This is a massive mosaic made from over 100,000 individual images. By far my most ambitious solar project, and with orders of magnitude more detail than anything I've previously attempted. Zoom in ...
2021-04-05 23:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostHello and a happy Easter to all who celebrate it!
April is deep in the heart of "Galaxy Season", since te Orion spur sets too early to do any kind of meaningful observations with it, and the ...
2021-04-05 03:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll also give you a look at how an image evolves, since I decided to keep working on this one after posting it here... take a look at the attached. A smoother transition between moon/sun I felt wa...
2021-04-01 23:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A dying star shaping the vast clouds of an emission nebula sculpt this incredible scene. This is a combination of a friend's narrowband data and my color data. (My data is available to aspiring ast...
2021-03-28 15:56:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for your support! Been a slow month for me for imaging, a lot of equipment issues and bad weather making things a challenge. Either way, here are some new wallpapers, cut from the high quali...
2021-03-27 17:09:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The sun has some nice little active regions and a few prominences, as seen in this picture I took today. Nothing too crazy, but it sure looks interesting. During processing, I composited it against...
2021-03-25 21:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This is actually not from my telescope, but from one down in Chile. A few members of the astrophotography community are challenging astrophotographers to try their hand at processing the data from ...
2021-03-19 02:23:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The Horsehead and Flame nebulas are star forming regions of space located around the leftmost star of Orion's Belt. The Horserhead is rich in Hydrogen, which gives it such a vibrant red color. This...
2021-03-16 05:10:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This was done by Shooting the moon as usual, and then creating a special device (a mix of 3d printed parts with household items) to hold small lights in a circle, which was mounted on my equatorial...
2021-03-03 05:51:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy Patrons!
Winter is coming to an end, and along with it, the winter constellations. The coming months are known as "Galaxy Season" among as astrophotographers, because our night sky is...
This was a unique transit for me- in addition to costing me all but 2 hours of sleep, it also is the first time I was able to identify a structural change in the ISS from my shots! Right now in pre...
2021-02-28 18:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Check it out with Jupiter for scale
2021-02-26 22:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This composite image is the result of around 50,000 16-bit images, stacked and sharpened using a wide range of tools, to produce one of the sharpest images I've managed so far. The faintly visible ...
2021-02-24 00:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This image is inverted to highlight the prominences at the top, one of which is a huge plasma stream being ejected into space.
2021-02-21 21:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
On the last picture, The countries are (roughly from left to right) Taiwan, Ireland, Jamaica, Fiji, Hawaii, Iceland, and New Zealand. All these are to scale, to give you a since of how massive the ...
2021-02-20 23:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm waiting patiently for the (hopefully) good news that Perserverence has successfully touched down on Mars, which will happen in about 4 hours. This image is A composite created from Hubble's Mar...
2021-02-18 16:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Many of you may have been following my Journey the evening of 12/21/20, when I was attempting to photograph a once-in-a-lifetime conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. An unforecasted wall of fog rolle...
2021-02-15 19:06:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This was captured in about 40 minutes from dark-ish skies.
2021-02-14 20:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The Corona of the sun was captured the day of the great American Eclipse, and superimposed into this Hydrogen-Alpha shot catured yesterday. The Corona is frequently shifting, so It probably doesn't...
2021-02-10 03:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the orion constellation- but it's hard to tell at first. You can see the bright orange betelgeuse in the upper left, and the belt about 2/3rds in from the left at the center. At the bottome...
2021-02-08 19:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
If you look deep into Orion's Scabbard, you will find a bright mass of stars hidden within a foggy envelope of interstallar gas. In long exposures, rich colors surface, showing the vibrant pinks an...
2021-02-08 19:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I've shared a lot of moon pics with you, usually focused on creating an image that reflects what your eyes can see (sometimes with colors enhanced of course). This time I processed the image with a...
2021-02-02 02:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I included desktop and mobile wallpapers from my recent images, as well as a sneak peek at something I may or may not post- a unique way of processing a moon image to reveal the rich composit...
2021-02-02 00:04:31 +0000 UTC View PostI've been getting a bit stir crazy with the terrible weather I've faced in Sacramento over the last few months, so I plan on making trips to darker skies this month. This is a quiet period for cele...
2021-02-01 23:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Since I can't bring you fresh original content right now, I thought I'd do a patreon- only write-up of the more technical details behind a shot like this.
This is the pinwheel galaxy,...
