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Fruity Astro The sky is a fruit salad. I photo-chop my celestial photos into fruit when the skies are bad.

The Milky Way rising over Mount Tibrogargan, the Glass House Mountains National Park.
22/05/2023

The Milky Way rising over Mount Tibrogargan, the Glass House Mountains National Park.

Deep Space Abstract: The Dolphin swimming in the Lagoon.
07/03/2023

Deep Space Abstract: The Dolphin swimming in the Lagoon.

The Eta Carina Nebula. This project took 22 hours of 120s and 10s sub-exposures to produce this image. Seen in the South...
22/02/2023

The Eta Carina Nebula. This project took 22 hours of 120s and 10s sub-exposures to produce this image. Seen in the Southern hemisphere only, this nebula can been observed with an unaided eye under a dark sky.

Rig: Askar FRA500 telescope; ZWO ASI533MC camera; ZWO AM5 mount; L-Extreme filter; 392 x 10s and 635 x 120s exposures.

The Dolphin Head nebula. A work in progress. Currently 4 hours of 300s exposures.
21/02/2023

The Dolphin Head nebula. A work in progress. Currently 4 hours of 300s exposures.

H-Alpha solar activity from last Friday 17 February, 2023.
20/02/2023

H-Alpha solar activity from last Friday 17 February, 2023.

A Star hunt. Caught Andromeda and Pleiades.
30/11/2022

A Star hunt. Caught Andromeda and Pleiades.

Happy Sunday. Three sunspot regions (AR3140, AR3141, AR3145) appear on the West side of the Sun. Did you know the East a...
13/11/2022

Happy Sunday. Three sunspot regions (AR3140, AR3141, AR3145) appear on the West side of the Sun. Did you know the East and West directions are flipped on maps of the Sun? This is simply a convention astronomers used in "old times". In 1961, the other celestial bodies such as the Moon were aligned to the West - East cardinal points like Earth but the Sun's remained.

The International Space Station buzzes Jupiter and it's moon Io. This was captured last night at 7:01 pm 5 November, 202...
05/11/2022

The International Space Station buzzes Jupiter and it's moon Io. This was captured last night at 7:01 pm 5 November, 2022 north of Brisbane, Australia.

The video capture can be viewed here: https://astro.mellican.com/iss-jupiter/

The Orion Nebula.
27/10/2022

The Orion Nebula.

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