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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 2d

This image of the 88% waxing moon was taken on 2025-10-03 and showcases the reason I prefer partial moons over full moons: check out Aristarchus crater shining in near total darkness on the left side!

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#astrophotography #moon #craters #luna 🔭 📷

An 88% waxing moon with a single crater shining brightly out of the darkness on the left side. Depending on the sun angle, certain prominent craters may still be illuminated while the low-lying area around it is in shadow.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 2d

Solar image from 2025-10-04 - I checked out these sunspots with my eclipse glasses, but they're better with some magnification 😎

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#astrophotography #sun #solar #solarsystem #star #sunspots #touptek #skywatcherUSA 📷 🔭

Full disk monochrome solar image colorized orange with assorted sunspots dotting the surface in several groups.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 5d

Cygnus is a beautiful region of space, with tons of stars and rich nebulosity. With the significantly smaller FOV of my mono camera, I focused on Pelican Nebula this time around.

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#astrophotography #nebula #space #colorful #cygnus 🔭 📷

Pelican Nebula in the beautiful Cygnus constellation

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 5d

Cygnus is a beautiful region of space, with tons of stars and rich nebulosity. With the significantly smaller FOV of my mono camera, I focused on Pelican Nebula this time around.

Details + full res: buff.ly/zPy0PV8
Prints: buff.ly/fQpQeK6

#astrophotography #nebula #space #colorful #cygnus 🔭 📷

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 7d

These sunspots are visible with the naked eye through eclipse glasses! This image was captured earlier today. Aurora activity seems fairly quiet tonight, but maybe that will change.

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#astrophotography #sunspots #sun #star #solar #solarsystem #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 8d

Picked up a shiny Ford Mach-e before the US EV rebate disappeared. Looking forward to many adventures using the power of the sun from our rooftop panels!

#ev #ford #green #solarpower #carphotography

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 8d

I always thought "common octopus" was demeaning, although their scientific name makes it seem like they have a potty mouth 🤣

Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 8d

It's awfully nice up there. Our big ol' rock satellite is pretty sweet too!

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 9d

I captured this on 2025-09-29, but didn't get around to posting because it's been a busy couple days. Lots of sunspot activity and my phone has been buzzing quite a bit with aurora alerts!
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#sun #sunspots #cme #northernlights #solarsystem #astrophotography 🔭 📷

Busy day on the sun! Lots of sunspots dotting the surface and firing some stuff at us to set off my aurora alerts.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 10d

Not all pictures are winners. This is a northern pipefish, straight on, with focus somehow on the tiny snail on top of its head. I mean, just look at those googly eyes 😂

#fail #badFocus #pipefish #fish #underwaterPhotography #macro 🦑 📷

A northern pipefish emerging from some sea lettuce with a tiny snail hat

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 13d

This is Triangulum Galaxy (M33) in mono LRGB. This visually large galaxy fits perfectly in my FOV and shows a ton of detail with this setup.

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#galaxy #dso #triangulum #space #astrophotography #touptek #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 12d

When I was using my Dobsonian for visual, I could find Andromeda pretty easily, but never managed to find this one in Bortle 5. It shows up even in relatively short exposures with a camera.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 12d

This was 4h L, 3 hours each in RGB. I read something that suggested 2x L, but I haven't modified my templates yet

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 13d

Yeah, having your "ground" eaten isn't ideal 😄

Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 13d

This is Triangulum Galaxy (M33) in mono LRGB. This visually large galaxy fits perfectly in my FOV and shows a ton of detail with this setup.

Prints: buff.ly/XcA1b59
Details: buff.ly/vl4o5VC

#galaxy #dso #triangulum #space #astrophotography #touptek #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 13d

According to the information I've found, they don't - they do munch the sugar kelp the bryozoan is attached to though

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 14d

We did some wandering to find some decent conditions on this day and ended up at the Eastern Point Lighthouse in Gloucester, MA. Such a beautiful spot and we managed to find some critters!

#underwaterPhotography #fish #snails #nudibranchs #crabs #NewEngland #GloucesterMA #macro #scuba 🦑 📷 🦀

Northern lacuna snail cruising across some encrusting bryozoans

Eubranchus pallidus nudibranch on a piece of sugar kelp

"Look at me. I'm the captain now" - Captain BrokenClaw the green crab

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 15d

Yeah, I can't imagine encountering someone with a heavy Boston accent would help with these very confusing town names. "Leicester" being pronounced "Lester" is just silly.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 15d

Five years ago, I had a stereotypical New England dinner: Sam Adams and a lobstah. This particular lobstah was caught by hand by yours truly in Glostah (Gloucester, MA).

#lobster #dinner #SamAdams #beer #NewEngland #freshcaught #Boston 🦞 🍺

A dinner setting with a bright red, cooked lobster, melted butter, and a Sam Adams Boston Lager

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 16d

Yeah, it's a good time to have a solar filter for my telescope. There's almost always some funky spots on there.

Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 16d

Yesterday's sun from the backyard!

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#sun #sunspots #solarimaging #photography #touptek #skywatcherUSA #astrophotography

A full disk solar image taken with a monochrome camera and colorized orange

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 17d

This is an awesome visualization of the affect of Earth's tilt on daylight hours.

Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 18d

Since it’s the #equinox, time to re-post the best #dataviz I’ve ever done: 365 pictures of the Earth from space, taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. Details on the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 20d

The sunspots are back! The cluster in the bottom right is a very interesting shape. This image was captured yesterday.

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#sun #solarimage #sunshine #sunspots #astrophotography #touptek #skywatcherUSA

A full disk monochrome solar image colorized orange with a surface covered in sunspot clusters

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 21d

They are pretty comfy, obviously super portable, and (perhaps most importantly) it is entertaining for everyone else watching you inflate it 😂. They're available everywhere, that Wayfair one was just the first one that came up.

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Brian G Weber Photography @briangweber.com · 21d

Might I recommend one of these: www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/...

www.wayfair.com

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