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Emanuele Balla

@skull@masto.ai
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European, Italian.
Anti-abuse pundit.
Certified shady character.
Experienced windmill fighter.
Twitter emigrant.

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Joined November 08, 2022
Blog:
https://bofhskull.wordpress.com

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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Jul 09, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Wizards in the cosmic mist. Added a second night of data to my Wizard nebula capture in H⍺+OIII, now slightly above 8.5 hours. Guiding has not been great, and I probably oversharpened it a bit, but I'm not too displeased by the result. Admittedly, the availability of the RC Astro toolset in Siril improved the quality of the obtainable results quite dramatically. I'm going through older #astrophotography captures and reprocessing them here and there and results are quite something...
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Jun 26, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Reprocessed the same stack with BlurXterminator, now that it's available for Siril. I have to admit I'm impressed... #astrophotography
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Jun 20, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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M 16 again, after two nights of narrowband (H⍺+OIII) capture. From my location, where the horizon is very light polluted in all directions and M16 is always very low in the sky, I guess this is as far as I can go... #astrophotography
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · May 03, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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M 57 - The Ring nebula
Small even at ~1.3m of focal length 🤷‍♂️

#astrophotography

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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · May 02, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Still a bit early for this subject, but had a night of decent seeing last night, and with the full moon there ain't many bright emission nebulae to aim for with a narrowband filter; at least not in my field of view.
So here it is: a bit more than 2.5 hours of Caldwell 27 on May 1st...

#astrophotography

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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 28, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Replying to @derek@www.glidden.life
@derek don’t blame it on me!!! 😆
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 27, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Replying to @derek@www.glidden.life
@derek my suggestion there would be to go for something relatively cheap and second hand, like a StarAdventurer GTi, and start shooting with just the camera. My first attempts (it’s just a couple of years ago 🤷‍♂️) took place with exactly that tracker, a Nikon5300 and a 180mm lens. Believe it or not, it’s *harder* than with the current gear in many aspects, but it’s a learning curve worth climbing. And you can always resell the tracker when you move to different gear.
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 27, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Some more #astrophotography from Saturday night.
Considering the night, it came out better than I expected after all...

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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 25, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Fixed(?) collimation, a test is due with the next go-to subject for the season...

Just enough to get annoyed by light pollution gradients.

#astrophotography

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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 25, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Replying to @skull@masto.ai
@derek that said, that picture was taken with a Celestron NexStar Evolution 8”, an ASI533MC camera and a ZWO AM5N mount. The brightness of the background sky, joined by the sparse amount of stars in that part of the sky, makes autoguiding through an OAG difficult for this subject, so I decided to keep exposures relatively short (60s); the stack has 130 subs, left after removing another 50 in which the guiding stars were lost mid-shoot with the obvious consequences on the sub…
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 25, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Replying to @derek@www.glidden.life
@derek I’m in north-east Italy, by the sea (so an all-you-can-eat of atmospheric turbulence), in a zone notorious for the amount of wind, that looks like this on the light pollution map (yes, I’m exactly in that purple blob)… 🤷‍♂️
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Apr 24, 2026
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@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Quick capture for my favorite subject from last night.
Since it's finally galaxy seasons moved the rig to the big tube.
It's a bit out of collimation, so fixed that tonight (hopefully); meanwhile software helped fixing the star shapes...

I'm always impressed by the fact that even in my terrible sky one can still take pictures like this. I wonder what I may be able to obtain from a decent location...

#astrophotography

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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Feb 25, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Replying to @malwaretech@infosec.exchange
@malwaretech I think it was Grok, but yeah...
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Jan 20, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

masto.ai
Replying to @malwaretech@infosec.exchange
@malwaretech
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Jan 14, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

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Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social
@mattblaze@federate.social @xenonchromatic@mastodon.social @jackcole@mstdn.social I don't think I've ever said that, did I? I'm just debating your point that those resignations are -per se- obtaining something, other than keeping those people's conscience clear of this crap. Which is fine, just probably irrelevant in the grand scheme.
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Emanuele Balla @skull@masto.ai · Jan 14, 2026
Emanuele Balla
@skull@masto.ai

European, Italian. Anti-abuse pundit. Certified shady character. Experienced windmill fighter. Twitter emigrant.

masto.ai
Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social
@mattblaze@federate.social @xenonchromatic@mastodon.social @jackcole@mstdn.social as a foreigner seeing all this from afar, my question to this is “whose attention, exactly?” ‘Cause what is going on within the ranks pretty much everywhere inside the federal government is IMO clear, at this point, to anyone who wants to see it, and has been for some time. I doubt “more signal” is going to change the perception of those who still decided this is all OK…
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