetric flare of stars in the peripheral areas. An interesting experiment, though. Light only 12 x 15 min light, 12 x 15 min dark.
Images: 2 pcs
M42
10.2.2023 at 18.52 - Helsinki
(I)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)
I photographed the Orion gas nebula by stacking 21 images with DeepSkyStacker. Image post-processed with PhotoDirect 365 program.
Comments: 2 pcs
Starscape image
10.2.2023 at 18.35 - 20.51 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
I put the hyper child on the phone while observing the comet with other tubes. The end shows the arrival of the clouds.
M42
6.2.2023 at 19.00 - Helsinki
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Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)
I imaged the M42 Orion gas nebula by stacking 16 2 second exposures with DeepSkyStacker. As a bonus image, the Orion constellation as a landscape constellation.
Images: 2 pcs
Starscape image
6.2.2023 at 18.50 - 19.35 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
While I was photographing the comet with two tubes, I thought I would test the phone's hyperlapse feature. I put the phone on the stand and took a moment to take a picture, and of course the phone rang and the alarm vibrated (shown at the beginning of the picture). The rising of the moon can be seen well when the trees light up, the colors of the stars also stand out perfectly, especially Orion's Betelgeuse clearly draws a redder line. Here's a 50-minute exposure. Definitely have to try the same in a longer time.
M45
4.2.2023 at 20.17 - Kirkkonummi
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Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)
I photographed the Pleiades at the University of Helsinki observatory by stacking 17 2-second exposures with DeepSkyStacker.
M31 and M110
31.1.2023 at 19.13 - Kurikka
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Marko Myllyniemi, Lakeuden Ursa
After photographing Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), I decided to try photographing the Andromeda galaxy with camera optics. Due to the lack of a follower platform, I had to leave the exposures quite short (10 seconds), and all in all, the exposure accumulated for only a couple of minutes (12*10s). Stacking with Sequator. During the final processing of the image, I ended up changing the image to black and white, which made processing a little easier. M31 and M110 standing out as a fog spot on the right side of its nucleus.
M42
28.1.2023 at 22.18 - 22.49 - Rautalampi
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Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
Again, try to hold on. The intention was to photograph the comet, but those clouds... It became clear later. I chose a safe target. I only got light for 27 x 1 min, then it got cloudy again. I tried to bring out the surrounding 'fringes', but it was a bit dull. Too little data.
Comments: 2 pcs
Starry sky image
26.1.2023 at 20.31 - Vaala
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Jani Karjalainen
There I started to look at the pictures that I had won on 26.1.2023 and then I noticed in one picture where there is a flight of a star, on the right side of it there are 6 stars in the form of a circle, but I couldn't find a corresponding picture using the fly function, so now I'm asking you if you have any information
Images: 5 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs
IC 410
26.1.2023 at 19.00 - 01.00 - Mysen
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Esa Viitala
Tadpoles Nebula, I really wanted to observe (by taking a picture) the tadpoles. Got these too.
NGC 4477, 4473, 4479
21.1.2023 at 03.23 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Toni Veikkolainen, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair
A few galaxies caught the picture from the middle stages of the Markarian chain. The elliptical galaxy NGC 4473 and the bar-lens galaxies NGC 4477 are most clearly visible in the image. The smaller bar-lens galaxy NGC 4479 also stands out.
NGC 6503
21.1.2023 at 02.09 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Toni Veikkolainen, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair
The diagonally visible spiral galaxy, which was previously photographed in black and white on Tähtikallio, now ended up being the subject of a color image.
Supernova SN2022 aagp NGC 2777
21.1.2023 at 01.33 - 01.54 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Kari Laihia, Toni Veikkolainen, Hannu Määttänen, Porin Karhunvartijat
SN2022 aagp supernova in the amorphous galaxy NGC 2777 was imaged on the first night of 2023 January talcos. SN II type Supernova was discovered by ZTF 2022-11-14.393 15.5mag in Kravu constellation RA 09h10m41s.911, Decl. = +07°12'20".44 Instrument: ZTF-Cam Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin . The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a wide-field search program for supernovae and other rapidly changing objects based on Samuel Oschin's 48" Schmidt telescope and wide-field camera. Figure 1. L 11x120s total image stacked by stars, stack mean time 2023-01-20T 23:43:36 JDUT2459965.48861, supernov...
Images: 2 pcs
Supernova SN2022zut +NGC 3810
21.1.2023 at 01.03 - 01.24 - Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio
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Kari Laihia, Toni Veikkolainen, Hannu Määttänen, Porin Karhunvartijat
The type Ia supernova SN2022zut in the Leo galaxy NGC 3810 was imaged on the first evening of the January talcos of 2023. The supernova was discovered by the ATLAS search program, ATLAS Mauna Loa 50cm telescope, 2022-11-09 14:36:56.736UT 14.55mag, at 11h40m58.820s +11d28'10.92". Several supernovae have been found in this galaxy. Figure 1. L 11x120s total image stacked according to stars, stack mean time 2023-01-20T 23:13:20.500 2459965.46759, supernova measured location 11h 40m 58.79s +11d 28' 12.5", measured brightness 14.587mag. Comparison location for supernova RA = 18h820m, Decl. =...
Images: 2 pcs
M1
21.1.2023 at 00.00 - 01.00 - Janakkala, Tervakoski
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Petri Kuossari, Riihimäen tähtit. yhdistys
The weather report promised maybe half an hour or at most one hour of clear skies in the evening, so the pipe line to cool down. I started around 19:00 and finally the evening stretched into the morning. There were bigger changes to the plans because I wasn't prepared for the observations of the whole night. Fortunately, the weather report can sometimes also be positive. The main target was the clear comet C/2022 E3, both scientific observations and pictures for your own pleasure. I also noticed a couple of transits of asteroids during the night. More about them after the analyzes are comp...
M42
19.1.2023 at 19.03 - 19.06 - Helsinki
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Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)
I imaged the Orion gas nebula by stacking 29 2-second exposures with DeepSkyStacker. As a bonus image, the Orion constellation.
Images: 2 pcs
M42
5.1.2023 at 19.29 - Helsinki
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Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)
I photographed the Orion gas nebula, which was faintly visible due to the full moon.
IC1396
4.1.2023 at 17.55 - 23.14 - Rautalampi
(II)
Vesa Vauhkonen, Sisä-Savon Ursa
An elephant's trunk on a frosty night. The devices withstood the cold well during a session lasting more than 8 hours.
Images: 3 pcs
IC 434
4.1.2023 at 01.00 - Fregenal de la Sierra, Espanja
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Tapio Lahtinen, Tampereen Ursa
I saw a nice version of this iconic object in the starry sky online that used a rarer image palette. I decided to try my own version with a remote telescope. Well, this turned out to be a bit of a stub version with a total exposure time of 'only' 10 hours, but I'm quite satisfied with this and especially since I was able to remove the disturbing stars.
M42
1.1.2023 at 23.42 - Kouvola
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Tero Sipinen, Ursa (Etelä-Suomi)
While waiting for Uranus to be covered, a few pictures of the Orion Nebula were taken with a 600mm lens. I had recently downloaded Siril and thought I'd try how it would handle star images. Well, no way. It boiled down to the fact that I didn't have the darks, flats, etc. that Sirili's automation needed, and I didn't know how to proceed with just "lights". But the exposures were not completely wasted when I stacked six images with HaloStack as an average stack. You shouldn't make big prints of that, but you can recognize the object :)
M81, M82, NGC3077
1.1.2023 at 23.30 - 01.00 - Pori
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Petteri Ahonen, Porin Karhunvartijat
The first shooting target of 2023 is the Boden and Cigar galaxies. in the picture also NGC 3077. the intention was to get a little more out of m81 Spiral Galaxy than in my previous attempt, but still had to wait. The moon on the night of the shoot was about 77-78 percent three slightly different versions
Images: 3 pcs
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