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Stargazing at Le Chaleureux du Lac Blanc 🏠🌌One last trip with the boys before a new semester. Coincidentally enough, the...
08/29/2026

Stargazing at Le Chaleureux du Lac Blanc 🏠🌌

One last trip with the boys before a new semester. Coincidentally enough, the Airbnb we chose was in a pretty dark area by the lake, and we had clear skies all 3 nights, which is just unheard of in the Northeast. Haven’t had the chance to get out as much this summer, so this was a nice ending to this summer’s astro adventures.

Because this wasn’t another long night in the mountains, I ended up using my Hα filter down by the lake. I try to use this awesome little guy more often, but the wind usually ruins these long 4-minute exposures. Thankfully this time, I was treated to a beautifully calm night by the lake.

I started my Hα exposures around 12:45 AM and ended up shooting two frames: one for the Cygnus region and one for the Heart and Soul area. A stack of five 4-minute exposures for the Cygnus region and a stack of four 4-minute exposures for the Heart and Soul area. I actually ended up going back to the house to get ready for night-night while my camera ran. I started my RGB and foreground shots around 1:55 AM and ended up going way overboard until 3:30 AM because I couldn’t figure out a composition to do, so I played it safe and shot a 360° sky panorama for extra data. Didn’t end up going to bed until very late, but well worth the peacefulness by the lake and seeing a couple of meteors from the Perseids.

📸 Shot on my Astro-modified Canon USA R+ EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II

Sky: 8 panels | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 1600
Hα: 4-5 frames stacked | f/2.8 | 240s | ISO 3200

Processed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Pixinsight, Auriga Registar, and ASTAP

Check out prints on my website! Link in the bio.

Stargazing at Le Chaleureux du Lac Blanc One last trip with the boys before a new semester. Coincidentally enough, the A...
08/29/2026

Stargazing at Le Chaleureux du Lac Blanc

One last trip with the boys before a new semester. Coincidentally enough, the Airbnb we chose was in a pretty dark area by the lake, and we had clear skies all 3 nights, which is just unheard of in the Northeast. Haven’t had the chance to get out as much this summer, so this was a nice ending to this summer’s astro adventures.

Because this wasn’t another long night in the mountains, I ended up using my Hα filter down by the lake. I try to use this awesome little guy more often, but the wind usually ruins these long 4-minute exposures. Thankfully this time, I was treated to a beautifully calm night by the lake.

I started my Hα exposures around 12:45 AM and ended up shooting two frames: one for the Cygnus region and one for the Heart and Soul area. A stack of five 4-minute exposures for the Cygnus region and a stack of four 4-minute exposures for the Heart and Soul area. I actually ended up going back to the house to get ready for night-night while my camera ran. I started my RGB and foreground shots around 1:55 AM and ended up going way overboard until 3:30 AM because I couldn’t figure out a composition to do, so I played it safe and shot a 360° sky panorama for extra data. Didn’t end up going to bed until very late, but well worth the peacefulness by the lake and seeing a couple of meteors from the Perseids.

📸 Shot on my Astro-modified Canon USA R+ EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II

Sky: 8 panels | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 1600
Hα: 4-5 frames stacked | f/2.8 | 240s | ISO 3200

Processed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Pixinsight, Auriga Registar, and ASTAP

Check out prints on my website! Link in the bio.

Partial Lunar Eclipse 12:14 AM 8/28/26
08/28/2026

Partial Lunar Eclipse 12:14 AM 8/28/26

Little Tupper Lake @ 7:53 AMidentical edits, but different conditionsLittle Tupper Lake @ 7:49 AMidentical edits, but di...
08/16/2026

Little Tupper Lake @ 7:53 AM

identical edits, but different conditions

Little Tupper Lake @ 7:49 AM

identical edits, but different conditions

Little Tupper Lake @ 7:04 AM

identical edits, but different conditions

magnifique! Fish Hawk Cliffs & Indian Head
08/03/2026

magnifique!

Fish Hawk Cliffs & Indian Head

Sunset on Mount Skylight ☀️⛰️
07/15/2026

Sunset on Mount Skylight ☀️⛰️

Galactic Ripples Above Pharaoh Lake Wilderness 🟥🟩🌌WOW, did Christmas come early? This has to be one of the greatest airg...
06/19/2026

Galactic Ripples Above Pharaoh Lake Wilderness 🟥🟩🌌

WOW, did Christmas come early? This has to be one of the greatest airglows I’ve seen to date. You can see the literal ripples of colors in the sky, similar to how you drop a piece of stone in water, and you can see the water rippling.

Monday night, my friends and I went camping to Pharaoh Lake, well, at least that was the plan. 1 mile into the hike, we see a sign saying the bridge ahead was down, and conveniently enough, it was completely destroyed across the marsh. Since everyone else didn’t have waterproofing gear, it was just not viable to cross the shin-deep water, so we just switched to camping near the bridge area to stargaze and build a fire. That area actually had a pretty nice view of the sky, which was a huge bonus. I originally was aiming to shoot a panorama of the Milky Way that overlooked the whole lake, but switched to a 360° shot of the sky with a landscape silhouette. Maybe next time during the Perseids 👀

While you may think we had a huge aurora storm that night, the red and green you see in the sky is actually a natural phenomenon that happens every night. Air particles like Nitrogen, Oxygen, etc. shift to a higher energy state during the day and release energy in the form of light at night, to a lower energy state. Some nights this is especially strong, like the night I took this photo. These airglow ripples you see are caused by gravitational waves from extreme weather systems like a thunderstorm, where there is a violent shift in pressure that forces the air to oscillate up and down in the high atmosphere. At the same time, the air particles are releasing light, causing the airglow ripple effect.

📸 Shot on my Astro-modified Canon USA R+ EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II

Sky: 27 panels | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 1600

Processed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and PTGui

Check out prints on my website! Link in the bio.

Remember to Leave No Trace :)

Celestial Storm Above Iroquois Peak 🌌⛰️Wow, am I super happy to actually get this down this last Thursday night. Coincid...
05/24/2026

Celestial Storm Above Iroquois Peak 🌌⛰️

Wow, am I super happy to actually get this down this last Thursday night. Coincidentally enough, I’ve already taken Friday off from work for a wedding shoot that afternoon since last December, and here I was pondering whether I should risk it all and go out after work for this 13-mile hike the night before the wedding shoot to achieve this goal of mine that I’ve had for the last 3 months. The forecasted weather couldn’t be any better. Corroborating with many weather models, it all seemed to line up with 5-10 mph wind and almost 0% clouds, so it was too much of an opportunity to let up, and oh boy, was I in for a surprise.
I booked it from the Loj at 8:30 PM and reached the peak at around 1:15 AM, about an hour late from my planned arrival time. The hike itself wasn’t so bad, but I had never hiked past Algonquin and made the wrong turn in the dark, going down the Algonquin Trail to Lake Colden, instead of to Iroquois Peak, only to realize about half a mile down. This wasted too much time, so I had to shift gears, and instead of shooting a 360-degree panorama, I eyeballed a 180-degree panorama.

Once arriving at the peak, I quickly set up my gear, only to realize that the wind was truly too much for my tracker to get circular stars. Despite all the forecasts saying 5-10 mph wind, mountain weather, especially on bare peaks in the McIntyre Range, is one of the windiest and, if not the windiest, places in the Adirondacks because of the mountain formations. Although I had perfect polar alignment, the gusts proved too much, and I had some of the most awful-looking stars. At that point, I knew I was in a time crunch, so I just needed to get these shots done and place all my hope on my stitching software to save the day.

Safe to say, I survived, and shot one of my favorite shots I’ve ever done. My only gripe was how bad the stars looked, but try not to zoom in too much 😂

📸 Shot on my Astro-modified R+ EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II

Sky: 18 panels | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 1600
Foreground: 7 panels | f/2.8 | 90s | ISO 1600

Processed using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and PTGui

Remember to Leave No Trace :)

Sunrise Algonquin & Iroquois Peak 5.22.26
05/23/2026

Sunrise Algonquin & Iroquois Peak 5.22.26

A closer look at our galaxy in HaRGB ‼️🌌Taken under Bortle 2 skies at Bucktail Overlook. All the flaming red structures ...
04/25/2026

A closer look at our galaxy in HaRGB ‼️🌌

Taken under Bortle 2 skies at Bucktail Overlook. All the flaming red structures you see is H-alpha emissions from excited hydrogen atoms thousands of light years away as they jump from a higher energy state to a lower energy state, emitting photons of light at 656.28nm during this transition.

Very spicy of course 🤤

📸 Shot on my Astro-modified R+ EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II

Sky: 5 panels | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 2500
Hα: 2 panels | 4 frames stacked | f/2.8 | 240s | ISO 3200

Processed using Adobe Photoshop, PTGui, Pixinsight, Auriga Registar, and ASTAP 

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