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

The Triangulum Galaxy (Messier 33) as seen from my backyard. It is about 2.7 million light years away from Earth and with a diameter of 61,000 light years the third largest in our local galaxy group after Andromeda and the Milky Way.

Gear: 8" Newton, 5" apo refractor, ASI 1600mm , ASI 533mc
Exposure: 11 hours
#astrophotography #space #galaxy #astronomy

Finally got my sh-t together. 🤪 Namely, finished generating flats/darks calibration files for Cygnus Milky Way images I captured at #TerraNovaNP #DarkSkyPreserve in August.

The 35mm lens is wide enough to show other constellations around Cygnus (Lyra, Delphinius). Lots of 🤩 stars/star clouds from the Milky Way are visible as well as some familiar nebulous regions & dark nebulae. Highlighted a few in the annotated version.

63x1m
Canon 6D
iOptron SkyGuider tracker

#astrophotography #astrodon

In five days from now, it's going to be one year since I took my first #astrophotography picture. Not sure where the idea came from, but I decided to try to shoot the sky with my mobile phone.

The first pic is heavily cropped part of that result. Second one is the full image from that evening. And the last one is my latest image from the same target. Still a newbie, but a year makes some difference :)

Star trails over one of the local college's observatories. With some fireflies.

#astrophotography #startrails #fireflies #observatory #nightsky #nikon #nikonz5

"A head full of stars"

*Click for the full image*

75 minutes of star trails behind Jaume Plensa's 'Dream' sculpture, a 20 metre high, 373 tonne monument to the mining industry on the site of Sutton Manor Colliery near St Helens in Northwest England

#sculpture #art #publicart #photography #longexposure #landscapephotography #stars #astro #astronomy #astrophotography #startrails

The Great Orion Nebula #M42 #NGC1976 #astrophotography #womeninastrophotography
I have a very small window in which to image Orion due to trees so this is quite an accomplishment for me. 😊

How many women in astrophotography or astronomy are on here?? #womeninastrophotography #astrophotography We may be few but we are out there!

A re-edit of my Trifid Nebula data.
Took a little artistic liberty haha.
Originally captured back on 28 May 2022. It's about 3.5 Hours from my OSC.

#backyardastrophotographer #womeninastrophotography #nightsky #universe
#astrophotography

#astrophotography #womeninastrophotography

About 2 hours exposure of the #Andromeda #Galaxy #M31 last night from my driveway.

#Fujifilm X-T4 through Meade 70mm APO. Stacked in Sequator.

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The beautiful Durdle Door at night with the Milky Way. https://www.dansantillo.com/gallery/restofworld/?photo=238966 #photograpy #durdledoor #dorset #astrophotography #astro #nighttime #night #stars #milkyway #cliffs #epic #naturalbeauty

Upper jaw of one of the Fighting Dragons of Ara (NGC 6188) in HHOS colors: https://www.astrobin.com/lcjpkp/ #astrobin #astrophotography

And here's the final edit. Probably my favorite image I've taken to date.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #space

This is only 45 minutes of integration (9x300), and probably over-processed. I can't wait to get several more hours on this one.
M42
Orion Imaging Newt F5 (from 2009)
ASI071MC Pro
iOptron CEM26
Optolong L-Extreme
Processed With Pixinsight
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The California Nebula (NGC1499) captured last night from my backyard using Ha, Siii and Oii narrowband filters using a refractor telescope. #astrophotography #astronomy

I'm just getting into the winter skies now, but missing the summer skies already. Here's one from May 2021. NGC7000, The North American Nebula and Friends. Quite a few objects in this wide field shot including the Pelican Nebula. Just 60 minutes worth of data. StarGuider Pro, Williams Optics Redcat 51mm APO, Optolong L-Extreme Filter and Canon Ra. Pre-Processed in APP, Post-Processed in Pixinisght and Photoshop. #astrodon
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astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/yef7yz/

Another Moon shot I took, this one was with my Atik 383l+ and 190MN telescope. The Moon is such a great target, very accessible, constantly changing, bright (although that can be a pain for deep sky imaging), huge amounts of detail and also a visual eye target :) #Astrophotography #Moon #Luna #Space #Astronomy #Monochrome #Photography #Astrodon