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Tonight's Wolf moon. A very simple shot, minimally processed. Much higher resolution images to come!

The star trails formed by the pleiades star cluster, but between each trail is a different sun/moon image

The first quarter moon setting behind a cacti-covered butte visible from my backyard.

The colors have been enhanced to show the moon's mineral content. Check the attachments for the raw video of this scene as the moon set. 

The Leo Triplets. Check out the tail on the hamburger galaxy!

Venus at noon today.

The Inferior Conjunction of Venus- only .4% illuminated

Bode’s Galaxy. If the universe was small, stars would be out of focus when the galaxy is in focus.

The Cave Nebula- A reprocess of data captured in Early 2020

This data is available in Dropbox to those of you with access who want to take a crack at it! And a Happy new year to you!

A 4k image of some of my most popular astrophotos of 2021 (each image download attached)

Left to right:

ISS transiting the sun

"Forever Mankind" A gigapixel image of the first quarter moon

A civilian transit- a commercial plane transiting our sun

The November 2021 lunar eclipse

"Fire and Fusion"- My highest resolution image of the sun

The orion nebula

The "pink" supermoon in ultraviolet ligh...

A wider view of Comet Leonard, through some clouds still faintly illuminated by the sunset

The Christmas Comet "Leonard" as viewed from my backyard tonight.

Merry Christmas! Here's an 80 megapixel composite of the moon captured a couple weeks ago (and the raw image for comparison)

Ah, the magic of editing. This is a composite image, as the original photo was taken during the day, and the washed-out daytime moon was replaced with a moon captured the previous night ( and the size increased for dramatic effect. Check out the original photo here:

2021-12-24 21:16:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Two images for you- a razor-sharp Venus and an 80 megapixel image of our star making a face.

The longest full moon of 2021 in 207 megapixels

Two images tonight- Venus during the day and the Comet Leonard on the horizon below Venus

The sun is looking pretty cool ( I mean hot) today! Here's a close-up of a new active region.

Risked the rain to get this shot of the moon tonight

My HDR shot of Tonight's conjunction- with the moon and Venus at appropriate scale.

Venus and the moon captured with the same camera and telescope- to illustrate the size difference between the two

The Desert Rose- A vibrant look at the rosette nebula. My first attempt at this object with a color camera.

This is an emission nebula, which burns predominantly red. Here's a more accurate image color-wise:

However, with precision color balancing, other colors become evident in the nebula. For example, there is a blue cast in the middle from the starli...

Venus is close to its brightest right now. Look to the West at sunset!

The Cocoon Nebula... more stars than I can count!

The horsehead and flame nebulas- part of Orion's belt

Fire and Fusion: A 300 megapixel image of our star

The Incredible Orion Nebula

The Crescent and the Soap Bubble- 12 Hours of Exposures from Sadr

Raw data is availabe to those who subscribe to it

A Lunar Approach- The ISS and the Moon at 1am this morning, and how you can capture this yourself!

See attached for a video of the moment of the pass. It's significantly slowed down, it was only in frame for 1/25th of a second!!

My ISS transit shots tend to get the most questions, so I include a write-up exactly how I get them.

First- I check t...