This image released by NASA in Washington on September 9, 2009, a portrait of Stephan’s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. These Hubble observations are part of the Hubble Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations. NASA astronauts installed the camera during a servicing mission in May to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope.
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Venus has been a special star or rather planet recently not so much for being in conjunction with other bodies but for being particularly bright in the afternoon sky. This is because of the eliptical orbit which has seen Venus rise much higher than normal.
This is a single capture from August 2006, about one year ago. It’s all a bit technical so maybe not exactly astronomy for beginners
This capture is taken with a LX10 meade fork and an astrocamera Baker-Schmidt d=20cm focal=400mm f/2 using my old Canon EOS 300D
exposure: 253 seconds – ISO 200
processing with Deepskystacker 2.6.3
raw processing:
Bayer matrix (no interp.)
stacking:
light – entropy weighted average (high dynamic range)
darkframe – auto adaptive weighted average by xamad
M45 is a spectacular naked eye cluster and a photographic showpiece in Taurus. In western cultures it is popularly known as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. In Japan, it is known as Subaru, and a stylized version of this cluster forms the Japanese car company’s logo.
