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Space Garbage CO
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Denver Colorado based amateur astrophotographer and lover of all things space and science fiction.

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22 November 2025, M42, The Orion Nebula.

Easily one of my favorite targets. Just a quick shot to get started for the year!

Telescope: #Seestar S50, 00:27:40 Exposure, Stacked in Seestar

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The Orion Nebula shines brightly in the night sky against a backdrop of stars.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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22 November 2025, M33, Triangulum Galaxy.

Got a few brief shots with the Seestar this weekend while thinking about some bigger winter projects.

Telescope: #Seestar S50, 01:04:00 Exposure, Stacked in Seestar

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Messier 33, The Triangulum Galaxy, floats against a backdrop of stars.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Same! Lots of really cool little details inside the big features too.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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09 November 2025, Moon at 80%.

Last crater and edge details from the other night! I wasn’t sure if this angle would turn out but now I love it.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-1600 1/1000 sec | ~5,400 images | AS! RS6

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Craters dimple the waning gibbous moon across most of the lower face.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Film had to have been an epic challenge! I have hard enough time using video and exporting/stacking images for the end result, which has been a fun experience in itself. Instead of 36 film shots to get a great one I’m trying around 30 sec of video and extracting 900 images per section to stack.
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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09 November 2025, Moon at 80%.

More crater and edge details from the other night. I love this shot.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-1600 1/1000 sec | ~5,400 images | AS! RS6

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The waning gibbous moon with shadowed craters along the edge.
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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09 November 2025, Moon at 80%.

Edge details from the other night. By far some of the best shots I’ve taken of the moon so far!

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-1600 1/1000 sec | ~5,400 images | AS! RS6

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Edge and crater details of the waning gibbous moon.
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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09 November 2025, Moon at 80%.

A very early morning with clear skies and not much atmospheric turbulence. Got some pretty clean shots!

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-1600 1/1000 sec | ~5,400 images | AS! RS6

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The waning gibbous moon with clean crater details along the edge.
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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08 November 2025, Moon at 83%.

A few crater details from the other night.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-2000 1/1000 sec | AS! RS6

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Deep craters line the moon’s edge at 83% illumination.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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08 November 2025, Moon at 83%.

Clear but turbulent skies made for some fairly good results.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-2000 1/1000 sec | ~5,400 images | AS! RS6

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The waning gibbous moon shows interesting craters at 83% illumination.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A few comparisons I ran to see what differences there are depending on atmospheric turbulence, camera settings, and processing techniques.

It’s fun to read about it, it’s way more fun to test it!

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500

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Crater details on the moon while comparing different imaging techniques during turbulent and clear atmospheric conditions. Crater details on the moon while comparing different imaging techniques during turbulent and clear atmospheric conditions.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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07 November 2025, Moon at 91%.

A few crater details. Learning to use Autostakkert and RegiStax, pretty excited to see the results already!

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-2000 1/1000 sec | ~1,740 images | AS! RS6

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Deep craters showing on the waning gibbous moon at 91% illumination.
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I’m a fan of the cropped version. The pillars are more prominent and interesting! The wide field feels like it has some empty space on the outside edges. Cool to see the way it fades outward in the wide field, but not as cool as the pillars and central details to me.
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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07 November 2025, Moon at 91%.

Having some fun getting to see these craters change with the new scope and camera. This is two single images combined (top/bottom).

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
ISO-1000 1/1250 sec

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The waning gibbous shows deep craters at 91% illumination.
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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04 November 2025, Moon at 100%.

Beaver Supermoon, with slight crater details showing along the edge.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
ISO-400 1/1000 sec

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Slight crater details of the Beaver Supermoon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Same! It’s wild how intuitive they were.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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In my first 5 years in astrophotography it was really fun to start seeing patterns like shifting moon/sun rise and set positions on the horizon and how the constellations move throughout the year. I always wonder if the first humans who recognized this felt the same way.
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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That’s awesome! I was reading that the XLT coating is optimized for visual and CCD/photographic imaging, that was the win for me.

As for the C6, I feel like that convenience of use wins about every time. When I got my Seestar I used it constantly just because it’s so easy!
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The forked tripod is epic!! Great setup, and such a cool backstory to it. I bet the high quality optics really pay off now too.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Thanks! That vintage C8 sounds amazing, is it the black tube assembly with the vintage hand controller? How is it holding up?
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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04 November 2025, Moon at 100%.

Behold, the Beaver Supermoon! Created using two images (top/bottom halves).

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
ISO-400 1/1000 sec

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The Beaver Supermoon!
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🤣 I feel like I hit these every day I drive to work
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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That’s great to know! I’m using this for Lunar shots only right now. I did test it out last night and it really struggled to find Saturn, had to do a bit of manual wandering to find it in the end.
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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02 November 2025, Moon at 93%.

First shots with my new telescope! A few crater details.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-800 1/1000 sec | ~300 images | AS!

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Deep craters line the edge of the moon at 93% illumination.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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02 November 2025, Moon at 93%.

First shots with my new telescope! This image came in at a whopping 5K x 5K pixels! Resized to 2K for social media.

Telescope: #Celestron #CPC800 and #Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-800 1/1000 sec | ~1,800 images | AS!

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#Moon #Luna #Space #Colorado
The nearly full moon at 93% illumination. Deep craters can be seen along the left edge.
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM