Auralgo's
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8 April 2024 · Marion, Illinois
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Twenty minutes before totality the cigarette-lighter socket in my truck blew its fuse and took the mount with it. Strangers in the next field over offered their own car to run the power off. This image exists because of them.
9 June 2015 · Saturn
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Seven separate sequences of 2,000 frames each, stacked and then blended by hand to hold detail in both the globe and the rings.
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25 January 2015 · Jupiter
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Twenty-two stacked images taken at ten-minute intervals across one night, assembled into an animation. You can watch the belts carry features around the limb.
30 September 2014 · Uranus
A small blue-green disk and not much else — which is more or less all Uranus ever gives you, and still worth the trouble of finding it.
16 April 2014 · Mars
Surface markings and the polar cap, pulled out of a 2,000-frame sequence.
21 March 2014 · M51
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Off-axis autoguiding did most of the work here — it is what kept the stars from smearing across 200-second subs at this focal length.
23 September 2013 · M57
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The white point at the centre is the white dwarf left behind by the star that threw off the ring.
13 March 2013 · M42
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Short subs through a small refractor. Orion is bright enough that even a badly lit sky lets it through.
29 March 2006 · Southern Libya
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Sixteen exposures layered together to carry the corona from the inner edge out to the faint outer streamers. Photographed from the southern Libyan desert.
18 November 2001 · Chiricahua National Monument
Individual fireballs imaged through a night-vision scope from a mountain top in Arizona, then pieced together into a film. The music is Spyro Gyra.
