bodes galaxy

This is of Bodes and Cigar galaxies. I was able to meet up with @Bill Richards again last night and he took me down into the dark sky site for the San Diego Astronomy Association. They have a really nice location. And if it wasn't for Bill, I wouldn't have been able to capture this last night...

New Years Day found me driving out to Joshua Tree to capture the Leonard Comet before it's gone forever. There was clouds in the sky, which made for an awesome sunset, but had me a bit concerned for the night as I had hoped to spend a couple of hours doing Deep Space Astro after capturing the...

Last night I went exploring for an area closer to my daughters house north of Denver Colorado for an area that I could do Deep Space Astro. On the map I found what looked likely, a lake just outside Ft Morgan Colorado, called Jackson Lake. It's a state park with some campsites being along the...

Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm @ 600mm in DX mode = 850mm SkyGuider Pro - tracking 41 x 120secs at ISO 800 No Dark, Flat or Bias used since I did it all in Photoshop. I could have used Darks, but at ISO 800 I didn't have any noise issues.

With the new moon upon us I drove 2 hours to get out into the desert to capture some new Deep Space Astro objects (DSO) and ones that were new to me. I so far have only captured 1 Galaxy, the Andromeda, and I wanted to capture some other ones. The Andromeda is very large and easy to find and...