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HugeOne<a href="https://8bitorbust.info/@dtl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dtl</a> Give Stellar Studio a try in the album section of the Dwarflab app. It makes the images coming straight out of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> look even better. I'll be intrigued to see your comparison with more traditional equipment.

Dr David MillsA quick 30 min test of my <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a> telescope on M81 & M83. No post processing, just a straight stack of 120 X 15s subs. I'm pretty happy with this. I'll have to have a test against my big telescope soon. <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/astrophotgraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotgraphy</a>

rdmLast night I left my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> out all night.After a few hiccoughs, I targetted The Southern Pinwheel - <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC5236" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NGC5236</a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/M83" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#M83</a>, for about four hours.After running the results through the DwarfLab destar routine, I did a little cleanup in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/googlephotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#googlephotos</a> And this was the result. I'm pretty happy!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a>

philoThe Eta Carinae Nebula.This was taken with the new DwarfLab Dwarf3 smartscope, one of which I recently acquired. I brought it to Australia with me on a current trip, and shot this Nebula from Bortle 6 skies, using the built-in Duo Band filter..This is 30x15 second frames, stacked and denoised within the Dwarf app. Mild saturation increase in Lightroom.<a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/dwarflab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarflab</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nebula</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://astronomy.city/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a>

rdmI took this back on the 10th of March.It is our old friend the Eta Carinae Nebula.This time with a SII/OIII filter (thanks for the suggestion, <a href="https://thingy.social/@malcircuit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@malcircuit</a> !) and 120x90s@80 for the exposures. Then I ran it through the Dwarflab star removal tool, and post-processed the result in Snapseed.I was not going to post it, but it came up as a background on my office screen today (long story), and I had not realised just how much detail it had.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EtaCarinae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EtaCarinae</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/starless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starless</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a>

rdmSo last night we put our <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> telescopes on the studio roof at the back of the house, loaded up some schedules, and let them go all, night.Inspired by <a href="https://thingy.social/@malcircuit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@malcircuit</a> 's post a little while ago, one of the targets I programmed in was Markarian's Chain, a string of galaxies.This is 170x60s@gain 60, post processed using the automated online denoising tool that Dwarf have made available, and finished off in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/galaxies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#galaxies</a>

rdmRecently the Dwarflab app got a very interesting update in the beta stream. But not for telescope control - no this is in the album side. It now has options to upload your images to temporary AWS nodes for automated reprocessing. Star de-trailing, full star removal, and advanced denoising. Most of these can be handled by well-known and publicly available neural networks, which is probably what these tiny AWS nodes are running.The real fun, though, begins when you combine the results.In this shot, I have taken the starless version, and added to it a heavily darkened an contrasted denoised version. This has the effect of reducing the stars, while maintaining the details of the nebula. A bit of deblurring and sharpening, and this is the result.C72, The Eta Carinae Nebula, Dwarf3, 60x90s@80, OIII/SII filter. Recomposed to reduce stars, and post processed in Google Photos.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NeuralNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeuralNetwork</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePhotos</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthernSkies</a>

Dr David MillsI ordered a <a href="https://8bitorbust.info/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> telescope to take to Bhutan. The telescope is back ordered and probably won't get to me before I go. Annoyingly, the tripod for the telescope arrived yesterday. They taunt me.

leeceRecently we have been blessed with the presence of Comet c/2024 G3 (Atlas) so we were wandering down to the beach hopefully. Naturally it being high summer one would expect clear skies by we actually had an overcast sky and rain one of the best viewing nights! High winds also did not help at all the next day or two, but we did get some shots.I have many more photographs of the comet but this will do for now, took it with the Dwarf 3. rdm had an interesting discovery, this comet is going to move toward the south, and stop setting, a bit like that Pole Star the Northern Hemisphere folks have and we're totally not jealous of because we can do that thing with the Southern Cross and the Pointers, and anyway we've got the Carina Nebula so nyeer.*Deep Breath* So anyway we've been giving some attention to the Pleiades and Hyades, and other stuff that's a bit North for us. Nyingarn, the Echidna (or Orion if you like) is in the clear for us at home so stuff around there is good to look at before bedtime.We all know by now that I'm a nebula kinda girl, so when I was scrolling around the Star Atlas I found a nebula that was just the right size for my telescope's field of view. It's called the Monkey's Head Nebula or NGC 2174. Unlike a lot of these fancifully named objects, it, to me, really does look like a primate head, although more apelike - even gorilla like than monkey. See what you think - here's a shot straight out of camera for you. A couple of hours there. In the same area we also have the Jellyfish Nebula, so the next night I targeted that. The photo will follow, I've run out of room to post it here.Again only a couple of hours - but that's the gap we get of usable dark sky between astronomical night and beddybyes. I think it needs more time but even so straight out of camera we do get an intriguing image. I shall dicker with it some, but I like to share the unenhanced image with you first.If you embiggen it you can see that there's plenty more nebulosity kicking around so more time and a bit of enhancement may be rewarding, I'll report back. rdm is getting us a funky SIIOIII filter so that will be interesting compared and combined with the inbuilt HAOIII in the Dwarf3. You know, I love these nebulas - I'm always looking for things that aren't tiny in the screen of the Dwarf and these are nicely sized, these along with the Rosette Nebula (aka Unicorn Nostril) are just the thing to have fun with the telescope.And for me they don't have dirty great buildings and trees in the way which is unfortunately the case at home for most of the interesting stuff to the South, you know that Galactic Core and Carina stuff. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WesternAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WesternAustralia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PerthWesternAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerthWesternAustralia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrivewayAstrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a>

rdmSo last night I had a go at some fairly challenging targets.This post is not about them, well it is, but it is really about what I did while my Dwarf3 was working on things that should really be left to a proper dark sky area, not the middle of suburbia.I started the night with my Dwarf3 having a go at Barnard's Loop, using the wide angle lens. This is a massive structure, but very faint, and after 20 frames at 90s, I gave up, because the light pollution just killed any hope.While that was running though, I pointed on of my DwarfIIs at the Tarantula Nebula, and got a solid two hours out of it before I crashed and shut everything down.This is the result after some smoothing and enhancement in Google Photos.480*15s@80<a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DwarfII</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a>

rdmOver the last week I've been going out every couple of nights and shooting C/2024 G3 Atlas as it slowly disintegrates after the front fell off.Here are a couple more of my Dwarf3 shots, along with one from my phone. One is very heavily processed to bring out the side-tails.20-50 frames of 15s at 80.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comet</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/pixel6a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixel6a</a>

rdmLast night we went down to Scarborough Beach, and hunted for C/2024 G3 Atlas - the current brightest comet.It was still to close to the sun to see in the glare, but a bit after sunset my Dwarf3 had just enough dark to calibrate, and picked it up just 1 degree above the horizon!The telescope had just enough time to snap 10 frames and stack them.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a>

rdmAurora alert for Western Australia, including Perth!We took this shot about 30 minutes ago from Como!This also answers the question "Can a Dwarf3 image the aurora?". And the answer is "yes".<a href="https://aus.social/tags/AuroraAustralis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AuroraAustralis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ItsHappening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ItsHappening</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MysteriousLights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MysteriousLights</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PerthWesternAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerthWesternAustralia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a>

Tony HoffmanGalaxies (top to bottom) M82, M81, and NGC 3077 in Ursa Major. 1 hour 20 minutes of stacked 30-second exposures from the Dwarflab Dwarf 3 (in EQ mode). <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/astronomy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/astrophotography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/photography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/hashtag/dwarf3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a>

leeceOur new Dwarf 3 telescopes have arrived. Naturally, conditions weren't great, and then we had to have an early night when things settled down, BUT here's some initial images. Clicky on them to see them biggerer.This is the Orion Nebula, already showing more colour and detail in less time than the very good images from the Dwarf 2. Not edited! Just from my roof in the suburbs.Last night we drove down to Mettam's Pool, whose toilet block roof is a great observation platform. I have been really wanting to say goodbye to Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. It's on its way out, but it still has a little tail. I'm going to do a CTA special post one day, because we have been following it, in the east as it rose, in the west as it set, and cross the sky as it travelled around and away from the sun as well.Here it is a bit after sunset, still a bit of sky glow, bushfire smoke and the rising full moon and coastal lights to contend with. But it was okay. If my research is correct that other bright object is HR 7076. The Andromeda Galaxy, only about a 100 frames, but a good feel for things.It's going to be around for a while, but I wanted to catch the comet before it went, so it got the focus at first. Oh, check out this game on Kickstarter - <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dracostable/polaris?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=polaris&total_hits=37" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dracostable/polaris?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=polaris&total_hits=37</a>Cheers for now!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a>

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