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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Lyrids meteor shower: post-peak report from the Sacramento mountains of southern New Mexico.

I set up two cameras on tripods with wide angle lenses, set the intervalometers to take 30-second exposures...went to bed...cameras kept going until almost 3AM before the batteries exhausted. Almost a thousand images.

I only captured a few Lyrids. Most were close to the shower radiant, which means they were short meteors...didn't cover much sky.

Please note the alt-text on the images. The first two images are of a non-Lyrid meteor that was interesting.

If you have images of star fields, but are "Lost in Space"...upload your images to:
nova.astrometry.net/

This meteor is not a Lyrid. Why? Extend the path...and it comes nowhere close to Lyra. But it's the brightest meteor I captured...at the edge of the frame, so optical quality is poor. The next image is the same piece of sky, but five minutes later...
The meteor trail is still faintly visible after five minutes. It's a squiggly line, distorted by very high altitude winds.
This long meteor does appear to be a Lyrid because an extension of the path points toward the shower radiant. Where in the sky is this? Do you recognize the star field? See the next image...
Here's the cheat sheet, after the image has been matched to known stars...called astrometry.
#Meteors#Lyrids#Astronomy
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webcubus

I posted last week about problems with my new camera setup - I have updated the blog post with solutions to those problems! If you've got a new ToupTek ATR585M bundle and are having troubles with washed out images or weird stripes, stop on by.

Post: blog.briangweber.com/mono-trou

#astrophotography #photography #toupTek #585 #monochrome #camera #gear #filter

Brian G Weber PhotographyTroubleshooting brand new ToupTek ATR585M - SOLVED!🚀 Photographer of the sea and sky, occasionally the land.
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grobi

Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows
* Image Credit & Copyright: Rich Addis
instagram.com/richaddisastro/

Explanation:
What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of night. That's because the featured image is a digital composite of many near-terminator lunar strips over a full Moon. Terminator regions show the longest and most prominent shadows -- shadows which, by their contrast and length, allow a flat photograph to appear three-dimensional. The overlay images were taken over two weeks in early April. Many of the Moon's craters stand out because of the shadows they all cast to the right. The image shows in graphic detail that the darker regions known as maria are not just darker than the rest of the Moon -- they are also flatter.
instagram.com/p/DIcPVpbsRO4/?i
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180522.ht
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211125.ht

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminat
science.nasa.gov/moon/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_ma
solarsystem.nasa.gov/gltf_embe
moon.nasa.gov/observe-the-moon

spaceplace.nasa.gov/impact-cra

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250422.ht

2025 April 22 A full Moon is shown but with a much more detailed surface than is usually visible. Many craters, dark lunar mare, and light lunar highlands are discernable. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows * Image Credit & Copyright: Rich Addis Explanation: What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of night. That's because the featured image is a digital composite of many near-terminator lunar strips over a full Moon. Terminator regions show the longest and most prominent shadows -- shadows which, by their contrast and length, allow a flat photograph to appear three-dimensional. The overlay images were taken over two weeks in early April. Many of the Moon's craters stand out because of the shadows they all cast to the right. The image shows in graphic detail that the darker regions known as maria are not just darker than the rest of the Moon -- they are also flatter. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U.
#space#moon#astrophotography
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