2022-Jan-28
I am always after transient targets -- like now the Mars is traversing the Lagoon nebuli complex. After missing a couple of predawn morning skies (cloudy then), I went down to a new location this early morning to see if I had a better luck today.
Yes! Despite the presence of slight mist/thin clouds in the low eastern sky, and the Mars climbed to merely 14deg altitude at the time I started collecting data, the objects are all visible in each single 30s exposure. Here is the stacked and post-processed image.
My astrophotography 2022
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There are three prominent (bright and large) deep-sky objects in Centaurus: NGC5139 (Omega Centauri), NGC5128, NGC4945. The latter two are large galaxies: especially, NGC5128 (Centaurus A) is probably the closest active galaxy to earth. NGC5139 is the largest globular cluster of the Milky Way, yet it is speculated it is the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy engulfed by the Milky Way. So in that sense, all three are galaxies.
I long for capturing all three in the same image. And this morning's clear sky gave me a chance.
I long for capturing all three in the same image. And this morning's clear sky gave me a chance.
Re: My astrophotography 2022
A revisit to the Carina-Crux section of the Milky Way, which always fascinates me. It is quite far south and never reaches a high altitude in Singapore skies.
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A revisit to my 2022-Jan-28 morning data, especially on the southern Milky Way section.
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2022-1-30
Shooting night scapes in the pre-dawn hours. Still work in process to get some wide angle southern Millky Way data processed. In the meanwhile, non-deep photos became more favorable for quick processing.
Fisherman under the southern cross
Moon-Venus-Mars trio over the Changi Bay
Shooting night scapes in the pre-dawn hours. Still work in process to get some wide angle southern Millky Way data processed. In the meanwhile, non-deep photos became more favorable for quick processing.
Fisherman under the southern cross
Moon-Venus-Mars trio over the Changi Bay
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Trying deep-scape: adding the Milkyway core data from last March to the bright trio over Changi Bay image on Jan 30.
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2022-Feb-2
The first sight of the moon after the new moon phase -- its first appearance in the year of the Tiger. It also meets with Jupiter today -- the 1st and 3rd brightest objects next to the sun will not show together next month because the King of the planets will be having its close conjunction with the sun.
Will hopefully capture the bright duo in the pre-dawn morning sky near the end of March.
The first sight of the moon after the new moon phase -- its first appearance in the year of the Tiger. It also meets with Jupiter today -- the 1st and 3rd brightest objects next to the sun will not show together next month because the King of the planets will be having its close conjunction with the sun.
Will hopefully capture the bright duo in the pre-dawn morning sky near the end of March.
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2022-Feb-13
Probably the wettest Feb? A long stretch of rainy days had just passed but night skies have not been clear yet.
Anyway, was happy to see Mercury back and shinning bright at mag 0.
Probably the wettest Feb? A long stretch of rainy days had just passed but night skies have not been clear yet.
Anyway, was happy to see Mercury back and shinning bright at mag 0.
Re: My astrophotography 2022
Haven't been shooting night sky for a long long time. A lot of things happened, but not the appearance of a nice clear dark sky.
So here are a few shots not depending on the local dark sky in SG.
So here are a few shots not depending on the local dark sky in SG.