Thrilled to capture a clear photo of IC 434 in this beautiful weather. IC 434, also known as the Horsehead Nebula, is a dark nebula situated in the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. #Astrophotography #IC434 #HorseheadNebula
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Happy Valentine’s Day with an obligatory Heart Nebula picture from my driveway #astrophotography
Some photons from space that I prevented from crashing into my driveway by putting a camera sensor in between
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"approved" and safe Eclipse filters are starting to get harder to get delivered by the eclipse date (esp if you want to do some testing ahead of time). Lots of glasses styles still available though I assume they will start to get harder to get delivered soonish #eclipse #solareclipse #filters #astrophotography
🚨 A STAR HAS DIED! ⭐💥
And I just happened to catch it from my city light-polluted backyard, using a 5cm aperture SeestarS50!
Check it out ... on the left is my image (only 25 mins of data). The cross hairs indicate a 'new star' appearing in galaxy NGC 3621. The right image is from Stellarium and I have annotated where the new star appears, and how it was not there before.
This is a type II supernova, so a massive star's core collapsed and triggered off an extremely violent explosion that we are seeing 22 million years later.
It likely formed a neutron star or pulsar!
It is incredibly bright and I encourage everyone to turn their telescopes towards it and get data / light curves!
The "Pillars of Creation", as seen from my driveway. This is the central structure in Messier 16, the Eagle Nebula which is now rising very early in the morning.
These mean looking sunspots are the cause of the strongest geomagnetic storm (G5 - Severe) in 20 years!
They are really huge, spanning about 16 Earth diameters. Auroras are happening now and probably will continue over the weekend.
Pic with a 2415mm focal length Dall-Kirkham telescope with a 2X Barlow, a Baader Astrosolar filter, and a bandpass infrared filter (850 nm).
American astronomical computer & astrophotographer Mary R. Calvert was born #OTD in 1884.
She started as her uncle Edward Emerson Barnard's assistant & ended publishing his (and their) work that cataloged over 300 dark objects (dark nebulae) — primarily those that extinguish the most starlight reaching the Earth lie between the bulk (inward local sector, central bulge, and other sectors of the Milky Way) thus between the Local Arm (Orion Arm) & the Sagittarius Arm.
Strawberry Moonrise on the first night of Summer over Lake Washington..
#Seattle #Washington #PNW #Moon #FullMoon #Photography #astrophotography #WaWx #Reflection #Moonrise #Summer #SummerSolstice
A memory from July 16th, 2020 - Comet Neowise on the NW sky. We could see it over a few consecutive nights about 2 hours after sunset..
Just started out learning photography around that time, didn’t have an editing software, other than my phone, so it’s noisy…
Blended image, taken from the same spot (my balcony) few seconds apart at 560mm and brought them a little bit closer to each other to fit the frame…
#Washington #PNW #Comet #Neowise #Photography #astrophotography #Astro #Universe
Waxing Crescent Moonset in sunset afterglow over the Olympic Mountains. It became visible for the camera only just a few minutes before setting.
taken from Bellevue, WA
September 04, 2024, 8:11PM
#Seattle #Washington #PNW #Moon #Sunset #astrophotography #Photo #Photography #PhotoOftheDay #Silhouette