Elizabeth Howell PhD (she/her) @howellspace@social.cleverlibre.org

My first attempt at a photo of the Orion Nebula, also known as M42, or NGC 1976. I overexposed it and lost detail in the centre, though it shows up the dust clouds at the edges nicely.
#Astronomy #Astrophotography #Orion #Nebula

Waxing Moon 87.8% and Jupiter tonight. I love when the 4 Jupiter's moons are visible.

#moon #moonhour #astrodon #Jupiter #planet #astrophotography #amateurastronomy

#Astrophotography. The galaxy M81 in LRGB broadband imaged during November from home using an Atik 460EX mono CCD camera on my 132mm aperture William Optics refracting telescope and processed using PixInsight. The steps used were Dynamic Background Extraction then the plate solver script followed by Spectrophotometric Colour Calibration, then the Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch script and finally LRGB combination to make the full colour result. I hope you enjoy seeing this beautiful photo.

On the fifth day of #StarrySights #NASA #Hubble gave to me -- bright, blue-white stars in a nebulous open cluster called NGC 1858!😍

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-spies-emission-nebula-star-cluster-duo

#astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #Stars

Heart and Soul Nebula
The coolest duo in the night sky! And it’s located in the constellation of Cassiopeia!
#astrophotography #space #photography #astro #universe
🔭: Rokinon 135mm
📸: ASI533MC Pro
L-Ultimate filter

The Pleiades (also known as Messier 45 or The Seven Sisters) is an open star cluster. At about 444 light-years from Earth, it is the nearest Messier object.

Taken with a Nikon D7500 (modified) and a #Redcat51.
499 x 45 second images
Processed with #Pixinsight.

#astrophotography

Got to squeeze in an #astrophotography session in between storms and clouds here in #Kentucky. Using my 5” refractor I tried shooting the galaxy cluster Abell 426 with NGC 1275 in Perseus, the faint (for me) galaxies around NGC 1611 in Eridanus, and the galaxies around NGC 1725 also in Eridanus.

Comet C/2020 F3 "NEOWISE" reflected in Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California (7/10/2020).

This is a single frame. There was moon light illuminating Fannette Island and the bay. I did a little dodging and burning and color grading in #darktable running on a Linux box.

Sony a7rIII, 55mm prime, f/1.8, 5sec, ISO640.

#astronomy #comet #astrophotography #astrophoto #photography #laketahoe #lake #emeraldbay #sierra #linuxphotography

First imaging attempt with the new camera!

The imaging train is just a QHY 462, the UV/IR cut out filter it came with, and a cheap 2x shorty Barlow I had lying around. Pretty much the bare minimum as I understand it. Taken with a C8 SCT in average seeing conditions with manual focusing.

I only spent a few minutes processing the raw images because sleep is a rare commodity in our household these days, but I'm pretty happy with the results!

#astrophotography #mars #jupiter

Here's some new photons I rescued before they crashed into my driveway

This is about 60h of total exposure time, shot over a bout a week, and shows LDN 1355 and the surrounding areas. Some people call this target the "Helping Hand".

#astrophotography

Revealing the Hidden Galaxy

I made a timelapse of my live stack while I was shooting Caldwell 5, aka the Hidden Galaxy. I think it's really cool to watch how adding more data brings out the galaxy. I only have a couple hours of data, but I'm looking forward to getting more when the moon dims again.

#Astrophotography #Astrodon #space

The milky way shooting out of a nipple rock on Spencer Flat Rd in Escalante Utah.

#milkyway #milk #nightphotos #starrysky #milkywaygalaxy #astrophotography #nightphotography #milkywaychasers #utah #utahnightlife #travel #rvnomad #exploreyourworld #america #roadtrip #darksky #stars #geology #grandstaircaseescalante #gsenm #smokeweedeveryday

I never thought I would have such a collage of images from deep space, who would have thought, because here are 20 photos, a part of all the ones I have captured in my career as an astrophotographer. I hope you like this painting!!
#Astrophotography #somosEstelares #astrofotografia

#introductions Hi! I'm an amateur astronomer, who has been lucky enough to turn her passion into her job by becoming the outreach coordinator at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy of the University of Amsterdam. I organize open nights at the uni, but also love sidewalk astronomy, and recently brought the library telescope project to the local public library. Am mostly a visual observer but do sometimes dabble in astrophotography. I took this Milkyway pic last weekend at a starparty.

I was trying to take a #photo of #Jupiter a couple of weekends ago for the first time ever, and thought my lens had some junk on it. Today, though, I realized that it didn't actually look like normal refraction, opened up an online chart of the solar system and discovered that, instead, I had photographed the #GalileanMoons. This was a really fun accident, and I learned a few things about exposure and #astrophotography from it!

Proclamation: Let the Horsehead Nebula from this day forward be forever known as the Jar Jar Binks Nebula. #astrophotography #astronomy

Yet another wide angle shot of the #MilkyWay from this past camping season. So many stars make it difficult to identify constellations!

Much joy working on this as it reminds me of warm summer nights under clear #DarkSkyPreserve skies. Once gear is set up, I can recline on my "anti gravity meteor chair" & soak it in. A form of #StarBathing I guess.

30 x 1min 6400iso
35mm lens @ f2.5
Canon 6D & star tracker.

#astrophotography
#astrodon
#TerraNovaNP

The #supernova remnant, Gum Nebula, is highlighted nicely in red emission toward the right of the featured wide-angle, single-image photograph taken in late May.

Also visible in the frame are the Atacama Desert in Chile in the foreground, the Carina Nebula in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy running diagonally down from the upper left, and the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud #galaxy.

#astronomy #AstroPhotography https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221129.html