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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

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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 

Lyrids and H-alpha madness  ☄️🌌💥Wednesday night, my friends and I went out to Bucktail Overlook for the annual Lyrid Met...
04/25/2026

Lyrids and H-alpha madness  ☄️🌌💥

Wednesday night, my friends and I went out to Bucktail Overlook for the annual Lyrid Meteor Shower. A small but stunning shower, as the Lyrids are known for their huge fireballs. This was proven the moment we got to the overlook. As we stepped out of the car, we saw the most breathtaking fireball fly past us. Truly a scene from a movie. It went from the northern horizon to almost the Southern horizon, burning so bright we could see the flames as it burned up in the atmosphere. If this didn’t happen during sunset, I bet this would have lit up the entire sky like it was almost daytime. Unfortunately for us, we didn’t see any more huge fireballs like that to knock her off the pedestal. 

Ever since getting an Astro-modified camera and a Hα clip-in filter for it, I’ve been longing to get out even more during clear nights. The combo of these two is game-changing, with so much yummy Hα signal in each photo now. The original plan was to blend meteors and a huge panorama, but low clouds periodically started materializing out of nowhere during the middle of the night, so I ended up shooting the classic core shot with a little Hα spice and with me in the foreground, fully welcoming my first core shot of the season! 

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

Sky: 1 frame | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 2500
Foreground: 1 frame | f/2.8 | 8s | ISO 3200
Hα: 4 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.

Remember to Leave No Trace :)

Farewell Orion 👋Just in time before Orion sets below the horizon until next Fall. Yesterday, a couple of friends and I s...
04/13/2026

Farewell Orion 👋

Just in time before Orion sets below the horizon until next Fall. Yesterday, a couple of friends and I set forth to backpack and camp at Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania to capture my first image using my newly modified Canon R with a 12 nm H-alpha (Hα) filter. Our original plan was to start shooting by 9:40 PM, right when astronomical night starts, but with a little bad luck and off-trailing to find the shore of the place I had in mind, we eventually arrived at our destination at a good ol’ time of 10 PM. Since Orion was already hurrying along to the horizon, I rushed to set up my gear, and surprisingly, got my polar alignment perfect on my tracker on the first try for the first time. I took the Hα images first, then the RGB images, and finally the foreground. Note, because Orion is slowly setting, I actually decided to use the last RGB image as my base to accurately portray the night sky at that exact moment. It was tight, but wowww, this came out so much better than I thought.

This project started way back in November when I first decided to astro-modify my backup Canon R to be sensitive to Hα at 656.28 nm, and Sulfur II (SII) at 671.7nm and 673 nm. In normal digital cameras, there is a UV/IR block filter that blocks UV and IR signals, but these filters are aggressive and actually block the visible light from Hα and SII. To enhance the transmission of these signals, a new filter must be installed, replacing the OEM UV/IR filter. I sent my camera to Daniel from for this service, and he did an amazing job modifying my camera, fine-tuning it to exactly as it was before.

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

A 1/8 Black Diffusion Filter was used to soften the highlights in the stars, creating a dreamy glow effect.

Sky: 4 frames stacked | f/2.8 | 60s | ISO 1600
Foreground: 1 frame | f/2.8 | 180s | ISO 1600
Hα: 5 frames stacked | f/2.8 | 120s | ISO 6400

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

Remember to Leave No Trace :)

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