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14 votes
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NASA’s x-ray telescope faces a long goodbye
12 votes -
Solar viewer for the upcoming eclipse
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Webb & Hubble confirm Universe’s expansion rate
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TRAPPIST-1 caught stripping atmosphere of possibly habitable exoplanet
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How do supermassive black holes get supermassive?
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Zoozve
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Astronomers accidentally discover dark primordial galaxy without stars
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Uncovering the forgotten female astronomers of Yerkes Observatory
15 votes -
Astronomers make rare exoplanet discovery, and a giant leap in detecting Earth-like bodies
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Don't look so blue, Neptune: New study (re)reveals Neptune's blue hue to be very pale and similar to Uranus, unlike edited Voyager 2 images
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2023's most spectacular photos from the James Webb Telescope
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The strange clouds of alien worlds
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A six-planet system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way
55 votes -
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded rattled Earth's atmosphere
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First images of ESA-telescope 'Euclid'
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What would happen if the Earth had rings?
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A giant European telescope rises as US rivals await rescue
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NASA's Webb makes first detection of heavy element from star merger
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Occultation of the Sun by Lunar Mountains - Oct. 14th, 2023
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Any amatuer (or professional) astrophotographers capture the annular solar eclipse today?
I was only able to see ~70% coverage in my area, and was hoping to see some posts here on Tildes about the eclipse. I'd love to see anyone's work they managed to capture today.
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Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think
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James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion
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NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
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Confirming very bright galaxies in the early universe, while also disproving the identification of what would have been the most distant galaxy ever found
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Planet K2-18 b has an ocean and atmosphere that could support life
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How to see a newly-discovered green comet this week, before it vanishes for 400 years
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In photos: The rise of the super blue moon spectacle
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XRISM will be launching Sunday, Aug 27 at 8:26pm, EDT (Aug 28, 0:26:22 UTC)
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How a Harvard professor became the world’s leading alien hunter
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Where did the term blue moon come from, and how rare is the ‘super blue moon’ later this month?
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Clouds on Neptune perform a surprise disappearing act
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Closing down an icon: Although Arecibo Observatory is slated to become an education center, astronomers hope research might one day return to the site
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Tiny meteorites are everywhere - here's how to find them
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The Ring Nebula comes into focus, and it's astounding
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Researchers find ancient high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus’s volcanism
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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side
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We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
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A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
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Turns out, our solar system is the rarest planetary system out there
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How I discovered the Hummingbird Nebula
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New 3D visualization by NASA highlights 5,000 galaxies revealed by Webb
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Dr. Angela Collier, theoretical physicist, discusses aliens, crackpots, and Avi Loeb
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb has found fragments of a meteoroid that he believes could be from a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget
33 votes -
Black hole ripples could help pin down expansion of universe
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We're back at the Royal Astronomical Society to look at some awesome antique moon globes
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Seven amazing accomplishments the James Webb Telescope achieved in its first year
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What is a blue moon and when is the next one?
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Planet that shouldn't exist found
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Quasar hunting in amateur astrophotography
I'm not sure how big the astrophotography community, if any, is on ~tildes but I'd figure I'd open a topic up and see! Astrophotography is one of my hobbies, and it was brought to my attention...
I'm not sure how big the astrophotography community, if any, is on ~tildes but I'd figure I'd open a topic up and see! Astrophotography is one of my hobbies, and it was brought to my attention (see link for two quasars near the M3 globular cluster) that it's actually pretty easy to photograph quasars. The same are visible in my attempt at photographing M3. Anyway, my question here is does anybody know of any particular interesting or distant quasars to photograph? I assume most will just be "dots" but it still sounds like fun since they're among the most distant objects you can see. I assume most quasars would be broad spectrum, so no filters are really needed, but I'm also curious if there's any bright yet redshifted objects you'd need infrared to capture.
My setup is an Astro-Tech AT80EDT 80mm Refractor f/6. I just got the f/0.8 reducer which I'm excited to take for a spin. It's a chonky piece of glass. My camera is a ZWO ASI585MC which does decent enough for deep sky.
Edit: To add, using something like http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ is great for finding interesting objects once I've already taken a photo, but it's less helpful to plan my shots.
13 votes