it was unfortunately a nearly-full moon tonight, but it was beautifully clear and i did just get my coma corrector, so i decided to go out and get a picture of M44 (the beehive cluster) :3

unfortunately i found out after processing it that i used the coma corrector wrong (apparently you're supposed to remove the extension tube when using it with a DSLR... whoopsies ^^'). so that's why the star shapes are Like That

this was also the first time i took flats and it definitely makes a difference, the vignetting is greatly reduced (tho still kinda there? i guess it'll take some experimentation to figure out the best process for taking flats + processing)

anyway this night has definitely been a helpful learning experience and oh god i have work at 7:30 am tomorrow and it's almost 1 am why did i do this

taken with an apertura 6 inch F/4 imaging newtonian with a (wrongly used >w<) coma corrector, an HEQ5 mount, and a canon EOS rebel T5

123 x 30 sec lights at ISO 1600 (1 hour 1 minute 30 seconds integration time), 20 dark frames, 50 bias frames, 40 flat frames

Dazzling Stars in Eagle Nebula: NGC 6611/IRAS 12196-6300

💙Cosmos Call💙

Star Cluster 47 Tuc

The Pleiades by Babak Tafreshi on Instagram

Happy New Year from Space!

l all taken by Dustin Gibson

The star Antares (α Scorpii) // Gaillard Jérôme

Note the globular cluster M4 to the lower right!

Christmas tree cluster

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope view shows the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction. Globular clusters are typically home to populations of older stars, and they mostly reside in the dusty outskirts of galaxies. Scientists utilized the telescope’s unique ability to observe the cosmos across multiple wavelengths of light to study NGC 2298 in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. This valuable information helps astronomers better understand how globular clusters behave, including their internal movements, orbits, and the evolution of their stars.

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, G. Piotto (Universita degli Studi di Padova), and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University);

M7, Open Star Cluster In Scorpius- Lorand Fenyes; 2014

Stellar Buddies

 Wispy curtains of IC 348 © JWST

JWST identifies three tiny free-floating brown dwarfs in the star cluster IC 348: objects too small to be stars but larger than most planets

🤎🖤⚜️Dark Golden Time⚜️🖤🤎

47 Tuc, Starbust

Messier 45: The Pleiades

Nick Fritz on Instagram