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

A bitterly cold, moonlit night with Jupiter bright in the south and Mars a fiery red in the east. I was attempting to get some images of Mars but always struggle with focus on the big reflector... To test things out I went over to the Moon and got some nice views. This image shows the huge crater Pythagoras right on the edge of the Moon. It is about 140km wide and the central mountains, picked out by the light, reach up to 3km high! #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Moon

#astrophotography

Here is an image I captured of Jupiter back in September. I captured it on the Milwaukee Astronomical Society's A-Scope, a 12.5 inch Newtonian reflector specifically tuned to observing the planets. ( https://www.milwaukeeastro.org/observatories/aScope.asp )

#photomonday here's a quick shot from #bearsears. This was one of my first half-way decent #astrophotography shots.

Tim Peake’s return capsule, on display in the Space Gallery at London’s Science Museum. #Soyuz #TimPeake #aeropace #Space #Astronaut

My husband took this photo in 2020, it shows Comet Neowise over the Longstone at Mottistone on the #IsleofWight.
We have wonderful dark skies here which really helped. We made the walk up to the neolithic monument late at night which was really magical. I was given a torch and duly light painted the Longstone with it whilst my husband snapped away.
We had our teenage son with us and once we had the shot we sat down and stargazed. #StandingStoneSunday

Today in 1945, Dr. Roberta Bondar is born in Sault Ste. Marie. An original member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps, she went to space, becoming Canada's first female astronaut, in January 1992. Spending eight days in space, she was also the first neurologist in space.

#Space #Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canadian #Space #SpaceHIstory #Astronaut

I posted this some time ago, but for those who didn’t see it: the Galactic Core region of the Milky Way over Stoke Pero Church, #ExmoorNationalPark #exmoor #photography #landscapephotography #astrophotography #MilkyWay #GalacticCore #stokepero #stokepeeochurch #graveyard

Back to shooting in mono. This is the double cluster in Perseus! They are 300 lys apart, but look right next to each other and have not been imaged often.🔭Explore Scientific ED127 📷ZWO ASI1600 mm pro ⏰90x30s processed in RGB in PixInsight. I like the star colors, and hope you enjoy it!
#astrophotography #space #star #sunday #Astrodon #astro

The waxing December moon yesterday afternoon.📷
Ancient pagans called the December full Moon the “Moon Before Yule,” in honor of the Yuletide festival. #FolkloreSunday #Moon #Astrophotography #Yorkshire #winterSolstice

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