Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3). 17 July 2020
15x 2second exposures. ISO1600, f/2.8. 200mm F/2.8L lens. Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop
Comet NEOWISE - July 13, 2020
34x 1.3 second exposure stacked with PixInsight to make this image. Light subs were 1.3 sec. ISO1600 f/4. Canon 5D4 + 200mm f/2.8L
Comet 46P/Wirtanen and M45 Conjunction 15 Dec. 2018
118x 13-second frames captured from my back yard on a very humid, but clear night. Caputred with a Canon 5D iv and a 200mm f/2.8L lens at f/4. Sidereal tracking with a Celestron CGE mount.
Constellation Orion Wide-field
Visible here are (left to right): red super-giant star Betelguese, Barnard's Loop, Running Man Nebula, Flame Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Great Nebula in Orion.
Large & Small Magellanic Clouds + 47-Tucanae
Captured these beauties from Cerro Tololo using a 35mm f/1.4 at f/2.2. Stacked 99 13-second images to make this bugger. Being somewhat limited in what I couild bring to CT, meant I had to get creative and find ways to stack images without any tracking aids; basically shooting form a fixed tripod. I love how this turned out given those conditions.
Eta Corinae Nebula
These images for this image were captured in 2018 during my last trip to CTIO. I spent a significant amount of time after making the CTIO movie (in January) learning to use new (to me) astro imaging software. 16 minutes of worth of 8-second exposures. Fixed mount/tripod. Processed with Pix Insight and Photoshop. 16 dark frames used for noise reduction. All those dots are stars!
Andromeda Galaxy - M31
About 40 minutes worth of 15-second exposures stacked here. This was captured from my back yard.
M31, the Andromeda Galaxy (left) and Comet C 2011/L4, PanSTARRS (right).
The Flame, Horse Head, Running Man & Great Nebula of Orion
5400 seconds of integrated light (540-10 second images) captured in February of 2020, before shit got weird. I love this image - it reminds just how goddamned hard astrophotography is because there are so many problems with how I processed it and I don't care. It still looks pretty neat.
M42 - Great Nebula in Orion
Large Magellanic Cloud
LMC captured from Cerra Tololo, Colquimbo, Chile. 45x 6-second images stacked with Nebulocity and processed in PhotoShop CS4. 12.17.2016
M45 - Pleiades
Comet Lovejoy & Pleaides Cluster
Super Nova SN-2014J
Super Nova in M82 (Cigar Galaxy). Captured January 2014 The quality here isn't great and focus is off. Bear in mind that it was -15F outside when I set-up the scope and -20F by the time I started imaging. This one tested my equipment bigly. Even though it's far from perfect, it's my first capture of a supernovae, which is pretty cool.
