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Continue reading →: Lunar & Planetary PhotographySince the weather has been generally poor, with only small windows of clear sky, I’ve been experimenting with Lunar and Planetary photography. The skill set and capture techniques are quite different, however the equipment I already own, particularly the 8 inch SCT is a reasonable setup for beginners. The capture…
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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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