Pirate Observatory

11/04/2025

03/18/2025

Reprocessed the Monkey Head nebula.

02/23/2025

Reprocessed the Lagoon Nebula, more OIII and more detail.

02/19/2025

Pacman Nebula Reprocessed

02/10/2025

A fun 10 minute podcast discussing the science behind the Heart Nebula, IC 1805.

A little podcast about the IC-1805 - The Heart Nebula. Some fantastic science behind this astrophotography target. Generated with Google NotebookLM, script p...

02/09/2025

So I restacked IC 1805 - the Heart Nebula using old data with new data in AstroPixelProcessor. This is from two different cameras (ASI294 and ASI2600). This is with the same telescope, but with and without a reducer, so effectively two different focal lengths. I cropped out the banding artifacts caused by using an unguided mount in the old data. I think this is pretty cool, so thought I'd share.

01/26/2025

Working on some new targets, but thought I would share this site from an astrophotography community. I finally joined AstroBin, and this is my gallery. I've posted my favorites in here, but more to come! You can click on these images and view them in full resolution, uncompressed like Facebook does. If you are on a mobile device, I don't think the compression matters so much due to the small screen. I was posting stuff on Telescopius, and I still love that site, but the gallery is a bit cleaner in AstroBin.

Astrophotography by RM Haley on AstroBin