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Kevin Earp

@astrokev.bsky.social

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Astrophotography, wildlife photography, art and occasional random stuff. Paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · Nov 9

The Great Orion nebula and the Running Man nebula. Another image from the recent Kelling Star Party.

Can't remember why, but I only took 36 mins of data, which is way too short, but turned out better than I expected

Can you see the running man?

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 1d

Decided to check collimation of the C11. It wasn't far off but I tweaked it a bit. I'm happy with this result.
Seeing is still rubbish though!
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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 1d

Saturn on Saturday evening using the Celestron C11 at prime focus, with a Uranus-C camera.
Seeing wasn't great and I struggled to get decent data using a Barlow.
6 images derotated in winjupos.
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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 6d

Superb capture. Well done 👏👌

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

Very nice 👌

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

No, it's a Moonlight, but has a Baader click-lock on the drawtube, which I love!

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

Jupiter, imaged a few nights ago with the volcanic moon Io; the first time this season.
Seeing wasn't the best, but good to get back on the king of planets.
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Jupiter with great red spot and cloud belts, and moon Io

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

...somewhere behind the clouds 👍

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 7d

Decided to get the big gun out to try and improve my planet imaging.
Of course it'll now be cloudy for weeks 😕
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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Chris 🙏

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 9d

Cheers

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks

Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 9d

Rework of my image of Uranus' moons. I've superimposed a correctly exposed image of the planet to show its true size. In my previous moon image it was over-exposed, to help record the moons, and looked huge
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Composite image of Uranus and its 4 brightest moons

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Kevin Earp @astrokev.bsky.social · 9d

Uranus taken in average seeing. Not my best image of this planet but its good to catch up with it again; it's been a few years.
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