NevadaDesertSkies

09-08--2021 NGC253, the Sculptor Galaxy or the Silver Coin Galaxy in Sculptor Explore Scientific ED152mm ASI2600mm Camera Chroma Filters CGX Mount Captured with NINA, Processed with PixInsight 15x ...

I did shoot 30 minutes worth of 60 second Luminance subs but did not include those in this version. I've also got 3 hours of 3nm Ha and OIII to add...eventually.

This is a total integration of 3 hours. 1 hour each of 2-minute subs for Red, Green and Blue. Explore Scientific ED152CF APO, ASI2600mm Pro, Chroma RGB Filters Edited in PixInsight. I still have 3 ...

Rokinon 24mm 1.4 but stopped down to around f2 or 2.8. It's decent wide open but excellent stopped down a bit.

06/13_14/2021 M8 & M20 M20, The Trifid Nebula, the smaller nebula at the top with the blue gas, and M8, The Lagoon Nebula is the much larger, redder nebula at the bottom. StellarVue SV70T APO, ZWO ...

06/11_12/2021 IC1396 is a concentration of ionized gas in the constellation Cepheus. The Elephant Trunk itself is IC1396A and is the vertical tenuous stream of gas coming from the bottom of the ...

I found that if you have a small evaporative cooler sitting next to the camera you can get down to -20°. You should look into getting one of these. Inside my home with temps around 78° I can get ...

Holy cow! $20K for the scope, if it's the A.P. version of the 305mm RH, and then another $15K for that A.P. mount and $4.5K for the camera  I'm always curious to see what people are doing and how ...

Very nice beginning. You're gonna need a good bit more time to bring out the Horsehead Nebula with any detail. With the moon now interferring, you'll have to wait a few weeks. Also, in your ...

As an avid amateur astronomer, I want to know more about this -> "Canon 40cm Cassegrain-type (mirror) 3720mm telescope" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, My photo skills weren't what they are these days as I was only 3 weeks old at the time....  ;-)

Great pics but looking at your first setup photo, that polar scope looks close to useless in that position? Shouldn't the entire rig be rotated 180° so you can align through the polar scope? I ...

Great memories of Hayakutake. Thanks for sharing.

You would have been better off shooting RAW and stopping occasionally to empty the card.

Beautiful work Michael. I commented on Astrobin as well. Nice to see some white-light activity on the surface. Flawless stitch too!

I was all set to give you a great deal of advice till I read this line. Maybe astrophotography and/or astronomy is not for you and you should find a new hobby. I feel it is essential to learn a bit ...

In-between narrowband deep-sky imaging... Full Moon - 12:55am PDT - 99.7% Illumination