This is my current project, the Iris Nebula. I end up with about 23 hours of data over 4 nights. #astrophotography

This is my current project, the Iris Nebula. So far I have 4 hours luminance, 6 hours red, and 7 hours green data. Just for kicks I used the luminance data in place of the blue channel and this is the result. Hopefully I'll get blue data this evening. #astrophotography

Comet Lemmon last night using my Celestron EdgeHD 800 with reducer. This is 12 30-second exposures in R, G, and B Antlia filters. Acquired with NINA. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop. #astrophotography

I took this image a couple of nights ago. The bright star near the bottom left is called the Garnet Star. It is a red super giant, 4th magnitude, easily visible to the naked eye under good seeing. This area of the sky is located in the constellation Cepheus. #astrophotography

This is last night's observation. This is NGC 7822 an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. #astrophotography

This is last night’s observation. This is called the Cygnus Wall, a 20 light year long ridge of gas and dust where star formation is occurring. #astrophotography

This was last night’s observation, the Elephant Trunk nebula. #astrophotography

I took the first picture last fall. It’s a mosaic of 4 panels of the Andromeda Galaxy. I never liked the gradient issue on the right side and was never able to get rid of it. Just for kicks I asked ChatGPT to get rid of it and the 2nd picture is the result.

This was last night's observation. This is a closeup of a portion of the Pelican Nebula This is just shy of 6 hours of data. #astrophotography

Last night’s observation, the Eagle Nebula.

Last night’s observation. This is called the Tulip Nebula, an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus approximately 6000 light years from Earth

This is last night's observation, the Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888. An emission nebula about 5000 light years from Earth.

This is a 2 panel mosaic of the Lagoon Nebula. Taken with my Celestron EdgeHD 800 and Antlia Ha, SII, and OIII (all 3nm) filters.

After about 2 months of clouds I was finally able to observe last night. This is the Trifid Nebula.

I reprocessed an old picture of the Horsehead Nebula. I don’t remember much about the details of the acquisition but this is an extreme crop to concentrate on the Horsehead, itself. This is RGB and HA. I used the HA as a luminance layer for detail.

Last night’s observation, M 13, a globular cluster in the constellation of Hercules.

I finished my Sombrero Galaxy project last night. This is a galaxy that is about 30 million light years away from Earth.

I happen to get a little solar observing done today. Here is a flare I happened to catch.

This is my latest project. This is the Sombrero Galaxy, around 29 million light years from Earth. This is just about 3 hours of luminance data. Hopefully I’ll get a clear night soon to get the color data to add. This was taken with my Celestron EdgeHD 800 and ZWO ASI 2600 MM Pro camera.

This is my latest project, the Pinwheel Galaxy. This is over 15 hours of data taken with my Celestron EdgeHD 800 and Antlia L, R, G, B, and H-alpha filters

This is the Whirlpool Galaxy. I was able to observe it for about 8 hours last night and combine that data with data from March 2024. I love all the other galaxies that just happened to be in the frame.

This was an observation from this past week that I'm just getting around to processing. This is M97, AKA the Owl Nebula. This is a planetary nebula over 2,000 light years from Earth.

I took my luminance data over last night on this target, M81, with much better results. M81 is a spiral galaxy approximately 12 million light years from Earth. Technical details below

This is my latest observation, M81, a spiral galaxy about 12 million light years away. I'm not extremely happy how this turned out. I had issues with my flats, especially the luminance flat.

This was last night’s observation. It doesn’t have an official name, other than Sh2-301 - the 301st object in the Sharpless 2 catalogue.

This is my latest observation, the Cone Nebula is located in the bottom portion and the Fox Fur Nebula in the upper right portion. This was taken over multiple nights with my Celestron EdgeHD 800 and ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro.

This is my latest observation. It's a 2 panel mosaic of the Jellyfish Nebula Technical Details: Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 800 Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro Filters: Altlia HA & OIII 3nm Each filter was 24 exposures of 300 secs Acquired in NINA, processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

This is a six panel mosaic of the Rosette Nebula #astronomy #astrophotography #rosette #highpointscientific #agenaastro #ZWO #Celestron #apod

This is an image of the Monkey Head Nebula that I took in January 2024. I reprocessed it using newer tools in Pixinsight. This is only about 7.5 hours of SHO data using my Celestron EdgeHD and ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro.

Reprocessed my mosaic of the Flame and Horsehead Nebulae.

This is a mosaic of the Flame and Horsehead Nebulae. It is approximately 30 hours of data

This is 2 nights of data of the Horsehead Nebula. Telescope: EdgeHD 800 Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro Antlia Ha,R,G,B filters RGB: 24 x 300sec each Ha: 72 x 300sec Acquired using N.I.N.A Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

This is a work in progress. This is the Horsehead Nebula. I plan on creating a mosaic of it and the Flame Nebula (off to the left of this picture). I’m also adding H-Alpha data to help bring out more detail.

This was last night’s observation. This is just a small portion of the Soul Nebula. Located approximately 6,000 light years from Earth

This is the Tadpole Nebula. This is a star forming region about 12,400 light years away from Earth. The nebula is ionized by 5 very hot massive stars. The “tadpoles” are knots of dust and gas where young stars are born. This was taken in December 2023.

This is the PacMan Nebula that I observed back in October of this year.

This has been a project a year in the making. This is a 4 panel mosaic of the Running Man and Orion Nebulae.

I probably should have posted this when I took it but this is Saturn from my driveway from a couple of days ago.

This is from 2023. It’s a mosaic of the Flame And Horsehead Nebulae taken from my front yard with my Celestron EdgeHD 800 and ZWO ASI 2600 MM Pro camera, with Antlia RGB and H-alpha filters.

The Andromeda Galaxy (mosaic) Technical Details: Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 800, with .7x reducer Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro Antlia 3nm HA, and R, G, B filters Each panel in the mosaic was about 6 hours of data Acquired using NINA Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

This was last night’s observation, the Cave Nebula. It is located about 2,400 light years from Earth.

This is my comet C/2023 A3 image. This is 20 x 1 sec exposures each in red, green, and blue. Taken with my EdgeHD 800 and my ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro camera.

Tried capturing this target from my Bortle 7 front yard. This is called the Squid Nebula. It was discovered in 2011. This is over 70 hours worth of data.