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This is NGC7380 (Wizard Nebula) shot from my backyard over three nights (7/05-7/07 2025). 14 hours total exposure. NGC7380 is an emission nebula located in Cepheus and is approx. 7200 LY distant. Hubble palette on right. OSC camera, dual narrow band filter. Equipment in my bio.

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July 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Continuing through my Rocky Mountain Star Stare captures from June. This is IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula. This was a backup target for when clouds got in the way of Blue Horsehead. Wider angle than I have used to captured before. Equipment details in alt text. #Colorado #astrophotography
A round pink/red/yellow cloud of cosmic gas and dust, with a bright, glowing edge, set against a backdrop of scattered stars and fainter nebulosity. The nebula is a site of active star formation, revealing young stars hidden within its dense clouds of gas and dust. Equipment details: Nikon D750a, William Optics z61 360mm at f/5.9. Exposure ISO 1600 / 300 sec. Total exp for stack 4.1 hrs.
July 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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peterlewis55.bsky.social
Wrapping up last night's #astrophotography action! Another process of The North America Nebula which resembles the shape of the continent. This looks better with the stars left in! #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The North America Nebula, also known as NGC 7000, is a large emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is named for its resemblance to the continent of North America. The nebula is approximately 1,700 light-years away and is about 100 light-years across. It's an emission nebula, meaning it glows due to the ionization of gas by hot, young stars within it. Discovered by William Herschel in 1786.
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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peterlewis55.bsky.social
An alternative orientation of the 'trunk' region, processed with and without stars. #astronomy #astrophotography
July 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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peterlewis55.bsky.social
The Elephant Trunk Nebula! Another clear period last night and the D3 managed to get three hours on it (30 second exposures at 60 gain). It all looked like nothing of note until I had a go at processing it. I'll add more given time. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, also known as IC 1396A, is a dark, dense globule of gas and dust within the larger emission nebula IC 1396, located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 2,400 light-years from Earth. It gets its name from its distinctive shape, which 'allegedly' resembles an elephant's trunk. The nebula is being sculpted by the intense radiation and stellar winds from a nearby massive star. The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is over 20 light-years long.
July 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
While @PremierScottMoe celebrates 10 years of AG in Motion here is a list of actual crises that have been going on this decade:

1. #drought in S. Sask
2. #wildfires
3. #HealthCare crisis

#Sask is at a crisis point. Who will step up to do what is needed? #skpoli
July 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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notrimskiy.bsky.social
NGC6888 shot on July 2. 180 minutes of exposure with asi533mc, svx080t and nbz-II, which is not quite as much as I wished for, but summer nights are short, and I was trying to avoid weather and fireworks. The French call it la nébuleuse du Croissant, and they are obviously correct. #astrophotography
Bright crescent-shaped nebula with a prominent luminous lobe expanding towards upper right.
July 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Sh2-133, 6 Cephei" by Joshua Carter
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#astrophotography
Sh2-133, 6 Cephei
July 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
The #Sask North on fire with beleaguered residents considering filing lawsuits (image 1) ;

Air quality so bad that severe warnings are issued almost daily (image 2), and;

@PremierScottMoe decides to focus on forcing treatment on addicts (image 3). Way to punch down, Mr. Premier. #skpoli
July 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
Want a more inclusive democracy in #Sask ?

It starts with political finance reform. Eliminate these donations:

Secret numbered and non-Sask based Corps (image 1)
Unlimited (image 2)
"Anonymous" (image 3-4)

Time for a complete overhaul, right @ElectionsSask ?

#skpoli
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "IC 1311" by Robert Eder
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IC 1311
July 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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stsci.edu
Hooray for three years of paw-sitively amazing #NASAWebb science! To celebrate, the telescope examined a singular “toe bean” of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a massive star-forming region. Webb reveals gas, dust, and massive young stars: webbtelescope.pub/4khJK9T 🔭

Reply with an image of your pet’s paws! 🐾
A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Four roughly circular areas are toward the center of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top center, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow, with the top center and bottom left areas the brightest. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame’s edges. Small zones, such as to the left and right of the top-center blue circular area, appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Toward the center are small, fiery red clumps scattered among the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, mostly toward the top left and bottom right.
July 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
In 2023 the #Canada gov and @PremierScottMoe struck a #healthcare deal for $111m in extra funding for 10 years (image 1). But, by 2025, #Sask is actually cutting health care spending (image 2) resulting in ER closures, urban and rural(image 3).

Mr. Premier, where is the $$ going? #skpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-ottawa-health-1.6764175 https://cupe.ca/scott-moe-budget-continues-ignore-saskatchewan-health-care-workers https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rural-er-closures-1.7580368
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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starcatcherjohn.bsky.social
🧵(1/2) The Tulip Nebula (Sh 2-101) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Re-processed my data for more detail.

Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard.

🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111
📷: ZWO ASI 2600
Total exposure: 13 x 300 sec (1h05)

#Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy
🧵(1/2) The Tulip Nebula (Sh 2-101) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 6000 light-years away from Earth. Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard. 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 13x300 sec (1h05) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy 🧵(1/2) Cropped version of The Tulip Nebula (Sh 2-101) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 6000 light-years away from Earth. Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard. 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 13x300 sec (1h05) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy
July 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Cotton candy? Yes, please, but as an accompaniment to this jaw-dropping view of outer space! Hubble’s snapped a complex image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is filled to the brim with gas, dust, and stars.

Credit: NASA, ESA. 🔭 🧪
Part of a nebula in space. Layers of gas and dust clouds in different colors, including blue, green, pink, red, and black, each indicating light emitted by different molecules. The background cloud layers are thicker and puffier, though still translucent, and the upper layers are thin and bright at the edges. Behind the clouds are many small stars that are mostly orange and some blue.
July 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
Wrong again, Mr. Premier, wrong again.

#skpoli #Sask @PremierScottMoe

leaderpost.com/news/saskatc...
Scott Moe pauses Saskatchewan carbon tax, promises balanced budget despite $431.5M revenue loss
Saskatchewan is pausing its provincial carbon tax on industrial emitters, Premier Scott Moe announced Thursday.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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oregonrandy.bsky.social
I'm going to repeat post this one. The one I posted last week was a rough draft actually. This one's the keeper! #RhoOphiuchi #Stunday #astrophotography #EastCoastKin #📷 #🔭 #nebula #stars #globularcluster #sony
There is an annotated version in the comments to detail what's in the image!
An astrophotography image with many stars throughout. The main feature being a star forming region closest to Earth, Rho Ophiuchi. It looks something like a pentagonal pendant hung by one blue star at it's top. That star, and the other three below it that form the top of the pentagon are bright blue, and show wispy gas that is energized and glowing from the radiation from those stars. The two base stars appear more red to yellow in color. The brightest is the red supergiant star Antares, which is also a binary system, part of the constellation Scorpio. The other to it's right is something bright also, but not a star. It's a globular cluster of about 100,000 individual stars, about 6,000 light years away. Making it one of the closest to Earth. Another notable feature is dark gas and dust that runs from the far left center, into the area of the pentagon, blocking background starlight.
June 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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rami.spaceaustralia.com
Didn’t get the Aurora last night but did manage to get a few deep sky objects from the big rig ‘scope in the backyard.

Despite the horrific light pollution of Vivid, seeing was good!

Here’s the famous Pillars of Creation, in the Eagle Nebula.

1 hour integration time for all.

#Astrophotography
A large nebula in space, made up of many bright stars in the centre and surrounding nebulous red gases. There are some structural features that are dark within the gas including a three-finger like pillar of dark material. Region of the Eagle nebula showing the pillars of creation - three large dark columns of high density material in a diffuse nebula of red gases. Above them is a bright cluster of stars.
June 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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All spiral galaxies rotate, and their shapes are caused by patterns in how stars bunch up. This is Hubble’s view of NGC 2525, a spiral galaxy located about 70 million light-years from Earth that continues to (ever so slowly) twirl.

Credit: NASA, ESA. 🔭 🧪
The face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 is anchored by its central region, which is circular at the very center, and grows to form an oval that is largely white and angled from bottom left to top right. The galaxy’s spiral arms begin at the center and rotate counterclockwise. They are filled with blue star clusters and lines of dark brown dust and extend almost to the edges. There are some larger blue and orange, and small red points of light scattered throughout the black background of space.
May 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
Looks like the @MarkJCarney "one economy....not 13" plan of dropping inter-provincial trade barriers for #Canada is progressing well ahead of the #FirstMinisters meeting in #yxe

Well done. #skpoli #saskatchewan
June 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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waltwatsonastro.bsky.social
Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula (M78) is located in the constellation Orion. This a wider field of view photo of M78 and the region that surrounds it than my earlier post. Taken in January and processed on this fine Nor'easter stormy morning with howling winds.

#astronomy #astrophotography
Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula (M78) is located in the constellation Orion. This a wider field of view photo of M78 and the region that surrounds it than my previous post. Taken in January and processed on the fine Nor'easter morning, the winds are howling outside right now. Equipment: Telescope: SVBony SV503 80ed Camera: ZWO ASI2600 mc pro Mount: ZWO AM5 FIlter: UVIR Cut Processed in SIRIL, Graxpert, and Photoshop #astronomy #astrophotography
May 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Sh2-280 is another fairly bright, hydrogen-rich area . I used NarrowbandNormalization to boost the blue oxygen and then played with curves and colors masks to get the red and fiery orange look.

Full res + details: buff.ly/AsB0o0O

#astrophotography #nebula #stars #space #telescope #astronomy 🔭 📷
A core of orange and blue surrounded by a wispy red nebula in a dense starfield
May 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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jeffwalterssask.bsky.social
And it starts in #Sask

The wannabe separatists will be in #yqr at the Canadian Italian Club on June 22. Are you happy about this?

Together, let's keep #CanadaStrong
#skpoli
May 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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skymaps.com
I recently spent a wonderful evening under the stars at the dark sky reserve in South Australia. The core of the Milky Way was directly overhead. It was so bright it felt like you could reach out and touch it! 🔭🧪
#astrophotography #stars
Image: 1x30 sec with Nikon D750 + Tamron 15-30mm at f/4.
The core of our Milky Way galaxy showing a central condensation of stars and many dark regions where dust inhibits the passage of distant star light.
May 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "NGC6164/65" by Wolfgang Promper

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NGC6164/65
May 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM