“Lynx is home to the fascinating globular cluster NGC 2419. Although visually faint and small what makes NGC 2419 special is its distance; at 275,000 light-years it’s one of the furthest known Milky Way globulars. In fact, twentieth century American astronomer Harlow Shapley nicknamed it ‘The Intergalactic Tramp’ believing it to have possibly broken away from the Milky Way and headed off into deep inter galactic space. However, recent observations indicate Shapley hypothesis was incorrect and NGC 2419 is still gravitationally bound to the Milky Way just moving in a highly eccentric orbit.” – FreeStarCharts.com
The evening of Jan 12, 2026 was was finally clear enough to do some astrophotography with the Seestar S50. First night this year. The Pleiades was high enough out of the strong LP in my area to get something decent, so I went with that. I combined what I got with 63 minutes from last November for a total of 198 minutes and below is the result:
This was 3 hrs in one continuous run using 20 sec sub-images using the Seestar S50. Taken on Jan 1, 2026 in the early morning hours in Bortle 8/9 conditions.
I stacked 4 images of the Moon taken with the Seestar S50 in alt-az mode while it was still daylight and adjusted the stacked image to minimize the blue sky and make it look darker than it actually was.
It was a little hazy with below average transparency Christmas Eve night 2025, so before it got too bad, I decided to try and take a mosaic of the Double Cluster, instead of a nebula or galaxy as a target. Taken with my Seestar S50 for 48 minutes using 30 sec sub-images.
Double Cluster, Dec 24, 2025. Seestar S50 mosaic mode, 48 minutes using 30 sec sub-images.
The Crab Nebula supernova remnant in Taurus. The Chinese, Mayans and others saw It when it blew up in the year 1054. It contains a pulsar (neutron star) at its center.
This was taken with a Seestar S50 Smart Telescope using 30 sec sub-images. It has about an hour of total integration time that finished up just after midnight last night (12:24 A.M., Dec 24, 2025.)
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Crab Nebula, Seestar S50, 60 minutes using 30 sec subs.
Images of Comets, Nebulae, Galaxies and Star Clusters
