McCann Astrophotography

McCann Astrophotography My name is Ian, welcome to my astrophotography page! My current equipment is the SeeStar S50.

This is NGC 5494, a gorgeous galaxy roughly 31 million light years away from our own. The galaxy doesn't follow a generi...
02/01/2025

This is NGC 5494, a gorgeous galaxy roughly 31 million light years away from our own.

The galaxy doesn't follow a generic classification due to it's uniqueness and features, labeling it as a peculiar galaxy.

The galaxy is roughly the same size as our own. The galaxy can be seen to have an extremely bright nucleus (center) that bulges out and has a distinctive dust lane. Due to our positioning in relation to the galaxy, we get to see the galaxy edge-on which makes it appear even more stunning.

The galaxy also has a supermassive black hole at it's center.

This is NGC 1501 with the more friendly name "The Camel's Eye Nebula", a planetary nebula in the constellation of Camelo...
01/28/2025

This is NGC 1501 with the more friendly name "The Camel's Eye Nebula", a planetary nebula in the constellation of Camelopardalis. The nebula is ~4000 light years away and is less than a light year in diameter, making it relatively small.

The central stars magnitude from what I have read, rapidly changes and can become brighter even over the course of a half an hour and it is believed to possibly be a binary system (two stars revolving around one another). The nebula is a rich blue, containing mainly hydrogen and nitrogen.

This is Bode's Galaxy. I shot this one awhile back, but was able to now get nearly 6 hours of imaging and here is my fin...
12/02/2024

This is Bode's Galaxy.

I shot this one awhile back, but was able to now get nearly 6 hours of imaging and here is my final product.

This galaxy is roughly 12 million light years away and is roughly 96,000 light years across, making it quite a massive galaxy. The center of the galaxy houses a massive black hole.

I plan to capture much more of this galaxy to bring out more detail in the spiral/arms and generate more color extraction. For the time being, I'm so happy with how this came out. It is just stunning.

This image has two star clusters, with an extremely small one that is present above the larger one in the bottom right. ...
11/09/2024

This image has two star clusters, with an extremely small one that is present above the larger one in the bottom right.

The cluster in the top left is known as M46, this cluster lies roughly 5,000 light years away and has roughly 500 stars. The cluster is predicted to be 250 million light years old. Interesting enough, if you are to zoom in on the cluster, you can see a blueish/green circle toward the bottom left of the cluster. This is NGC 2438, a planetary nebula. This nebula actually has no relation to the cluster, being significantly closer to us at 1400 light years away. (I will post a second image circling it)

The bottom right is M47. This is another open cluster located 1600 light years away and is predicted to only be roughly 78 million light years old.

This is The Leo Triplet. This cluster of galaxies is located roughly 35 million light years away from our own planet. It...
11/09/2024

This is The Leo Triplet.

This cluster of galaxies is located roughly 35 million light years away from our own planet. It is speculated that roughly 800 million years ago, these galaxies were directly interacting with one another.

The one in the top left is M65, this galaxy is thought to not be making many more stars, as most of the stars in this galaxy are relatively older.

The one in the top right is M66. This is a spiral galaxy which has observed frequent supernova over the coarse of its recent monitoring.

The bottom galaxy is NGC 3628, also known as The Hamburger Galaxy. This galaxy is seen nearly edge on, and its dust bands expand much past the arms of the galaxy itself.

Nothing crazy, just some star clusters from last evening. Although the the last image has a star clusters that is 2 bill...
10/31/2024

Nothing crazy, just some star clusters from last evening.

Although the the last image has a star clusters that is 2 billion years old 🤯

Here it is, after one and a half hours of imaging. This is my new and improved Orion Nebula in all of its beauty. This g...
10/28/2024

Here it is, after one and a half hours of imaging. This is my new and improved Orion Nebula in all of its beauty.

This gorgeous nebula lies roughly 1400 light years away from our own star system and it is a birthing ground for new stars. There are two separate nebula that you can see and multiple smaller reflection nebula that are present in this image.

I am so pleased with how this came out and now that I can do mosaics, I'll be able to capture so many more things.

This is The Iris Nebula.This stunning reflection nebula is roughly 1400 light years away from our planet and spans nearl...
10/23/2024

This is The Iris Nebula.

This stunning reflection nebula is roughly 1400 light years away from our planet and spans nearly six light years across.

It is illuminated by the central star which reflects off of the nebula creating the color you see. The surrounding portion of the nebula is dark, which is quite literally called a dark nebula. Dark nebula are thick clouds of gases where light is unable to travel through them.

Love the way that this came out! The more pictures I collect, the more detail I can gather which I plan to do.

Wow, this one came out so much better then I thought it would. I just need to work on the background more. This is Bode'...
10/22/2024

Wow, this one came out so much better then I thought it would. I just need to work on the background more.

This is Bode's Galaxy. I shot this one awhile back with another galaxy in the lens, but I thought I'd give it a shot as an individual target.

This galaxy is roughly 12 million light years away and is roughly 96,000 light years across, making it quite a massive galaxy. The center of the galaxy houses a massive black hole.

I plan to capture much more of this galaxy to bring out more detail in the spiral/arms and generate more color extraction. For the time being, I'm so happy with how this came out. It is just stunning.

Here's a cool one I did that doesn't seem to be a highly captured target, one of my longest exposures yet. NGC 2403. Thi...
10/20/2024

Here's a cool one I did that doesn't seem to be a highly captured target, one of my longest exposures yet.

NGC 2403. This gorgeous galaxy lies roughly 8 million light years away. It is smaller than M33 (Triangulum) with it being ~50,000 light years across and Triangulum being 63,000 light years across. The similarities of the galaxy are striking, though.

Both have substantial H II (nebulous regions) so I'll need to capture more images to bring out the red. I'll throw my Triangulum in here as well so you can see the similarities.

~1500, 10-Subs in Bortle 5.5 skies
Background extraction ans Denoising in GraxPert
Stacked and processed in Siril

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