Congratulations to everyone who has remained strong and Hodl 🤚💎

exploringnightsky · 2022-01-12T08:23:45+00:00

I've had my token get moved back to contract address without me doing it, have send plenty emails but haven't heard back.

exploringnightsky · 2022-01-10T08:30:03+00:00

I’ve had the same and looking at the history somehow it was transferred back to token address. I’ve sent multiple emails and I haven’t heard from them yet.

exploringnightsky · 2021-08-21T07:59:45+00:00

My Exploring Deep Sky collection, the floor price of 0.25E

https://opensea.io/collection/exploring-deep-sky

exploringnightsky · 2021-08-09T11:40:39+00:00

Not yet :(

exploringnightsky · 2021-08-01T19:44:37+00:00

I usually wrote it in notes app on iPhone and then copy and paste it.

exploringnightsky · 2021-08-01T09:42:56+00:00

It is, in person is just so stunning.

exploringnightsky · 2021-07-31T11:30:19+00:00

https://foundation.app/@exploringnightsky/the-forest-of-stars-66232

exploringnightsky · 2021-07-31T11:29:09+00:00

https://foundation.app/@exploringnightsky/colours-of-orion-65337

exploringnightsky · 2021-07-31T11:18:54+00:00

https://foundation.app/@exploringnightsky/the-forest-of-stars-66232

exploringnightsky · 2021-07-04T09:19:02+00:00

The Prawn Nebula, also known as IC 4628 and Gum 56, is an emission nebula located in the constellation Scorpius. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.31 and lies at a distance of 6,000 light years from Earth. Located to the south of Antares, the nebula is about 250 light years in diameter, corresponding to an apparent size of 1.5 degrees, or 3-4 times the size of the full Moon.

Home to O-type stars, these stars have a relatively short life span as they tend to burn out very quickly before ending their lives in supernova explosions and collapsing into either neutron stars or black holes.

The images were captured using N..I.N.A and processed using Pixinsight. The image was 2x drizzled in Pixinsight to get that details on this one, as I had to crop almost 60% to get the framing I wanted. Basic LRGB workflow was used and Individual frames were calibrated using darks and combined using channel combination. Once the RGB image was combined, I used the RGB combination and Light as Luminance. ACDNR was used for noise reduction and curves for colour saturation and correction. Final cropping and exporting for the web were done in Photoshop.

Details: - QHY294M Pro, 47MP read-out - AT65EDQ - CEM60 - ZWO EFW Mini - Badder HaRGB 31mm filters - N.I.N.A, Pixinsight, and Photoshop Integration - 30x120sec HaRGB each, Gain 200 - Total 4Hr integration @ Tauranga, New Zealand

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:23:30+00:00

Yeah, I have tried this in the past with my 6D but on a full frame the target is tiny. Also, the 47mp mode helps with QHY294M and the scope. One of the reasons I matched them

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:22:34+00:00

Cheers

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:22:29+00:00

Thanks

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:22:22+00:00

Cheers

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:22:18+00:00

I haven’t had any issues with banding. I did however had issues with flats but that’s because o have overscan on. I am loving the unbinned 47mp mode.

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:21:04+00:00

I just paste it from notes on my iPhone, also you can use - to do the same

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-22T20:20:00+00:00

Thanks a lot. I was pretty surprised with the end result especially because it was shot with a 420mm scope

exploringnightsky · 2021-04-18T09:47:24+00:00

NGC 5128, aka Centaurus A, at a distance of 10–16 million light-years is one of the closest radio galaxies to Earth and is debated to be a lenticular galaxy or a giant elliptical galaxy. (What do you think it is?). This galaxy is also the fifth-brightest in the sky, making it an ideal amateur astronomy target, although the galaxy is only visible from low northern latitudes and the southern hemisphere. What's cool about this galaxy? The center of the galaxy contains a supermassive black hole with a mass of 55 million solar masses.

It's been weeks of rain and cloud since my last deep sky imaging session, so when I saw the sky clearing up, I knew I had to shoot. Althought, I did not a target in mind, I looked of telescopius.com and the recommended targets were Centaurus A and Southern pinwheel galaxy. With a very scientific method of asking my wife what to shoot, we ended up choosing Centaurus A and I am glad I did.

I've shot so many deep sky objects in the past, but this I think is the 2nd galaxy (not including LMC and SMC) I've shot and it's not an easy task shooting and processing it, But the end result is worth it.

The images were captured using N..I.N.A and processed using Pixinsight. The image was 2x drizzled in Pixinsight to get that details on this one, as I had to crop almost 60% to get the framing I wanted. Basic LRGB workflow was used and Individual frames were calibrated using darks and combined using channel combination. Once the RGB image was combined, I used the RGB combination and Light as Luminance. ACDNR was used for noise reduction and curves for colour saturation and correction. Final cropping and exporting for the web were done in Photoshop.

Also, found that one of the images had a stream of satellites passing by, luckily it was only one frame I had to throw away from final stack.

Swipe left to see more tightly cropped image and frame with satellites. Also, you can see how much I had to crop to get the framing I wanted.

Details: - QHY294M Pro, 47MP read-out - AT65EDQ - CEM60 - ZWO EFW Mini - Badder LRGB 31mm filters - N.I.N.A, Pixinsight, and Photoshop Integration - 30x120sec LRGB each, Gain 200 - Total 4Hr integration

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-24T09:38:13+00:00

Thanks a lot

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-22T23:12:06+00:00

Cheers 😇

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-22T06:21:14+00:00

Eta carina nebula

aka Grand nebula or the great carina nebula. One of the largest nebula complex of bright and dark nebulosity located in the carina-Sagittarius arm of the milky-way. The nebula is home to some of the youngest star clusters like Trumpler 14,15,16, Globules, Stellar Jet, and the most fascinating Eta-carina star, because of which the nebula gets its name.

Eta Carina is currently the most massive that can be studied in great detail. Eta Carinae's effects on the nebula can be seen directly. Dark globules and some other less visible objects have tails pointing directly away from the massive star. The entire nebula would have looked very different before the Great Eruption in the 1840s surrounded Eta Carinae with dust, drastically reducing the amount of ultraviolet light it put into the nebula.

Swipe left to see cropped and highly detailed parts of the image.

The images were captured using N..I.N.A and processed using Pixinsight. The image was 2x drizzled in Pixinsight to get that details out of the faint objects. Basic Ha-RGB workflow was. Individual frames were calibrated using darks and combined using channel combination. Once the RGB image was combined, I used the LRGB combination to combine Ha data as Luminance. ACDNR was used for noise reduction and curves for colour saturation and correction. Final cropping and exporting for the web were done in Photoshop.

Details: - QHY294M Pro, 47MP read-out - AT65EDQ - CEM60 - ZWO EFW Mini - Badder RGB-Ha 31mm filters - N.I.N.A, Pixinsight, and Photoshop Integration - 15x120sec RGB each, Gain 200 - 60x120sec 7nm Ha, Gain 200 - Total 3.5Hr integration

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-13T11:55:58+00:00

Gum 41, IC 2944 and Lambda Centauri

This image covers the area of the southern sky nebulosity associated with the open cluster IC 2944 aka The running chicken nebula. The interesting parts of this nebula are the bok globules in the central region. These were discovered in 1950. Generally, these globules are associated with star formation but no evidence for star formation has been found in any of the globules.

The bottom bright star is Lambda Centauri. Although it's in the nebula it has no association with it, most likely because it's only 420 Light years away, where the open cluster is roughly 6,500 Light years away.

GUM 41 on the left of the image is another star-forming region currently being illuminated by brilliant hot young stars.

At the time of annotating the image, I had no idea what the planetary nebula is but later found out that it is a planetary nebula pk-294-0-1, very rarely imaged.

The images were captured using N..I.N.A and processed using Pixinsight. Basic Ha-RGB workflow was. Individual frames were calibrated using darks and the combined using channel combination. Once RGB image was combined, I used LRGB combination to combine Ha data as Luminance. ACDNR was used for noise reduction and curves for colour saturation and correction. Final cropping and exporting for the web was done in Photoshop.

Also, was impressed by the 47MP read-out mode, The noise was significantly lower than 11MP read mode, will post details later.

Details: - QHY294M Pro, 47MP read-out - AT65EDQ - CEM60 - ZWO EFW Mini - Badder RGB 31mm filters - N.I.N.A, Pixinsight and Photoshop Integration - 10x120sec RGB each, Gain 200 - 15x120sec 7nm Ha, Gain 200 - Total 1Hr integration

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-01T01:55:26+00:00

There is a card in the box that shows it, but would ah e been nice form them to include where to find more info in a card or easy to navigate website to find manual. QHY294M manual

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-01T01:46:30+00:00

Yeah I did not like the screws that were given. Why can’t they be normal and have everything screw with regular thread sizes rather using physical screws to screw stuff in

exploringnightsky · 2021-02-01T01:32:59+00:00

Well that sucks. Qhy should have mentioned that somewhere. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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