🧵(1/2) The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) our neighbour, located about 2.5 million light-years away. This is a work in progress. Shot taken on 2025-09-21 from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Red Cat 61 📷 ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 30 x 180s (1h30) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) IC 1396 is an emission nebulae, located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. Shot taken on 2025-09-19 from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Red Cat 61 📷 ZWO ASI 2600 + L-Extreme Total exposure: 45 x 300s (3h45) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/3) NGC 7000, The North American Nebula + the Pelican Nebula are emission nebulae located in the constellation Cygnus. Shot taken on 2025-09-16 from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Red Cat 61 📷 ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 32 x 300s (2h40) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) IC 1848, also known as the Soul Nebula, is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia. Shot taken on 2025-08-31 from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 42 x 300s (3h30) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) IC 63, also known as the Ghost of Cassiopeia, is a reflection and emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. Shot taken on 2025-08-15 from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 42 x 300s (3h30) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Cepheus. Shot taken on 2025-08-11 from my backyard 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 26 x 300 sec (2h10) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/3) The Iris Nebula (also known as NGC 7023 and Caldwell 4) is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Shot taken on 2025-08-01 from my backyard 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 56 x 120 sec (1h52) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) The Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cygnus. This is a 4 panels mosaic. Shot taken on 2025-07-18 from my backyard 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 4 x 8 x 180 sec (1h05) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) The Tulip Nebula (Sh 2-101) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Re-processed my data for more detail. Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard. 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 13 x 300 sec (1h05) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is an emission nebula. Reprocessed with better detail. Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard. 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 + Filter L-Extreme Total exposure: 1200 sec #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵/1 Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula). Retaken with more exposure Shot taken on 2025-07-4 from my backyard Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera: ZWO ASI 2600 + L-Extreme Filter Total exposure: 85 minutes #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Moon and Mars taken in the same frame. It's a first for me. Mars is only about 3 or 4 pixels wide 😆. Shot taken on 2025-06-29 from my backyard. Telescope : William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 Exposure: best 50% of (5000 x 4 millisec) #Astrophotography #Space #Planetary #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) The Tulip Nebula (Sh 2-101) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 6000 light-years away from Earth. Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard. 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 13x300 sec (1h05) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1/2) The Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. Shot taken on 2025-06-22 from my backyard. 🔭: William Optics Pleiades 111 📷: ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 1200 sec #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

🧵(1 of 2) NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. Shot taken on 2025-06-20 from my backyard. Telescope : William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 25 x 300 sec (2h05) #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Messier 27, The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula). Single 120 sec exposure. Shot taken on 2025-06-15 from my backyard. Before the clouds. Telescope : William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera : ZWO ASI 2600 Total exposure: 1 x 120 sec #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Moon this evening at 45% illumination (Waxing crescent 6.88 days old). 🔭 🧪 🎨 Shot taken on 2025-06-02 from my backyard. Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera: ZWO 2600 MC OSC 50% best of 5000 4 millisec exposures stacked #Astrophotography #Space #Moon #MoonHour #Planetary #Astronomy

On the cover of tomorrow's issue of Nature: predicting with high precision what happens when two black holes scatter. @nature.com 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/nature/volum...

The Moon this evening at 30.1% illumination (Waxing crescent 5 days). 🔭 🧪 🎨 Shot taken on 2025-05-02 from my backyard. Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera: ZWO 2600 MC OSC Single exposure: 10 millisec #Astrophotography #Space #Moon #MoonHour #Planetary #Astronomy

Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. Results from first ever real session using N.I.N.A Space jewelry. Shot taken on 2025-04-30 from my backyard. Telescope : William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera : ZWO ASI2600 Total exposure: 50 x 120 sec #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Moon this evening at 11.85% illumination. Shot taken through a thin layer of clouds. 🔭 🧪 🎨 Shot taken on 2025-04-30 from my backyard. Telescope: William Optics Pleiades 111 Camera: ZWO 2600 MC OSC Single exposure: 117 millisec #Astrophotography #Space #Moon #Planetary #Astronomy

Finally some clear skies. First ever real session using N.I.N.A Going for M13. Results to come in the next few days Telescope : William Optics Pleiades 111 Camara : ZWO ASI2600 MC OSC Total exposure time : 50 x 120 sec #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Finally got my copy of "Forty Ways to Know a Star" by Dr. Jillian Scudder. I just had time to preflight it and wow, what a nice book this is and well illustrated. Can't wait to seek my teeth into it. @jillianscudder.com I sure hope you have another title in the oven.

The Triangulum Galaxy (M33), 2.73 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. I had never processed this data until today. Shot taken on 2022-09-29 from my backyard. 🔭Schmidth Cassegrain 8" 📷ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐Exposure: 3 h 25 min #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Here's the Heart Nebula for Valentine's day ❤️. 2 Panels mosaic. Shot taken on 2024-12-22 from home. Telescope : William Optics Pleiades 111 Camara : ZWO ASI2600 MC OSC + L-Extreme Total exposure time : 30 min from lower part and 55 for the top #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

1 of 2: The Horsehead Nebula. I reprocessed last week's image to get better detail and contrast. Done with PixInsight and Photoshop.🔭 🧪 🎨 Shot taken on 2025-02-04 from my backyard. 🔭William Optics Pleiades 111 📷ZWO 2600 MC OSC 🕐Exposure: 1 h 38 min #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. 1,375 light-years from Earth.🔭 🧪 🎨 Shot taken on 2025-02-04 from my backyard. 🔭William Optics Pleiades 111 📷ZWO 2600 MC OSC 🕐Exposure: 1 h 38 min #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Finally got back in at around 11PM because part of my rig stopped functioning when the temperature drop below -20ºC. The autofocus froze in place. Look at the nice layer of frost on the telescope 😆🥶 #Astrophotography #Space #Astronomy

Gears all set-up. Outside temp is at -15ºC and they're calling for -20ºC. Now I just need darkness and a clear sky. 🔭William Optics Pleiades 111 📷ZWO 2600 MC OSC #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Getting ready for tonight to test some new gears. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. New filter wheel with an OAG.

The Orion Nebula (+the running man) is a diffuse nebula in Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years away. 🔭 🧪 🎨 Shot taken on 2025-01-24 from my backyard. 🔭William Optics Pleiades 111 📷ZWO 2600 MC OSC 🕐Exposure: 51 min #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Heart Nebula from last Saturday, reprocessed. I prefer this version with a cleaner background and better coloration. 2 Panels mosaic. Shot taken on 2024-12-22 from home. 🔭William Optics Pleiades 111 📷ZWO 2600 MC OSC + L-Extreme 🕐Exposure: 30 min #Astrophotography #Space #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Heart Nebula revisited with a new camera ZWO 2600 MC Pro. Done in a 2 sections mosaic with huge amount of detail. First try at this method. Shot taken last night 2024-12-22 from home. 🔭William Optics Pleiades 111 📷ZWO 2600 MC OSC + L-Extreme 🕐Exposure: 30 min #Astrophotography #Space #Astronomy

The winner of cover of the year for 2024 is the September cover connected to the Caleb, Lenc et al. paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to all involved, particularly Carl Knox @ozgrav.bsky.social and @csiro.bsky.social #NAstroCoverComp #astronomy

The Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. In this simple image, 146 Galaxies are visible and highlighted in the second image. Shot in 2021 from my backyard. 🔭 Explore Scientific ED102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC 🕐 2h50 minutes of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Our Moon, 99.7% illuminated 2024-12-14 at 20h05 Shot from my backyard (North America) 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 2600 MC Pro OSC 🕐 750 x 4 msec exposures stacked (15% best images of 5000 taken) #Astrophotography #Planetary #Moon #Astronomy

Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF), is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. Shot in 2023 from my backyard. 🔭 Explore Scientific ED102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC 🕐 50 minutes of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Comet #Astronomy

Triangulum Galaxy or Messier 33, 🧪🔭 The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. Shot in 2019 from my backyard. 🔭 Explore Scientific ED102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC LPS filter 🕐 3:40 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Horsehead Nebula, Flame Nebula, 🧪🔭 is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion and about 1,375 light-years from Earth. Can't wait to revisit this target. Shot in 2019 from my backyard. 🔭 Explore Scientific ED102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC 🕐 3:15 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) 🧪🔭 Reprocessed to bring out the OIII region 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC + L-Extreme filter 🕐 2:50 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

I would love to sing up to the Astronomy feed @bot.astronomy.blue signup

The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula in Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years away. Shot from my backyard a few years ago. I will revisit this object soon. 🔭 Explore Scientific ED 102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244) is located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. Shot this weekend from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC + L-Extreme filter 🕐 2 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

Waning Gibbous Moon. 16 November 2024. 🔭 🧪 🎨 One day past full Moon 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐 25% best of 3000 exposures stacked

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) 🧪🔭 The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central star. Shot this weekend from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC + L-Extreme filter 🕐 2:50 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Andromeda Galaxy 🧪 or M31, is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Shot this last September from my backyard 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐 12:41 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Andromeda Galaxy 🧪 or M31, is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Shot this last September from my backyard 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐 12:41 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

holy fuck. it’s number 1 in australia too.

Flaming Nebula (IC 405) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. This is a work in progress with just 45 minutes of integration, shot this last weekend from my backyard. 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐 45 minutes #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It is also what's on the Subaru logo. At a distance of about 444 light-years. Shot from my backyard last year. 🔭 ED 102 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐 120 minutes #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy