Event Photography

Event Photography Photographing Marshall, Battle Creek, and surrounding communities. High quality prints and downloads available at jeffwilson.zenfolio.com .

Photographer in the Marshall, Albion, Battle Creek MI area. I shoot live music and other events, and post photos for sale in my online gallery jeffwilson.zenfolio.com

All posted images are copyrighted. Reproduction for any commercial use is prohibited without prior permission. Photos that I post on Facebook are copyrighted. I expect that people will share them, and maybe use them as profile pict

ures. I consider that an honor, and have no problem with it. I ask only two things:
1. Please do not remove my watermark, or crop it out. That mark indicates that the photo is my creation.
2. If you use a photo to promote a concert, an appearance, an album, or anything else commercial, you should purchase the rights to the image. You're using my photo in an attempt to make $$ - without my permission I consider that a violation of copyright. I'm pretty easy-going: rights are cheap for this kind of use of my photos, and I might be satisfied by being comp'ed into your events for life (you know that I will take photos when I attend, and I might not have that much life left, anyway).

06/24/2026
06/20/2026

The Fireworks Galaxy (C12, NGC 6946) is a spiral galaxy on the border of the constellations Cygnus and Cepheus. Its orientation allows us to see it nicely face-on rather than from an edge. It's not visible to the unaided eye, but it will appear as a smudge through binoculars. It's about a third the size of the Milky Way, with about half as many stars.

Its name derives from the fact that 10 supernovae were observed in this galaxy over the past century. Compare that to about 1 a century in our galaxy. C12 is about 22 million light-years away, so I captured photons that originated at the time when ostriches and most types of oaks had appeared, but giraffes and hyenas were still one or two million years in the future.

This is my second time imaging this galaxy -- the first was about 4 years ago with a slightly wider field of view.

46 x 300-sec exposures (plus 20 darks, 30 flats & bias frames)
3 hr 50 min total exposure
Bortle 4 sky
Waxing crescent Moon, 17% illuminated
ZWO ASI533mc Pro camera (gain 101, offset 70, -5°C)
Baader UV-IR Cut filter
Apertura Carbonstar 6 telescope (1380 mm focal length)
HEQ5 Pro mount
stacked and processed with Siril
Background extraction & denoising with GraXpert
tweaked with Raw Therapee & GIMP

A great show doesn't happen without the people behind the scenes. See "Spring Awakening" opening tonight (Thursday 6/11)...
06/11/2026

A great show doesn't happen without the people behind the scenes. See "Spring Awakening" opening tonight (Thursday 6/11) at Great Escape Stage Company.

"Spring Awakening" opens TONIGHT (Thursday) at Great Escape Stage Company. This is an adult-themed show -- see Great Esc...
06/11/2026

"Spring Awakening" opens TONIGHT (Thursday) at Great Escape Stage Company. This is an adult-themed show -- see Great Escape's site for details.

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