This is the moon as it appeared on April 15, 2024: In this image, the moon is at exactly 50% illumination. The colors you see are the moon’s natural colors. I captured this image...
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Great North American Eclipse of 2024
On April 8, 2024, the moon converged with the Sun in an epic eclipse visible over North America. The eclipse reached 100% totality in a 110-mile wide path extending northeast from Mexico to Canada...
M27 Captured Using Vaonis Stellina Smart Telescope
I recently acquired a Vaonis Stellina smart telescope and have been taking images from my backyard. Images include the Sun, Moon, various nebulae, galaxies, and stars. I acquired a Stelling because it offers a...
Investigating the Robin’s Egg Nebula
Introducing the Robin’s Egg Nebula, or NGC 1360 for the space enthusiasts. Located 1,100 light years away within our Milky Way galaxy, this cosmic beauty is illuminated by a binary system at its core,...
M4-Class Solar Flare from AR3372
I created a new ad to run on SpaceWeather.com based on a flare that was caught on the Slooh.com Canary 5 Solar Telescope: The flare came from the active region AR3372 and was an...
Telescope Live Adds Amazing CMOS Camera – Compare the Before and After Images
Telescope Live is in the process of switching over to CMOS cameras for all of their telescopes. Today, they released their first images using the new CMOS camera on their Chile One telescope. Swipe...
Region around Wray 17-96
This is the region around Wray 17-96, a star. The nebulosity makes this a very nice image. This was taken using Telescope Live using narrowband H-alpha, SIII, and OII filters and processed using PixInsight....
C/2017 K2 with M10
This is comet C/2017 K2 passing by Messier 10: This was taken using iTelescope.net’s T8 system on June 15, 2022 during their full moon Happy Hour so I got this image for free. The...
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
The Large and Small Magellanic clouds are satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way galaxy. This is the Small Magellanic Cloud: There is a globular cluster at the image’s top edge – this is...
SH2-131 – Elephant Trunk Nebula
This is a widefield view of IC 1396, or the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, in the constellation Cepheus. The Elephant’s Trunk is coming down from the top center of the image and is usually presented...
