Tested my #telescope last night and this is harder than it looks! Even had problems finding the moon with it, if you can believe that 🥹



#Night #Space #Moon #Astronomy #Sky #Stars

Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-explanation/

#HackerNews #exoplanet #discovery #helium #atmosphere #carbon #science #news #NASA #Webb #telescope

The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope/

#HackerNews #telescope #tiny #telescope #DIY #astronomy #innovation #mini #telescope

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌌✨ Astrophotographer Ian Lauer demonstrates why exposure time matters by photographing the #Andromeda Galaxy for 10 seconds, 10 minutes, and 10 hours. The longest exposure reveals dust lanes, companion #galaxies, and details invisible to shorter captures.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/photographing-andromeda-galaxy-ianlauer-10-seconds-10-hours?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=andromeda_photography

#color #photography #science #sky #space #stars #tech #technology #telescope #texas #universe #tksst #video #astronomy #milkyway

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🌌✨ Astrophotographer Ian Lauer demonstrates why exposure time matters by photographing the #Andromeda Galaxy for 10 seconds, 10 minutes, and 10 hours. The longest exposure reveals dust lanes, companion #galaxies, and details invisible to shorter captures.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/photographing-andromeda-galaxy-ianlauer-10-seconds-10-hours?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=andromeda_photography

#color #photography #science #sky #space #stars #tech #technology #telescope #texas #universe #tksst #video #astronomy #milkyway

APOD from 2025-12-01

3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar #Comet

Studying comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, suggests our Solar System is typical. It shares characteristics with our comets, like composition and dust ejection. Captured in Texas, the image shows a green coma and blue ion tail—common features. After its December #Earth flyby, it'll exit our system forever.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251201.html#space #astronomy #asteroid #meteor #telescope #universe

APOD from 2025-12-01

3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar #Comet

Studying comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, suggests our Solar System is typical. It shares characteristics with our comets, like composition and dust ejection. Captured in Texas, the image shows a green coma and blue ion tail—common features. After its December #Earth flyby, it'll exit our system forever.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251201.html#space #astronomy #asteroid #meteor #telescope #universe

Does anyone have a recommendation for a not-too-expensive, beginner telescope?

I grew up in the country looking at the stars (though never got into it seriously) and recently returned to the country. I've watched all 500 episodes of #StarTalk and am a patreon subscriber. I'm not looking to get into it every night, but every so often when a planet is close or a meteor shower is happening.

Also if it can take a beating that helps. I'm clumsy and walk with a cane!

#Astronomy #Telescope #Help

Does anyone have a recommendation for a not-too-expensive, beginner telescope?

I grew up in the country looking at the stars (though never got into it seriously) and recently returned to the country. I've watched all 500 episodes of #StarTalk and am a patreon subscriber. I'm not looking to get into it every night, but every so often when a planet is close or a meteor shower is happening.

Also if it can take a beating that helps. I'm clumsy and walk with a cane!

#Astronomy #Telescope #Help

Don't leave Laravel Telescope running on a production fediverse server 😅

#laravel #telescope

Finally managed to capture #Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon with my #Vespera2 #telescope tonight. This last passed Earth in the Middle Ages around 1000 years ago!
#astronomy #astrophotography

Finally managed to capture #Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon with my #Vespera2 #telescope tonight. This last passed Earth in the Middle Ages around 1000 years ago!
#astronomy #astrophotography

Ok I have a very specific #electronics question... I want to control a #telescope mount from an Raspberry through the ST4 interface. This interface is very simple, you just have to "short" one of the 4 lines to the common ground to send the signal to move in that direction. On my mount I've measured 3.3v. On the interwebs everyone does what I want to do with optocoupleurs, but I don't have those at hand. In my mind I can achieve the same thing using transistors. Am I going to break something?

M81 Bode's Galaxy and M82 Cigar Galaxy.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 1220 exposures of 10’’.
#telescope #telescopes #zwo #zwoasi #zwoseestar #zwoseestars50 #seestar #seestars50 #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #galaxy #galaxies #bode #bodegalaxy #cigar #cigargalaxy #m81 #m82 #messier81 #messier82 #messier

M81 Bode's Galaxy and M82 Cigar Galaxy.
ZWO Seestar S50.
250mm, f5, 1220 exposures of 10’’.
#telescope #telescopes #zwo #zwoasi #zwoseestar #zwoseestars50 #seestar #seestars50 #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #galaxy #galaxies #bode #bodegalaxy #cigar #cigargalaxy #m81 #m82 #messier81 #messier82 #messier

It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.

It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.

7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.

It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.

It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.

7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.

APOD from 2025-07-30

Coronal Loops on the Sun

Solar loops, shaped by the Sun's magnetic field, can envelop #Earth and last days. These prominences, often near sunspots, were captured in hydrogen light by a personal #telescope in Italy. Some may break and influence Earth's space weather.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250730.html#space #astronomy #universe