Your astronomy pictures?

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This is in the beach closer to us.

Nikolai

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From the top of a rock near our place, this is a historical place, called ‘pillikuththuwa’.

Nikolai

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The Christmas day evening. With some fireworks and lights, distracting the image. Captured with a GoPro Hero 12.

Nikolai.

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Took this times back using a cheap webcam through my scope (Starquest 130p).

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This one was taken from a tablet camera

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This is one of the first images I took :slightly_smiling_face: and labelled it just. Taken from that tablet camera.

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A sunset in the Jaffna fort, captured while on a trip.

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All set up in Joshua Tree National Park waiting for darkness

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Hope you have a good observing session! :+1:

Clear skies!
Nikolai.

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Thank you sir ! It’s a pretty good dark sky site although not what it was 25 years ago .

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Your welcome! I should call you sir, you are so experienced, I’m still a beginner. :slightly_smiling_face:

Humans pollute their own sky. Sad for astronomers. Can’t imagine about the skies the ancient astronomers had!

Nikolai

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Yep . Light pollution is a sad state of affairs . Something that isn’t really hard to deal with also . Turn off a bunch of unnecessary lighting and save a bunch of electricity too .

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Hi @Starrancher , just see these, we need these!

I guess, this is not far away from you!

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Yep . There’s a number of cities that have restrictions on what kind of lighting can be used . Dark sky cities . Sedona Arizona has strict restrictions exterior lighting . I live about 50 miles outside of any town and live at the edge of a Bortle 1 and Bortle 2 zone . About as good as it gets in the continental United States . Or anywhere else for that matter . The Milky Way is horizon to horizon where I live .

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We can’t see the milky way here, and so so sad about it!

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Is this from your place?

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Yes . Just down the road a bit at my friends place .

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Can you see that good with your naked eyes? Or is it by camera?

Anyhow that’s so cool :sunglasses:

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Oh no . You can see the entire Milky Way like that but there’s more saturation in this photo . It has some time lapse . I think it’s maybe a minute of the shutter being open .

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