I really only know about it because of a line in some Australian drama, where the main character was complaining about having to go into the witness protection program.

“I don’t want to live in a caravan near Deniliquin!” :-)

Speaking of out there, I drove back home via Deniliquin ;-)

Nice to see you at Murriyang @drspacejunk.bsky.social :-)

✨ Are you in Australia and do you like being able to see the sky at night?

The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance have submitted a petition to request parliament introduce legislation to control light pollution.

The petition is at www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

@seafury.bsky.social not me 🫥

If you plan to participate in this tutorial, you should install siril and download the image data that I have linked from the session page. It is 4GB of data and you will not be able to fetch it at the conference.

It would also be helpful if your laptop had an SSD with at least 30GB of free space.

I use anise toothpaste like a grown up.

@starstryder.space The podcast is the natural form.

cc @fcain.universetoday.com

Looks like the European Southern Observatory are looking for science cases to start designing The Oppressively Colossal Telescope.

www.eso.org/public/annou...

xkcd.com/1294/

#TOCT

I have some of their mounting rings and dovetail bars. Decent chunks of not hydrogen or helium that do exactly as they’re supposed to.

As the extreme radiation from these stars eats away at that dust, they erode bubbles inside.

This nebula is located in the sky about where Orions liver would be; close to his belt in the direction of his right shoulder - red Betelgeuse.

Meade LX200 with an ASI294MC Pro camera on an AM5 mount.

M78

This nebula has been on my want-to-photograph list for a long time, I think it’s very pretty with its dark swirls.

Like many nebulae in Orion, it is a star forming region with bright blue young stars enshrouded in dark dust.

#astrophotography #astrodon #space

I woke up at 4:30am and so decided to wander up the road a bit and catch #comet 2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.

It is definitely a naked eye object, tail and all. Very pretty!

#astronomy #space

The officeworks one arrived. Looks pretty nice, but not as nice as other prints I’ve gotten off RB.

Also, I believe this means I am now a professional astrophotographer and that therefore all new camera and related acquisitions are tax deductible.

I’m getting mine printed at a local outfit. Should in theory be done some time next week. 🤞🏻

Thanks :-) I've put a full sized version on Redbubble - www.redbubble.com/i/framed-pri...

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