14/03/2025 - We went chasing ghosts tonight
Evening walk up the hill. I took the scope with me. The moon was bright and lots of rolling clouds so not great for a dark night sky. Still I was happy with my snap of the Pacman Nebula. After about an hour on top the cold was starting to get to me and there were no more dots to munch so we headed back home. A nice way to start the weekend.
#Messier108 is a barred spiral #galaxy located approximately 46 million light-years away in the constellation #UrsaMajor, reaching its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed around early-March.
Detailed Information: https://astrocamp.eu/m108
▼ Baader Apo 95 Travel Companion | Canon EOS R(a) '24
What Photographers Need to Know About Tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse https://petapixel.com/2025/03/13/what-photographers-need-to-know-about-tonights-total-lunar-eclipse/ #totallunareclipse #tipsandtricks #lunareclipse #Educational #nightscape #landscape #nightsky #eclipse #space #News #Tips #moon #sky
"Nick Dunn, a professor of urban design in the United Kingdom, has talked about the idea of 'nocturnal commons' as a way to envision our shared responsibility to maintain night skies as a public good. Whether DarkSky certification will be an effective way of resisting the privatisation of the celestial realm is debatable, given the gulf in power between corporate and community interests.”
After a long time, my #Vixen VC200L and Canon EOS R(a) finally had the chance to be used under a starry sky again. A fantastic duo—perfect for galaxy season.
Full story: https://astrocamp.eu/8ujs0
▼ Vixen VC200L | Canon EOS R(a) '25
The lunar eclipse is happening the night of March 13-14.
Here's how to photograph a lunar eclipse and capture that rusty red Moon.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astrophoto-tips/how-photograph-lunar-eclipse
Messier 96 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 31 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around end February to early March.
Detailed Information: https://astrocamp.eu/m96
I took this photo last week in the Rhön.
Early in the year, the Milky Way is still flat above the horizon and is perfect for panoramas. Later in the year, the Milky Way becomes more and more vertical above the horizon.
Total lunar eclipse is happening later this week, visible from almost all of North America and parts of South America.
Partial eclipse will be visible from other parts of the world.
And the moon will turn dark red. For folks in eastern North America interested in seeing it, you'll need to stay up late.
Or wake up early.
I like this galaxy very much. However, I don't know if I like it because of its "grand design" or because it reminds me of The Time Tunnel. Yes, that ancient TV show in which Tony and Douglas were inevitably lost in time. (Never understood how the guys in charge could retrieve a massive mammut from the past, but not the pair of time travelers together). Anyway, this is M51, The Time Tunnel.
Fresh Astrophoto: Earth's Moon
A spontaneous #Moon photo with 1800mm focal length after collimating my #VC200L and making use of several clear nights.
Full story and session details: https://astrocamp.eu/en/astrophoto-the-moon-03-05-2025/
Almost 4 #StarLink satellites fall back to Earth every day and they rain out aluminum oxide into the stratosphere which destroys the ozone layer. These satellites are more and more problematic with every article I read. Edit: corrected microsatellites to satellites per @sundogplanets 's correction that these are larger satellites than microsatellites.
A grandiose view of the Milky Way stretches across a clear night sky, revealing countless stars over the quiet desert of Death Valley, California.
Single shot, December 04, 2024
Prints&Things: https://ez-lorenz.pixels.com/featured/the-grandeur-of-the-milky-way-over-death-valley-ca-ez-lorenz.html
waiting for summer 
Morten 
