Tonight's Wolf moon. A very simple shot, minimally processed. Much higher resolution images to come!
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The star trails formed by the pleiades star cluster, but between each trail is a different sun/moon image
The first quarter moon setting behind a cacti-covered butte visible from my backyard.
The colors have been enhanced to show the moon's mineral content. Check the attachments for the raw video of this scene as the moon set.
2022-01-12 23:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Leo Triplets. Check out the tail on the hamburger galaxy!
Bode’s Galaxy. If the universe was small, stars would be out of focus when the galaxy is in focus.
The Cave Nebula- A reprocess of data captured in Early 2020
This data is available in Dropbox to those of you with access who want to take a crack at it! And a Happy new year to you!
2022-01-02 17:31:10 +0000 UTC View PostA 4k image of some of my most popular astrophotos of 2021 (each image download attached)
Left to right:
ISS transiting the sun
"Forever Mankind" A gigapixel image of the first quarter moon
A civilian transit- a commercial plane transiting our sun
The November 2021 lunar eclipse
"Fire and Fusion"- My highest resolution image of the sun
The orion nebula
The "pink" supermoon in ultraviolet light
The comet Leonard
The Horsehead Nebula
The remaster of 2020's martian occult
Saturn rising behind the moon
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2021-12-31 16:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostA wider view of Comet Leonard, through some clouds still faintly illuminated by the sunset
The Christmas Comet "Leonard" as viewed from my backyard tonight.
Merry Christmas! Here's an 80 megapixel composite of the moon captured a couple weeks ago (and the raw image for comparison)
Ah, the magic of editing. This is a composite image, as the original photo was taken during the day, and the washed-out daytime moon was replaced with a moon captured the previous night ( and the size increased for dramatic effect. Check out the original photo here:
Two images for you- a razor-sharp Venus and an 80 megapixel image of our star making a face.
Two images tonight- Venus during the day and the Comet Leonard on the horizon below Venus
The sun is looking pretty cool ( I mean hot) today! Here's a close-up of a new active region.
My HDR shot of Tonight's conjunction- with the moon and Venus at appropriate scale.
Venus and the moon captured with the same camera and telescope- to illustrate the size difference between the two
The Desert Rose- A vibrant look at the rosette nebula. My first attempt at this object with a color camera.
This is an emission nebula, which burns predominantly red. Here's a more accurate image color-wise:
However, with precision color balancing, other colors become evident in the nebula. For example, there is a blue cast in the middle from the starlight in the middle scattering the reflected light, completely undetectable with the naked eye. These colors become evident with the right processing te...
2021-12-06 23:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostVenus is close to its brightest right now. Look to the West at sunset!
The Crescent and the Soap Bubble- 12 Hours of Exposures from Sadr
Raw data is availabe to those who subscribe to it
2021-11-25 17:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostA Lunar Approach- The ISS and the Moon at 1am this morning, and how you can capture this yourself!
See attached for a video of the moment of the pass. It's significantly slowed down, it was only in frame for 1/25th of a second!!
My ISS transit shots tend to get the most questions, so I include a write-up exactly how I get them.
First- I check transit-finder.com.
This is a web resource that allows you to put in your location, a time frame, and how far you're w...
