Stars / Astronomy / Astrophotography / Telescopes / Astro

I saw the weirdest thing in the skit the other night. It was like watching bubbles rise in water except the bubbles were stars and the water was space.

Also as one star rose the one below it disappeared.

Me and my wife were just saying to each other “did you see that” all the way home.

Starlink?

If you were looking west-ish I guess they'd appear to be rising, and the appearing/disappearing could be explained by reflections and angles.

Was travelling on the A69 Monday evening about 6.30and there was a string of Starlink spanning half the sky from West to East.

Seriously impressive. Back in the 60's would have thought it would've been a string of ICBM.!

This seems very likely was definitely heading west.

This is a bit mental...

https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink

What am I even looking. I don’t know what it is and it looks mental

That's cool

This, in bucket loads

4,768 Starlink satellites.

I found the ISS!

There are quite a few astrophotographer videos on YouTube cursing Starlink, it’ll add something like 50% more satellites.

I am not a fan of social media sites recycling “memories” but this one brought a smile to my face - 10 years ago we were treated to a brilliant astronomy-themed ride led by @Backstop

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dang, ten years!

bright times.

Had 20 minutes before the kids went to bed so setup quickly and left the camera running outside.

I managed to get this in just over and hour of shooting.

Managed to completely blow out the stars. Will spend more time setting up tonight and pick a different target.

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Beautiful. 👏

Amazing. It's got me freaked out about the size of the universe though, cheers for that

Beautiful! Love the star colours.

Thanks all. I'll be taking my daughter out tonight so she can set up m31.

Hopefully a bit better set up.

I got a notification this afternoon that a store in Oz has the Seestar S50 in stock.

So I pulled the trigger. Watch this, er, space. 🙃

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Don’t forget to post some sort of memes as well as shots of nebulae

Jeanstain is dead! 😋

I just saw this in the sky over Bristol. Long chain of satellites, evenly spaced, moving steadily across the sky directly overhead. Was stood there for several minutes till they all passed. One of those SF moments when it hits you that the future is already here.

In the brief period before the inevitable victory of the Seestar over previous affordable tech, I am running off a few single frames of Orion with a DSLR on an unguided mount on the patio.

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Nice work. I have 100% cloud coverage

If I had known it would stay clear, I would have set up a scope and had a proper look.