pleiades

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...

On my way back to Colorado and beyond for fall color I knew I had a night or two where I could do some Deep Space Astro photography. It wasn't a huge window since the moon was at 2/3rds to 3/4 full. So the sky at night didn't get dark enough until about 1am on this night and by 5am it was...