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I see you 👁.
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Red Kite surveying our garden la

I see you 👁.
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Red Kite surveying our garden last week, maybe checking out the chicken coop….
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The third largest raptor in Switzerland, after the Bearded Vulture and the Golden Eagle.
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👈🏻 Swipe for full view.
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#redkite #milvusmilvus #milanroyal #birds #birds_captures #kings_birds #birds_private #eye_spy_birds #your_best_birds #nuts_about_birds #birds_adored #animalphotography #birdsonearth #raptors #swissbirds #naturebirdshots #birds_nature #bestbirdshots #bestbirds #birdoftheweek #birdsofswitzerland #birdsofprey #bird_brilliance #backyardbirds #backyardbirding #birdseyeview #best_birds_of_world #best_birds_of_ig

Happy Earth Day 🌱 🌎
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Everyone you have ever

Happy Earth Day 🌱 🌎
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Everyone you have ever known, every memory you have ever made is on that “Pale Blue Dot”.
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Image, of course, from @nasa
Words from #carlsagan
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Carl Sagan was a member of the Voyager Imaging Team. He had the original idea in 1981 to use the cameras on one of the two Voyager spacecraft to image Earth. He realized that because the spacecraft were so far away the images might not show much. This was precisely why Sagan and other members of the Voyager team felt the images were needed — they wanted humanity to see Earth’s vulnerability and that our home world is just a tiny, fragile speck in the cosmic ocean.
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https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
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#palebluedot #nasa #voyager1 #solarsystem #earthday #earthday2021 #earthfocus #earthpics #earthcapture #space

Starless image of the Heart and Soul Nebulae. This

Starless image of the Heart and Soul Nebulae. This is my first image taken with my newly astro-modified Nikon Z (from @lifepixelinfrared ), so was eager to get a couple of hours of data with it last night. The 45MP are wonderful to work with! However, with my cold fingers last night I just missed perfect focus on the stars and basically messed up a nice, sharp image. It was also quite windy at times. So here’s a starless version nevertheless, which is still worth sharing IMHO 🙂 ✨ 🌌.
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Roughly 25 subs of 2 minutes each, with Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 (at f/3.5 and 135mm), cropped.
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(from NASA): Located near the constellation Cassiopeia, about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula at the bottom is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. Above it is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848 or W5. The Perseus arm lies further from the center of the Milky Way than the arm that contains our sun. The Heart and Soul nebulae stretch out nearly 580 light-years across, covering a small portion of the diameter of the Milky Way, which is roughly 100,000 light-years across. The two nebulae are both massive star-making factories, marked by giant bubbles that were blown into surrounding dust by radiation and winds from the stars.
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#heartnebula #soulnebula #embryonebula #heartandsoulnebula #ic1805 #ic1848 #nightphotography #deepspace #space #spacephotography #nightsky #nightskychasers #astrophotography #astrophoto #astrophotographer #astronomy #backyardastrophotography #backyardastronomer #deepsky #nightpics

Short timelapse of the Sky-Watcher tracker doing i

Short timelapse of the Sky-Watcher tracker doing its thing a couple of nights ago in our driveway.
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Fingers crossed for clear skies for the upcoming new moon! 🌚🤞🏻🔭
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#startracker #nikonswitzerland #nightphotography #starphotography #starrystarrynight #starrynight #nightsky #astrophotography #astrophoto #astrotimelapse #lrtimelapse #lrtimelapse5 #skywatcher #starexplorer #orion #orionconstellation #skyguideapp #staradventurer #astrophotography_ #nightimages #nightskyphotography #timelapses #astronomy

A belted kingfisher proudly displaying its morning

A belted kingfisher proudly displaying its morning catch.
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I posted a variation of this one a long time ago, but I figured some of you may be getting a little tired of me posting space images... so I went through the archives for my birding friends 🐦 😃
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Newfoundland, Canada • July 2018.
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#megacerylealcyon #your_best_birds #kingfisher #bird_captures #kingfisherbird #birds_captures #birding #newfoundlandbirds #beltedkingfisher #nikonwildlife #nikonbirds #birdingphotography #nuts_about_birds #nuts_about_wildlife #kingfishers #birdsprivate #kings_birds #birdsonearth #birdlovers #igbirds #igbirdfreaks #pocket_birds #birdextreme #eye_spy_birds #feather_perfection #instabird #bns_birds #birdsoftheworld #bestbirdshots #best_birds_of_world

It’s been so windy these past few nights... frus

It’s been so windy these past few nights... frustrating when there’s no moon and clear skies! I captured about 3 hours of data last night of the Jellyfish nebula and maybe only 5 of the 2-min subs were free of camera shake due to the wind.
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This image: saying goodbye to Orion as it will soon disappear from our April night sky. This image was captured a few nights ago, showing Orion’s Belt (Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak), Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Orion Nebula, Running Man Nebula.
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#orion #orionnebula #orionsbelt #astrophotography #astronomy #orionconstellation #nightsky #nightphotography #astrophoto #thehunter #orionthehunter #flamenebula #runningmannebula #horseheadnebula #nightphotography_exclusive #astrophotography🌙 #nightskyphotography #astronomer #amateurastronomy

Mars has been in the news a lot these days! With N

Mars has been in the news a lot these days! With NASA’s successful landing of the #perseverance rover we’ve seen some incredible images coming back.
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On March 3, 2021, Mars and the Pleiades star cluster – also known as the Seven Sisters – were at their closest conjunction in 30 years and they won’t appear to be this close again until 2038.
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This stacked image was taken last night in my driveway (March 8), so not quite in conjunction but pretty close. Mars seems to be “glowing” because several of my subs had a thin veil of high clouds which were semi-concealing Mars, acting as a diffuser.
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#mars #pleiades #marsplanet #marspleiadesconjunction #nightskyphotography #astrophotography #astronomy #redplanet #sevensisters #sevensisterscluster #nightphotography #nightsky #starrynight #astrophoto #astrophotographer #backyardastro #backyardastronomy #backyardastrophotography #skywatcherstaradventurer #nightskychasers

California Nebula. I’ve rotated and cropped the

California Nebula. I’ve rotated and cropped the image to more or less match the state for which it bears its nickname.
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More formally known as NGC 1499, it is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus, about 1000 light years from earth.
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Taken from my driveway last night. About 25 stacked images of 120 seconds each plus about 10 dark frames. ISO 800 on Nikon D5500a at about 200mm.
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#californianebula #ngc1499 #ngc1499californianebula #deepspace #astrophotographer #astrophotography #astrophoto #skyphotography #nightphotography #nightskyphotography #nightsky #perseus #space #dso #deepspaceobject #astronomy #backyardastronomy #backyardastronomer #backyardastrophotography

My first attempt at Andromeda Galaxy. Taken last n

My first attempt at Andromeda Galaxy. Taken last night in the backyard.
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The almost-full-moon rose at about 9pm last night, so I only had about 1 hour of decent darkness to capture this image before the sky was more or less washed out.
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About 20 stacked images at 90sec each + some dark frames. Nikon D5500a at 280mm (70-200 f/2.8 + 1.4TC).
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Andromeda is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, at about 2.5 million light years. It’s the most distant object and the only spiral galaxy outside our Milky Way able to be seen with the naked eye. If you live in a (decently) dark sky area, you can probably spot it with binoculars once you let your eyes adjust to the night.
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I hope you are enjoying my adventures into astro photography! ... I’m loving it. 🌌 ✨
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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 #instaneuch

Sun-on-a-stick and long shadows provide for some i

Sun-on-a-stick and long shadows provide for some interesting light play during a short walk this evening at the Joux-du-Plâne (near Bugnenets ski station).
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Starting to really notice now how the days are getting longer!! 😀 ☀️
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Apparently more Sahara Sand will be coming our way, riding on the coattails of the wind - that should also result is some eerie and interesting light! 🐪
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Calling for clear skies tonight with 1/4 moon so I’ll be out shooting stars and sky! 🌌 🌠
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Have a good weekend everyone!
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