Today we have a mosaic of two images, both taken the same night by two #Dwarf3 #SmartTelescopes from the roof of the studio at the back of our house, where we left them running all night, with the help of a pair of 10Ah USB-C powerpacks.

I targeted The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC6334), while @leece targeted part of the nearby NGC6357. We both made sure to have the individual nebulae off-centre frame enough that we could get a slight overlap.

For both we have around 7 hours of exposure - 420ishx60s@80, both with the internal Ha/OIII filter.

We ran both images through the Dwarflab Stellar Studio to do a star removal, and recomposed both images with a star mask. Some final tuning in Snapseed, and then a manual combining of the two shots.

All up, about 2 hours actual effort, over three days.

As I’ve gotten a bit better at editing, I’m revisiting some old astro photos to see if I can improve them. This is a moon pic that I took in early March in the midafternoon, in full daylight. I posted an earlier version that left in some light (toned down to a less glaring blue), but this time I tried to take it out completely. 2nd photo is the original. What do you think?
#photography #astrophotography #moon #snapseed #Celestron #shotoniphone

A couple of nights ago I let my #Dwarf3 stay out all night with a stellation mask, which bagged me about 8 hours worth of #Antares , #Messier4 , and other goodies, including the Antares #ReflectionNebula.

I ran it through the #DwarfLab #StellarStudio tools, and then did a bit more cleanup in #Snapseed and #GooglePhotos - about 15 minutes work.

I'm pretty darned pleased with the results.

Last night I left my #Dwarf3 out all night.

After a few hiccoughs, I targetted The Southern Pinwheel - #NGC5236 or #M83, for about four hours.

After running the results through the DwarfLab destar routine, I did a little cleanup in #Snapseed and #googlephotos

And this was the result. I'm pretty happy!

Mourning dove

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Some photos I took in Feb, Mar, & April, and all these are taken and owned by me ofc! (check the ALT text to see what I took the pics with)

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I took this back on the 10th of March.

It is our old friend the Eta Carinae Nebula.

This time with a SII/OIII filter (thanks for the suggestion, @malcircuit !) and 120x90s@80 for the exposures. Then I ran it through the Dwarflab star removal tool, and post-processed the result in Snapseed.

I was not going to post it, but it came up as a background on my office screen today (long story), and I had not realised just how much detail it had.

Can any #darktable enthusiasts & users give me some tips as a beginner?

I've been using #snapseed for years at this point, and I think that I've mastered it, but I'd like to create my own styles and stuff, as I can only do that much with snapseed.

Somewhere over the Rainbow #ShotOniPhone #iPhone14Pro #Snapseed

So last night we put our #Dwarf3 telescopes on the studio roof at the back of the house, loaded up some schedules, and let them go all, night.

Inspired by @malcircuit 's post a little while ago, one of the targets I programmed in was Markarian's Chain, a string of galaxies.

This is 170x60s@gain 60, post processed using the automated online denoising tool that Dwarf have made available, and finished off in #Snapseed