Mocking Moon Observatory

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"Given enough time, hydrogen begins to ask itself what it is, and how it got here" So-called AIs and LLMs, etc, are forbidden to use my content.

the Pleiades, with Mocking Moon logo
The pelican nebula, a colorful region of gas and dust
Picture of a gay guy
160x60 second sub exposures. Celestron Celestar C8, Starizona Hyperstar v4, Antlia Triband ultra ii RGB filter, Vixen GP2, EQStarPro, Sharpcap Pro, GiMP F1.9 390mm Astrometry: Center (RA, Dec): (98.081, 4.858) Center (RA, hms): 06h 32m 19.353s Center (Dec, dms): +04° 51' 29.810" Size: 1.81 x 1.62 deg Radius: 1.213 deg Pixel scale: 2.45 arcsec/pixel captured by Wes Chadwick
a scene of red and black, some brilliant white stars and many smaller stars, more dim stars are seen on the left side of the image, which is divided by a wall of cloud. A dark bay juts out of the cloud, shaped like the head of a horse. a fine feathery cloud rises above it, and a nebula like a torch with dark lanes in the shape a tree trunk, the Flame nebula. Celestron C8, hyperstarV4, Antlia Triband Ultra II, ASI294mc PRO, Vixen GP2 with EQStarPRO, Sharpcap Pro,
A vastly expansive shell of gas surrounds the multiple star system HD 206267 in the constellation Cepheus. Clumps of gas and "dust" struggle against the raging stellar winds. I took this picture, 11/29/2024, it is a stack of <40 120 second exposures. Celestron C8, ZWO ASI294MC pro, Vixen GP2 mount, Sharpcap pro, GraXpert
a comet streaks silently through the sky, dust in its orbit streams along behind it
he Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888 is an emission nebula 5000 ly away, lit by a Wolf-Rayet star's stellar wind. The brightest star above it is the Revenant of the Swan, a Hyper Giant blue variable, Absolute magnitude -7.9! Mass=37 suns, Luminosity=610,000 suns!
A morning in Tolkien's "The Shire."
the Great Nebula in Andromeda reclines precariously in the night sea, its disk perturbed by the pestering satellite galaxies
Reflection nebula IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula, fish in mouth, stares out like the jawless head of a blue-eyed zombie. The right eye, 57 Cygni, is paired with another star, the pair resemble the eyes of Marvel Character Deadpool in their surrounding nebula. I dub it the Deadpool Nebula. The Northa America Nebula, NGC 7000 is partially visible in the lower half of the frame.
A menacingly dark Letter "C" threatens to look like an "E" at any moment
a photo of a spherical cluster of mostly red and blue-white stars in the night sky
Sun setting in a grey sky, cirrus clouds. A full halo and sundogs appear.