The moon tonight.

The Fireworks Galaxy with the small open star cluster NGC 6939. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This was supposed to be over nine hours of the Flame and Horsehead, but one whole night had to be thrown away due to humidity and thin clouds, and what I kept showed signs of it too. I'll try for a better image of this later in the season. #Astronomy #astrophotography

The open star cluster NGC 752 in Andromeda. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

A more finished image of the Eastern Veil Nebula, with a couple more hours added. In a perfect world I'd be holding out for another ten hours. In the real world we're about to get a week of rain. #astronomy #Astrophotography

Sharing this for aesthetic reasons only. This is actually what happens when you set a meridian limit. The mount stops tracking at a certain point to keep equipment from colliding with itself. But the effect is like the stars are falling, and I thought it was cool.

I've also been working on the Eastern Veil Nebula for a couple of very short nights. This is less than four hours of it. If the weather holds I'll work on it two more nights and this won't be the final. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

NGC 1499, the California Nebula in Perseus. Only about five hours of it. Two or three times that much would be nice, but it's in a weirdly inconvenient location right now. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

A very quick session with M44, the Beehive Cluster, because I woke up early and couldn't stand to waste half an hour of clear darkness. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The thin waning crescent moon rising beside my neighbor's weather vane.

The Cone and Christmas Tree Nebulae. I've been working on this for a couple of nights now. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

M36, the Pinwheel Cluster. Very similar to the Starfish Cluster I posted a couple of days ago. They are also very close to each other. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is also from last night. I wanted to get more of it tonight, but we suddenly got slammed by fog. In December. Anyway, this is M38, the Starfish Cluster in Auriga. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is the Cave Nebula. It's very faint. It's very hard to image. This is 15 hours of it, which would be a lot for a brighter nebula. I've been processing it off and on throughout day. This version will have to do. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The mighty Sword of Orion, with stars. The Sword is home to the Running Man Nebula, the Great Orion Nebula, and De Mairan's Nebula, which is the one that looks like a little paisley. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

To start your day, here's a starless image of the nebulosity in the Sword of Orion. I'm still working on it, and I'll add the stars back in. But I just had to share this. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

A better version (IMO) of IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula, after I brought it up to about 11 1/2 hours total exposure time. #Astronomy #astrophotography

And a redo on IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, with seven hours of total exposure time rather than three. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is the Sculptor Galaxy again, but with another two hours added from last night. And I do think it was an improvement, and worth doing. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

I was going to just get three hours of this and move on to something else, but now it seems promising and I think I'll try to get four more hours tonight. It's IC405, the Flaming Star Nebula. #Astronomy #astrophotography

And this is about four hours of the Sculptor Galaxy. This never goes very high over the horizon from here, and after two hours I lose it behind a tree. I might work on this for another night or two was well. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is about seven hours of The Pelican (IC 5070) in Cygnus. I think I'm going to work on this for another night or two and see if I can improve the detail. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The moon with Jupiter and horse ears--a cell phone image.

And while I was at it, one of my favorite asterisms, the distinctive "V" of the Hyades. The bright red star is Aldebaran, the eye of the bull in Taurus. The full(ish) moon was rising in a split second, so I was trying to get creative. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

I was fascinated to see if I could take a very wide field image of the constellation Triangulum and have the Triangulum Galaxy show up, even faintly. I'm not saying it's easy to see, but it's in there. Including an annotated version. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

In White Light and Calcium-k, here's "the mighty sunspot trio." Left to right, Active Regions 4296, 4294, 4298. Right now they are being suspiciously quiet, but the potential is big. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Tonight's Cold Moon. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Hopefully it's obvious that this is a composite. You could never get the Pleiades in such detail under a full moon. But they were in this position last night, and I photographed the moon and subbed in a Pleiades you can actually see. Just for fun and aesthetics. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Still quite the party going on up there on the sun. This thing has already released another X-flare. But it's not directly Earth-facing enough to give us much of a hit. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This thing is a monster. Actually, technically it's two active regions. But the point remains. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

My half a week off of work and school was fun but nowhere near enough. I have a new tradition, and it is reading @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social's new book each November over my break. This is a beautifully sensitive story about addiction, mental health and how people can heal each other.

Look what's back. Remember that giant sunspot region that recently gave us aurora action all the way down to Mexico? Well, here it comes again. #Astronomy #astrophotography

The big open star cluster M35 in Gemini, with the smaller and more distant cluster NGC 2158 above and to the right. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

A single (as opposed to stacked) image of the waxing moon tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The nice big open star cluster NGC 752 in Andromeda. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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This is my third go at M45 (the Pleiades) this season, because I wasn’t happy with the other two. About half of this was taken in the presence of the 1st quarter moon. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Crescent moon in the constellation Capricornus tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is an unusual one. It's the irregular galaxy IC 1613 in Cetus. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

M1, the Crab Nebula in Taurus. A supernova remnant. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is Sharpless 2-261, or Lower's Nebula, in Orion. I was only able to get this for about five hours a night without sacrificing sleep, so this is three nights of it. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

A nice little pairing. This is the Bubble Nebula in the lower left, and the open star cluster M52 in the upper right. The Bubble is devilishly hard to get right. A least, I find it so. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is that interstellar object again, but starless. 31 Atlas. This is a better-stacked try at it. Forty 90-second images with genuine comet stacking. However, I did not manage to reintroduce the stars without the whole thing turning to crap. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

NGC 7023, the Iris Nebula in Cepheus. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is NGC7814, sometimes called the Little Sombrero Galaxy. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

I loved @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social's newest novel. It's touching, incredibly thoughtful, filled with moments and characters you'll remember a long time. #booksky #bookreview My review was first posted on Bookreporter.

Hi #BookSky 💙📚 I've started re-reading So Long, Chester Wheeler by @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social

For those who've asked me if I'm going to try for that interstellar object 31/Atlas, a game attempt with a 6" scope. You're supposed to have a 16" scope to do it justice. This is 10 100-second images, manually stacked, which is why the stars look weird. #Astronomy #astrophotography

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Hi #BookSky 💙📚 I've started re-reading Just a Regular Boy by @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social