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10/02/2026

Saturn from last night 10/1/2026

Camera: ZWO ASI482MC
Telescope: Celestron 8SE with 2x Barlow & ZWO ADC
Mount: AM3
Capture & Processing: FireCapture, Registax, Lightroom

09/17/2026

The Eastern Veil Nebula

Always amazed by the intricate details of the Veil Nebula. Decided to go with an electric blue feel this time around which I think highlights the detail very well. The left part of this nebula always reminds me of Golbat from the original Pokémon. 😂

Exposure: 10 hours
Hydrogen: 59 frames x 300 sec
Oxygen: 59 frames x 300 sec
RGB: 65 frames x 30 sec
Constellation: Cygnus
Telescope: AT130
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Camera: Poseidon-M Pro
Filter: Antlia HOORGB
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

09/05/2026

First image of Saturn this year taken on 9/1/2026. Excited to get more! Took a 5 minute long video and stacked 15% of the frames. What’s cool is we’re looking at the south pole of Saturn which will continue to be the case for several more years.

Camera: ZWO ASI482MC
Telescope: Celestron 8SE with 2x Barlow & ZWO ADC
Mount: AM3
Capture & Processing: FireCapture, Registax, Lightroom

07/27/2026

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The Eagle Nebula - a timeless target.

Exposure: 5 hours
Sulfur: 16 frames x 300 sec
Hydrogen: 18 frames x 300 sec
Oxygen: 16 frames x 300 sec
RGB: 65 frames x 30 sec
Constellation: Serpens
Telescope: AT130
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Camera: Poseidon-M Pro
Filter: Antlia SHORGB
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

07/02/2026

SH2-86 & NGC 6823

This is a less-imaged target that does not have a moniker, rather just catalog numbers. NGC 6823 is an open star cluster that is surrounded by emission nebula SH2-86. It’s altogether a stellar nursery where young, hot stars are illuminating and carving out the surrounding nebula. I think the most interesting structures are the various pillars reaching throughout the nebulae.

Exposure: 23 hours
Sulfur: 90 frames x 300 sec
Hydrogen: 92 frames x 300 sec
Oxygen: 91 frames x 300 sec
RGB: 63 frames x 30 sec
Constellation: Vulpecula
Telescope: AT130
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Camera: Poseidon-M Pro
Filter: Antlia SHORGB
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

06/04/2026

The Spindle Galaxy - M102

Here’s a neat galaxy in Draco. At first it looks like just a white blob but it’s evident after processing that there’s a clear dust lane that indicates we’re potentially looking at this galaxy edge-on.

Exposure: 12 hours
145 frames x 300 sec
Constellation: Draco
Telescope: Nexstar 8SE with .63 reducer
Mount: AM3
Camera: RisingCam IMX571 OSC
Filter: No filter
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

05/23/2026

Markarian’s Chain with hydrogen bridge

This is a string of galaxies near the core of the Virgo galaxy cluster. Within the cluster, at least seven galaxies in Markarian’s Chain appear to move coherently, while others may appear to be part of the chain by chance. There’s normally a couple more galaxies included in the chain, but I couldn’t fit them in the frame.

One of my primary goals with this project was to capture the hydrogen bridge which is the faint, sweeping filament of ionized hydrogen gas connecting the giant elliptical galaxy M86 and the interacting spiral NGC 4438. Stretching across vast intergalactic space, this glowing gas bridge is physical evidence of ancient, violent galactic collisions.

I almost gave up on trying to capture the hydrogen bridge as it’s incredibly faint and required more than double the amount of hours I thought before I even started to get a glimpse of it and imaging time this year so far has been few and far between.

Exposure: 75 hours
Ha: 519 frames x 300 sec
Luminance: 368 frames x 120 sec
Red: 193 frames x 120 sec
Green: 190 frames x 120 sec
Blue: 190 frames x 120 sec
Constellation: Virgo
Telescope: AT130
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Camera: Poseidon-M Pro
Filter: Antlia HaLRGB
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

05/11/2026

Coddington’s Nebula

This is actually not a nebula but rather a small, irregular dwarf galaxy discovered by Edwin Coddington in 1898. It’s 12 million light years away and found in Ursa Major.

Exposure: 17 hours
205 frames x 300 sec
Constellation: Ursa Major
Telescope: Nexstar 8SE with .63 reducer
Mount: AM3
Camera: RisingCam IMX571 OSC
Filter: No filter
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

04/23/2026

Finally got an acceptable enough night here (weather-wise) to image a planet. Here’s Jupiter with its moon Io. Took a 90 second long video and stacked 15% of the frames. Hope for better seeing next time to bring out finer detail.

Camera: ZWO ASI482MC
Telescope: Celestron 8SE with 2x Barlow & ZWO ADC
Mount: AM3
Capture & Processing: FireCapture, AutoStakkert, Registax, Lightroom

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04/22/2026

M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster

This popular object is a massive, ancient globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules, containing hundreds of thousands of stars packed tightly together. A fun target to image as well as view through binoculars or a telescope.

Exposure: 3 hours
Luminance: 44 frames x 120 sec
Red: 25 frames x 120 sec
Green: 23 frames x 120 sec
Blue: 23 frames x 120 sec
Constellation: Hercules
Telescope: AT130
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Camera: Poseidon-M Pro
Filter: Antlia LRGB
Capture & Processing: N.I.N.A./APP/Pixinsight/Lightroom

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