Moon 87%

Temperatures during the day went up till 31°C, so nights are perfect to cool down and meanwhile taking pictures of the Moon. The Moon is 87% illuminated and the picture was taken using TAL200K with Nikon D7500. Limited editing using CS4.

M17 The Swan Nebula

The sky is bright due to a waxing moon (85%). So it was difficult to make observations of Deep Sky object. Below is a picture of M17, The Swan or Omega Nebula and M18, a open cluster.
No filters are used and no stacking. The single shot is edited using CS4.

Asterism STAR27 the Toadstool

Last night I took some time to search for asterism STAR27 in Delphinus. East of the Dolphin 13 stars make the asterism mushroom or toadstool.

Moon 71%

The Moon this evening, 71% illuminated and less then one week before the Lunar Eclips.

End of Astronomical Twilight

This weekend, it's the end of the Astronomical Twilight. The night will be dark again as the Sun will be below the horizon for more then 18°. So between 01h05 and 02h30 it should be dark enough to make your observations. Mars is the currently the brightest object of the night sky and can be seen low (14°) above the South-Eastern horizon.

Mars the Red Planet low above the South-Eastern Horizon

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Andromeda Galaxy M31, M32 and M110

Trying to optimize the results from pictures taken earlier this week. In total 48 pictures were taken eacht with an exposure time of 30s and ISO6400. I removed all pictures with "startrails" and stacked the remaining using Deepskystacker. The result is saved as Tiff16bit as this is the max. I can edit with CS4.

Nikon D7500 TLAPO 80/480 f/6 ISO6400 20minutes