Northern Kentucky Stargazer
@nkstargazer.com
Semper vultus ad astra.
Amateur astronomer, astrophotographer, and space nerd. I do astronomy lives on TikTok (@nkstargazer).
Amateur astronomer, astrophotographer, and space nerd. I do astronomy lives on TikTok (@nkstargazer).
Latest stuff.
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Latest stuff.
New telescope first light last night.
March 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New telescope first light last night.
Another three hours added. This is shaping up to be my best image.
March 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Another three hours added. This is shaping up to be my best image.
Someone posted this in response over on FB and I’m laughing my GenX ass off.
March 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Someone posted this in response over on FB and I’m laughing my GenX ass off.
Got a really clear night last Friday and spent most of it on the Horse Head.
February 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Got a really clear night last Friday and spent most of it on the Horse Head.
IC434 taken last night. About an hour of data, no processing yet.
February 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
IC434 taken last night. About an hour of data, no processing yet.
@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I have not stayed in a hotel in years. I can only guess they don’t yet get podcasts in this area of rural Pennsylvania?
February 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I have not stayed in a hotel in years. I can only guess they don’t yet get podcasts in this area of rural Pennsylvania?
Current mood (due to a month of clouds): Thanos.
January 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Current mood (due to a month of clouds): Thanos.
The Iris Nebula. Just a quick 2 hours of data from last night. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be to capture and process this object.
December 6, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The Iris Nebula. Just a quick 2 hours of data from last night. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be to capture and process this object.
No show on television continues to surprise me like “Bob’s Burgers”. I challenge anyone to make it all the way through “The Amazing Rudy” without crying.
December 5, 2024 at 11:37 PM
No show on television continues to surprise me like “Bob’s Burgers”. I challenge anyone to make it all the way through “The Amazing Rudy” without crying.
The Flaming Star Nebula. 7.5 hours captured this past Sunday. Definitely want to reprocess because there’s much more there.
December 4, 2024 at 1:35 AM
The Flaming Star Nebula. 7.5 hours captured this past Sunday. Definitely want to reprocess because there’s much more there.
December 2, 2024 at 2:58 PM
The “meridian flip” prevents imaging telescopes from crashing into their own mounts as they approach the meridian - the imaginary line dividing east and west in the sky. Fully automated scopes like mine perform this function automatically during the imaging session.
December 2, 2024 at 12:08 PM
The “meridian flip” prevents imaging telescopes from crashing into their own mounts as they approach the meridian - the imaginary line dividing east and west in the sky. Fully automated scopes like mine perform this function automatically during the imaging session.
This is the ONLY religious post you’ll see from me here. Promise.
November 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM
This is the ONLY religious post you’ll see from me here. Promise.
The gathering storm.
November 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The gathering storm.
And here’s a reprocessing of the Elephant’s Trunk that I took back in August. Applied the same techniques as my NGC 7000 image but it m working with a lot less data here. #astrophotography #astronomy
November 22, 2024 at 12:04 AM
And here’s a reprocessing of the Elephant’s Trunk that I took back in August. Applied the same techniques as my NGC 7000 image but it m working with a lot less data here. #astrophotography #astronomy
Honing my skills by reprocessing old data amidst the bad weather. This is about a nights worth of data captured back in June of NGC 7000 - The North American Nebula.
November 21, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Honing my skills by reprocessing old data amidst the bad weather. This is about a nights worth of data captured back in June of NGC 7000 - The North American Nebula.
The power of narrowband filters, illustrated with the Lobster Claw/Bubble Nebula. The first image is the Askar C1 (Ha/OIII). The second is the Askar C2 (SII/OIII). You can see how the blue of the OIII is drawn out in the C2. Narrowband has made DSO photography possible in light polluted skies.
November 20, 2024 at 1:16 AM
The power of narrowband filters, illustrated with the Lobster Claw/Bubble Nebula. The first image is the Askar C1 (Ha/OIII). The second is the Askar C2 (SII/OIII). You can see how the blue of the OIII is drawn out in the C2. Narrowband has made DSO photography possible in light polluted skies.
@ihavethatonvinyl.com Thought about your recent post when I saw this. Computers were so fun back then. I had an Atari 400 that was my whole world for a while.
November 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
@ihavethatonvinyl.com Thought about your recent post when I saw this. Computers were so fun back then. I had an Atari 400 that was my whole world for a while.
Much better. #astronomy #astrophotography
November 19, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Much better. #astronomy #astrophotography
A better version of my Sadr image. #astrophotography #astronomy
November 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
A better version of my Sadr image. #astrophotography #astronomy
I’m not happy with this processing. I tweaked a little too much and lost some of the fine detail. But it’s good enough to share. This is the Sadr Region, a huge area of nebulosity around the star Sadr. #astronomy #astrophotography
November 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
I’m not happy with this processing. I tweaked a little too much and lost some of the fine detail. But it’s good enough to share. This is the Sadr Region, a huge area of nebulosity around the star Sadr. #astronomy #astrophotography
This wide-field stack of the Sadr Region was the last image I captured before the current endless wall of clouds rolled in. Weather looks like it’s going to be bad for another week. Astrodepression is real.
November 18, 2024 at 12:26 PM
This wide-field stack of the Sadr Region was the last image I captured before the current endless wall of clouds rolled in. Weather looks like it’s going to be bad for another week. Astrodepression is real.
Well hello, bird flying in front of my security camera.
November 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Well hello, bird flying in front of my security camera.