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The Trifid Nebula is one of my favorites as I like the 2 tone colors in it. During the processing I removed the stars with StarXterminator as I really wanted to see the details. I am so enjoying the new ASI2600mc Pro camera, though it is only a 26mp crop sensor, I get so much more detail then I...

Last night was a super fun night. @Bill Richards had invited me to go capture Astro at a dark site East of San Diego. He is a member of the San Diego Astrophotography Association and was able to take me with him to their dark sky site. It was super cool as it had concrete pads to set up on, it...

I am sure there is a more proper area, but I will show off my noob Astrophotographer status by not knowing it.... :) I had stopped just outside the Petrified Forest National Park with the intent of doing Deep Space Astro. So I got there and set my gear up. The skies there were so dark, it was...

While shooting the Perseids Meteor Shower in Joshua Tree National Park earlier in August, I also set up my Deep Space Astro setup, and was able to shoot Deep Space at the same time as I was shooting the Perseids. Multitasking at it's finest. :) This is the Pleiades Star Cluster. This is one DSO...

Here is my version before I removed the stars. Technically most people remove the stars early on in the processing so that they don't get bloated by the processing itself. I did it just as I was almost done with the processing because that was when I thought about it. :) So in this with the...

It looks like Carlos and I were thinking similarly this last week as we both spent time capturing part of Rho Ophiuchi, the Antares Region as I call it. My goal was to get the M4 Globular Cluster, I will crop in for a tighter view of it later, but this was my view at 500mm. I limited myself to...

Here is the Pinwheel Galaxy from this last week out in Joshua Tree National Park. It's not perfect, but it's the best I can get it. :) It felt good capturing it since I still have a totally manual tracker with no GoTo system. At 600mm to be able to pick out the Pinwheel Galaxy by eye and then...

A big thanks to Mike for finding me this source of some free Astro Data I could process since I have ran out of my own Astro Data. This is from a place called GoldField Astronomical Observatory. Home (goldfieldastro.space) This is an Astro object that is only in the Southern Hemisphere, so I...

I went out a few weeks ago to capture some Deep Space photography. It was a night I have already mentioned that was very windy, and it was a bit hard at first to get shots without the wind blowing the tripod and camera around and turning every star into a squiggle. As I was checking my polar...

Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm @ 420mm SkyGuider Pro 17 x 60 secs and ISO 6400 12 x Dark Frames 12 x Bias Frames 12 x Flat Frames

This is a rework of an earlier shot, and one where I cropped in more to get closer to the Lagoon Nebula and not show so much of the area around it. I really need to be able to get out and shoot new images, but reworking some of them again has been fruitful. Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm @ 420mm...

Roughly 4 hours total data over 3 nights in Bortle 5 light pollution (suburban Brisbane backyard): Horsehead and Flame nebulae by Tony, on Flickr

I am finally having some time to process photos again, so I dug into my Astro backlog and working on the Orion Nebula from February that I had taken. This also includes the Running Man Nebula above Orion. One of the tips I have picked up is after stacking the multiple images needed to do...

Hi everyone first post here, thanks to Sunny Sra for introducing me to this forum. This is my first deep sky imaging session in more than 4 months; with the bushfires and now rain/storm here in Australia clear skies are hard to come by. Did manage to get a bit last couple days though and was...

This from the beginning of August when Alisa and I went to American Basin to shoot wildflowers, and we got tons of awesome wildflower photos from there with the bloom being a week or two later then normal due to the extreme snow this year. The major road into it got taken out by landslides the...

Hey guys! I am looking into Astro/Star trackers, any recommendations, por personal experience, i have no idea whats important, which features to look for... Thank you in advance.

Appreciate the invite to the community. Look forward to building online and perhaps in-person relationships with some of you. This is a shot I took in May of this year. It was my 2nd attempt at shooting the Milkyway. My 10 year old daughter was out there helping me at 1AM too, so a little...

Joshua Tree National Park Twilight