Kelly Lane

The eight planets of our Solar System 🔭

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt. #interstellar

Seeing the invisible with #jameswebb and their incredible infrared sensors!
#sombrerogalaxy

Just finished reading Mickey7. If anyone needs a good sci-fi book I highly recommend it! It’s unique, funny, and well written. However, I do recommend not watching the trailer for the movie until after you finish reading it. Robert Pattinson accent is highly distributing.

Epic capture ….Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona ✨👏✨😎✨

I started with a DSLR camera and a cheap zoom lens (then I upgraded to the RedCat 51), a sturdy tripod, and the skywatcher star adventurer! You really just need a camera, lens, tripod, tracking mount, and free time! I think when I started I spent about $1200, buying used could be cheaper than that!

Thanks!!

There are very few photons being captured in each frame so the colors on this photo are enhanced in the stacking + processing! I use a refractor telescope with an astro camera attached. I recommend looking on CloudyNight if you want to get started with used gear, it’s a lot cheaper!

Great question! The Hydrogen Alpha is ~650 nm! Visible light to us is ~400-700! The ionized oxygen is ~500nm! I did not use a filter when I took this image!! You’re correct that you could take an IR image or use a NIR filter to gain other info from the object then use false color in the processing!

The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula! The red is mostly from ionized hydrogen, which is the most abundant element in the universe. The blue comes mostly from ionized oxygen, which emits blue wavelengths when excited by the radiation from nearby stars!

Looks awesome! Nice work! 🤩

IC 1848 - Soul Nebula

Camera - ZWO 2600MC
Lens - William Optics GT71
Mount - Sky Watcher EQ5
Guide Camera - ZWO 1200MM
Bortle - Class 1
IFOV - 2.3 arcseconds
55 frames @ 5 minute exposures
#astronomy
#astrophotography

Winter wonderland outside, digital wonderland inside. ☃️📸 #pixinsight

If anyone actually liked turkey we’d have it for dinner more than once a year.

Thank you for coming to my second TED talk

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

What better way to broaden your horizons than to follow a bunch of scientists on Bluesky? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I cannot stress this enough: give credit when you use an image (photo, artwork, etc) made by someone else.

Even if attribution isn’t required or requested, do it anyways.

They put work into whatever you’re sharing. If it’s important enough to share, it’s important enough to acknowledge.

NGC 1499 - California Nebula

Camera - ZWO 2600MC
Lens - William Optics GT71
Mount - Sky Watcher EQ5
Guide Camera - ZWO 1200MM
Bortle - Class 1
IFOV - 2.3 arcseconds
70 frames @ 5 minute exposures
#astronomy
#astrophotography

I am an amateur astrophotographer and a physics student. I would like to join this feed to contribute to the astrophotography community.

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NGC 7822 - This object is 2900 ly away with a diameter of 75 ly. The spatial resolution in this image is 3.05E14 meters per pixel. This means you’d have to travel from earth to the sun and back over 1000 times to travel the distance represented in one pixel of this image!