SingAstro

Balcony Astrophotography
Milky Way from my balcony
Bortle 8, Singapore
21 July 2022

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iQw8Bg4seFErBGQ98

Balcony Astrophotography

M16，The Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens.
鹰状星云是一个位于巨蛇座的星云，也是银河系的一个恒星诞生区，也是一个电离氢区。因其形状好像一只展翅翱翔的雄鹰而得此名。
Singapore
July 2022

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oGuqXkfVhAEULP9X9

Nice M8-M20 shot. These bright objects are easy to capture but the surrounding dense star fields make it difficult to render nice imagery. Yours is much better than my work. The M31 shot shows a lot of nice detail. But there are some phantom/glare lights near the corners. Did some lights shine into...

M8, Lagoon Nebula （礁湖星云）and M20, Trifid Nebula（三裂星云）
I applied a starmask and reduced the intensity and numbers of stars in Pixinsight.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LByPQ25zyc8JcwBPA

M31, The Andromeda Galaxy

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nVDLjjQE7MCEDVCv8

The sky was super clear around 1am to 2am on the 23rd of June so I did a bit of star gazing that turned into an improtu photog session on a random tiny "cluster"? (please correct me on the technical term!) Unfortunately focus wasnt perfect but still better than nothing I guess. One questi...

My 1st Hubble Pallet Attempt Before the outbreak of COVID-19, on 5 Nov 2019, I visited Zhangjiajie Geopark and was attracted by the magnificent pillars there. At the end of 2021, I saw a local media report that a Singaporean spent 2-3 years from his kitchen in a 5th story HDB flat at Toa Payoh colle...

hhzhang wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:02 am Like the detail of the galaxy image.

Looks like quite a fruitful trip for astrophotography. Keep it up!

Many thx

M64, The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away.
ED102APO with 0.8 reducer. Managed to get some details of the galaxy.
Kampung Mawar, Johor
May 2022
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SyxdWuwmPnnhdW3Z8

PETER LOO wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:02 pm Super nice, thx for sharing

Thx Peter