NGC 4038/4039, the Antennae galaxies. Tricky for me because it's very low in the southern sky, and both the top of my observatory wall and some tree branches interfere. That's what created those odd JWST-like diffraction spikes. 40 min each RGB, 60 min lum. #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait

Sharpless 101, the Tulip Nebula in Cygnus. Captured here in the Hubble palette, red is sulfur, green is hydrogen, blue is oxygen. Only an hour each of SHO data. #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait

M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major. Too big for my camera FOV, so shot as a 2x2 panel mosaic. Each panel: 60 min lum, 40 min H-alpha, 20 min each RGB. Imaged over the last two nights. #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait

Two beautiful comets in our sky right now, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with its solar wind buffeted ion tail, and C/2025 R2 (Swan), currently showing a faint dust tail. Both are still getting brighter and can be easily seen in binoculars. #cloudbait #astronomy #astrophotography #comets

M13, the biggest and best globular cluster in the northern skies. Maybe as many as a half million stars! 90 minutes each RGB. #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait

C/2025 N1, the comet born around another star, now zooming through our solar system, far too fast to be captured by the Sun. This is its motion over about 2.5 hours on 26 July. Only the third interstellar object ever detected. #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait

The eastern part of Barnard 150, also known as the Seahorse Nebula (this would be the head). This dark nebula consists of thick dust, inside of which new stars are forming. 6 hours each RGB (getting hard this time of year, with so few hours of dark). #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait

A supernova in NGC 7331 was discovered on 14 July. It's very near the galaxy core, about magnitude 17. Captured here with 80 min each RGB, animated against the same target imaged in 2022. #astronomy #astrophotography #cloudbait