Chronicles of the Cosmos

Chronicles of the Cosmos 🔭 Real backyard astrophotography | No AI
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05/16/2026

Angel of Calvary

Bringing the heavens down to Earth...

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Monkey Business...(Monkey Head Nebula)Follow me Chronicles of the Cosmos for more real astrophotography.Camera: ZWO ASI2...
04/30/2026

Monkey Business...

(Monkey Head Nebula)

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Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM
Telescope: SVBONY SV550 80mm
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

NASA has been releasing photos from the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6th, and they've been nothing but incredible. I ...
04/09/2026

NASA has been releasing photos from the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6th, and they've been nothing but incredible. I wanted to share some of my favorites. It's been surreal to see what the Artemis II team has been sending back to Earth. Imagine how stunning it is for them to see with their own eyes.

All photos: NASA / Artemis II crew, April 6-7, 2026 from the Orion spacecraft.

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03/25/2026

This is what a nebula looks like before I touch it.

Raw off the sensor. Ugly. Barely recognizable.

What you see at the end took roughly 20 hours of light collection -- 6 to 7 hours each across three separate wavelengths of light -- sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen -- each captured and stacked individually, then combined into one final image.

Captured with a Celestron EdgeHD 8" telescope, ZWO ASI2600MM camera, and SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro mount from my backyard in Charlotte, NC.

This is the Rosette Nebula. 5,000 light years away.

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ANGEL OF CALVARYThis was an exciting project I planned out months ago, and now it's finally time for the big reveal!What...
03/12/2026

ANGEL OF CALVARY

This was an exciting project I planned out months ago, and now it's finally time for the big reveal!

What you see is not AI generated. It is a blend of two real images I captured. The foreground with my DSLR, and the background with my home observatory telescope.

This was probably the most difficult image I've ever processed. It took me over a week just to mess around with the blending to make it look natural. 😵‍💫😅

It's a completely different project than anything I've done before. I've created blends in the past that mixed the Milky Way and various landmarks, but were all captured with the same camera. I've never tried to blend a foreground image shot with my DSLR, with a nebula image from my telescope.

On top of the week+ it took me just to get the blending correct, this also took many hours of imaging and processing to create the 2-panel mosaic of the Pleiades Nebula you see in this night sky. Each panel was shot in LRGB with my monochrome astro camera. The background night sky is a combined 30 hours of data (15 hrs per panel).

I edited that nebula in my astro processing software and then moved it over to Photoshop, where I combined that with an HDR blend of Calvary Church.

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03/09/2026

This is what it actually takes to photograph a nebula.

What you're seeing isn't a filter or an edit. Each step in this video is a different layer of real light, captured separately, processed separately, and then combined to build the final image.

The Eagle Nebula is 7,000 light-years away and contains the Pillars of Creation, the same structure NASA famously imaged with Hubble. My version was shot from a backyard in North Carolina over multiple nights using two dual-band filters (HaOiii and SiiOiii) totaling nearly 27 hours of combined integration time. From those two captures, I extract three separate channels of light: hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. Each one gets assigned a color and combined into a final image, the same technique NASA uses to create their iconic Hubble palette images.

The last image is the result. That's the real light of the nebula, just translated into an enjoyable color palette our eyes can actually process.

As usual, no AI. Just hours of data collection and processing.

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03/03/2026

NGC 1499 is named the California Nebula because, from Earth, it looks like the state of California. That's literally as scientific as it got.

Obviously, it must have been a cartographer-brained astronomer who looked at it and said, "Yup, that's California."

It's a massive cloud of glowing hydrogen-alpha gas (mostly) that is about 1,000 light-years away.

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The Northern Lagoon Nebula.Real image from my Celestron telescope, presented in SHO Hubble Palette format.👉🏼 Follow for...
03/01/2026

The Northern Lagoon Nebula.

Real image from my Celestron telescope, presented in SHO Hubble Palette format.

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02/26/2026

Backyard telescope vs. NASA – Round 2

Most people assume images like this require a space telescope or a multi-million dollar observatory. They don't. My images were taken from my backyard telescopes.

Nebulas are about capturing faint clouds of gas and dust. It's not necessarily about how big and powerful your telescope is (although that helps). It's about how much light you collect and the conditions you collect them under.

My images were shot with an 80mm refractor and a 200mm SCT. Both sitting in my backyard, both a fraction of the size of Hubble's 2.4 meter primary mirror. We're talking telescopes you could carry versus a telescope the size of a school bus floating in space orbit.

And yet, side by side at a glance, the difference is smaller than most people expect. Wild huh?

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02/23/2026

The light in this image left M106 when dinosaurs still roamed Earth.

That's not a metaphor. M106 is 23 million light-years away. Every photon I captured on my camera sensor had been traveling through space since before humans, before mammals, and before the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.

This is a 23-million-year-old snapshot of a galaxy with an active supermassive black hole at its center.

Who knows what it actually looks like right now... 🤔

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