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.
Heart & Soul Nebula Mosaic
The Heart & Soul Nebula mosaic was my first astrophotography mosaic. I decided on IC 1805 and IC 1848 because they were close enough to only require a 2 panel mosaic with my setup.
Pacman Nebula NGC 281
To create the Pacman Nebula NGC 281, I shot 11 hrs of data and used a dynamic narrowband combination in Pixinsight.
The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380)
Last year I photographed NGC 7380 in color, this year I shot mono. I compare my Wizard Nebula mono photo to last year’s color photo.
Pelican Nebula
It was not until recently I felt uninspired. After shooting the Veil Nebula (again), I felt a bit of repetitive. Don’t get me wrong, I love Cygnus, but I was overstaying my welcome there. I had shot the Veil (twice), North American Nebula (twice), Sadr Region, and Cresecent Nebula. There […]
Veil Nebula
NGC 6960
Eagle Nebula
M16
M5
Over 13 billion years old and 25,000 light years away, M5 is one of the oldest astronomy objects in our universe.