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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) captured over Lake Learmonth outside Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) on the night of Sunday 20th October at 9:15pm (AEDT, GMT+11). Venus at left. Sony A7III, Sigma 20mm lens. 20 secs at f1.4. https://photos.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Comets/i-QcBBp7C/1/KkmxbvD7Cp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbf5UIunkOI To my knowledge, this is the highest resolution imagery of the solar 🔆 corona ever captured from Earth 🌎 and the only spacecraft 🚀 (Solar Orbiter) to do better works in ultraviolet from four times closer to the Sun! Full story and details here: https://ph...

10 months and 300 hours of image processing later, I'm pleased to present the results of my epic Exmouth eclipse expedition. Images were captured with three 6" and one 4" refractors, plus two 8K video cameras out of a total of five. Full story here: https://philhart.com/exmouth-eclipse Cor...

The total solar eclipse in Antarctica at the start of December was just visible as a tiny partial solar eclipse at sunset, along the southern coast of Victoria (Australia). I observed and photographed it from Wilsons Promontory National Park, affected by some high cloud on the horizon 200km away. Fi...

Two composite images from my lunar eclipse adventures, showing Earth's shadow: https://photos.smugmug.com/MoonAndPlanets/Total-Lunar-Eclipse-26th-May-2021/i-nwcXJVn/0/e3098b8e/X2/26thMay2021-Eclipse-ThreeMoons-X2.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/MoonAndPlanets/Total-Lunar-Eclipse-26th-May-2021/i-wx5SX...

At this time of year, the Southern Cross is high in the sky as the evening starts, almost overhead for those of us living at temperate southern latitudes. https://photos.smugmug.com/DeepSkyAstrophotography/Milky-Way-and-Constellations/i-wGhFhCJ/0/1a540a22/X2/Crux%20Panorama-X2.jpg More details: http...

https://photos.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-Photography/Rural/i-Crj3QJB/0/9586c832/X2/P4%20West%20Tree%20Orion-10%20Panorama-2-X2.jpg Venus and Orion from the South In the southern hemisphere, Orion is a summer constellation so seeing it setting in the west in the evenings signals the end of the summer an...

Some more on the theme of reminiscing about past eclipses and counting down to the next one: Widefield Corona https://photos.smugmug.com/Sun/Great-American-Eclipse-21st-August-2017/i-kQBgpGs/1/8c60ca4e/X2/Borg%20and%20FS102%20300mm%202019-04-14-2-X2.jpg Corona Composite at Third Contact https://phot...

Panorama of Mars rising in eastern sky, captured near Parkes, NSW, Australia on Friday 13th July 2018.

Phil

https://photos.smugmug.com/Sun/Idaho-Solar-Eclipse/i-fJD8Mrz/2/e7804d24/L/_M2A1173-L.jpg Last Friday I hiked up Table Mountain on the west side of the Teton Range to plant a camera with a timer in the hope of capturing the eclipse above the iconic Grand Teton and its companions. The hike is 6 miles...

https://photos.smugmug.com/Sun/Idaho-Solar-Eclipse/i-Xtv8dPz/1/24389357/M/Sun%20Dragon-M.jpg For solar minimum, and after months of quiet activity, the sun really came to the eclipse party too. A large and beautiful sunspot group had appeared a few days earlier and rotated into the middle of the Su...

http://vimeo.com/217986931 Just discovered this in a timelapse sequence last month.. an exceptionally persistent meteor train which lasted around an hour and a half before the last remnants were overwhelmed by clouds and morning twilight. Captured looking south over Mount Glasgow (central Victoria,...

Bewitched by a Dome - 40 hours in my slowly improving automated observatory. Landscape: https://photos.smugmug.com/DeepSkyAstrophotography/Nebula/i-6s795Lm/0/L/Witchs%20Head%20FSQ%20QHY9-L.jpg Portrait (North Up): https://photos.smugmug.com/DeepSkyAstrophotography/Nebula/i-H65Zt22/0/L/Witchs%20Head%...

The evening highlight of six days back country skiing in NSW was the planetary alignment of Venus, Mercury and Jupiter in the evening sky. I had only a compact Canon Powershot G1X Mark II with me and it took a few nights to get the weather and scenery to cooperate but after an hour of trapsing aroun...

Mars and its Rival Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
CDS-5D, Canon 200mm lens, 110 * 2mins , ISO800

More info: http://philhart.com/content/rival-to-mars

Phil

https://vimeo.com/132415929 What the Aurora Really Looks Like: Inspired by Harald Moltke - Painter of the Aurora There are two key messages about what you see in this video: 1) All of the digital imagery is animated and displayed in real-time 2) Colours have been de-saturated to match the visual ap...

We got a treat last night - New Moon, clear skies and a KP7 display of Aurora Australis! Only my second time capturing the southern version and the first time I have managed it from my home in Mount Glasgow, central Victoria (north of Ballarat) at latitude 37 degrees South. https://philhart.smugmug....

It's the Central West Astronomical Society (CWAS) Astrofest in the town of Parkes, NSW, Australia this weekend and the presentation of the David Malin Astrophotography Awards. As a distraction before the awards, I went out to "The Dish" with Alex Cherney and Babak Tafreshi. Managed to catc...

Would love to see a link to Kevin Bourque webpage with exposure details for this. A search doesn't reveal anything obvious?

Lovely image!

2014-12-29 1450 UT
Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3
CDS-5D (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III)
A sequence of 85 exposures of 2 mins each at ISO2500 was used to create this video using Adobe Lightroom, After Effects and PixInsight.

Phil

http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Comets/i-zRk9Pf2/0/M/Comet%20Lovejoy%20C2014%20Q2%20E160%202014-12-29%20003%20Crop-M.jpg http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Comets/i-QzGhXsb/0/M/Comet%20Lovejoy%20C2014%20Q2%20E160%202014-12-29%20003%20Crop-2-M.jpg 2014-12-29 1450 UT Takahashi ...

http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Comets/i-NfPbpmM/0/M/Comet%20Lovejoy%202014%20Q2%20E160%20CDS-5D%202014-12-28-4-M.jpg http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Comets/i-NfPbpmM 2014-12-28 1425 UT Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3 CDS-5D (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III) A seque...

https://vimeo.com/115565761 Varying airglow hard to deal with but you can still see the disconnected tail moving back and a bright ray form at about 2 o'clock from the nucleus. 2014-12-28 1425 UT Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3 CDS-5D (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III) A sequence of 90 exposu...

http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Comets/i-CLkDqcM/0/M/Comet%20Lovejoy%202014%20Q2%20E160%20CDS-5DIII-M.jpg 2014-12-27 1445 UT Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3 CDS-5DIII (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III) A sequence of five exposures each 2 mins at ISO2500 was used to create this im...

Geminid meteors captured over two nights from central Victoria, Australia, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2014. http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMeteors/Meteors/i-JTcxX5m/0/M/Geminid%20Meteors%202014%20Phil%20Hart-0327-M.jpg Canon 6D and 24mm lens. Background image is 30 secs @f2.8, ISO3...