#astro #astronomy #astrophotography 3 day old waxing crescent moon 10% of surface illuminated Meade 8 inch with .63 focal reducer Canon t2i

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, billow or fluctus clouds, are a rare and short-lived atmospheric phenomenon that resemble breaking ocean waves formed when two layers of air of different densities & speeds interact, creating a distinctive rolling wave-like pattern in the sky. A cold front on the Blueridge.

Moon Between, Earth Between. This is a composite of 2 single frames. One of the 2024 Solar eclipse captured by Cory Dalton with a capture of the March 2025 Lunar Eclipse taken by John Boston "Star Sherpa" superimposed. #astrophotography #astronomy #astro

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography The upcoming lunar blood eclipse March 3 with totality near sunrise. You will need a clear view of the lower western sky here in NC. Nice partial views like this from last March where in upper stratosphere, ozone absorbs red light and allows blue light to pass.

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Orion Nebula (RASA 11 ASI071MC 5 sec F/2.2)

#astro #astrophotography #eaa #astronomy using Sharpcap live stacking features to adjust a stack on the fly for such things as background subtraction, histogram adjustment and color noise. Small 50mm refractor and 20 year old DSLR with 20 sec exposures can give observers a satisfying live view.

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Bedtop astronomy--50mm bundled up remote focusing from warm inside!

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Jupiter spins at over 28000 mph making a full revolution in less than 10 hours. The red spot (upper right) disappears and Moon Io makes transit (lower right) during wonderful winter imaging session . Get out and enjoy Jupiter at its brightest & all the winter sky!

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Jupiter and moons near opposition captured with venerable Meade LX90 8 inch SCT F10 and QHY462 imager

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Winter tent observing before lights out

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#astro #astrophotography #astronomy Keeping the wind off for winter observing!

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography The Pleiades, M45 The Seven Sisters Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope (58 stacked 45 second exposures)

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Great day fo solar live stacking imaging

#astro #astroophotography crescent moon slips below horizon at Elk Mountain

A holiday gift idea for dark sky enthusiasts #astrophotography #astronomy #darksky #publichealth jeffpfaller.com/products/dar...

We were not very optimistic with regard to the weather. November's DSO night turned out fantastic! We got to see just about every object worth sharing through our many various optics, Jupiter being the exception as it was a little too low at the end of the night. #darkskies

#astro #astrophotography #astronomy ASI462 cam with 8 inch SCT at F10 live planetary stack in Sharpcap

Final program at 221 access for the year! Thank you so much to the park staff for letting us enrich the experiences of the campers from time to time this year. We are looking forward to future events next year and many years to come.

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#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Live stack of Jupiter 8 inch SCT F/10 soft focus in crazy wind conditions

Wonderful low latitude aurora taken 2 hours ago at The Lump Overlook on 11/11/25. Even better than last years! #Astronomy #astrophotography #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #northcarolina

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography November's Beaver Moon

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Today's sun

#astro #astrophotography #astronomy Playing around with the Pleiades M45 I have all winter to get it right!

#astronomy #astro #astrophotography Orion Nebula(M42) back in the sky after midnight coming soon to earlier evening skies near you.

#Astronomy #astrophotography #ashecounty #Jeffersonnc #westjeffersonnc #northcarolina #publichealth #AppState #boone #wataugacounty #mountrogers #ncparks #nature #darksky

Occasionally members like to revive their relationship with the night. One way of doing this is through astrophotography, a low impact hobby. You can achieve fascinating images with inexpensive sensors. For instance, the Pleiades was shot using an old dslr. Credit: D. Heflin x 3 C. Dalton x 1.

An emerald color of comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is seen in front of a dense southern milky way backdrop. This comet image was taken by one of our volunteers during the October DSO night. #Boone #appstate #astrophotograpy #astronomy #lightpollution #publichealth

October night at the DSO was awesome until it clouded over. The volunteers and students had fun gathering a few images before the show. Photo credit for the milkyway and hand heart shots to the young ladies that took them. #Boone #appstate #astrophotography #astronomy #lightpollution #publichealth

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography First view of season Orion Nebula low on horizon after midnight

#astronomy #astro #astrophotography Ha! My EEA stack of 30 second exposures reminded me of my screensaver a couple of decades back

#astro #astrophotography #astronomy Live streaming Andromeda at 240mm

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography #eea Screen sharing the moon asi462 cam and 242mm

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Solar activity

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Yesterday's solar outreach

We had such a great evening celebrating NASA's Observe the Moon Night at Rendezvous Mountain State Park! Thank you to all those who helped set it up including Ranger Matheson and Mr. Shepherd. We hope to do it again soon! #astronomy #publichealth #lightpollution #ashecounty #wilkescounty

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Saturn and Moon EEA

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Facebook live sunspots EEA

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Saturn EEA share

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography Outreach and EEA sharing at Grandview Overlook on The Blue Ridge Parkway

This is what a newly launched batch of Starlink satellites looks like on our #MeteorCameras. All night stacked images are from 21 Sept '25, Oxfordshire, UK. Behind the crud the cameras captured 127 & 160 meteors respectively. Fortunately RMS software is good at filtering out junk

#astro #astronomy Granddaughter's tribute to the night sky

#astro #astronomy #astrophotography #eea sharing Saturn from home at Rainbow Trail

Price Lake was fantastic early on tonight. We did some LP outreach with about 20 folks and did an astrophotography clinic while our resident Star Sherpa (John Boston) shared views of Saturn at opposition.