Lar Z Photography

19/02/2025

Hey Folks, I'll be doing another talk this year for the Irish Astronomy Week in the Rathdrum library on the 3rd of March. The talk is free and no booking is required so if you or anyone you know is interested in listening to me go on about space for an hour pop in!

I'll cover astrophotography and the principles of astronomy involved in capturing images of the night sky.

Hope to see you there!

Cheers 😁🌃

25/10/2024

Managed to get a cheeky self portrait with the comet A3 before it disappears for another lap around it's 80,000 year orbit ☄️

01/10/2024

The Elephant Trunk nebula is my longest project in terms of overall time it has taken me to complete the full photo data set for Ha, O3 and S2. I took the first shots in November of 2023 which makes it 10 months to complete this project. I was shooting other objects during this time when it was best to image them but on nights with mixed conditions or moon close to other targets I kept collecting data on this nebula. Overall this is 45 hours of exposure processed in SHO palette.

Equipment used:
🔭: WO Z73 with TS 2600 mono camera
🔎: Antlia 7nm SHO filters
⚙️: HEQ5 Pro

01/09/2024

End of summer spent under the night sky at the Copper Coast 🌌

2 shots from the night of imaging. I shot the sea stack during dusk and then setup the tracker for the sky shots. I took 29 x 2 minute sky exposures, stacked and blended with the foreground to get the final results.

14/08/2024

Stargazing for meteors on the backend of the Perseids shower 🌃🌠

17/03/2024

Folks, thanks for those who came out to listen to my talk about astrophotography. I ran out of time and didn't get to take questions. I'm sharing my presentation for anyone who would like a reference and feel free to drop me messages with questions and I'll be happy to answer them.

Lar Z Photography lar_z_photography

04/03/2024

Folks, I'll be doing a talk about my astrophotography journey in the Arklow library next week. Feel free to drop by to listen to me go on about the hardships of this mad hobby 😎👌

08/01/2024

Folks, I'll be hosting an evening talk in the Arklow library about my journey in Astrophotography. Everyone is welcome to learn about this hobby and to take a look at the equipment involved.

One of our many talks confirmed so far, full program out next month at www.irishastronomyweek.ie

06/11/2023

Beautiful aurora display in Ireland last night, I missed the best of it but enjoyed being out under the stars.

📷: Nikon D810
🔭: Nikon 14-35 mm F4

17/09/2023

This is probably one of the longest images I've ever spent editing. It took me solid 9 attempts to get the colour balance just right for my taste. There's a lot going on in the Heart Nebula but well worth the effort.

In total this is just under 10 hours of SHO, around 4 hours of Ha and roughly 3 hours on S2 and O3.

📷: TS 2600 MP
🔎: Antlia 7nm SHO filters
🔭: Williamoptics Z73
⚙️: HEQ5 Pro

12/09/2023

The 2023 deep sky season is off to a bang 😁 I've been working on assembling an updated rig and this is my first result of NGC7000. I got both the North America and the Pelican nebulae in the frame along with all that beautiful dust and surrounding gas clouds.

This is a total of 10 hours 30 minutes of integration using SHO filters.

📷: TS 2600 MP
🔎: Antlia 7nm SHO filters
🔭: Williamoptics Z73
⚙️: HEQ5 Pro