The Moon

It’s been really cloudy lately in Central Florida, so instead of imaging from my driveway, I’ve tried using remote observatories. This particular image was taken using a telescope in Australia, using a service called telescope.live. This is the “Coalsack nebula”, a dark cloud of gas obscuring the Milky Way in the Southern hemisphere. We’re looking…

I shot this object in a few different ways. Here’s how it looks in pure “LRGB” light – how it would appear to the eye in its natural wavelengths, if your eyes could detect color on something so dim! And here’s a narrowband take on this same object. Notice that the structure of its core…

If you point your telescope outside of the Milky Way, you’re almost guaranteed to pick up very distant galaxies, because there are just so many of them out there. This patch of sky inside Cancer is a cluster of galaxies called Abell 671. If you click the image and look at it full size, you’ll…

Here’s 20 hours of exposure time on the Pleiades in Taurus… a lot of people call this the “little dipper” since it does look like a tiny one to the eye, but the little dipper is a larger constellation. Although it’s known as the “seven sisters,” in fact it’s a cluster of a thousand or…

Had a couple of clear nights recently, and trained the ‘scope at the Rosette Nebula again. By combining this year’s data with last year’s, I created an image with a total 27 hours of exposure time! The Rosette Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away within the constellation Monoceros, and is the birthplace of the cluster…

At the center of this image is the distant galaxy NGC210, 65 million light-years away within the constellation Cetus. It’s mind-blowing that we can capture an image of something so distant from our backyards, given the right technology. It’s also mind-blowing that we’re looking at light that has been traveling for 65 million years, giving…