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theangryastronomer

Amateur astrophotographer & astronomer living in the South East of England.

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Trippy pixaloop effect on M42 #astrophotography #astronomy #pixaloop #orion #daily #photooftheday

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A shot I took of my Solar setup from the #mercurytransit with both my #skywatcher telescopes. Resulting shots in my feed...of course. #astrophotography #spaceporn #spacepics #solar #solarastronomy #astronomy #photooftheday

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M42 V2. Same data but I've managed to pull more information out revealing more of that lovely brown dust. More data is needed though to bring back details in that blown out core but for now I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
#astrophotography #spaceporn #astronomy #orionnebula #m42 #spacepics #orion #canonphotography #skywatcher #zwo #messier #80ed #600d #astromodded #heq5pro #photooftheday

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M31 Reprocess Dec 2019
#astrophotography #astronomy #nikon #nikonphotography #skywatcher #m31 #andromeda #andromedagalaxy #spaceporn #spacepics #spaceart #deepsky #photooftheday

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Caldwell 49 The Rosette Nebula with open cluster NGC 2244 in Monocerous. A large spherical area of molecular hydrogen showing stars that we're born of the cloud in the center. Hidden inside are many hundreds of newborn stars, some of which are extremely massive and responsible for the ionizing glow seen from it's exterior.
#astrophotography #astronomy #hydrogenalpha #skywatcher #canonphotography #space #spaceporn #spacepics #stellarbirth #80ed #heq5pro #zwo #spaceart

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IC424 and Barnard 33. The Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Well chuffed with this. Went all out in post with using per channel processing to bring down noise and increase detail right where it's needed most. Getting my time spent processing down to a couple of hours now too.
#astrophotography #astronomy #canonphotography #deepsky #pixinsight #deepskystacker #skywatcher #80ed #horsehead #horseheadnebula #amateurastronomy #barnard33 #ic434 #spaceporn #spacephotography #spacepics #photooftheday

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Ya bois ready for some planetary imaging next year. #astrophotography #astronomy #planetaryimaging #telescope #zwo #skywatcher

Instagram post 2182355446052767316_4727301893 $Bad boi frac in the dome at the observatory. #astronomy #astrophotography #wiliamoptics #skywatcher #telescope #observatory$

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Here's my video from Mondays #mercurytransit. Turned out to be a pretty good day weather wise after a rough start. #astrophotography #astronomy #solarastronomy #mercury #sun

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I'm beginning to think I'm a bit of a magnet for these. Pure chance as usual. #moon #astrophotography #Nikon #D5500 #lunar #astronomy

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2/2. Sol making a show of it's incredible size behind a dwarfed and silhouetted Mercury. #mercurytransit #mercury #solarastronomy #astrophotography #astronomy #skywatcher #zwo

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1/2. Well I'd say that's a win considering I'd never imaged the sun properly before this week and it threatened to rain all day. I'm impressed how much can be coaxed out of the #baaderplanetarium astro solar film and continuum filter when used with an 8 inch dobsonian (EQ mounted). #mercurytransit #solarastronomy #astrophotography #astronomy #mercury #skywatcher #zwo #bbc #bbcessex #mercurytransit2019

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Quick snap with my phone through the eyepiece on my #Sky-watcher 80ED. Mercury is clearly visible even at a modest focal length. I collected plenty of data with the big rig too so hopefully I'll have something a bit nicer to share with you all later. #astronomy #astrophotography #mercurytransit #solarastronomy

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First attempt at solar imaging. No sunspots today, just a pristine surface. #solarastronomy #astrophotography #astronomy

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Getting some solar practice in before Monday. #solarastronomy #mercurytransit #astrophotography #astronomy

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Down at the observatory. Amazing what you can get just by poking around at the eyepiece of a dob with a phone camera. #astronomy #astrophotography #galaxys9plus

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Got a bee in my bonnet about needing plenty of portable power. Ended up making this absolute unit of a power bank. 100ah of juice and capable of 240w constant (I chose to limit it). I don't think I'll have to worry about a flat battery ever again.

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Visual setup all ready for the 11th #mercurytransit #astrophotography #astronomy #amateurastronomy #solarastronomy

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Dat oxygen tho. #westernveilnebula #witchesbroomnebula #astrophotography #astronomy #amateurastronomy

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Getting moon bombed by holidayers. #astrophotography #astronomy #amateurastronomy #lunar #luna #moon #aircraft #holiday

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Keeping up appearances with a section of the North America nebula I shot back in the summer. #astrophotography #astronomy

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Transit of Mercury 2019

Photos by Paul Lummus