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    George_P got a reaction from jerryy in Winter Landscapes   
    I was just about to point that out, in my defense. 
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    George_P reacted to jerryy in Winter Landscapes   
    Weeeellllll, it is not July yet.
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    George_P reacted to jerryy in Winter Landscapes   
    @George_P, these are amazing. Thank you for posting these.
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    George_P got a reaction from jerryy in Winter Landscapes   
    @jerryy, does this mean you want some more or you've had enough of these ? 😀 
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    George_P got a reaction from jerryy in Winter Landscapes   
    ehm, before you can answer that...

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    XH2 with XF 33 wr
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    George_P reacted to jerryy in Astro-photography (open thread)   
    Big Bear, Big Dipper...
    Every now and then one of the images I post will have an asterism, which is just a pattern in the stars that is interesting to see, but the stars have no relation to each other unlike stars in constellations. There is a famous one where both happen at the same time, the stars are in an asterism and in a constellation...

    This is a screen capture from Stellarium, with annotated star names added on top. All of the stars are part of constellation Ursa Major. The blue-ish colored lines and the white-ish colored lines connect the main constellation stars, the white-ish colored lines alone form asterisms. The orange-ish colored labels are for the stars in the two asterisms.

    This is the equivalent of an 80 seconds exposure.
    As a side note: Alcor and Mizar are a famous double star pair, very easy to see visually or with binoculars or telescopes.
    http://stellarium.org/
    https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/ursa-major-constellation/
    https://www.space.com/ursa-major-constellation-great-bear
     
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    George_P reacted to jerryy in Astro-photography (open thread)   
    "Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly” * 
    Back on page one of this thread, there is a post showing a quick exposure isolating IC 405, The Flaming Star Nebula. That section of the sky has so many things to see it is almost a tourist-oriented nature-viewing area.

    Some of the highlights include tadpoles, starfish, spiders, flies, pinwheels and more.

    This is the equivalent of just about 56 minutes of exposure.
    * The Spider And The Fly by Mary Botham Howitt
    Messier Object M36 (The Pinwheel Cluster): https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-36-pinwheel-cluster/
    Messier Object M38 (The Starfish Cluster): https://www.go-astronomy.com/messier.php?Messier=M38
    IC 417 (The Spider Nebula): https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/spider-nebula/
    NGC 1931 (The Fly Nebula): https://waid-observatory.com/ic417-2020-01-19-HOO.html
    IC 410 (The Tadpoles Nebula): https://skyandtelescope.org/online-gallery/ic410-the-tadpoles-nebula-a-star-nursery/
    And, of course, IC 405 (The Flaming Star Nebula): https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ic405-flaming-star-nebula-object
    Will the spider once again coax the fly into its parlour? Will the fly escape the machinations? Their exchange is in the sky for us to ponder...
     
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    George_P reacted to jerryy in Astro-photography (open thread)   
    Orion has plenty of interesting parts to see; nebulas, bright glowing stars and whatnot. Orion is not the only neat thing in that part of the sky, the Rosette Nebula is close by and it is certainly neat to see. But there is also a Cone, a Christmas tree and a little variable thing as well.


    This is the equivalent of 112 minutes and lots of change worth of exposure.
    NGC 2261, Hubble’s Variable Nebula is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, who also has the big space telescope named after him:
    https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/35/904-Image.html
    The Cone Nebula, NGC 2264, is actually much larger than the part seen above, the part in the images is what gives it its name:
    https://www.constellation-guide.com/cone-nebula/
    NASA had some fun with the Christmas Tree Cluster (The batch of stars in the “lower” part of the Cone Nebula), they rotated the image upside down — or right side up if you view it in the land down under — x-ray colored the nebula green and animated the Cluster’s stars. They have a player on their page:
    https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/telescopes-illuminate-christmas-tree-cluster/
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    George_P reacted to MARRIEDGUY9 in Astro-photography (open thread)   
    Photo I took right before above, less cropped.

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    George_P reacted to MARRIEDGUY9 in Astro-photography (open thread)   
    Cropped a lot, just trying to get a vulture in the same frame as the moon.  Looks weird, but it was fun trying to get the shot......70-300 XT-5.

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