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Another glorious morning for a hike. The contrails over Waterloo this morning must've made the chem trail crowd apoplectic! #autumn #forest

IC 1805, Heart Nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia, reprocessed, keeping it's red Ha glow. I noticed the appearance of star spikes after BlurX. Not bad for a Nikon and Redcat, guess my guiding and EAF may have worked better than I thought! Description and details in Alt. #astrophotography

Salvaged 8.5 hrs subs on Heart Nebula this week despite problems with every component of the imaging train. Not the final colour palette I was going for but its where I landed and I liked it so kept it for this run. IC 1805 in the Casseopeia Constillation. Nerd stuff in alt. #Astrophotography

Brilliant lecture on Interstellar objects at Perimeter last night by Professor Lintott! Video of the lecture is up! #astrophysics www.youtube.com/live/DRJPzTK...

Camera sorted- my fault ✅️ Guiding sorted- my fault ✅️ APT sorted-I'm an idiot ✅️ EAF sorted-not my fault ✅️ 4 nights wasted Imaging✅️ Seeing Professor Lintotts lecture tonight then hopefully, back to smooth imaging run after. 🤞 #astrophotography

Crisp morning hikes the past few days. Very few reds but magnificent flaming orange-golds! #nature #autumn #Ontario

3 nights of wasted imaging opportunity. Serious Camera issues, APT mysteriously reset to factory and 5 years of customization wiped out, and a new auto focuser mount which is utterly useless. There are times I hate this hobby. #astrophotography

Not the nicest morning for a hike but, autumn in Ontario, you take what you get. #Autumn #Forests #Trees #Ontario

After a summer of excruciatingly frustrating communications with the EAF mount vendor, I finally got the sucker mounted. Naturally, no clear skies forecasted in the near future to test it out. #astrophotography *deleted the previous post when I realized I put the guide scope back on, backwards.🤦‍♀️

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all!

Canada’s C$1.7bn Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative has attracted 64 academics from around the world which includes poaching 48 US-based senior academics to join its top universities. 👏👏 www.ft.com/content/8cc4...

News wasn't good when I woke up this morning but I'm fine with what happened. Went for a hike between rain showers to get away from it and met this handsome boy who seemed happy to pose for a photo. Not a great shot but skeeters were swarming me when I stopped to snap it. #nature #frogs

Heard something hit my livingroom window and found this little guy looking in. #nature #grasshopper #photography

Watching the partial eclipse under cloudy southern Ontario skies. Resisted the temptation to pull out my camera this time, just watching the sun drifting in and out of the cloud cover. So silent yet so powerful. Really hits that we're on a big rock circling around space with other big rocks.

Only did a short 4km hike this morning, already feeling like 27° with 97% humidity at 7:00 am. The tent caterpillars have really exploded in the 2 days since I was last there. A new obstacle to avoid as they hang down on a web from the trees! #nature #trees #hiking

The UK MET office announced the driest July on record for England and Wales. The dramatic effects of the heat waves and drought are visible on a satellite comparison to 2025. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

Tweaked, updated and cleaned up my computer yesterday and this morning, after constantly creating backups up my Pillars of Creation progress, no more crashes! Starless and Star images of Eagle Nebula (M16)! Processing raw FITS data from JWST. Onward! 🔭 Credit:NASA,ESA,CSA,STSci more details in Alt

I've learned I need a better computer if I'm going to continue to process JWST raw data. 6 hours into processing the Pillars of Creation yesterday, I ran a star removal script that crashed the program, all progress was lost. My fault for checking email.😬 Starting again, image is before the crash.🔭

Hiked 5 k on the trail in a light rain this morning, now showered, dried,cup of tea in hand and ready to work on M16, Eagle Nebula data from JWST that downloaded while I was out. I just opened the first 2 filter files and I'm so moved by the stunning images, I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes.🔭

If you haven't heard it yet, I highly recommend Professor Jim Al-Khalili's interview with Dr Anthony Fauci from April 2025 on The Life Scientific. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

6 hrs trying to mount a 3D printed EAF bracket to my Redcat 51=2 trips to specialty fastener store because 1st one yielded wrong length screws + 3rd trip because I brilliantly sniped 3 square nuts into the floor vent. In the end, it doesn't fit. Manually focused for 5 years, can wait 2 more months.🔭

The CRASH Clock is an environmental stress indicator measuring collision risk in low Earth orbit. The projected timeframe has dropped from 164 days in 2018 down to 2.5 days by May 2026. 🛰🔭 outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Wildfire forces evacuation of international radio antenna facility in Spain that provides communications for NASA’s deep space missions. Potential damage has yet to be assessed. A NASA spokesperson says the agency has maintained uninterrupted spacecraft comms through a facility in California.

For those planning to view and photograph the upcoming eclipse, don't let some intermittent clouds deter you. Use Auto Exposure Bracketing for rapidly changing conditions or be prepared to change settings on the fly. You can get some dramatic eclipse photos in the clouds too!🔭

The Veil Nebula. 9 hours of total of new integration time. It's starting to come along, 9 more hours to go until I move on. Still struggling with processing but I'm getting there. Nerd stuff in ALT #astrophotography

Looks like it might take a month or two to get my eaf mount from Europe so a friend kindly 3D printed this one to tide me over. Have been pondering how to mount it all morning and my brain hurts. Any astrophotographers who enjoy puzzles out there? #astrophotography

An Astrophotographer from Quebec discovers an old meteor impact crater while scouting out dark sky sites.🔭 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Andromeda reunited with all it's sparkly bits. At the top of the image, is blue Nu Andromedae.It's a binary star system, 2 stars orbiting tightly around each other, so tightly that they appear as one. Reading about that when I stacked my very first Andromeda image launched me into studying Physics🔭

A starless view of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31. It was my first real astro target and it'll always be my favorite. 2.5 million light years away, 220K-260K light years across. It's believed to be about 10 billions years old. #astrophotography

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Canadian firefighters hauled ass to get down here when half of Los Angeles was on fire last year. What a characteristically classy way to repay that favor.

I've been struggling trying to process all my data now that Pixinsight, Seti Astro and I are getting along. SNR and focus is a big issue, soooo, I'm upgrading my gear! 3 stage process. Stage 1, just ordered an EAF kit. Next, ZWO533 Pro Mono Camera and filter wheel. Weeeeeeee! #astro

The closest forest fires to our region is ~ 1,000 kms away yet I've never seen our air quality and skies this bad. #forestfire #ontario

our air quality in Southern Ontario is the worst in the world right now according to #IQAir

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Canada is now solidly into wildfire season. Stuck back inside again, it's time to finish some books.

Added new data to my Veil Nebula. Total 9.3 hours total integration on 3 nights. Redcat 51, Nikon D5600 with LPS-D2-N5 filter , shot in bortle 7 back yard. Processed in Pixinsight with newly downloaded Seti Astro tools. #astro

That horrible feeling when you wake up at 4 am to start calibration frames only to find your laptop died 20 minutes after you started your run and went to bed, because you forgot to plug it in.😪 🔭 #facepalm #amateurmistake

Forget seeing the Universe’s beginning. It’s already been erased The Big Bang gave us our cosmic origin story, and inflation took us back even before that, to an earlier stage. So where did inflation come from? That information's all been erased! bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro