Starship Asterisk*

One night after my previous photograph the departing Webb Space Telescope passed directly north of the Horsehead and the Flame nebula, giving perhaps a view more compatible to pretty-picture astrophotography...Accoring to the JPL Horizon ephemeris it was 0.001761aU from me (=263000km). The Webb Tele...

Hello, Last night I could record the James Webb Telescope using the JPL Horizon ephemeris . A, galaxy, an unidentified satellite and the Ariane-5 terminal rocket stage were also recorded: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775347742_a9660e1312_c.jpg Link to my Flickr page providing full size: htt...

First at all thanks to the positive responses here I wonder what the time-lapse rate of exposures was . . . .starobin The camera was a DMK 41 running at 15 FPS. Scope was a Pentax 75/500 refractor, equipped with a TAL glass frontfilter. Several people commented on the optical illusion leading to the...