Astronomy Special

This week the skies cleared at last and I finally had the chance to really stretch the legs of the Seestar S50. I took quite a few images – some of them very long exposure. The new mosaic mode has really come into its own with objects like M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy – a galaxy the same width as 5 full moons. Yes. It’s huge!

So here is the aforementioned M31.

Seriously, this thing is enormous in the sky. Imagine a full moon would just about cover the central core.

The third biggest galaxy in the local group (after Andromeda and our own galaxy) is M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. I’ve made both the images above the same size so you can compare their sizes.

After my galaxy photography session I briefly pointed the Seestar into the constellation of Orion, just rising over in the south East and caught M42 – The Great Orion Nebula and IC434 the Horsehead Nebula.

All in all I think I’m really loving the Seestar. I can’t believe the quality of the images it’s capturing.

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