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Debra's Astrophotography
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Astrophotographer based in BC Canada, some wildlife and landscapes thrown in there ✨📷🔭 🇨🇦. All images my own, unless repost.

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Debra's Astrophotography @debraceravolo.bsky.social · Dec 6
Hello Blue Sky! Please allow me to introduce myself. I have been doing deep sky astro imaging for 16 years and recently got into travel photography for nightscapes and landscapes in far off beautiful places. So much to see and learn and happy to be here and share my work and to be inspired 📸
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I was at a photo workshop in the Texas Bayou on November 11, 2025 and this happened. The last thing I thought I would be photographing in Texas would be the northern lights! Red flooded the sky and reflected off the Bayou. I couldn't believe it!

#astrophotography #astronomy #northernlights
Red aurora flooding the sky and reflecting in the Texas Bayou waters. Taken on the night of November 11, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Comet A6 Lemmon's closest approach to the Sun is on November 8th, 2025. I took this image on October 29th showing a huge increase in activity around the core. A very zoomed in shot using a 16 inch telescope f/18, 7400mm focal length with Canon R6.

#astrophotography #astronomy #comets #cometlemmon
Comet Lemmon showing bow shocks at the green core and streamers of dust and gasses flowing behind it as it approaches the Sun.Taken with a 16 inch telescope.
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Happy Halloween Bluesky! Here is a ghostly phantom of the night, Comet A6 Lemmon. Taken with a 300mm telescope and luminance filter, 60 X 1 minutes exposures stacked. Dust and gas flow from the head blown by the solar wind.

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Comet A6 Lemmon is a ghostly apparition just in time for Halloween. Streamers of gas and dust flowing away from the head of the comet.
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Comet A6 Lemmon is very dynamic. Moving closer to the sun, the dust tail (yellow) is increasing and the bluish ion tail is being slammed by the solar wind. Captured it the morning of Oct. 14 with my 12 in telescope and filters. 1 hour total exposure time

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Comet A6 Lemmon is very dynamic. Moving closer to the sun, the dust tail (yellow) is increasing and the bluish ion tail is being slammed by the solar wind. Captured it the morning of Oct. 14 with my 12 in telescope and filters. 1 hour total exposure time
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I captured Comet Lemmon early October 7, 2025. Using my 300mm Ceravolo telescope and CCD camera. About 30 minutes of total exposures using LRGB filters. The tail is much longer than shown in this 1 degree field of view.

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A beautiful new comet graces the northern sky. Comet Lemmon has a bright green comma and long ion tail
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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During my two week visit to Ireland, I got one clear night for astrophotography. A single 20 second shot using a Canon R6 and Sigma 14mm, f/1.8 lens. This is the Screeb fishing hut in Connemara, Ireland.
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The Milky Way stretches high above a small fishing hut with canoe on still reflecting water, Connemara, Ireland.
October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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A beautiful spiral galaxy with many star birth regions in pink nebulosity. M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. 17 hours of total exposure times including hydrogen-alpha. Taken with my Ceravolo 300mm telescope at f/9 with an SBIG STX 16803 ccd camera.
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A beautiful spiral galaxy with many star birth regions in pink nebulosity. M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. 17 hours of total exposure times including hydrogen-alpha.
September 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Bright planet Venus and Jupiter rise early August 12, 2025. Overlooking the town of Osoyoos, BC. A single 5 second exposure.

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Two bright planets, Venus and Jupiter rise over a mountain and town at night
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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This beautiful galaxy, ngc 7331, has a new supernova at its centre. Taken on July 28th, 2 weeks after it was discovered. For a short time, this star that violently exploded will outshine its own galaxy and then fade from view. Capture with my Ceravolo 300mm telescope.

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A beautiful blue spiral galaxy, ngc 7331, has a new supernova at its centre. Many other galaxies can be seen in this image. 1.5 hours total exposure time using a 300mm Ceravolo telescope and SBIG camera and filters
August 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I love the summer Milky Way in dark skies on my mountain in southern BC. A small lake reflects our galaxy on a quiet and enchanting night. 9 frame panorama taken with a Canon R6 and Sigma 14mm lens.
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Summer Milky Way over a small lake reflecting the Milky Way. Lake has rocks piled up around with tress in the background. Southern BC
August 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Happy Friday the 13th 🙀 Little Luna is enjoying summer in the garden. I love black cats!
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Black cat behind greenery
June 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Star trails around the North Star show our axis of rotation to the north. This is a total of 4 hours of exposures with the Earth spinning at 1600kms per hour. No wonder the days seem to go by so fast! A mild aurora completed the scene. Taken from my home in BC.

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star trails around the North star shows the Earth's rotation in four hours of exposures. A faint aurora with pink and green completed the scene.
June 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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When in France on a workshop to photograph the white horses of Camargue, this is the shot I was hoping to get. These beautiful horses running through the marshlands, their natural habitat with a young foal that was born in the wild. They turn white as they mature.

#whitehorses #camargue
May 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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My recent quest for photography adventures led me to the coastal region in the south of France where the famous and beautiful white horses of Camargue live.

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Beautiful white stallion on the beach in Camargue, south of France White stallion playing in the waves on beach in Camargue, south of France
May 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Happy #caturday from my new fur baby Luna.

#cats #caturday #blackcats
May 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I call this piece 'unhinged'. Kolmanskopp, an old abandoned mining town in Namibia, Africa. A place where the desert is re-claiming its place. a reminder that nothing lasts forever. This is a photographers playground.

#namibia #africa #desert
Kolmanskopp, Namibia, Africa. an old abandoned mining town where the desert is taking over the buildings. A house filled with desert sand. The house still has brightly colored wallpaper, door buried in sand.
April 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The weather is not the only thing that changes with the seasons. As we journey around the Sun, the night sky scenery also changes. The bright stars of winter will soon be in the daytime sky. Goodbye Orion, see you in the fall.

#astrophotography #space #nightscapes #orion #mountains
The constellation of Orion through clouds over Bow Lake and mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
April 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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April Showers...

#rain #mountains #spring
dark clouds releasing sheets of rain over valley surrounded by mountains
April 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Hello #bluesky. Here is a beautiful spring flower for you. The Iris Nebula. Taken from my backyard observatory with my Ceravolo300mm telescope.

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March 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Total lunar eclipse/Blood Moon March 13/14, 2025. I made this montage to visually show the actual size of the Earth's shadow cast into space and across the Moons face. I used a 1000mm mirror lens. It was a beautiful night.

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#space
March 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Eyes on the full blood moon late tonight. Total lunar eclipse in all of North America including Canada, US and Mexico. Rather symbolic don't you think?
This set of photos taken in 2019.

#astronomy #eclipse #moon
Lunar eclipse blood Moon
March 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The Leo Trio. It's no coincidence that these 3 galaxies are together in one frame. Focal length 1500mm. They are actually close together, so much so, their gravity is tugging on each other. Total of 40 hours of data from my backyard in BC, Canada.

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March 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Hamburger anyone? This is ngc 3628, the Hamburger Galaxy. It's quite fluffy with meat in the middle😀. It's in the constellation Leo that is part of a trio of galaxies that are tugging on each other. You can see the tidal stream of stars coming off it?

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February 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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The blue stars are in a cluster that are moving together in space in our galaxy, this is M7. All the other stars are in the centre of our galaxy. My God, it's full of stars!

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February 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM