Gary Eason + Flight Artworks

This is about making pictures so I post my own copyright work rather than reposting other people's. To browse or buy prints: www.flightartworks.com

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Yesterday evening fireball.

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Fireball over the North Sea, viewed from Colchester.

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Iris Nebula

NGC 7023, known as the Iris Nebula, is an area of brownish dark dust in the Cepheus constellation - illuminated brilliantly in the centre by an intensely bright, blue young star SAO 19158. According to NASA, this area attracts study because of its unusual prevalence of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), complex molecules found on Earth during the incomplete combustion of wood fires.

My picture comprises 746 x 20" exposures at ISO 1600, imaged from Colchester, England, on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.

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Tulip Nebula

The Tulip Nebula, catalogued as Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101), is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. My picture comprises almost 700 x 20” exposures at ISO 1600, imaged from Colchester, England, on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.

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F L I G H T A R T W O R K S | Night sky prints and canvas prints

Art prints about Night sky on F L I G H T A R T W O R K S

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The Western Veil with the bright foreground star 52 Cygni, and (lower left) Pickering's Triangle. My picture comprises just over 1500 x 20” exposures at ISO 1600, imaged from Colchester, England, a few days ago on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.

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Sadr. Cygnus. Milky Way. From my back garden, with a full moon and very short nights.

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This is the Crescent Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus, photographed over four nights in May 2023. NGC 6888 is the result of the outer layers of the old star at its centre - known as a Wolf-Rayet star - being blasted out by a powerful stellar wind. The shape that we see is about 25 light years across and 5,000 light years away from Earth.

My picture involved 9.5 hours of sub-exposures plus calibration frames, taken in Colchester, England, on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.

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New supernova in M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy.

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M92 from the back garden.

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Two striking areas of nebulosity in the Orion molecular cloud complex. The Flame Nebula is a bright area of glowing hydrogen overlaid with clouds of dark dust and gas. The distinctive Horsehead comprises dark areas of dust silhouetted by the light from stars behind it. To the lower left of it is a reflection nebula, NGC 2023. The most brilliant star is Alnitak, one of the three that make up Orion's Belt.

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Orion. Work in progress.

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ATA Spitfire ferry flight

In WWII, the remarkable Air Transport Auxiliary force of civilian pilots freed up Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots for the fighting by ferrying new aircraft from factories to their squadrons or from squadrons to maintenance units for repairs.

Its members, eventually numbering more than 1,300 from 28 countries, were excluded from military service because of their health, age - or sex: 168 of the pilots were women.

The ATA's unofficial motto was "anything to anywhere'. Its pilots delivered more than 300,000 aircraft of 147 types - fighters and bombers, but without armament - as far afield as Egypt, Scandinavia and Russia.

My picture imagines a newly-built Spitfire Mk IXc, its squadron code letters not yet painted on, above sunlit clouds on its way to a frontline fighter squadron.

© Gary Eason [email protected] to license

Prints: www.flightartworks.com

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Dog walk sundog #inthewoods #sundog #rainbow

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Army manoeuvres #inthewoods #army #soldiers #troops #firingrange #orienteering

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Witch's knickers #inthewoods

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The #snowman.