Conor MacNeill (@thefella)

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Thank you! I wish I had more time on it, but clear nights have been few and far between!

Colour deep space photo of various red and yellow nebulae, pkus some stars and star clusters.

A nice gathering of nebulae and stars in the Auriga region, including The Flaming Star, Tadpoles, Spider, and Fly nebulae, plus the Starfish Cluster. This was around six and a half hours of data with a OSC camera and narrowband filter.

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Great image! It's a target I've never attempted before.

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A blueish monochromatic image of a lake surrounded by mountains. The core of the Milky Way stretches across the night sky, from the top left to the bottom right. The image has a serene quality to it.

An astrolandscape shot from when I was exploring Kazakhstan (Almaty region) back in the summer.

#astro #astronomy #landscape #astrophotography #landscapephotography #photography #kazakhstan

Brilliant capture!

Amazing sky!

Too kind! And always willing to help out!

I'm super impressed by my AM5 mount!

I actually really want an Edge HD at some point soon. Probably the 9.25. I'd prefer the 11, but my wallet says no.

Thank you, Kat! It's an oldie, but it has always been one of my favourite scenes.

I think it works tremendously well, especially with the diffraction spikes! That's one thing I'm missing with my Pleiades photos and need to rectify that soon!

I was very lucky to see blue hour! Hopefully you'll get to see it some day as well.

This is absolutely gorgeous!!

A Chinese fisherman stands on a small raft in a river, along side four cormorants, all reflected in the water. The background is a series of pointy karst mountains with clouds around the base. The whole scene is blue due to the morning twilight.

I did a quick re-edit of a very old photo from over a decade ago. This image of a fisherman with his cormorants was taken in Southern China during the morning blue hour. It was very early, and incredibly humid!

#photography #art #landscapephotography #travel #travelphotography #landscape #china

Thank you so much for your very kind words!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much, Kat! I started as a travel and landscape photographer before I got so into space photos!

Beautiful detail in the surrounding dust clouds!

A group of dark brown horses run through the scene from right to left, with a gorgeous snow-capped volcano in the background. In the immediate forground right at the centre of the scene is one white horse. The light from the setting sun illuminates everything from the right-hand side.

The wild horses near Cappadocia in Turkey with a beautiful stratovolcano in the background. It took me a long time shooting and several thousand shots to capture this scene. Other photographers can relate!

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #wildlife #turkey #nature #naturephotography

I'm enjoying it! Much more than Twitter these days!
(Also realised I wasn't following on IG, so rectified now!)

Welcome!

The universe is pretty amazing!

Thank you! Glad you like it!

Thank you very much, Stephen!

Thank you! Could have been better if I wasn't in a city, but that's where I live!

Thank you! It's pretty lengthy for just one evening!

Photograph of the Triangulum galaxy - a spiral galaxy surrounded by stars and some tiny pinkish nebulae.

This was my second attempt at my favourite galaxy to image - The Triangulum Galaxy (M33). This had a total integration time of 7 hours and 30 mins over one evening. Feel free to like it and share it if it's your thing. No worries if not!

#astronomy #astrophotography #astro #photography #space