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independent astronomer. exploring space from earth with my own telescopes

Austin, TX
Joined August 2013
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Here it is! The Atlas SNR, a newly discovered supernova remnant hiding right in orion:
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The moon and the scope I used to shoot it!
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Today I pointed my telescope at our sun and captured the sharpest image I’ve captured to date
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The lunar eclipse right now!!!!!
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Last nights moon, iPhone vs telescope
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My first ever photo of the andromeda galaxy vs my latest :)
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Saturn captured last night from my backyard
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My last image of comet Neowise for a while. It’s been fun, see you in 6,000 years :)
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Aurora in Joshua tree National park tonight
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My most detailed image of the moon shot with my new c9.25!
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The eclipse just now!
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My cameras last image before it broke and almost caught on fire
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The eclipse from the temple of the sun and moon!
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For the last 134 years people have photographed the andromeda galaxy, but everyone up until now has missed this giant undiscovered nebula!
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Finally, after over a year of work, I am proud to present the largest image ever captured of the complete Andromeda Galaxy!
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Fire and ice! The eclipsed moon next to the Pleiades. What an awesome night!
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The finished product! 45hrs of exposure to create one of the most detailed images captured of the crescent nebula
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Summertime nebulas captured from my backyard with my own telescope
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Here is the clearest image I have ever captured of the horsehead nebula!
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Here’s the full moon as it looks right now! Go outside and take a look you won’t regret
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What’s happening on the sun today! This is the clearest solar image I’ve captured to date
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The Pleiades star cluster and surrounding dust!
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My photo of the total solar eclipse. No AI or compositing was used
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4 years
I pointed my telescope at one nebula for 54 hours to create this image
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2 years
Here was my setup, an AR127 refractor, ASI174mm, daystar quark, solar guider, and hem27
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I took this photo of the Milky Way two nights ago!
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The whole lunar eclipse timelapsed!
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I captured Mars tonight as it rose above the moon!!!!
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Lunar eclipse right now!
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Here the best image I’ve ever captured of M20, the trifid nebula
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The moon in motion during the eclipse!
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The jellyfish nebula captured from my backyard!
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I took this photo of the sun today!
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This is where stars are born! The war and peace nebula NGC6357 in scorpius
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The lunar eclipse right now!
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4 years
Amateur telescope vs Hubble! Not to bad considering the price difference 😂
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Last nights full moon, a 48 panel mosaic at 130 megapixels!
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While I was capturing the lunar eclipse from the Arizona, I was also capturing it remotely from Australia 8,000 miles away. This shift in perspectives shows the parallax of the moon and the stars
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Last nights super moon!
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The green comet greeting the red planet last night
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Today’s blood moon and the scope I used to shoot it!
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Finally managed to snag an image of this beauty, Thor’s helmet in Canis Major
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Here is the clearest photograph I’ve taken of the sombrero galaxy, a peculiar and famous galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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This probably is the clearest photo of a galaxy I’ve ever captured, M81
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Jupiter, Io, and Europa!
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This is how space looks through my camera and telescope
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Last nights moon shot from my balcony!
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Looking into the core of our galaxy! 29hrs of exposure with an FSQ130 and 6200mm
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The 2023 perseids from Utah!
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Here’s the best image of the sombrero galaxy I’ve ever captured. About 45hrs of exposure from the observatory
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Tonight’s eclipse, stacked for clarity
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I caught this photo of an absolutely MASSIVE sunspot on the sun yesterday
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Our moon 🌙
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A 400 billion star sunrise
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See the dark circle created by the images of the eclipsed moon? That is the shadow of the Earth, projected out into space.
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This is what the Milky Way looks like from some of the darkest skies in America!
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The Perseid meteor shower and aurora last night over our observatory in central texas!
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Finally, m104 the sombrero galaxy! A massive improvement over last year!
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I discovered a never before seen nebula in the night sky! This is Fal1 - The Kyber Crystal Nebula
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Looking into the center of our galaxy
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Here’s what our sun looked like today!
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The result of last nights observing! Orion’s Belt and sword.
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Here’s what’s happening on the sun right now 😳
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The flame nebula and alnitak up close
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Tonight’s aurora from utah!
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Comet Leonard on New Years day, from Hakos, Namibia
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As the moon dips behind the shadow of the earth, the stars and nebula of the night sky begin to show themselves. Here is how that looks to a deep sky camera setup!
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A new supernova our team discovered and photographed for the first time, in the constellation Sagittarius! Right next to barnards galaxy
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My latest image of comet Neowise, this time framed with the mountain I hike for my last shot!
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The gas giants of our solar system shot last night. These are to scale as they appear in a telescope
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What my telescope can see vs what Hubble can see, Messier 100
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Gm everyone here’s a picture I took of Saturn
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Here’s a 500 megapixel panorama of the Milky Way core, from Sagittarius to Scorpius!
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Here’s the bubble nebula! Captured with my largest telescope
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And I’ve put this image up as a print here
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Here is the largest image of the lagoon nebula ever captured by an astrophotographer (I think)
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Finally, here is the image which has been burdening my hard drives for the last month, Cepheus to Cassiopeia
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The flaming star nebula in narrowband, one of the trippiest looking nebulae when shot up-close
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I captured this rare photo of the Andromeda Galaxy, it shows the full extent of the galaxy’s halo
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Comet c/2020 f3 Neowise shot this morning from black mountain
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The whole Orion constellation from head to toe!
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Colors of the night sky captured through my telescopes
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In the Summer of 2022 I discovered a nebula which is unlike anything else in the night sky. These are the Blue Sprites of M24:
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Finally a finished image from my new scope! The California nebula
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Riding the shockwave of an exploded star
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This is the difference between a 4 inch telescope and a 16 inch telescope
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150 megapixel panorama of the Milky Way from Kanab, Utah
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Two flavors of eclipse, one from yesterday the other from last August!
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The night sky is anything but black! Here’s a collection of some colorful views I’ve captured
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This is the core of our galaxy in only the light from hydrogen and oxygen! Unintentionally fall themed colors
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Me and my friend discovered a nebula in the sky just as large as the andromeda Galaxy! This is the lightning bolt nebula
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I captured the leftovers of a star that died 13,000 years ago!
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My view of the conjunction last night with the new scope!
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Different views of our moon
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Last nights moon captured through my telescope
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Looking towards the middle of our home galaxy
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After three years of developing code for phase correlation alignment, linear image composition, and adaptive convolution: here is my first image result from the 2017 eclipse
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Auriga in narrowband! 82hrs exposure. There is almost too much going on in this photo to describe, dying stars, newborn stars, runaway stars, hidden nebulae, it’s insane!
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Here is a sneak peak of the largest image ever captured of the whole andromeda galaxy (1.1 gigapixels). It looks ugly now, but she will clean up a lot after image processing
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The leftovers of a star that died 13,000 years ago
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