I spent a couple more nights gathering light on Thor's Helmet. There are some bits that I'll want to change later and when I do, I'll update the thread with new versions. Let me know which version you like more: the lighter blue HOO or the darker blue SHO. #astrophotography #photography

With all the downtime I had this winter, I was starting to think I’d fully miss out on the Orion targets. Either way, after 2 months of hardware problems here’s the Horsehead! I’ve always wanted to shoot this one but just never had a good opportunity in the pnw. #astrophotography #photography

Well after two months of downtime, I finally am getting some solid data again. Here's a sneak peak of one of the targets I'm currently working on. I need to get some more HA and Sii as most of the frames were damaged from the oil leak on the sensor. #astrophotography #photography

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Well my ASI2600mm is on its way back to Starfront from ZWO for the second time this winter. Hopefully it works this time around and I have enough clear nights to finish up some of the winter nebulae targets I started back in November.

Since I'm spending my NYE reprocessing data from earlier this year, here's another one that I felt like playing with. NGC 1333 is such a cool target, I really like the complex dust clouds. I'll link to my original below. Let me know which one you like more. #astrophotography #photography

I wanted to try out that MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch tool in PixInsight and since I was already redoing my Flying Bat and Squid nebula shot and figured I'd give it a go on that data. Honestly, this version just butters my biscuit. #astrophotography #photography

Today is Sail Forth's launch anniversary! I'm working on a pretty big update due early next year. Here's a look at a new ship, the Croaker Flagship! It has little frog foot paddles instead of oars. 🐸 Really happy with how the rigging came out on this one! #indiedev

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Well I guess I'm out of commission astrophotography-wise for a while. My camera decided that it was time to develop the infamous thermal grease oil leak problem. So now I have to wait for the RMA process with ZWO.

I be been working on processing a 4 panel mosaic of the tadpoles and the flaming star nebulae. The colors are giving me a bit of a fight but here’s where I’m at so far. First off we’ve got a tight crop of the two main targets. #astrophotography #photography #nebula #space

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WR 134 is a Wolf-Rayet star in the constellation Cygnus, surrounded by a ring nebula created by its extreme stellar wind and radiation. The image was taken in July 2025 over several nights and is composed of 70 photos, each with an exposure time of 600 seconds. #Astrophotography

NGC 1333 is such a dirty, dusty area and I love looking at it. This a first pass on the data but damn it’s got such cool areas of detail in it. I’ll probably do a couple more tweaks and brighten the dusty bits compared to the background. So more of this coming soon. #astrophotography #photography

I’ve been working on the California nebula for the last few days. I’ve reprocessed it a couple times now and like this version but I feel like there’s more I could do for the data. So I’m gonna keep working on it here and there… eventually. #photography #astrophotography

Can’t believe Dick Chaney couldn't even last four days into No Nut November

A couple pics from a recent hike in the woods in the Snoqualmie National Forest. #photography

Happy spooky day! I don't have any Halloween costume pics, but how about a shot of the Pleiades? I've always wanted to shoot this and am thrilled to finally add it to my portfolio. I shot this over 4 nights and ended up with 7 hours of data for each LRGB channel. #astrophotography #photography

Happy spooky day! I don't have any Halloween costume pics, but how about a shot of the Pleiades? I've always wanted to shoot this and am thrilled to finally add it to my portfolio. I shot this over 4 nights and ended up with 7 hours of data for each LRGB channel. #astrophotography #photography

Here's a quick pass I made at some data for the "Ghost of Cassiopeia". This is just shy of 40 hours of data and damn that star is BRIGHT. I'm going to spend some more time with it and see if I can't tease out some more contrast in some places but it was a fun one. #astrophotography #photography

I got laid off recently and my termination date is in a couple days. I’ve been reflecting recently on the experience and overall the emotion that I am feeling the most is relief. I was so stressed and tired at the end. I’ve been recovering a bit from the burnout and remembering how to enjoy life.

I had some fun with the Heart nebula. It's always a stunner and I love working on it. I started with the traditional SHO palette and then just tweaked it until I got something that felt right. All totaled up I think this was between 45 and 50 hours of data. #astrophotography #photography

Prepare to see this more often

Here's the Garlic (aka Medulla) nebula in all of its glory. This is a very dim target. I collected about 53 hours of data with 38 of that being spent on the hydrogen. I don't normally post the starless versions of my images but it was just too good not to include. #astrophotography #photography

A sneak peak on what I'm currently working on. These are from 10 minute subs. I still need a lot more data since it's such a dim target but I'm hype to see what I'll be able to get out of it. The moon's finally out of the way so it should hopefully only be a few more days. #astrophotography

Here's M33. This one is about 52 hours spread across LRGB and HA. I shot a bit of Oiii accidentally but didn't end up incorporating it into the image. It was definitely a bit of a challenge to work on, I think the sub times were too long for such a bright object. #astrophotography #photography

This is about 38 hours of data of a lot of different interesting features. The main feature here is LDN 1266, but there's also the "Teddy Bear Nebula" and about a dozen more bright and dark nebulae throughout the frame. #astrophotography #photography

I just had to shoot Andromeda again. It felt only right with my gear down at Starfront. This image is about 22 hours of LRGB with an additional 10 hours of HA data pulled in to highlight the H2 regions. #astrophotography #galaxy #space #photography

I spent 5 nights recently shooting the Iris Nebula. In the end, I had about 20 hours of usable LRGB data to play with. I'm so happy with amount of detail I was able to pull out on the dark nebula clouds. #space #astrophotography #photography #longexposure

Molecular dust flying about 600 light-years away. This image is about 3.5x2.5 degrees, which means the moon would fit inside the field of view 35 times. Taken with my Takahashi Epsilon in SW New Mexico and processed in my astro-den in Virginia. #astrophotography #photography

Some fresh data of the Cocoon Nebula. There are a lot of stars in this tiny area. It was a bit of a beast to tame, but we got there. This is just LRGB, last time I shot this I added in some HA. I might still do that but I'm off shooting the Iris right now. #astrophotography #photography #space

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The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula (SH2-129). I imaged this recently for 6 nights. I haven't landed on a good SHO combination for it yet, the hydrogen is just so strong in this area, but the HOO came together without a fight. #astrophotography #photography #nebula #space #longexposure

Ahhhh yeah we’re back online. This is a rough first pass on the data of the Eagle Nebula. This is from the first four days that my scope has been online at Starfront. Very happy with the quality of the skies down there. Can’t wait to reprocess this and for more data! #photography #astrophotography

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The telescope is now fully set up at SFRO. After 4 days of debugging the last couple systems, it’s time to get imaging. What should be my first target?

I finally sent all my gear down to Starfront. I’ll be neck deep in data again soon!

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Still no space stuffs cause I’m being really lazy and haven’t sent my stuff down to Texas yet, so here’s my cat Riley.

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More of this, America.