Summer Milkyway rising over a Lake! This was taken from my dark sky location where I take many
Summer Milkyway rising over a Lake!
This was taken from my dark sky location where I take many of my space photos! Love how you can see the reflection of the stars in the lake.
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The Seagull Nebula (IC2177) and Thor’s Helmet (bottom right). 3600 and 12,000 light years away
The Seagull Nebula (IC2177) and Thor’s Helmet (bottom right). 3600 and 12,000 light years away respectively! This is the first time I’ve captured the two nebulas together and I definitely want to try this one again next year. What can I say, this has been the worst stretch of weather for Astrophotography in the last 2 years. So whenever I have even a small opening of clear sky I take advantage of it. This was shot with the moon out using a basic Star tracker and a dSLR camera attached to a small telescope. It shows with even more basic equipment under bright skies you can still capture a decent image. This clearly needed 4-5 hours of exposure time to make it better. Unfortunately that’s been hard to come by lately! 😢
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The Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27) in the constellation Vulpeca. This shows the power of stackin
The Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27) in the constellation Vulpeca. This shows the power of stacking many images together to increase the brightness of the image and greatly reduce the noise. The processing also allows to remove a lot of the light pollution that shows up on images shot from my backyard! M27 is 1200 light years away, 3 light years wide and the first planetary nebula ever discovered, by Charles Messier in 1764. It’s formed when an aging star ejects an outer layer of glowing ionized gas. What’s left is a small white dwarf star which can be barely seen in the middle of the nebula in this image. Although the white dwarf is one of the largest known, it still is only about 5% the diameter of the sun.
Telescope: Celestron 11 Edge f/7
Zwo ASI2600MC Pro
Exposure: 60x 6min Ultimate
Mount: iOptron cem70
Guiding: ASI174mini, OAG
Filter: Optolong LeXtreme and Ultimate
Software: AsiAir, DSS, Pixinsight
Sky: Bortle 6
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Before and After Processing. I often get questions about what my images look like before they
Before and After Processing. I often get questions about what my images look like before they are processed. And the odd comment about my images being fake 😀. Here are a few of my photos from the last few months showing what the raw data looks like once all the individual exposures are stacked and what the final post processed image looks like. You can see some of the pre processed images looks great, these are often the ones I short from a dark sky in the country. You can definitely see all the light pollution gradients in my backyard shots. Removing some of the light pollution is the biggest change you see in post processed images, along with the boost in brightness and color saturation. All the subtle details are in the original shots, processing really brings those details out. You can check out my individual posts for information about what equipment I used and how the images were taken. Here is a list of the objects in order:
Iris Nebula
Andromeda Galaxy
Rosette and Cone Nebula
Orion Nebula
Messier 78 and Barnards Loop
Horsehead and Orion Nebula
Pleiades
Spaghetti Nebula
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The Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) in the constellation Cepheus, it looks likes it’s jumping out of t
The Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) in the constellation Cepheus, it looks likes it’s jumping out of the water moving to the left. This is a nebula formed of sun dust that creates the outline of a shark. Towards the “top” of the shark you can see a darker nebula and a couple of blue reflection nebulas that are reflecting light from nearby bright blue stars. The nebula lies about 650 light years away and measures about 15 light years across. This is a difficult object to image closer to city lights, but it turned out well under a dark sky. It still required 13 hours of exposure time over 2 nights to create the image.
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The Crescent and Butterfly nebulas around the bright star Sadr in the constellation Cygnus. Wi
The Crescent and Butterfly nebulas around the bright star Sadr in the constellation Cygnus. With a full moon out imaging galaxies is not really advised. So I waited until 12:30 for this amazing part of the sky to rise and used a special narrowband filter to capture it. The nebula is made mostly of ionized hydrogen and oxygen gases which emit light at very specific wavelengths. The filter used only callers through light at these wavelengths and blocks most of the light in the sky from the full moon. I used a small Redcat 51 telescope for this one.
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The North America, Pelican and Clamshell Nebulas in the constellation Cygnus. Amazing ionized
The North America, Pelican and Clamshell Nebulas in the constellation Cygnus. Amazing ionized hydrogen gas located 2500 light years away in one of the arms of our Milkyway galaxy! I used a 135mm lens with my Astro camera and a special filter ( LeXtreme F2) over two nights from my backyard to capture this amazing region of the sky!
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The Universe captured from my yard! These are a few of my favorite photos I captured over the
The Universe captured from my yard! These are a few of my favorite photos I captured over the past year. In order they are The Pleiades, Green Comet, Ring of Fire Eclipse, Horsehead Nebula and Orion Nebula. Check out my profile to see more images and a bit about how I capture them.
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I love everything in the Universe! Just a few of my recent images taken from my backyard. Thes
I love everything in the Universe! Just a few of my recent images taken from my backyard. These includes the Pleiades, Orion Nebula, Crab Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, North America Nebula and California Nebula. You can see the individual images on my account with more details on how I captured them.
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Nothing better than being out in the country under a dark sky and matching the summer Milky Wa
Nothing better than being out in the country under a dark sky and matching the summer Milky Way come up. This 6 second time lapse shows the sky moving from 1-4am a couple of nights ago. The camera is pointed towards the center of our galaxy as it rises over the water. I love how you can see the reflection of the stars in the water. I took a 10 second exposure every minute through a 14mm lens and my Canon camera.
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The Devil Comet,12P/ Pons-Brooks captured over the last few weeks. The images show how much th
The Devil Comet,12P/ Pons-Brooks captured over the last few weeks. The images show how much the comet has changed and brightened as it’s approaching the Sun. In the March 25th image you can also see a couple of small galaxies near its tail, the first image shows it close to the Andromeda galaxy. The comet was discovered in 1812 and swings into the inner solar system every 71 years. The Comet is close to the Sun now, but it’s still visible with binoculars as soon as it gets dark low in the Western sky, not too far from Jupiter. The comet is now magnitude 4.9, technically making it visible to the naked eye under a very dark sky, but practically speaking you will need binoculars to see it. Big question will be if the comet will be visible during the Total Solar Eclipse. My sense is the comet is not quite bright enough to see with the naked eye, but should be able to be be captured with a camera.
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Capturing a time lapse of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. My camera was capturing a photo every
Capturing a time lapse of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. My camera was capturing a photo every 30 seconds during the partial phases and then I included every photo I captured during totality to create the video. In all there were almost 400 photos used to create the video. You can see in the time lapse the extent of the corona changes, this is because I varied the exposure length to capture different details. On either end of totality you see the diamond ring phases of the eclipse. It was just an incredible experience! The images were captured with a Sigma 150-600mm lens and my Canon EOS R6 mkii camera on a star tracker.
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