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Ted December 9, 2015 Uncategorized

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CASSIOPEIA, HEART & SOUL
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Clear skies last night

CASSIOPEIA, HEART & SOUL
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Clear skies last night and the wind died down a little. I had a couple of hours so decided to shoot some wide field images of both the Cassiopeia area and the Eagle Nebula area (about an hour of subs for each).
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Here’s a quick edit of the Cassiopeia series which includes the Heart and Soul Nebulas to the bottom of the image. Getting a bit better at processing the images, especially controlling noise by separating nebulae from stars and then processing them separately.
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Swipe to see the sky placement of this at around midnight last night.
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Pleiades and California nebulae are already rising later in the night… the nights are getting shorter already, Orion will start edging its way back into view fit the winter in no time…
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Wishing everyone a nice weekend 🌌
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Nikon Z7a with 58mm f/1.4 (at f/2). 20 x 2min subs + few dark frames.
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#cassiopeia #nightphotography #nightskyphotography #nightsky #astrophotography #astronomy #backyardastronomy #backyardastrophotography #astrophotography #nikonz7 #nikonmirrorless #skyguideapp #heartandsoul #heartandsoulnebula #nebulae #nightskychasers #milkyway #spacephotography #spacephotos #astrophoto #astronomie #amateurastronomy #nikonastrophotography #starrysky #starryskystacker

Another milky way image - taken last week, while I

Another milky way image - taken last week, while I wandering around our neighborhood at 3am 😄 (see my previous posts). 🌌
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Full moon tonight - too bright for stargazing but it’s a good opportunity to process images taken earlier this month.
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Image: Nikon Z6 with 20mm f/1.8 S.
Merged vertical panorama of 4 images.
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#nightsky #ig_nightphotography #astrophotography #universetoday #nightscape #rsa_night #starrynight #stargazing #skymasters #nikonz6 #astrophoto #milkywaychasers #nightshooters #night_shooterz #ig_astrophotography #astroworld #sky_brilliance #sky_captures #milkyway_nightscapes #night_sky #instaneuch #milkyway #milkywaynightscapes #nightphotography #nightowlphotography #igneuchatel #nightshooters

ANDROMEDA GALAXY 🌌
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Our closest neighbor - th

ANDROMEDA GALAXY 🌌
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Our closest neighbor - the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way (2.5 million LY). Taken last week from our garden while I was observing and shooting the Perseid meteors with other equipment.
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I realize that it’s not Hubble-level imagery, but I’m awestruck that one can decently shoot such far-reaching objects with rudimentary equipment (no telescope).
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About 70 exposures x 90 seconds each stacked with maybe 15 dark frames. Nikon Z7a with 70-200 f/2.8 (at 200mm f/3.5). ISO 1000. Unguided on a Star Watcher Star Adventurer.
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#m31 #andromeda #andromedagalaxy #messier31 #ngc224 #spacephotography #astrophotography #deepspace #deepspacephotography #spiralgalaxy #astronomy #m110 #m32 #spacepictures #astronomer #sky_captures #night4view #nightphotography #spaceobjects #spaceimages #nightpixels #spacexploration #spacelovers #astrophotography_ #astrophotography_space #nightphotography #nightsky

3 AM in Le Côty 😴 🌌
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Last night, while t

3 AM in Le Côty 😴 🌌
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Last night, while the star tracker was ticking away following the Andromeda Galaxy for a few hours, I did a little walk around the neighborhood with another camera to capture a few landscape milky way scenes. The neighboring farmers had just recently mowed and tilled the fields to prepare for the mechanical hay baler, producing aesthetic lines of neatly mowed grass. The milky way core provides a nice backdrop.
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Pretty quiet at 3am! 😴 💤
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Image: Nikon Z6 with 20mm f/1.8 S.
Merged panorama of 4 images.
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#nightsky #ig_nightphotography #astrophotography #universetoday #nightscape #rsa_night #starrynight #stargazing #skymasters #nikonz6 #astrophoto #milkywaychasers #nightshooters #night_shooterz #ig_astrophotography #astroworld #sky_brilliance #sky_captures #sky_sultans #milkyway_nightscapes #night_sky #instaneuch #milkyway #milkywaynightscapes #nightphotography #nightowlphotography #igneuchatel

Beautiful evening last night! ☄️ 🌌
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Spott

Beautiful evening last night! ☄️ 🌌
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Spotted many meteors streaking across the clearly visible milky way. I’ve over 1200 pics to go through (mostly timelapse sequences), but here’s one that I spotted while importing the images today. It’s actually a 3-image composite, blending the foreground from 1 image and the sky and meteors from 2 others.
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The view is to the northeast sky (Cassiopeia), with Andromeda galaxy clearly visible just above the pine tree. This is close to the perceived source of the meteors (a.k.a. the radiant). The orange glow of the village of Le Pâquier in the background.
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In case you missed it last night, the Perseids shower is actually peaking today and tonight, but skies are not supposed to be as clear in our area today. Good luck if you’re heading out tonight! 🍀 ☄️🤞🏻
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Taken with unmodified Nikon Z6 and 20mm S f/1.8 (at f/2 • 20s exposures).
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#nightsky #ig_nightphotography #astrophotography #universetoday #nightscape #rsa_night #starrynight #milkywaygalaxy #stargazing #skymasters #nikonz6 #astrophoto #milkywaychasers #nightshooters #night_shooterz #ig_astrophotography #astroworld #sky_brilliance #sky_captures #sky_sultans #milkyway_nightscapes #night_sky #perseids #perseid #perseidsmeteorshower #meteor #meteorshower #andromedagalaxy
#instaneuch

#perseidmeteorshower coming up this week!
There’

#perseidmeteorshower coming up this week!
There’s a new moon this week so conditions will be great, as long as skies are clear! 🤞🏻 ☄️
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Here’s a single exposure pic from last year, taken from our garden near Neuchâtel Switzerland - a meteor, the milky way central core and Jupiter.
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Single exposure of 15 seconds with Nikon Z6 and 20mm S f/1.8 (at f/2).
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#nightsky #ig_nightphotography #astrophotography #universetoday #nightscape #rsa_night #starrynight #milkywaygalaxy #stargazing #skymasters #nikonz6 #astrophoto #milkywaychasers #nightshooters #night_shooterz #ig_astrophotography #astroworld #sky_brilliance #sky_captures #sky_sultans #milkyway_nightscapes #night_sky #nikonz6mirrorless #perseids #perseid #perseidsmeteorshower #meteor #meteorshower

While most of Switzerland was watching the Euro ⚽️ final last night, I drove to a nearby hill to get a good view on the Milky Way core and the Rho Ophiuchi complex. It’s the only evening this month with clear skies - what a horrid month of weather it has been! 🌧 ☔️ ⛈
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Anyway, I digress… This photo is a two stack, side-by-side panorama with the lovely and fast 58mm f/1.4 Nikon lens. Each stack has about 20 images of 60 seconds exposures. Modified Nikon Z7 and tracked. Very little post processing here, mostly curve stretching and levels adjustments.
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Swipe to see the full pano 🌌
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#astrophotography #astronomy #milkywaychasers #milkywayphotography #milkywaygalaxy #rhophiuchi #antares #ophiuchus #nightphotography #spacephotography #deepspacephotography #nightimages #ig_nightphotography #nightshooters #nightphotography_exclusive #nikonastrophotography #nikon58mm #astronomer #backyardastronomy #backyardastrophotography

Sorry guys, it says UNIVERSE, so the best the rest

Sorry guys, it says UNIVERSE, so the best the rest of you can do is second place. 😛
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The simplest gifts are often the best gifts. ❤️ Birthday card I received today from my 12 year old son Liam. 🥰
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#birthdaylove #family #familylove #birthday #birthdayboy #birthdaycard #birthdaycards #homemadebirthdaycard

Alpaca Cuteness 🦙
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In Blausee for a day and c

Alpaca Cuteness 🦙
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In Blausee for a day and came across an alpaca farm. Yeah I know… Alpacas in the Swiss Alps?
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Too cute, had to share.
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#alpacalove #alpacafarm #alpaca #alpacagram #alpacaworld #alpacalife #alpacalife #alpacasofinsta #animals #animals_captures #animalsofig #cuteanimals #bestanimalpics #blausee #animalsoftheworld #funnyanimals #animals_illife #animalphotos #bestanimal #wildlifephotography #animalsofig #animals_captures #cuteanimalshot #animalsmood #kings_animals_love #raw_animals #animal_brilliance #nature_brilliance

NORTH AMERICA NEBULA 🌌
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A mostly starless ima

NORTH AMERICA NEBULA 🌌
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A mostly starless image of the North America Nebula, taken a few nights ago from my garden.
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Most of my deep space images have been very short exposures by astrophotography standards, and this has me struggling with controlling noise when processing the image. This one is maybe 40 minutes total exposure time (~20 x 2 min each). I’m mostly limited by the fact that I can’t stay up all night capturing data these days. 🥱
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Filtering out the stars and enhancing the nebulosity as separate layers certainly helps keep the noise under control, however.
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They’re not for everyone, bu I kinda’ like the starless images… they allow you to focus more on the nebula. Thoughts?
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#cygnusconstellation #astronomy #astronomer #backyardastronomy #backyardastro #nightsky #nightskyphotography #spacephotography #spacephoto #dso #deepspace #deepspacephotography #northamericanebula #ngc7000 #caldwell20 #northamericannebula #astronomer #amateurastronomy #astronomie #nightphotography #nightshooters #nightimages #nebula #nightshooterz #night_shooterz #nightphotography_exclusive #nikonz7

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