@TheAbbotTrithemius

Clicked on @catherineryanhyde and found that I was already following.

@TheAbbotTrithemius I certainly can't argue about the steep learning curve! I feel like that no matter how much time I put into it I'm still a novice at both image capture and processing. Still make too many rookie mistakes, especially during image capture! And that assumes that everything works the way it's supposed to.

@TheAbbotTrithemius Thanks very much! This image was captured using an Astro-Tech AT72EDII refractor, ZWO ASI1600mm monochrome camera, Red/Green/Blue & Hydrogen Alpha filters, and a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi mount. Really needed more exposure time but this was actually a night to learn to use some new gear. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised at how well this came out!

Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, from my backyard.
Let’s see if this gets more engagement here than it has on the platform formerly known as Twitter (zero none nada).
#Astrophotography
#Astronomy

Picture taken from Old Fort Point in #JasperNationalPark during the annual #JasperDarkSkyFestival

@KazzyH Thank you!

@Anouk Thank you!

@BillyBones Good point! And thank you!

@ATXJane Thank you!

@NorCalCherylLyn Thank you!

@kismatt Thanks!

Happy 69th orbit around the sun to...me! Just wish I'd been born a day earlier so I could share a birthday with John Lennon instead of David Lee Roth. 😂

Screen capture from SkySafari app.

@TrueBloodNet Thank you!

Was attempting to get better colors when I realized some of Saturn's moons had been captured, which was pretty exciting! There were 4, but I couldn't quite tease out Dione. Had enough trouble with the other 3! Not sure if these colors for Saturn are any better/more accurate/whatever, but I like it.

@catherineryanhyde That’s awesome! I have to drive ten hours to west Texas for skies like that. Unfortunately I keep missing the Texas Star Party in west Texas for various reasons.
Going to Jasper National Park in Alberta for their annual dark sky festival.

@CarrieLikesCoffee I’ve read comic since childhood. Now it’s part of my daily lunchtime routine. I can’t draw to save my life! 😂 I hope your dry spell ends soon!

@catherineryanhyde Thanks. I haven't used CounterSocial a lot so only discovered last night how to easily view all of a user's media. You have a lot of marvelous photos!
My yard is a Bortle 8, but will soon be 9 with many new subdivisions nearby. Astro club I belong to has a zone 5 dark site. Have not made it out there yet for various reasons.
Have been assembling a portable astrophotography kit to take on a trip to Jasper National Park next month.

@catherineryanhyde Possibly, haven’t tried yet. Just got back into imaging last October, and was never much more than a novice prior. Got what I thought were pretty good images of M42 with R,G,B,HA filters and of Rosette Nebula with SII,OIII,HA filters in January (can likely find them in posts from then if interested). Those were with a Tak Epsilon 130D. Saturn was with a C9.25. Need to re-image Saturn. Didn’t realize I should’ve used UV/IR cut filter w/ASI224mc for more accurate colors.