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Ben

Ben

@ibguthrie.bsky.social

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Hobbyist photographer, biasing toward technically difficult subjects, like Macro and Astro. Member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society. https://www.ibguthrie.com

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Apr 26

So many #Galaxy around #MarkariansChain! Captured at 250mm f4 over about 4 hours from a Bortle 3-4 sky.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Apr 26

The #WhaleGalaxy #NGC4631 at 1700mm f7 over about 220 minutes.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Mar 14

Another take of the #TotalLunarEclipse last night. Super thankful for a bit of good weather in the middle of a bunch of rain.

#Moon #LunarEclipse #Astro #Space #LAAS #GMARS #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Sony A7R-V, Sony 200mm, 2X tele-convertor, cropped about 50%, Sharpened in Topaz, captured on the west side of Los Angeles

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Mar 14

My take at the #TotalLunarEclipse last night.

#Moon #LunarEclipse #Astro #Space #LAAS #GMARS #Astrophotography #Astronomy

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm fascinated by this music/video made with AI to tell the story of mixing AI with Human art. All of the broken AI that would normally be distracting is part of the story...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1l...

Choke Me #choker #chokeme #ai #aiart #ravens #skull #skullgirls #crow #braces #lips #lipstick #goth

YouTube video by HalluciNaition

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Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Mar 7

4c and rainy in #PalmSprings last night means snow in the hills.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 27

I grabbed a #Timelapse out at #GMARS this weekend, and threw together a quick #StartTrails from the same clip. Fun to watch it build.

#StarTrax #Astro #Astronomy

TimeLapseGMARS4 4K

YouTube video by Ben Guthrie

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 25

Ah… this was captured with my Hyperstar, and I didn’t compensate. With it I remove the secondary mirror from my EdgeHD and replace it with my camera, so the image gets flipped. I have to flip the image to get many software tools to understand the image.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 25

People don’t follow text these days, only links. Feels like the responsible thing to do on social media is to help those you borrow from.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 24

A while ago I made some #StarTrails images, and I also made this video of them forming. The video shows all of the scars from the planes and satellites forming, where in the resulting image that can be stripped out.

#LAAS #Astro #StarStax

StarTrails forming over about 9 hours, facing Polaris

YouTube video by Ben Guthrie

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 24

It feels a bit like stealing when you don’t link back to the image owner. @astrobackyard.bsky.social

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 24

Funny, I saw the exact thing in the same place.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 24

The #HamburgerGalaxy captured at #GMARS in the California desert this last weekend.

#LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO

About 7.5 hours at 1700mm with the EdgeHD 9.25" x 0.7 using the asi2600mcPro from a Bortle 3-4

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 24

Love the desert nights. The sky was ok last night, but not perfect. Clouded near the horizon.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 24

In mediocre skies this week end I got a wide shot of the #FlamingStarNebula, #TadpoleNebula, #SpiderNebula, #TheFlyNebula, and the #StarfishCluster which are fairly tightly grouped.

#LAAS #GMARS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography

RedCat51, 2600mm, Antlia V-Pro LRGB filters, unguided from a Bortle 3-4 for 4.5 hours.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 23

Just back from a night in the desert. Hope to have something new to share after processing. Here are a few #iPhone snaps I took while out there.

#LAAS #GMARS #Astro #Astrophotos #Astrophotography

Sunset at GMARS

A bit of light painting on a Joshua Tree

My RedCat51 at 250mm, and EdgeHD 9.25” at 1700mm.

Remnants of a SpaceX launch from Vandenberg just before dark.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 21

So many #Nebula call for a creature or thing seems pretty arbitrary. The #PelicanNebula actually seems to make sense to me from this angle.

#LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO #Space

EdgeHD 9.25, Hyperstar, asi2600mcpro, ASIAir, Eq6-R pro, 113 images 60 seconds long, and 113 images 120 seconds long

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 20

#Moths have such amazing fur/feathers/scales. They are so incredible up close.

#Macro #Bugs

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 20

#M16 the #EagleNebula, and #M17 the #OmegaNebula or #SwanNebula were close enough to each other that I could get them both in frame with this #RedCat51 telescope.

#LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #ZWO #Space #Stars #Eagle #Swan #Omega

RedCat51, AM5, and asi2600mmPro with Antlia 3nm filters from a Bortle 3-4 site.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 20

After posting this here... I saw it on another device, and noticed it had a green cast, so I took another run at it to strip that out. These sensors seem to bias more green than desired.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 20

Thank you! It’s an endless journey to try to get that right.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 19

In the core of the #ElephantTrunkNebula there is this silhouette that looks more like a person than an elephant to me. Captured in #OneShotColor this target comes through mostly red. In Narrowband these other colors are revealed. #LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #Astrophotography #Space #ZWO

Celestron EdgeHD 9.25" x 0.7 reducer at 1700mm, asi2600mcpro color cooled dedicated Astro camera, on an Eq6-R pro using the ASIAir to control.

RedCat 51 at 250mm, asi2600mmPro cooled Monochrome camera, AM5 unguided.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 18

The #WizardNebula captured with cooled, color #Astrophotography camera. These tend to provide simple color palettes, mostly in red where they see #Hydrogen with a bit of blue where they see #Oxygen.

#LAAS #Astro #Astrophoto #ZWO

EdgeHD 9.25" x 0.7 reducer for 1700mm focal length, using an asi2600mcPro aps-c 26mp color cooled camera on a Eq6-R Pro tripod/mount.

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 18

The #LagoonNebula is the perfect target to look for after Orion and Andromeda. Its fairly bright and has a lot of detail for many different #Telescope sizes.

Explore Scientific ed102 710mm, ac2600mcpro, ASIAir Eq6-R Pro

Ben @ibguthrie.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thanks Justin. Very nice of you to say.