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Gwen Forrester
@gwenforr.bsky.social
Artist, guitar builder, stargazer, housewife. genderless witch in a trans woman’s body.
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Since M87’s plasma jet is in the news, and some sources are making it sound like a new discovery.. it was first noticed on a glass plate at Lick observatory in 1918, and can be photographed with a moderate sized telescope. This is through my 6” f/8 Newtonian. #space#galaxy#astrophotography

Elliptical galaxy M87 and its plasma jet, seen here as a fuzzy round blob of light, bright in the center, with a thin, diffuse ray extending from the center to the upper right, ending where the rest of the galaxy fades into the black background
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Spent the early morning watching the Moon pass in front of the Pleiades in the telescope. Got to see a few of them disappear behind it and re-emerge on the other side later on.

A very overexposed waning gibbous moon, just to the right of the Pleiades star cluster
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#Caturday

Fluffy kitty tummy!
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Neptune and Triton at opposition ZWO ASI224mc, 2.5x Barlow, 8” f/8 Newtonian on EQ mount. 25% of 1000 frames at 360ms #planets#space#astrophotography

Neptune and its largest moon, Triton, seen as a small bright, mostly white dot, with a smaller, faint dot to its upper left, against a black background
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Hoverfly and Ironweed One of my favorite wildflowers; a welcome herald of the end of summer

A small yellow and black striped flying insect with large red eyes looking for nectar in a sprig of magenta blossoms
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Kicking off spooky season with the Ghost of Cassiopeia, a combination of reflection and emission nebulae, being illuminated and ionized by one of the brightest #stars#astrophotography#space

A bright white star with a hazy aura and four long diffraction spikes, to the right of a ghostly pair of nebulae, one mostly greyish, the other, below it, tinged with pinks and reds, all against a dark background sprinkled with little stars.
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#Saturn#astrophotography#planets

The planet Saturn, seen as a slightly oblate sphere with atmospheric bands in various shades of tan, some with a bit of greenish tinge, as well as very bright rings at a low inclination towards the viewer, against a black background. There is a tiny dark speck on its lower half, which is the shadow of one of its larger moons.
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Moon and Venus (far right just above trees) earlier this evening

Silhouetted tree line against a dull purplish orangeish sky just after sunset, with a very thin crescent moon to the left and Venus, seen as a tiny point of light far to the right, barely above the trees
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Nothing to see here.. just a peacock on my truck, in the rain. So glad I have those aftermarket chrome roosting bars.

A peacock perched on a chrome rail on the back of a white pickup truck. His head, neck, and breast are green, and slumped in an “s” shape. His wings are black, with white highlights, and brown feathers at the leading edge, folded downward at his side. It is raining, yet he seems unconcerned.
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Moonrise early this morning

A 12% illuminated crescent moon, with shadowed portion visible in a slightly lighter shade of the same pinkish purple as the sky behind it, with out of focus shadowy tree tops in lower left corner.
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Gwen Forrester
@gwenforr.bsky.social
Artist, guitar builder, stargazer, housewife. genderless witch in a trans woman’s body.
44 followers25 following132 posts
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