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Daytime Moon & Venus Occultation
Taken a short while ago from Liberty Hill, Texas, USA. Tricky shot during the day with clouds and bright, daylight skies. Nothing a little astro trickery couldn't handle.
#astrodon #astronomy #moon #venus #space #photography #occultation
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Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) is a rare, hyperbolic Oort Cloud comet that recently passed its closest approach to the Sun. Discovered in September 2025, it features a distinct blue-green hue. Estimated 170,000-year orbit!
Taken from Melbourne, Australia last week with my Dwarf3 smartscope. 3 minutes of 15-second exposures, Gain 60.
Conditions were less than favorable with high-level clouds and ligh
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The M33 Triangulum Galaxy
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Color with IR Cut filter
- Guiding Equipment: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 72*5 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C
- Dark Frames: 15*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe
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The Amazing Omega Centauri Cluster
10 million stars. Packed into a glittering sphere 150 light-years wide — the largest globular cluster orbiting our galaxy. 17,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Visible to the naked eye from dark southern skies. Ptolemy once mistook it for a single star.
Taken with my Dwarf3 smartscope from Melbourne, Australia.
#astronomy #astrophotography #spa
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Mar 23latest
22
Avg engagement / post
13–23
Typical post (engagement)
3.4%
Engagement vs followers
74/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 13 and 23 likes + reposts (median 19) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Daytime Moon & Venus Occultation Taken a short while ago from Li · 48 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.59 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 11 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
1.7×
Follows 381 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Daytime Moon & Venus Occultation
Taken a short while ago from Liberty Hill, Texas, USA. Tricky shot during the day with clouds and bright, daylight skies. Nothing a little astro trickery couldn't handle.
#astrodon #astronomy #moon #venus #space #photography #occultation
The M31 Andromeda Galaxy.
Imaged from Central Texas.
📸 Capture details:
🔭 William Optics ZenithStar 61mm APO
📷 ZWO ASI2600MC Color (IR Cut)
🎯 Celestron StarSense Autoguider
💻 Acquisition: SharpCap | Guiding: Celestron
🖼️ 30 × 4min lights @…
If you're in the Central Texas area and would like to learn how to how take images of the night sky, drop me a line! I've opened an astrophotography class for beginners.
Oh, and 50% of our proceeds will help put telescopes in local schools…
Antares Region
A field of red and gold nebulosity surrounds the bright yellow-orange star Antares. That's the M4 globular cluster at upper left
Antares is most commonly known as the brightest star in the Scorpius constellation and the 15th…
Cloudy Occultation
A different view of yesterday's occultation with the Moon and Venus. Taken with a William Optics 61mm refractor and ZWO ASI2600MC camera in central Texas.
#occultation #moon #venus #astronomy #astrophotography #astrodon …
The Dragons of Ara (NGC 6188) is an emission nebula ~4,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Ara. Its dark dust clouds form two dragon-like shapes facing off, sculpted by stellar winds from massive young stars whose radiation …
Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) is a rare, hyperbolic Oort Cloud comet that recently passed its closest approach to the Sun. Discovered in September 2025, it features a distinct blue-green hue. Estimated 170,000-year orbit!
Taken from Melbourn…
The Amazing Omega Centauri Cluster
10 million stars. Packed into a glittering sphere 150 light-years wide — the largest globular cluster orbiting our galaxy. 17,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Visible to the naked eye …
Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Hubble Palette)
The Pillars of Creation are massive columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula (M16), about 6,500 light-years away. They're stellar nurseries where new stars form, famously photogra…
A little tribute to the NASA Artemis 2 mission currently well underway. Did you folks catch the stunning images the astronauts on board were able to capture?
This, my own capture, is a "mineral moon" image. Lots of images stacked with sat…
The M33 Triangulum Galaxy
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar APO
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Color with IR Cut filter
- Guiding Equipment: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Gu…
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Been a while since I posted, sorry! Here's some star trails for you, taken with the Dwarf3 Smart Scope.
#astronomy #astrophotography #startrails #night
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
astronomy.city
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 22 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.6× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~3.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
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About
G'day, Howdy!
I'm an Aussie-British chap living in Texas. I have my own observatory and also teach astronomy at another local observatory a few nights a week. Analyst of sorts by day.
My images (astro and other) have been published here and there including National Geographic, Texas Monthly, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, LA Times, The Weather Channel and others.
Feel free to connect! No snobbery here.
#astronomy #astrophotography #aviation #cars #photography #travel #weather
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