LLT ASTRONOMY JOURNAL

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  Alan Sheiness

  

  1 day ago

  NASA's dazzling photo hides a secret

  Mashable - Mark Kaufman

  A cryptic object, cloaked in the cosmos. Invisible to the eye lies a powerful force at the center of a star metropolis. The brilliant star cluster Messier 4, the closest such cluster to Earth at some 6,000 light-years away, contains hundreds of thousands of stars. It's a sight to see. Now, NASA has …

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  Alan Sheiness

  

  1 day ago

  How to use Siril free software to process your DSLR astro images

  skyatnightmagazine.com - Charlotte Daniels

  Using Siril freeware to stack, extract the background and calibrate colour. Astrophotography can be an expensive hobby and one where we constantly …

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  Alan Sheiness

  

  5 days ago

  Amateur astrophotographers capture bright supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy

  skyatnightmagazine.com - Iain Todd

  SN 2023ixf has newly appeared in spiral galaxy M101 and has been photographed over the past few nights. An amateur astrophotographer has captured an …

• I love this because it illustrates the reality: the stars don’t rise and set. No, it is our earth that is moving, rotating about its axis.

  

  Alan Sheiness

  

  Amazing Timelapse Video Reveals How Much the Earth Rotates in Just Two Hours

  My Modern Met - Margherita Cole

  Even if we cannot see it, the Earth is constantly in motion. Cornwall-based photographer Aaron Jenkin captures just how much the planet rotates in a stunning timelapse video of the British coast. Using an equatorial mount—a device that has a rotational axis parallel to the Earth's axis of …

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  Alan Sheiness

  

  How Many Stars Can I See at Night? • Love the Night Sky

  lovethenightsky.com - Tanya C. Forde

  Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered how many stars you could see? Or maybe you’ve discussed astronomy with friends/family and wondered …

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  Alan Sheiness

  

  Here Are Some Photoshop Plug-ins to Make Astrophotography Much Easier

  fstoppers.com - Mel Martin

  I've been doing serious astrophotography for around 20 years. I started in Seattle (large mistake), but now, I'm in Arizona, where we get a lot of …