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The Triangulum Galaxy: Featuring extragalactic nebulae!

The raw data for this image has been uploaded to dropbox to those of you with access. It's a LRGB+HO image, which allows me to really highlight the colorful nebulae!

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The Shockwave of a Supernova, 6x wider than the full moon in the sky.

It's also 110 light years wide!

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Mars Nearing Opposition- taken about an hour ago

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Patreon Exclusive! Preorder my 2023 Calendar now+digital bundle

Will open to everyone else at the end of the week, but you can get yours reserved now, since I'm only going to sell them for a limited time and may have to shut orders off if I sell to many (I'm fulfilling them myself). These will ship by Early December, but you may be able to get yours early if I get enough orders to meet my manufacturer's threshold for the costs I negotiated.

Get it here, just please do not share this link: 2022-11-14 00:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post

A preview of my 2023 Cosmic Calendar

*some elements subject to change based on reviewing the proof.

This should be available for order soon, make sure you sign up for emails on my website if you want one!

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My deepest look at the most famous star cluster of all: The Pleiades

To those of you with dropbox access (astrophotographer tier only) The raw data is now available. This is 15 hours worth of exposure in LRGB 60 megapixels. 

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Really struggled with what to call this one. This is the Eclipse with a much wider field of view, showing off deep sky objects.

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A 75 megapixel image of our sun from a couple days ago

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A composite image of this morning's eclipse showing the path through Earth's shadow (and of course our planet's size and shape)

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Eclipse!

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A 500 megapixel image of Last night's Gibbous Moon

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The Falcon 9 Booster and the second stage launching into space.

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My deepest look at the Andromeda Galaxy!

If you suscribe to my aspiring astrophotographer's tier, this data was recently uploaded to dropbox so you are able to take a crack at processing it yourself! This is over 30 hours of data in LRGB+HA to give an incredibly detailed look at the galaxy as a whole as well as all the bright star-forming regions within. I'm also going to start (slowly) updating each folder with a processed version so you can benchmark your progress more easily. 

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A Falcon 9 just went right over my backyard

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A Saturn shot I never shared, captured earlier this month.

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Jupiter last night. Nearing the end of what will be a 6 week and 10 Terabyte project of the gas giant.

I'll be revealing what I've been working on next week!

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Two creative takes on familiar objects.

Note- these shouldn't be considered "real" pictured. The ring around Jupiter and the extra ring around Saturn were essentially drawn on based on images from probes. Otherwise, these were created by partially inverting my very real planetary images taken last night. 

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Night of the Hunter- an HDR shot of last night's moon.

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Jupiter and Io from last night

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Since it was shortlisted, I also remastered "Fire and Fusion" for rerelease in print. Here's the 300 megapixel image.

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I remastered my ISS image that won the APOTY award, the full size is over 300 megapixels!

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I took a shot of the moon that is over half a gigapixel.

The full size had to be loaded as an attachment as it was too large to upload otherwise. This is the moon from 10/2

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Are we sick of Jupiter yet? Here's Tuesday night's shot. That little dot casting a shadow on the surface is Ganymede!

Shown with and without exaggerated colors

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A razor-thin crescent moon setting over the Arizona Desert Tuesday evening

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Jupiter last night- see attached for a timelapse of the rotation.

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A "Solar Bouquet"... a creative take on the massive sunspot grouping today

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Breaking news from the sun- a MASSIVE cme just happened. Here's my shot.

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Here's Saturn! (also a few other recent images and a timelapse)

See attached for a Jupiter timelapse!

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"Wings of a Butterfly" a 53 megapixel look at the clouds around Sadr

The raw calibrated images from this session are available on dropbox

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Last night's Harvest Moon

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