Category: Astrophotography
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Globular Cluster M55, My Newest Astrophoto! Maybe…
It doesn’t happen very often but once in a while I take an astrophoto thinking I’m shooting one object but then when I go back and look at it later, I’m not sure at all if I shot the object I was trying to shoot or if I accidentally shot something else by mistake. This…
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Another New Astrophoto! The Dumbbell Nebula!
When it comes to astrophotography, there are hard to shoot nebulas and easy to shoot nebulas and today’s post features on of the easy ones. Thanks to an incredibly rare night of perfect conditions, I spent a night in my observatory shooting whatever I could and as part of that sprint, I shot Messier 27…
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New Astrophoto! Globular Cluster M22
As promised in my previous recent astrophotography posts, I have plenty more to share with you guys from a recent night out in my observatory and today is another one of those images! For today’s new astrophoto, I bring you the globular cluster M22 (Messier 22)! The globular cluster M22 is a very colorful collection…
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My Newest Astrophoto: M13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
With as rare as it is that I get out in the observatory these days, I have been opting for shooting easier targets so that I can shoot more objects in an evening than spending most of the evening shooting a single galaxy or nebula. Some of the easiest things to shoot are globular clusters…
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Saturn: My latest Astrophoto
I promised you guys that I have more astrophotos to share and I am here to deliver one of them! Its not that often I get to shoot things inside the solar system but once in a while the planets align (astronomy joke), and I get some great planetary shots! In the previous post, it…
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My Latest Astrophoto: Jupiter!
It seems that nights out in the observatory are few and far between these days as the Venn diagram of free nights, no forest fires and good weather is rarely in my favor this year. Between forest fires, a very cloudy monsoon season and just not having a ton of free nights, I’ve only managed…