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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>

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>

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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