Category: Image

I’m going to need to start a new constellation portrait section to organize these, and the problem is my ability to get good data has outstripped my ability to process them into good images. I spent October 13, 2020 at Cherry Springs (PA) and while it was not as clear as the night I spent …

AurigaRead More

The Heart and Soul nebulae (IC 1805 and IC 1848) are in Cassiopeia and are high enough above the horizon to start shooting relatively early in the evening, so I set up and shot 51 x 5 min for 255 minutes of total exposure. Object IC 1805, IC 1848, NGC 1027 Camera Hap Griffin Modified …

Heart and SoulRead More

I really should have spent more time per image, but I was so intoxicated with the dark skies that I jumped from object to object. My “neighbors” for the week were Bruce and Jill with Bruce being the imager, and he tended to do imaging of no more than two objects each night. But the …

M31, more from Cherry SpringsRead More

Another shot from Cherry Springs State Park, this image has a few flaws starting with a failure on my part to check the focus very well. It doesn’t show in this 25% scaled down image, but yeah, it was out of focus. With a background near the galactic core in Sagittarius, these almost get lost …

M8, M20, and More…Read More

It will take some time to work through all the images from this last week to produce “final” products, but this is the first one. While I’ve known about Cherry Springs State Park for a long time, this was my first visit. I’m glad I went. This is the Double Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC …

Double Cluster from Cherry SpringsRead More

Brooklyn, NY is a Bortle class 8 sky. On a good night. Really, that’s it. On a good, clear, low-humidity night, I can see all four stars in the trapezoid shape of Lyra and probably make out epsilon Lyrae as well. Toss in a little humidity or generally poor air quality and I lose all …

Attempting to Image the Veil from BrooklynRead More

Shot from near Wardell, MO at the end of July while visiting family. The skies in southeast Missouri are nice and dark, but I was set up near a rice field which made challenging to keep the mosquitos off me while shooting.  There was a first quarter moon up while this was being shot, so …

Aquila from near Wardell, MORead More

Although I don’t post much here because I’ve been busy with scouts, I’m not completely out of the hobby. Since I have family in Missouri, we traveled into the path of totality with friends and I got to see my first ever total eclipse. All I can say is that there is a big difference between a …

2017 EclipseRead More