This is five hours of the Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus. I wanted a lot more time to work on it. If I get any more, I'll redo this. But it's not looking good. It's looking like clouds and fog. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

In the past I've had really abysmal luck with meteor showers. But I did catch a couple of Perseids last night. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Collinder 399, an asterism in the constellation Vulpecula, more commonly known as the Coathanger. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

EarthSky.org has their best deep sky photos from July collected and I was pleased to see the two of them are mine. earthsky.org/todays-image... #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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This is M57, a little planetary nebula in Lyra. I shot it under a full moon as an experiment to see how the nebula would do with a narrowband filter. See what I can get away with doing in moonlight. #Astronomy #AstroPhotography

The seeing was unusually good, and the surface of the sun looked interesting to me, so I took its portrait in white light and Calcium-K. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

I reprocessed the Western Veil Nebula, and I'm happier with the fine detail I got this time. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

NGC 6960, the Western Veil Nebula. It's a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. The very bright star is 52 Cygni. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The sun in Calcium-K, looking quite interesting (in my opinion). #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The solar surface is interesting today with another big active region rotating into view. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The globular cluster M2 in the constellation Aquarius. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

I didn't think I was going to have clear skies last night, but I did have five clear hours. I used them to work some more on M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. It allowed me to bring out a little more detail on the very faint outer shell. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The waxing moon and Venus are putting on a show tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The planetary nebula M27 in the constellation Vulpecula. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is M102, the spindle galaxy, in Draco. I'm not all that happy with the way it turned out. It's just too small for the equipment. I had to crop it to the point where it pixelates if you try to look too closely. But I didn't want to waste three nights of data. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

This is NGC 6820 in the constellation Vulpecula. It's one of my favorites with its very distinctive single pillar. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The globular cluster M92 in Hercules. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

A wide-field image of the Sadr region in Cygnus. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

The galactic center moving over DarkSkyLand last night. I wanted to try out my new wide-angle lens. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

And this is a starless version of those three nebulae in the galactic center. Left to right: NGC 6604; M16, the Eagle Nebula; M17, the Omega Nebula. #astronomy #astrophotography

This is NGC 6604 in the galactic center. This is a close-up view of one of the nebulae that was in that extremely wide field image I posted last night. #astronomy #astrophotography

This is an extremely wide field image of part of the galactic center setting over the trees. It's only half an hour, and I'm trying to gather more of it, but the fog has other ideas. The bright nebulae are M17, M16, and the slightly more subtle NGC 6604. #astronomy #astrophotography

Those big active regions are rotating away, and I thought it was going to leave the sun very quiet. I think you can see why I thought so. Now this big puppy is coming around the bend, and it's already released an X-flare. #astronomy #astrophotography

We've had fog during the day, so I haven't been able to keep tabs on these monster active regions. Here's what they were doing while I was away. There was an X flare today, but it's not enough for all but the high latitudes. And there's a whole lot of quiet rotating in. #astronomy #astrophotography

This is the globular cluster M56 in Lyra, under a nearly full moon. I was testing out a different and much more automated capture software. Otherwise, I would have waited for a darker night. #astronomy #astrophotography

You see the largest of the dark black sun spots? Left of center? That's about the size of two Earths. Maybe a little bigger. #astronomy #astrophotography

Still watching this monster active region, now called AR4478. Not only is it huge, but it has the strongest magnetic complexity. Could be interesting. Unfortunately, this would be a bad time to watch aurora displays because the moon is so full. #astronomy #astrophotography

Another look at that new active region on the sun. Now that it's rotated into better view, it's even more interesting than I thought. #astronomy #astrophotography

There's a formidable-looking active region rotating into view on the eastern limb (far left edge). Might prove interesting. I'd really love one more of those bizarrely-far-south aurora displays before we head towards solar minimum. Doesn't mean it'll happen, though. #Astronomy #AstroPhotography

The globular cluster M10 in Ophiuchus. There was a little too much moon going on last night, but I grabbed this anyway. #astronomy #astrophotography