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 […]
California Nebula
Another amazing nebula of the Winter skies, the California Nebula was the first nebula I shot in mono with my then new ASI533MM and Antlia 3nm narrowband filters.
The Pleiades (2022)
Taken in December 2022 – January 2023, this was my first picture of The Pleiades which is also my (and many other photographers) favorite thing in the sky.
Rosette Nebula
Caldwell 49
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula is a classic winter target and one of the most beautiful targets in astrophotography. I took this on my Redcat 51 with an ASI533MM mono camera which I believe framed this target perfectly.
The Flaming Star & Tadpoles Nebula
Another favorite winter target, I was able to frame both these nebulas using a Redcat 51 and ASI533MM.