For my first image back on team monochrome, I imaged NGC 7023 + Vdb 141, the Iris and Ghost Nebula.
~27 hours from Los Angeles, California
with:
Sharpstar Hyperbolic Newt 130mm f/2.8
ZWO 2600MM-Pro Cooled Astronomy Cam
Antlia LRGB
🔭
~27 hours from Los Angeles, California
with:
Sharpstar Hyperbolic Newt 130mm f/2.8
ZWO 2600MM-Pro Cooled Astronomy Cam
Antlia LRGB
🔭
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
For my first image back on team monochrome, I imaged NGC 7023 + Vdb 141, the Iris and Ghost Nebula.
~27 hours from Los Angeles, California
with:
Sharpstar Hyperbolic Newt 130mm f/2.8
ZWO 2600MM-Pro Cooled Astronomy Cam
Antlia LRGB
🔭
~27 hours from Los Angeles, California
with:
Sharpstar Hyperbolic Newt 130mm f/2.8
ZWO 2600MM-Pro Cooled Astronomy Cam
Antlia LRGB
🔭
Just got setup for the eclipse here in LA!! SkySafari is expecting totality ~11:30pm
March 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Just got setup for the eclipse here in LA!! SkySafari is expecting totality ~11:30pm
Horsehead -> Orion, finally
Still wish I could have had more time on RGB, but happy to move on to other objects.
3-panel, 50hr/42night, HDR RGB-HOO Mosaic from Los Angeles, CA 🔭
Still wish I could have had more time on RGB, but happy to move on to other objects.
3-panel, 50hr/42night, HDR RGB-HOO Mosaic from Los Angeles, CA 🔭
February 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Horsehead -> Orion, finally
Still wish I could have had more time on RGB, but happy to move on to other objects.
3-panel, 50hr/42night, HDR RGB-HOO Mosaic from Los Angeles, CA 🔭
Still wish I could have had more time on RGB, but happy to move on to other objects.
3-panel, 50hr/42night, HDR RGB-HOO Mosaic from Los Angeles, CA 🔭
Having Nikola Jokic on my fantasy roster feels like cheating 😅
Monster lines night after night.
Monster lines night after night.
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Having Nikola Jokic on my fantasy roster feels like cheating 😅
Monster lines night after night.
Monster lines night after night.
Vando present? Also have they held open practices in this new facility? Would love to attend one. Had a chance to attend in 2014 in the old building. Was early on in the preseason IIRC where they got a few runs in and were installing portions of their offense
January 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Vando present? Also have they held open practices in this new facility? Would love to attend one. Had a chance to attend in 2014 in the old building. Was early on in the preseason IIRC where they got a few runs in and were installing portions of their offense
Was able to get some time in under the stars over the last couple of nights. 💆🏾♂️🔭
Here's a dirty version of the horsehead nebula region in Orion, featuring Alnitak, Alnilam, the flame & more.
Here's a dirty version of the horsehead nebula region in Orion, featuring Alnitak, Alnilam, the flame & more.
January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Was able to get some time in under the stars over the last couple of nights. 💆🏾♂️🔭
Here's a dirty version of the horsehead nebula region in Orion, featuring Alnitak, Alnilam, the flame & more.
Here's a dirty version of the horsehead nebula region in Orion, featuring Alnitak, Alnilam, the flame & more.
Games I intended to play earlier this year but never got around to P1: Ghost of Tsushima
December 17, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Games I intended to play earlier this year but never got around to P1: Ghost of Tsushima
Here's the RAW img prior to background extraction along with a pic of my setup (including the dividers I use to block as much of my neighbors light, which covers my entire imaging area). Challenging, but not impossible.... Hopefully some darker skies are planned for my 2025 🤞🏾🔭
December 15, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Here's the RAW img prior to background extraction along with a pic of my setup (including the dividers I use to block as much of my neighbors light, which covers my entire imaging area). Challenging, but not impossible.... Hopefully some darker skies are planned for my 2025 🤞🏾🔭
Sharpstar hyper Newtonian 130m f/2.8
December 10, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Sharpstar hyper Newtonian 130m f/2.8
My latest attempt of M45, Pleiades Open Star Cluster: ~18 hours total of RGB, gathered over 9 nights from Los Angeles, CA. 🔭
December 9, 2024 at 6:44 PM
My latest attempt of M45, Pleiades Open Star Cluster: ~18 hours total of RGB, gathered over 9 nights from Los Angeles, CA. 🔭
Had the chance to blend the RGB(currently 9hrs)+HOO data for panel 1. ~15 hours seems about right to fill out the Running Man area. This is an extreme stretch, so maybe around 20 hrs is where I'd like to end up to not have to push the signal as much
December 9, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Had the chance to blend the RGB(currently 9hrs)+HOO data for panel 1. ~15 hours seems about right to fill out the Running Man area. This is an extreme stretch, so maybe around 20 hrs is where I'd like to end up to not have to push the signal as much
Here, you see skytools use the surface brightness in combination with the approximate user sky quality + equipment to help determine the total time, whereas the DSD tool uses the actual quality but is asking you to find the object signal from single sub, which can be tricky for the faint stuff.
December 6, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Here, you see skytools use the surface brightness in combination with the approximate user sky quality + equipment to help determine the total time, whereas the DSD tool uses the actual quality but is asking you to find the object signal from single sub, which can be tricky for the faint stuff.
HOO on top of h-alpha channel, and what would be all 3 panels stitched together. Just need the rgb to come along :-)
December 6, 2024 at 3:50 AM
HOO on top of h-alpha channel, and what would be all 3 panels stitched together. Just need the rgb to come along :-)
With the broadband signal, I'm looking at ~15hrs per panel. The narrowband is probably done as far as desired snr. Just need the shorter exposures to soften the core. Here's the raw, background extracted panels aligned
December 6, 2024 at 2:04 AM
With the broadband signal, I'm looking at ~15hrs per panel. The narrowband is probably done as far as desired snr. Just need the shorter exposures to soften the core. Here's the raw, background extracted panels aligned
While it's clouded out here, decided to take a peek at the Orion Nebula data that I gathered over the last month. This is 1 of a 3 panel mosaic that covers M42 to the Horsehead. ~9 hrs total of 240s/15s/5s exposures to create this HDR image. Long way to go!
December 5, 2024 at 11:05 PM
While it's clouded out here, decided to take a peek at the Orion Nebula data that I gathered over the last month. This is 1 of a 3 panel mosaic that covers M42 to the Horsehead. ~9 hrs total of 240s/15s/5s exposures to create this HDR image. Long way to go!
Vdb 152 and friends
Hard not to be proud of this one!! Huge fan of this region, but had doubts about the kind of signal that I could gather from these skies. Data didn't look promising at night 8.. Wasn't until night 13 (28hrs) that I felt comfortable with what I had😎
#astronomy #astrophotography
Hard not to be proud of this one!! Huge fan of this region, but had doubts about the kind of signal that I could gather from these skies. Data didn't look promising at night 8.. Wasn't until night 13 (28hrs) that I felt comfortable with what I had😎
#astronomy #astrophotography
November 27, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Vdb 152 and friends
Hard not to be proud of this one!! Huge fan of this region, but had doubts about the kind of signal that I could gather from these skies. Data didn't look promising at night 8.. Wasn't until night 13 (28hrs) that I felt comfortable with what I had😎
#astronomy #astrophotography
Hard not to be proud of this one!! Huge fan of this region, but had doubts about the kind of signal that I could gather from these skies. Data didn't look promising at night 8.. Wasn't until night 13 (28hrs) that I felt comfortable with what I had😎
#astronomy #astrophotography
He gave us this moment. Just something to think ab…
November 27, 2024 at 6:07 PM
He gave us this moment. Just something to think ab…
Took about 350 hours (generous, I purged a lot😅) to capture these deep space objects from Los Angeles, CA
November 25, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Took about 350 hours (generous, I purged a lot😅) to capture these deep space objects from Los Angeles, CA
This summer I got a chance to image with a Newtonian telescope for the first time.Took a while to dial in bc I couldn’t get an accurate collimation. After addressing the lateral mirror movement in the cell, finally pushed these out: #astrophotography #astronomy #space #blacksky #photography #art 🔭
November 25, 2024 at 11:32 PM
This summer I got a chance to image with a Newtonian telescope for the first time.Took a while to dial in bc I couldn’t get an accurate collimation. After addressing the lateral mirror movement in the cell, finally pushed these out: #astrophotography #astronomy #space #blacksky #photography #art 🔭