Manuel Huss
@manuelhuss.bsky.social
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Astrophotographer from Luxembourg - I like the night sky, our planet, trees, spaceships, mountainbikes and lego. I also like breathing (exercice), walking barefoot, and politics (when in the right mood) 🌍🇪🇺🇱🇺 | working @alia.lu
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Since the weather won’t let me go comet hunting, I’m working through some old data. Here are my Pillars of Creation. They’re about seven years old now, and they came out pretty sharp considering my equipment and skill set at the time :-) So here’s a rework and heavy crop. #astrophotography
The central area of the Soul Nebula (IC 1848) in the Cassiopeia constellation, about 7,500 light years away from Earth. Less than 2 hours of h-alpha data (combined with older color data). Targeting 20+ hours of exposure. Gear: 130/910mm apo, Antlia 2.5nm ha-filter & ASI 2600mm pro. #astrophotography
Alpha Persei (Mirfak) as seen during an equipment test. :-) Gear: CF-Apo 130/910mm, ASI 2600mm Pro, Antlia RGB-filters (10x60s each) #astrophotography
To keep the big one from spending lonely nights outside, I got him a little baby brother (71/347mm & 533mc camera) for company. ;-) 🔭❤️🔭 #astrophotography
never compared it to curling until now, but yes
two weeks? That gear is worth two month! :-)
first two testshots are already in. :-) Only about 4 hours of exposure each though, since the autofocuser hadn't arrived yet
The spacemen did a fantastic job assembling the gear! :-) And well yes, weather is the next hurdle...
hmm maybe.. it has different abilities, though :-)
With the autofocuser finally installed, we are ready for some serious deep-sky action. #astrophotography
@ 00:59 launching from the Canary Islands?
I don't know, but it is a beauty for sure.
Heavily cropped Melotte 15 and surroundings, with color data from another shot. I’ll be adding RGB stars next week if the weather allows. Gear: TS-Optics CF-APO 130/910 mm, Antlia 2.5 μm H-alpha filter, ASI 2600MM Pro camera. #astrophotography
Second light with the new Apo: Messier 33 / about 2.5 hours of LRGB data. Quick and dirty processing, cropped. (Gear: TS CF-Apo 130/910 & ASI 2600MM Pro) #astrophotography
actually, with the complete ASIAIR gear, including the EFW and EAF, you just set it up, go to sleep, and in the morning you have tons of fresh data with your coffee. :-)
that's an asi 2600mm pro with Antlia 2,5nm halpha filter, about 3 hours of data (180s subs)
First light with my new TS-Optics CF-Apo 130/910. Also, my first ever shot with asiair. Quite the game changer, I have to admit... #astrophotography
Apologies to astrophotographers and observers in Europe! We just got cursed with at least 3 month of clouds...
Fascinating object! Maybe I'll have to try to shoot it through my own scope. Not expecting anything, but I'll later be able to say that I saw it myself. :-p
IC 1795, or the Fish Head Nebula, about 6,000 light-years away. This was probably my last project with the 8" Newton. I'll soon be shooting with a 6" apo refractor. Gear: 203/926mm Newton, 2600mm Pro camera & 2,5nm ha-filter, ~6 hours of exposure. Color data from an older shot. #astrophotography
The Cygnus Wall in NGC 7000 about 2.500 light years away. Starless with 8" Newton & 2600 mono. ~20 hours of exposure. #astrophotography
The crescent Moon on June 29. Gear: C11 & Touptek 2600 Mono #astrophotography
A clash of fire and ice? Not quite, more like turbulence within incredibly vast gas clouds of ionized hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur, located in the Pelican nebula (IC5070) about 1,800 light-years from Earth. Gear: C11 at 1960 mm & Touptek 2600 camera. #astrophotography
Reposted by Manuel Huss
Wake up nerds, the first images from the Rubin Observatory just dropped!

Rubin’s specialty: a wide field of view and speed. This gorgeous image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae combines 678 exposures taken in 7 hours.

📸: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars. Credit for this alt text from Rubin’s social media account