Read my experience capturing the Crescent Nebula. Discover the challenges I faced and the techniques I used photographing this amazing deep sky object.
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What I Learned Creating Night Sky Photography Panoramas
Shooting a panorama is not as easy as your iPhone makes it. There’s panorama equipment and with night sky photographs, there are exposure limits due to the Earth’s movement. Read more to find out how I captured this photo from the beach in Wildwood, NJ.
M13: Third Time’s the Charm
M13 or The Great Hercules Cluster is the most well-known globular cluster in the universe. I like it so much, this was my 3rd time doing it!
Summer Astrophotography Targets
Summer is an amazing time in the northern hemisphere for astrophotography. Milky Way is out and so many targets to shoot. Here’s my list for this summer.
Pixinsight Tutorial: A 12-Step Video Series
Learn my simple 12-step Pixinsight workflow in 12 videos in this video tutorial series.
Winter Landscape Photos (2024)
These are 9 winter landscape photos that I took at my local nature spot, South Mountain Reservation. It snowed only once this winter, but I love the bare trees and glorious skies of winter.
The Orion Nebula M42
I’ve been doing astrophotography for 2 years now and although I’ve tried shooting the Orion Nebula before, I never fully produced an image until now. It’s one of the most popular targets, a favorite of beginners, and ironically complicated to shoot and process!
Jellyfish Nebula IC 443
The Jellyfish Nebula IC 443 is fun to photograph wide field because of its surrounding environment, specifically, the cloud that looks like it’s coming out of its head. I shot this for 10 hours and used some fun techniques in Pixinsight. These techniques included layering my Ha as a luminance layer over the RGB image and using morphological transformation to reduce the noisy star field from my under-sampled setup.
Shooting Pleiades in Light Pollution
I shoot in light polluted skies outside New York City and although the Pleiades stars are bright, capturing its accompanying dust and reflection nebula is a challenge.
Winter Landscape in Black & White
Leafless trees, gray skies, and a small touch of bright sunlight make this winter landscape in monochrome. There’s something sad that this photo that the monochrome treatment is perfect for. It’s bare and un-colorful. The sky is gray; the leaves are a dark and light mixture and the tree trunks […]