Douglas Triggs
@doubt72.bsky.social
Beep. Contains less than 50% オヤジギャグ. Into languages (spoken, computer), board games, legos, astronomy, hiking, KC sports, 英語•オヤジギャグOK.
Doin' stuff on WIP: github.com/doubt72/utsg
June 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Doin' stuff on WIP: github.com/doubt72/utsg
May 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
May 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
M13 (Great Hercules Cluster) along with some galaxies (including NGC6207) in true color. app.astrobin.com/i/ue6tr4
M13 Great Hercules Cluster and NGC6207 (True Color) - AstroBin
It's the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules! That's it! That's the description.
Honestly don't really have much else to say about it. (I could complain about the recent spring weather, I guess, bu...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
M13 (Great Hercules Cluster) along with some galaxies (including NGC6207) in true color. app.astrobin.com/i/ue6tr4
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy in true color. First image with the Edge 925HD on the EQ6-R Pro; a lot of teething issues getting things working properly and a lot of bad weather slowing things down. The stars look like crap, but the galaxy itself looks fine. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy (True Color) - AstroBin
First target with the Edge 925HD on the new EQ6-R Pro. Had... So many technical issues, but I think I've more or less worked them all out at this point. That plus really terrible weather meant this...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy in true color. First image with the Edge 925HD on the EQ6-R Pro; a lot of teething issues getting things working properly and a lot of bad weather slowing things down. The stars look like crap, but the galaxy itself looks fine. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
M53 and NGC5053 in true color. Probably should have posted this weeks ago, but time to start catching up. Weather's been terrible lately so things have been going slowly, but that's spring in Colorado for you. app.astrobin.com/i/8qf1ub
M53 + NGC5053 (True Color) - AstroBin
Not everything this time of year is galaxies.
These make a nice pair; M53 is one of the farthest globular clusters in the Milky Way's halo, and there's evidence that NGC5053 and M53 have interacted i...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
M53 and NGC5053 in true color. Probably should have posted this weeks ago, but time to start catching up. Weather's been terrible lately so things have been going slowly, but that's spring in Colorado for you. app.astrobin.com/i/8qf1ub
M81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M82 (Cigar Galaxy) in HɑRGB. Got a fair amount of IFN in this one; it was difficult to process and probably will take another whack at it at some point, but otherwise about as good as 29 hours can get in Bortle 5 skies. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
M81 Bode's Galaxy + M82 Cigar Galaxy (HɑRGB), TEC140 edition - AstroBin
Galaxy season, the bane of rich field scopes. But there are a still a few good targets, or more precisely, combinations of targets.
Weather has been crap, took a month to get ~30 hours of data. I'l...
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April 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
M81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M82 (Cigar Galaxy) in HɑRGB. Got a fair amount of IFN in this one; it was difficult to process and probably will take another whack at it at some point, but otherwise about as good as 29 hours can get in Bortle 5 skies. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
Rosette Nebula in SHO with true color stars. Relatively low amount of time on target (it's another target that's starting to go away), but Rosette is bright and thus a forgiving target for that. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
NGC2237-9, 2244, 2246 Rosette Nebula (Narrowband SHO + True Color Stars) - AstroBin
Early 2025 TEC-140 edition.
Could have stood to put a bit more data into this, but it's late and running out of sky for it, so just calling it good. But also, because it's the Rosette Nebula (i.e., ...
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March 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Rosette Nebula in SHO with true color stars. Relatively low amount of time on target (it's another target that's starting to go away), but Rosette is bright and thus a forgiving target for that. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
M41 (Little Beehive) in HɑRGB. Another one with the tri-vane mask. Not enough Hɑ data, but it's another target I started on too late because the rig wasn't up and running yet. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
M41 Little Beehive (HɑRGB w/Tri-Vane Mask) - AstroBin
M41, The Little Beehive Cluster in Canis Major, another star cluster with the 3d-printed tri-vane mask. This one, though, has a lot of interesting Hɑ in the neighborhood.
...it probably could use a ...
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March 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
M41 (Little Beehive) in HɑRGB. Another one with the tri-vane mask. Not enough Hɑ data, but it's another target I started on too late because the rig wasn't up and running yet. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
NGC2403 in HɑRGB. This one came out kind of mid, could probably get a better version of this and will maybe try to next year. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
NGC2403 (HɑRBG) - AstroBin
Kind of a test, wasn't quite into galaxy season when I started on this, and it's a bit smaller and more difficult than I might like (for the TEC140, anyway -- it doesn't quite have the reach. I'm, uh...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
NGC2403 in HɑRGB. This one came out kind of mid, could probably get a better version of this and will maybe try to next year. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
M44 (Beehive/Praesepe) in true color (with a 3d-printed tri-vane mask over the aperture). Star clusters can be kind of boring (particularly loose ones), but something like that can zhuzh the place up a bit. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
M44 Beehive Cluster (True Color w/Tri-Vane Mask) - AstroBin
This is Messier 44, the Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe). I really like star clusters, but they are admittedly not the most spectacular of astrophotography targets, particularly not loose one...
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March 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
M44 (Beehive/Praesepe) in true color (with a 3d-printed tri-vane mask over the aperture). Star clusters can be kind of boring (particularly loose ones), but something like that can zhuzh the place up a bit. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
IC1848 (Soul Nebula) in SHO with true color stars. Though this was the last image I'd be doing for a while when my camera died, but then it mysteriously came back from the dead several days later. Ah, well, going to call this good and move on. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
IC1848 Soul Nebula (Narrowband SHO + True Color Stars), 2025 Hardware Failure Edition - AstroBin
[Update: first, and most importantly, my camera spontaneously decided to start working again after being left alone for a few days. o_O However, I'm not planning on trying to get more data on this o...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
IC1848 (Soul Nebula) in SHO with true color stars. Though this was the last image I'd be doing for a while when my camera died, but then it mysteriously came back from the dead several days later. Ah, well, going to call this good and move on. app.astrobin.com/u/doubt72?i=...
Twitter is dead to me. We'll see if this sticks (I'm skeptical I want it to).
November 18, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Twitter is dead to me. We'll see if this sticks (I'm skeptical I want it to).