Wonky Astronomer
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Wonky Astronomer
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Amateur astronomer, owner of Hazelbrook Observatory (a dome in my back yard). Asteroid occultation observer.
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June 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I observed an occultation of binary star Antares by the moon. The smaller star of the pair reappeared on the moon's dark limb a few seconds before the brighter star. #astronomy #occultation #moon
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
On Sunday night, at a club observing session with the 30-inch telescope, I took this 30 second exposure of the scene and accidentally caught #comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the background. The bright object on the right is the crescent moon. #Astronomy
February 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So I guess the crew of Artemis 3 will be four straight white guys. #DEI
January 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I took this photo of the #moon 12 years ago today with an iPhone 5 through my 12-inch Dobsonian telescope. Not sure I could do any better with a modern phone! #Astronomy #Astrophotography
January 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Messier 83 (Southern Pinwheel) is a spectacular face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra at a distance of 14.7 million light years. The galaxy is quite bright, so the image appears instantly when my telescope lands on it. Using a monochrome camera helps. #M83 #Astronomy #Astrophotography
January 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A night at Linden Observatory. The Beames Dome contains a vintage 24-inch telescope which is not in useable condition. The second pic shows a 16-inch dobsonian telescope in use while the red light on the battery pack lights the scene. #Astronomy
January 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, located in the constellation Orion about 1400 light years away. The Bright star between them is Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's belt. This image is stack of 36 x 30sec exposures with a ZWO ASI533MC camera. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
January 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
47 Tucanae is the best globular cluster in the sky (and M13 isn't even second best!) It's a dense, spherical collection of ancient stars about 14,000 light years distant - pretty close for a glob. This image is from Dec 26 - a stack of 45 x 4 sec exposures. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
December 31, 2024 at 11:26 AM
NGC 1365 is one of the nicest looking spiral galaxies in the sky, located in Fornax at a distance of 74 million light years. I photographed it on Dec 26. We also observed this galaxy visually through the Evans 30-inch telescope on Dec 28 at my club's observing night. #Astrophotography #Astronomy
December 30, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Had a great night at Linden Observatory last night viewing with the huge Evans 30-inch telescope. I caught the #ISS (the streak in the photo) making a bright pass in the north-west just above Venus. #Astronomy
December 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM
First results with a new colour camera (ZWO ASI533MC). The Great Orion Nebula #M42, in the sword of Orion is a star-forming region about 1,300 light years distant. Stack of 10 exposures of 60 seconds each. #Astronomy #AstroPhotography
December 24, 2024 at 11:22 AM