Rosette Nebula
The Rosette Nebula is one of the iconic deep sky objects of the deep sky. It’s also the official state astronomical object of Oklahoma. We both learned something new today! […]
Perseus Double Cluster
The Perseus Double Cluster is one of the most popular places to point a telescope for visual observers in the northern hemisphere. The sight of the two clusters in a […]
Two Years Of Astrophotography, Part 2
My second year of astrophotography was a lot more productive than the first thanks to both a change in equipment and slightly better weather. This video looks back over 2019 […]
M33
Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest galaxy in our local group of galaxies (behind the Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way). It is […]
Two Years of Astrophotography, Part 1
In March of 2018 I finally began attempting to do tracked astrophotography. That is, using a tracking mount and a camera to take multiple images and combine them in the […]
Determining Offset
In the last video we talked about how to determine what the optimal exposure level was. That method depended upon knowing what your cameras exposure offset is. If you don’t […]
How To Determine The Optimal Subexposure Level For Astrophotography
Many beginning astrophotographers are confused about how long each of […]
Cocoon Nebula
This data actually is about six week old at this point. It was challenging to process and I was hoping to get more but six weeks of clouds have pushed […]
Pelican Nebula
The Pelican Nebula is located just off the “east coast” of the North American Nebula in Cygnus. It is an emission nebula about 1,800 light years away and has an […]
Star Party at the Udvar-Hazy Center
NOVAC and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum teamed up to present a star party to the public at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport. I tried a […]
NOVAC Star Gaze 2019
This is a peek at NOVAC’s Star Gaze event, held every year in October. I speak with several NOVAC members and some guests. My apologies for the audio quality. The […]
Eastern Veil Nebula
The eastern veil nebula, NGC 6992, is part of a supernova complex known as the Cygnus Loop. The entire loop is quite large covering more than six degrees of sky […]
Propeller Nebula
The propeller nebula is one of the few deep sky objects where it is completely obvious how it got named. The “propeller” is clearly visible in the center. This is […]
IC 1396 – Elephant Trunk Nebula
The Elephant Trunk Nebula is a very large emission nebula, actually larger than my field of view. I would need to do a mosaic to fit it all in which […]
NGC 6888 – Crescent Nebula
The Crescent Nebula is an emission nebula in Cygnus a couple of degrees from the star Sadr, not far from the region in this image. According to Wikipedia, its shape […]
M16, The Eagle Nebula
This was my first and perhaps only image from the Almost Heaven Star Party. I attended AHSP last year for the first time but it was cloudy or rainy for […]
