Stories
The same published posts are preserved, but framed as an image-led field journal.
This image marks first light with my new telescope, the Celestron EdgeHD 800, an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain designed for longer focal length imaging. With a native focal length of 2000mm, and about 1422mm using a 0.7x reducer, this setup ope
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The Orion constellation is easy to recognize, marked by three bright stars forming its belt and a “sword” hanging below. What’s less obvious is that this small patch of sky is packed with a variety of nebulae. That sword is home to the Orio
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I set out to capture the Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174 in Orion) with my usual astrophotography setup, aiming for a gorgeous deep-sky image. I took 70 frames at 300 seconds each (about 6 hours total exposure) and stacked them to reveal the n
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Galaxies I’ve Captured Over the Past Two Years I don’t have the ideal telescope focal length for imaging tiny galaxies. My current setup is a wide-field telescope, which is great for big nebulae but makes most distant galaxies appear small.
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The Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). It represents the visible remains of a star that exploded in a supernova thousands of years ago. This vast nebula stretches across an area of sky about 3 degrees
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One of my first deep sky objects to image, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest spiral galaxy to our own and on a slow-motion collision course with the Milky Way! I captured this image over several nights, stacking hours of exposure ti
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