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Continue reading →: Orion NebulaI completed a panoramic view of the Orion, Flame, and Horsehead Nebulea. I’ve been wanting to do this one for a while, and have envisioned this as a print that I will hang in my home somewhere. I’m quite pleased with how it came out.
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Continue reading →: Comet 3I/ATLAS and Asteroid 109 FelicitasOn November 28th I got an opportunity to shoot Comet 3I/ATLAS. This comet is pretty faint, so many of the typical techniques for generating a single comet image didn’t work very well. The above image shows the comet trail against a static background of stars. I also animated the motion.…
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Continue reading →: First Try at Lunar PhotographyI’m still way behind in processing and writing up so many of the deep space photos I’ve taken, but since it’s a full moon, I decided this month to give that a try. I took two minutes of video with SharpCap, stacked it in AutoStakkert! using this workflow. I’m pretty…
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Continue reading →: Supernova SN2025rbsIt’s been a while since I imaged this in early August. I’m really happy with how this turned out given all the struggles I had. I managed to get lucky with the weather, and get a smoke free night. Then I had a few self-induced struggles. I forgot to put…
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Continue reading →: Capturing a SupernovaFinally knocking off another astronomy bucket list item, capturing a supernova. (I also want to see one visually, but that’s unlikely this time due to the wildfire smoke.) Anyway, about 3 weeks ago a supernova began growing in the nearby galaxy NGC 7331, designated SN2025rbs. I was able to get…
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Continue reading →: M94 Cat’s Eye GalaxyGalaxy season is wrapping up soon, and I’m ready for a change. The weather here has been very rainy with the exception of about 4 days over the past month. On two of those nights I attempted to image a galaxy known as the Cat’s Eye galaxy. This is a…
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Continue reading →: Beginning on the Bubble Nebula
I started working on the Bubble Nebula. The weather here has been trash for astrophotography, so I set up on a marginal night that I normally would have skipped if it hadn’t been the first chance in nearly a month. This was a tough session, difficult conditions and some equipment…
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Continue reading →: A Barred-Spiral Galaxy in a Gibbous MoonThe weather here has not been great lately so I went for it on a marginal night. The moon was at about 60% which can make for some difficult broadband imaging. I also chose a somewhat difficult target. This galaxy NGC 3359, is about 59 million lightyears from earth. It…
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Continue reading →: The Owl NebulaOne night on the Owl Nebula. Unfortunately I again forgot to plug in my dew heater, but this time I was lucky and there was a only a very mild dew, the majority of subframes were unaffected. Other than that this was a standard nebula workflow. I used Graxpert for…
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Continue reading →: The Surfboard GalaxyAnother addition to the galaxy collection this galaxy season. M108 – the Surfboard Galaxy. This was a quick, one night shoot, which was relatively uneventful with the exception of some light clouds rolling in near the end of the night. Post-processing also went fairly quickly, according to my standard galaxy…
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