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Pix of Comet Pons-Brooks taken from Kendal last night. Again every weather app/forecast lied about it being clear over Kendal, so the comet dimmed by cloud. Images: crops from processed stacks of multiple tracked images taken with Canon 700D/135mm lens/iOptron astronomy Sky Tracker
First Light with Vaonis Vespera II
M81 - Bodes Galaxy
60 minutes
M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
28 minutes
Both images here are exactly as they came off the Vespera, no processing at all!
I am very very impressed with this scope!
Many thanks to First Light Optics
A #fireball #meteor over south-west #Scotland at 2 minutes past 8pm on Sunday night. Captured from #Lochearnhead by a camera of ukmeteornetwork Bill Ward Popular Astronomy.
#AuroraBorealis picked up twice on our auroracam in Oxfordshire on 4th Nov 2023. The 1st time it was competing with car headlights + fireworks, but later the fog briefly cleared for a brighter show. The camera is a modified #RaspberryPi #MeteorCamera #NorthernLights