Nebula season is upon us so its time to start dusting off the equipment and honing our skills. Atmospheric conditions aren’t great with high temperatures, high humidity, some Saharan dust, and a non-trivial amount of wildfire smoke as we get every year. The Veil Nebula is a convenient target for me, being in the north …
FINALLY a Seagull that doesn’t steal your food at the beach and poop on your head! In the waning months of Spring I realized that I hadn’t imaged the Seagull Nebula (IC 2177) in basically the entirety of my Astrophotography journey. Three nights of collecting photons that started moving toward us when we had finally …
Back in the Bad Old Days when we were working from home and trying not to go insane I decided I needed another project to add to the stack of half complete projects I was already working on. This was that project. I felt I needed to add an All Sky camera to my backyard …
A busy weekend for the telescope, not as much for me. Process automation is a huge time saver. This is all as a run-up to hosting the telescope remotely. The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) is reprocessed from data I collected in November 2025. I didn’t particularly care for the result then but this, I like …
To be perfectly fair, every bit of astrophotography is looking back into time. Even the moon is over one light second away, the sun 8-ish light minutes. On average light (and radio) takes about 43 minutes to get from the Earth to Jupiter. On average radio signals travelling at the speed of light from Earth …
Myth: You cannot image from inside cities because the light pollution will make things impossible. TL;DR: Modern software and filter technology is game-changing for imaging in the city, even for broadband targets! Long form: Let’s take a bit of a deep dive into this. For many, many years it has been accepted truth that you …
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Ok, as galaxies go, Andromeda is right next door at only 2.5 million light years. Light that reached my 61mm telescope earlier this year left shortly after the earliest humans learned how to use fire. In playing with some new software that uses AI and machine learning to reduce deviation due to the atmosphere I …
I failed to post this when I imaged Rosette again back in January. This very, very wide field exposure from my very bright Bortle 9 back yard in Allen, Texas. To put it in scale, the full moon will fit inside the white-ish part of the nebula at the center of the image. Hydrogen gas …
The Great Orion Nebula is one of the first targets many astrophotographers image. I’m no different. Its also one that many revisit as they learn more. Again, I’m no different. This is my latest attempt at ending the insanity bred by this highly dynamic portion of the sky. From faint dust to naked-eye visible gas …
