Ethan Teng 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇹🇼 @citizen_astro@mastodon.lol

Dusty NASA Mars Lander Snaps What Will Likely Be Its Final Selfie - CNET - I'm not tearing up. That's just Martian dust in my eyes. - https://www.cnet.com/science/space/dusty-nasa-mars-lander-snaps-what-will-likely-be-its-final-selfie/#ftag=CAD590a51e

If you have a macro lens lying around and wanna give #astrophotography a try, it's totally doable! I took the image below of the Milky Way with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro lens & a Canon 6D. I don't have a tracking mount, so this is a stack of 20 x 5 seconds untracked images.

Macro lenses have great image quality and large apertures that let through a lot of light. The main drawback for astrophotography is that focusing at infinity can be finicky.

Truly Giant Telescope Could Image Exoplanets https://hackaday.com/2022/05/22/truly-giant-telescope-could-image-exoplanets/ #gravitationallens #astronomy #exoplanet #science #space

NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging #Lisp in Deep Space

https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-lisp-in-deep-space/

M77 is a spiral galaxy about 47 Mly away in the constellation Cetus.

The surface of #Mars, captured by the #Curiosity rover

We don't do visual observations at professional observatories anymore – everything is recorded digitally – but sometimes we do it just for fun!

I took this picture a few years ago at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. That's one of our four 8.2 m telescopes. One of its instruments had been recently removed, and the engineers placed a glass screen where we projected the Moon at twilight. Such a great way to show the Moon to lots of people at once!

#astronomy #astrophotography

Here are the pictures from my little observatory of the sun:
https://pixey.org/p/MagicLike/434020935198010017

#UMPlus - Globular cluster NGC 6558
https://www.universomagico.net/2022/05/cumulo-globular-ngc-6558.html
The bright ball of stars that can be seen in the Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 6558, a globular star cluster located in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation and located at a distance of about 23,000 light years from the Solar System, but it is located closer to the center of the Milky Way. Globular clusters are made up of hundreds of thousands or millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity and can be.....

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