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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 18

The eclipse was fun :)

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 13

March 9, 2025 - 84% Waxing Gibbous

Technical Stuff -
Equipment: Mead LX200 w/ 0.5 focal reducer + SV305 Pro.
Specifications: 1000mm focal, 6.46mm sensor (155x mag)
Post-Proc: 15,887 frames stacked w/ AutoStakkert!4, 159 images stitched together w/ GIMP 2.0, and edited w/ Designer for brightness.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 9

1. Tail piercings is such a cool idea.
2. I love the balanced composition and character design.
3. the bowling ball moon 😭😭😭😭

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 9

March 7, 2025 - 65% Waxing Gibbous

Technical Stuff -
Equipment: Mead LX200 w/ 0.5 focal reducer + SV305 Pro.
Specifications: 1000mm focal, 6.46mm sensor (155x mag)
Post-Proc: 6,192 frames stacked w/ AutoStakkert!4, 62 images stitched together w/ GIMP 2.0, and edited w/ Designer for brightness.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 7

My first color shot of Jupiter. If you squint at it hard enough, you can see the Red Spot!

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 6

March 5, 2025 - 44% Waxing Crescent

Technical Stuff -
Equipment: Mead LX200 w/ 0.5 focal reducer + SV305 Pro.
Specifications: 1000mm focal, 6.46mm sensor (155x mag)
Post-Proc: 4,294 frames stacked w/ AutoStakkert!4, 43 images stitched together w/ GIMP 2.0, and edited w/ Designer for brightness.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 5

Please boo until you get kicked out. For the love of God, do not just sit there and let that orange idiot talk shit!!! Do SOMETHING! Steal his thunder!!! CHRIST.

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Mar 2

March 1, 2025 - 5% Waxing Crescent

Technical Stuff -
Equipment: Mead LX200 w/ 0.5 focal reducer + SV305 Pro.
Specifications: 1000mm focal, 6.46mm sensor (155x mag)
Post-Proc: 1,297 frames stacked w/ AutoStakkert!4, 13 images stitched together w/ GIMP 2.0, and edited w/ Designer for brightness.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 24

New Music! (NSFW)
youtu.be/P3gCsmEr3ao

The Miracle Of Bluey (King Missile Parody)

YouTube video by Stallionslaughter Music

youtu.be

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 17

All those months of lunar imaging have been spent trying to make this exact composite. A recreation of the sky the night my daughter was born under the waxing crescent with Jupiter nearby.

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 16

February 14, 2025 - Waning Gibbous (98%)

Technical Stuff -
Equipment: Mead LX200 w/ 0.5 focal reducer + SV305 Pro.
Spec: 1000mm focal, 6.46mm sensor (155x mag)
Post Processing: 5,496 frames stacked w/ AutoStakkert!4, 55 images stitched w/ GIMP 2.0 into 3 layers (base, sharpness, and contrast).

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 16

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 16

February 10, 2025 - Waxing Gibbous (96%)

Technical Stuff -
Equipment: Mead LX200 w/ 0.5 focal reducer + SV305 Pro.
Spec: 1000mm focal, 6.46mm sensor (155x mag)
Post Processing: 6,897 frames stacked w/ AutoStakkert!4, 69 images stitched w/ GIMP 2.0 into 3 layers (base, sharpness, and contrast).

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 16

After taking 6,897 photos of the moon, stacking them into 69 layers, and arranging the layers into a composite, it's time to start blending, sharpening, and post-processing for contrast/brightness. I am like OBSESSED with photographing and assembling lunar composites.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 6

My lunar imaging journey so far:

Several images of the moon at different levels of detail.

1. (Top Left) Galaxy S23 Ultra at 10x digital magnification.
2. (Top Middle) Cellphone mount, Galaxy S23 Ultra, Celestron Astromaster70 EQ telescope, and 26mm Plossl eyepiece.
3. (Top Right) Explore One Aurora II telescope, SV305 Pro camera, 3 images stitched together with GIMP 2.0.
4. (Bottom Left) 8" Meade LX200 EMC, 0.5x Focal Reducer, SV305 Pro camera, 1,297 frames stacked with AutoStakkert!4, 13 images stitched together with GIMP 2.0, and edited in Microsoft Designer for brightness and sharpness.
5. (Bottom Right) 8" Meade LX200 EMC, SV305 Pro camera, 6,790 frames stacked with AutoStakkert!4, 68 images stitched together with GIMP 2.0 into 3 layers (base, sharpness, and contrast), and edited with Microsoft Designer for brightness.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is a composite of 6,790 images taken of the moon on February 3, 2025.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Jan 25

Would you like to see a full-grown man examine the lunar cycles in an episode of a children's cartoon so deeply that it should be considered criminally insane? Check out my Reddit post!

www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comm...

Moonlit Madness of Bin Night: Timeline of Lunar Lunacy

www.reddit.com

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Jan 25

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Jan 23

Seeing is good tonight. This is probably the most detailed photo of Jupiter I've personally captured. This is a single frame, and I took 500 pictures, so stacking for clarity and contrast is going to really pop.

Meade 8-inch LX200 telescope pointed straight up at the zenith. A table to the left of the telescope hosts an 8.1L personal computer with a portable monitor showing SharpCap software controlling a planetary camera. A white dot (Jupiter) can be seen through the monitor.

A fuzzy photo of Jupiter captured at 155x magnification with cloud banding clearly visible.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Jan 19

Finally got my 8" Meade LX200 up and running.

4 weeks of careful disassembly, cleaning/repairing/replacing parts have finally come together to be usable.

Atmospheric conditions were extremely poor, but at least I got the Telrad aligned, and the SV305 Pro set up for more lunar photos in the future.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Jan 18

I feel like I'm getting pretty good at this astrophotography thing :)

Moon in false color with maria in navy and iron-rich regions in rust.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Jan 17

This is a composite of 202 images captured through an Explore One Aurora II with a SV305 Pro.

A photo of the moon in the gibbous phase.

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Dec 26

Christmas gift to my girlfriend.
Never forget: 2006

11x14 print of Pluto in false color highlighting the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio with the adjacent dark red Cthulhu Regio and light blue Venera Terra and Pioneer Terra. The print is framed in turquoise wood and hung on a white wall.

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Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Dec 22

The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) open star cluster.

Explore One Aurora II + 26mm Plössl (19x magnification). Galaxy S23 Ultra video with the best frame seleced for clarity and contrast (lucky imaging).

Stallionslaughter @slaughterpony.bsky.social · Dec 17

I'm taking up Astrophotography because I have a big ol sentimental project I want to make for my gf.

This image here is the culmination of weeks of experimentation and hundreds of pictures that failed to capture detail and avoid chromatic aberration.

Earth's moon pictured grayscale taken with a cellphone camera through a reflector telescope at 19x magnification and edited for sharpening and contrast.

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