The Cygnus Wall is a small part of the enormous North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Learn how I captured and processed this image.
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Greetings from Wildwood, NJ
We recently went to the beach as the family does every year. We had the great fortune of some beautiful days & nights and I didn’t miss the opportunity to bring out the camera at sunset.
The Crescent Nebula
Read my experience capturing the Crescent Nebula. Discover the challenges I faced and the techniques I used photographing this amazing deep sky object.
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.