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joncst.bsky.social
@joncst.bsky.social
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Amateur Astronomer, Esperantist. Por-gxua astronomisto, esperantisto.
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If you didn’t explicitly set it, #Seestars don’t save the individual frames, just the auto stacked result.
If you’re willing to spend more exposure time, you can use ‘framing’ to rotate and/or expand the FOV.
However, one _can_ "denoise" images in a plan even after the plan has completed, as long as you don't delete or restart the plan itself. #Seestar oddity.
I often get oddly colored background washes. Using the "AI Denoise" feature often sets them back to proper black. So far i haven't figured out how to retroactively "denoise" an image after the #Seestar is done with that object. SO, i usually "denoise" and download just before changing the image.
Looking at the "tentacles" made me notice that the whole image has thin, dark wiggly lines almost everywhere. There's a very good one near top right, which in turn errupts into thin branches, with a very long one running down until it connects with the body of the squid.
Barnard 139 is the elongated dark patch near the center of the image. It looks a bit like a squid swimming down & left, with tentacles stretching up & right.
The star field is quite dense: this is in the middle of the summer Milky Way.
Dark Nebula B 335, taken in a 20 minute exposure (of which 15 minutes of 20-second frames were stacked) with a #Seestar S50 🔭. The original image was quite blue. I used the apps "AI Denoise", then tweaked the brightness and contrast to make the nebula stand out more.
Green tree #frogs having a convention tonight.
Usagi is a charter member of the Dead Worm Appreciation Society.

#dog #GreatPyrenees
Amazingly good image taken during the full moon. NGC 188 (also C1) was about as far from the moon as was possible, and i did tweak the contrast a bit to highlight the cluster stars, but still: this was taken during Full Moon!
Zooming in on it helps a little…
A bit of the faint nebulosity is visible. Not bad for light-polluted location.
#proofOfCat

This is Meep, our 16 year old cat, grumpy from being woken from a nap. Her name is the only thing she could say when we rescued her from a dog, 16 years ago.
First clear night in a week or so. In-between objects on the Dark Nebula and Caldwell observing programs, so i hit a couple of "Tonight's Best" with the #seestar S50 🔭. NGC 253 is a lovely galaxy- hard to belive i never observed it 'til a year ago. NGC 6960 is a segment of the Veil nebula.
This was about two feet (.7 m) above the ground, attached to several stalks of golden rod. Anybody have speculation about what kind of #bird made this #birdnest?
A rather blurry picture of a spider whose GREEEEN fangs were gleaming in the sun.
#spider
Doh! For some reason i read M44 as M41. Apologies.

Here's an actual image of M44, with Bonus Mars and Satellite.

20ish minutes with #Seestar S50 🔭
Like many "close" open clusters, it can benefit from a wider field of view. Here's the same cluster at a lower power, allowing some more of the clusters stars in the image.

M41 lives in Canis Major, & gives some idea of what M42 (the Orion nebula) will look like when it grows up.
#seestar S50 🔭
Handrail #frog. These are slimy when you find them in the dark going up the stairs.
“#Blenophobia” fear of slimy textures.