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Great Rift
Four panel mosaic. Each panel is 15 minutes of exposure taken from Point Lookout, Maryland. This turned out pretty well for the short exposure times, but late clouds cut it short. I'd like to try to image a wider portion of the sky in the future.
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (unmodified)
Lens: 70-200mm f/4l
Exposure: 5x180s @ ISO1600 & f/4From Astrophotography
Saturn's Cosmic Portrait
Part of a larger mosaic I'm working on. This is a crop of 2 panels. Taken from Point Lookout, MD
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (unmodified)
Lens: 70-200mm f/4l
Exposure: 5x180s @ ISO1600 & f/4From Astrophotography
Blend
With nonstop cloudy skies here on the east coast, I decided to try my hand at creating a composite astrophoto. Note: this is NOT a real image, rather an artistic blend of two photos taken thousands of miles apart. This type of work is exciting to make as it removes restrictions placed by weather, location, sky quality, etc. That being said, I believe that as photographers we have a responsibility to create artwork without deceiving our audience.
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Comet 41P Visits Messier 97 & 108
Blend of two images created with the same data in DeepSkyStacker to remove motion blur. First image using star alignment with kappa-sigma stacking (kappa = 1.15, number of iterations = 15) to reject the comet. Second image is comet aligned using kappa-sigma stacking (kappa = 1.15, number of iterations = 15) to reject the stars. Images blended is PS with careful masking.
Exposure: 60x180 second exposures at ISO 1600
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Unmodified)
Filter: Unfiltered
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 3/23/2017
Location: Calvert County, MD
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in Photoshop
Great Orion Nebula Complex
This is the first deep sky photo I've taken with my Canon 6D. The camera is unmodified, and I'm impressed with its performance.
Exposure: 53x300s, 15x60s, 20x20s second exposures at ISO 1600
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Unmodified)
Filter: Unfiltered
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 11/27/2016
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
Wild Horses at Assateague Island
Wild horses pose as the Milky Way emerges from the twilight glow over the Atlantic Ocean. I took this photo from Assateague Island National Seashore, which is home to thousands of wild feral horses.
Single 10 second exposure, Canon 6D and Sigma 35mm f/1.4 art lens.From Nightscapes
Pleiades
Open cluster in Taurus
Exposure: 16 x 900 second exposures at ISO 400
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS Clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 11/15/2015
Exposures shot RAW, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
Glow
Milky way over windblown trees at Assateague Island National Seashore, MD
Canon 6D & 14mm LensFrom Nightscapes
Arecibo
From Landscapes
Shenandoah Startrails
Taken from within the George Washington National Forest, this photo represnts an hour of star movement around the north celestial pole. A single, small meteor can be seen below center.
From Nightscapes
Galaxy Dune
Stacked image and vertical panorama.
Location: Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland
Details: Canon 6D and Sigma 35mm f/1.4
4x15s exposures at f/1.4 & ISO 3200From Nightscapes
Assateague Reflections
Still water reflects stars in the southern sky with this single long exposure.
From Nightscapes
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy
Exposure: 31 x 180 second exposures at ISO 800 [ 93 minutes total exposure]
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 1/9/2014
Time: 23:43-01:21 GMT (6:43-8:21pm EST)
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker using star-trails comet mode, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
Footbridge
Taken from Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland. This is a vertical panorama taken with a Canon 6D and Sigma 35mm f/1.4 art lens. In processing I did a slight star reduction to boost the impact of the Milky Way's structure.
From Nightscapes
Patuxent River, MD
From Landscapes
Patuxent River, MD
From Landscapes
Dimock, PA
From Landscapes
Messier 31 Andromeda Galaxy
Exposure:13 x 600 second exposures at ISO 1600
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS Clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Exposures shot RAW, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
From Landscapes
NGC 6888 The Crescent Nebula
Exposure: 24 x 600 second exposures at ISO 800
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS Clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Exposures shot RAW, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
Summer Triangle and the Great Rift
High clouds in most of my frames made this one tough to process.
32x180sec exposures
Canon EOS 6D and Sigma 35mm f/1.4 art lens @ f/4.0 & ISO 1600From Astrophotography
Waxing Gibbous
Mosaic of two individual images.
Taken with a Canon EOS 60Da through Salisbury University's 12 inch Meade LX200 Telescope.From Astrophotography
A Cosmic Rose (Rosette Nebula)
HaRGB Composite
Exposure: Ha: 14 x 900 second ISO 800 RGB: 17x180s ISO 400
(4hr 21min total exposure)
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS and 12nm clip-in Hydrogen Alpha filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer (fl=510mm)
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 1/19/2014
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
Rosette Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha
When I checked my telescope after taking this image I found that my lens was covered in frost. So I'm not sure how many of my H-alpha subs were taken through a frosty lens, but I went ahead and stacked them anyway. Either way, I think it turned out well.
Exposure: 14 x 900 second exposures at ISO 800 [3hr 30min total exposure]
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik 12nm clip-in Hydrogen Alpha filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer (fl=510mm)
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 1/19/2014
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula
Exposure: 12 x 900 second exposures at ISO 800 [3hr 0min total exposure]
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 12/19/2014
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
M78 and Barnard's Loop
Exposure: 27 x 600 second exposures at ISO 800 [4hr 30min total exposure]
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 1/16/2015 & 1/17/2015
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
IC 2177 Seagull Nebula
Exposure: 16 x 300 second exposures at ISO 800
Camera: Clear glass modified Canon rebel 350d
Filter: CLS Clip in filter
Telescope: Orion 80mm ED with .85x Focal Reducer/ Coma Corrector
Mount: Meade Lxd75
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Exposures shot RAW, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
From Landscapes
Ocean Of Stars
The Milky Way rises over the Atlantic as seen from Assateague Island National Seashore.
From Nightscapes
Omega Nebula and Messier 18
Exposure: 20 x 600 second exposures at ISO 400 [3hr 20min total exposure]
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Filter: Astronomik CLS clip-in filter
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 6/2/2014
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in PhotoshopFrom Astrophotography
