The Chihuahuan Desert is where school buses go to die. Wander a few miles and chances are you will find one. Hopefully empty in the dark 😬

Found this one in the middle of nowhere just after New Years this year. A cool scene as the constellation Cygnus was setting.
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Hey, it’s the spaghetti nebula, 6 times the apparent size of the moon from earth…in reality, it’s 3,000 light years across…2,726,626,160 or so times the size of the moon.
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Early stages of an image I’m working on. This is a photograph of just the Hydrogen Gas in the center of a popular nebula. For some areas of space I prefer these black and white images. Any guesses on the nebula?
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The cosmic reflecting pool, The Rosette Nebula. Nikon Z7 camera with 500mm lens.
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Hey, Orion! For half my life this was the only constellation I knew. Pointed my camera at this old friend for a few hours under the dark skies of Big Bend, Texas a couple of weeks ago:
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I’ve never photographed the gas clouds of Rho Ophiuchi, but took a Timelapse a last year. Snowed in this weekend I decided to stack all the Timelapse frames into one image:
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Space between the Pleiades and California Nebula 😍
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I just got back from 10 days at Big Bend National Park where I was lucky enough to get 7 clear nights under the darkest skies in the continental US. This image is of M31, The Andromeda Galaxy, taken with 7 hours of exposure time with a Nikon 300mm lens and 1.4x teleconverter.