Tag: astrophoto
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My Latest Astrophoto: Spiral Galaxy M63
It seems pretty rare for me to be lucky enough to get a break in the clouds lately so the other night when we actually had a clear night with great skies, I just had to open up the observatory and do some astrophotography! For this particular evening, my target was the spiral galaxy M63.…
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Galaxy NGC 2841 – My latest Astrophoto
Thanks to the full moon, it will be a few days before I am able to get back out with my telescope and start imaging again but I did get a pretty good shot on Sunday night of the distant galaxy NGC 2841. I’m starting to notice that I have reached the limit of what…
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My Latest Astrophotography Shots: the Moon!
I always dislike this part of the lunar cycle because the amount of light reflected off of the moon makes it much more difficult to shoot a lot of the deep space objects I typically like to try to image like galaxies and nebulas. If I do any astrophotography near the full moon, I usually…