Had some light clouds tonight, but it made for a dramatic shot
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2022-05-16 08:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Reminder: tonight there is a total lunar eclipse. Earth's shadow will obscure the moon, and it will turn a deep red from Earth's sunsets. Here's some of my past shots.
I captured the Carina Nebula- the brightest nebula in our sky. I had to travel to the most southern part of the US to get this shot.
a 280 megapixel image of our sun from last Saturday, and a 7 hour timelapse (attached)
Sorry you haven't heard from me for a while. I had a lot of travel, nd then fell really ill. But I'm back and ready to start bringing you more sweet space content!
2022-05-08 15:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe full moon cutting through thin clouds, joined by a plane
Last night's gibbous moon, with colors and surface details enhanced in nearly 100 megapixels.
"Descent into Fire" discount for you
I decided to make this image a limited edition print- hand signed and numbered. It's already available in my shop, so if you want one enter "COSMICPATRON20" at checkout. This is actually good on everything in my shop- so go nuts. Thank you so much for your support as always.
2022-04-07 19:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Eagle Nebula, home of the famous "Pillars of Creation" Shown with and without stars. If you check the attachments- there's a bonus video for you
Spent some time fine tuning a rig that will get me closer to deep sky objects... my first image is a close look at the rosette nebula. Many more to come!
Something I did in 2019 I never shared here. Our moon before and after "terraforming"- I hand painted water, earthlike terrain, and atmosphere to give it this look.
How about a 256 megapixel image of the Worm Moon to start your weekend?
"Lunation"- a composite from each day of the lunar cycle. Also my first ever hand signed print.
This print will be available after I post it to social channels tomorrow. Enter LUNATIONPATRON at checkout to get 20% off- only good on this one image though, and only for patrons so please don't share it. Ignore the discount code I'm sending to people in my mailing list- yours is better :)
2022-03-10 04:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight is the full moon! Make sure you check it out. Here's what I captured this morning.
My apologies for the break in posts- Been working hard on setting up my observatory. Here's a false color moon partially inverted to display the variations in mineral composition on the moon
A couple images captured of the sun today. Using different color palettes I can really change the feel of the image.
For some context, here's how it looked before processing. The prominences are very faint, so need processing to brighten them. The color palettes chosen are never "true color", as the image has virtually zero color depth during capture. It's a very narrow band of hydrogen-alpha light, which is pinkish red visually, but since it's such a narrow band of light there is no "depth" to the color, so there is no value in shooting with a color camera. I can reassign the accurate color to it, or...
2022-01-30 21:18:05 +0000 UTC View PostA few different prominences on the sun today, each processed slighty differently. One with much more contrast to reveal spiculae structure.
Two images of the wolf moon I never shared. The sky was so interesting that night.
The international space station transiting the Apollo 11 landing site. Video attached
