Tag: moon

The Strawberry supermoon – 2021

Image: Equipment: Nikon D90 (Astro-Mod) Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Sky-Watcher Tripod Rokinon 135mm f2 AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6E Acquisition: Taken 6/24/2021 from Sharon CT Taken from a bortle class 2 zone ISO 100, F2.8, 1/320 second 1505 total frames, stacked the best 35% 100 dark frames Processing: Pre-processed to tif in PIPP Stacked with 1.5x drizzle in Autostakkert Linearfit RGB to get better color in pixinisight SNCR green Sharpened in registax Blended sharpened and unsharpened version to get nice halo in pixinisight invert+sncr to get rid of purple […]

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Interesting Astronomy & Astrophysics news from the week of 11/15/2020

Next week’s night sky: On Thursday, the golden handle appears on the moon. The “Golden Handle” effect is produced by the way the slanted sunlight lights up the prominent mountains of the moon. Best seen through some sort of magnification, the golden handle will appear as a small line trailing from the light side of the moon to the dark side. How do we detect invisible dark matter? Dark matter neither absorbs nor gives off light, which is why astronomers have named it dark. But because dark […]

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Interesting Astronomy & Astrophysics news from the week of 10/25/2020

Next week’s night sky: On November 5, the Southern Taurids Meteor Shower peaks just after midnight! Stay up that late and you will be rewarded with almost 10 colorful meteors an hour! On Saturday, November 7, the moon will not rise for a few hours after sunset. This is a great time for some casual stargazing, as the moon will not ruin the view. Water on the Moon NASA’s flying Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has detected water molecules on the surface of the moon! Researchers […]

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