This is Pickering's Triangle, a fairly faint bit of nebulosity that sits between the Eastern and Western Veils. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
Catherine Ryan Hyde
@catherineryanhyde.bsky.social
Author of 50+ books. Dog, cat, and horse lover. Amateur astrophotographer.
I've also spent two nights working on M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. I wanted about 10 hours of it, but I ended up with a little less than 8 due to intermittent clouds. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
I added another 3 hours to this last night and processed it again, considering only the core of the galaxy and bringing out the supernova. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
This is a cropped version of the NGC 7331 image, just barely showing the supernova. At this focal length, it's pretty faint. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
I was able to add another 3 hours to this (NGC 7331 and Stephan's Quintet) last night, and I reprocessed it. I like this version better, if only because you can zoom in and make out the star in the center of the galaxy. The center is not as blown out. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
The moon with Venus just before sunrise this morning. A quick cell phone capture. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
The big galaxy here is NGC 7331, with several much smaller companion galaxies floating above it. Or appearing to, anyway. The galaxy cluster in the lower left is Stephan's Quintet. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
This is the moon last night through all that drift smoke coming down from Big Sur. No processing on this. I didn't enhance the color at all. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
Here is another image from later, in the second half of the eclipse. Beyond that, I think they're all going to look pretty much the same. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
It was 95% cloudy when we arrived, 95% cloudy when we woke up, and almost perfect for the eclipse. This was the only cloud action we had during the eclipse. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
The full moon setting when we got up this morning. It was awfully nice of the clouds to clear out during the eclipse.
The moon at about 97% eclipsed last night. I'll probably have more images, but I'm still going through them. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
Orion is back in the pre-dawn sky. This is just a cell phone snapshot.
A revision of M15. I was experimenting with being a little bolder, but not everybody was ready for it. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
A not entirely successful (it's awfully noisy) image of the comet 10P/Tempel. It's pretty close to the horizon, which is not ideal. I was shooting at a very short focal length, thinking I'd leave room for a tail The joke was on me. I couldn't even bring out a tail. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
I finally got enough clear sky to finish that image of (the globular cluster) M15 I was working on. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
This is the globular cluster M15 in the constellation Pegasus. I was only able to get a little over an hour before the fog came in. I would definitely work on this more if I could get another clear night, but it remains to be seen whether I will. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
I had a little bit of clear sky last night to finish this image of the Eastern Veil. I managed to bring it up very close to 9 hours of total exposure time. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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
