Imaging over the past three days...

Home from a 3+ week trip and back in the obs!

All images (with the exception of the wide field view of the Milky Way)

were taken with a 480mm f/6 Daystar refractor, an unmodded Canon T3i camera.

The Omega (Swan) Nebula (M 17)

The Dumbell Nebula (M27)

The Eagle Nebula (M16)

Wide field view of the Milky Way north of Sagittarius

The Trifid Nebula (M20)

 

Rocket launch of Firefly Aerospace seen from Sierra Vista, AZ

 

My photo of a rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Space Airforce Base in California at 7:40pm MST here in Sierra Vista, AZ.

It was a launch of the Firefly Aerospace rocket.

Brilliant supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)

 Here is a "before and after" comparison of SN2023ixf supernova in M101 (the Pinwheel Galaxy).

The left hand image I photographed in April, 2022 and the right hand image was taken last night (May 22, 2023). Can you spot it?

I hope to image it even better tonight !

This is the second supernova that I have imaged.

Even when the face of the Sun in normal light is boring...

 ...that doesn't mean nothing awesome isn't happening!

Here's a shot I took using a PST (Personal Solar Telescope) that is designed to show the Ha portion of the spectrum of light!

Here is what the GEOS-16 NASA satellite captured:

My camera's orientation is different and the telescope is certainly less expensive 

that the NASA satellite and camera, for sure, but it was nice to give it a try!

Here is what the Sun looked like at the same time in normal "white" light 

(minus the numbers used to identify solar sunspots):

Moonlight on the Huachuca Mountains!

 

Moonlight on the Huachuca Mountains from our front porch tonight... and it is not even a full Moon yet! Taken about 9:45pm Friday night! (Be sure to click on the photo for a better, larger view)

On the the Moon... with style !

 A brief video I produced of the Moon a few days ago... with music!

A suggestion: add music to your astroimages and people will likely enjoy it even more!

The (almost) First Quarter Moon

This is actually a LARGE image so to explore the Moon:

First click on this photo to open it in another tab...

(it might take a few moments for the whole image to download... be patient!)

THEN "right click" on that photo and 

select "Open image in a new tab" 

Click on that new tab

Hover your mouse pointer over an area you want to explore

THEN click... and BOOM !!! 

You are hovering over the Moon! Use your mouse to move around !

You can click the image again and it will show you the full image again

then you can select another area by clicking your mouse over it.

P.S. My laptop shutdown due to low battery just when I was almost done

hence the missing piece!