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Yesterday's sun from the backyard!

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A full disk solar image taken with a monochrome camera and colorized orange
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This is Elephant Trunk Nebula. This pillar is a star factory, crushing dust and gas into fusion powerplants that will form their own solar systems. Mind blowing stuff!

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The Elephant Trunk Nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Shot in monochrome SHO and processed with a colorful palette.
September 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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My phone has been buzzing about solar flares and these monster sunspots did not disappoint! This image was captured at 1pm on February 4th.

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February 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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This is Triangulum Galaxy (M33) in mono LRGB. This visually large galaxy fits perfectly in my FOV and shows a ton of detail with this setup.

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September 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Luna - 25th Feb 2026
Nikon Z30 - Skywatcher Skymax 127mm Maksutov

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The moon - waxing gibbous moon taken during blue hour on the 25th Feb 2026
April 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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This image is from August 2nd before the wildfire smoke settled in on Massachusetts. This is a pretty good spread of sunspots with a couple big patches.

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August 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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The moon is slowly filling in at 19% illuminated. This image was from the night of January 4th.

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January 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Eastern Veil Nebula through the much smaller sensor of my ToupTek ATR585M and monochrome filters (13.5h total)

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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Got a late start to the session because of clouds, but the bright moon was there lighting up the whole sky so I had to capture it.

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September 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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NGC 6946 from last night. I've processed it to show up the foreground dust from our own Galaxy. I think that I may still have some internal reflection issues to fix though.
Details: 116 x 180s | Altair 26C | Esprit 120 | CEM70
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August 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Lots of activity on the Sun this weekend.

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@skywatcherusa Heliostar 76 H-alpha scope and Star Adventurer GTi with @player_one_astronomy Apollo-M Mini camera. First shot also using a @celestronuniverse X-Cel LX 2x barlow in DuoTone false color. Second shot in monochrome with inverted surface detail. Processed in AutoStakkert!4, PixInsight, imPPG, and Photoshop. @skywatcherusa Heliostar 76 H-alpha scope and Star Adventurer GTi with @player_one_astronomy Apollo-M Mini camera. First shot also using a @celestronuniverse X-Cel LX 2x barlow in DuoTone false color. Second shot in monochrome with inverted surface detail. Processed in AutoStakkert!4, PixInsight, imPPG, and Photoshop.
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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92% waxing moon from November 2nd. As usual, as the full moon arrives, the weather clears up. Narrowband it is! Tonight's targets are Eastern Veil, Pacman for a bit, and then Monkey Head.

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A 92% waxing moon with the shadows receding off the left side
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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These sunspots are visible with the naked eye through eclipse glasses! This image was captured earlier today. Aurora activity seems fairly quiet tonight, but maybe that will change.

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October 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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It has been a busy couple days for Earth's magnetic field as the sun has been pummeling us with material. With all this sunspot activity, it's easy to see why!

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A full disk solar image showing off a combination of lines and spots covering the surface
January 21, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Here's the full supermoon from just after midnight on Nov 5th. Supermoons occur when the full moon coincides with the moon being closest to Earth in its elliptical orbit (perigee).

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A full, supermoon captured with a monochrome camera just after midnight on November 5th.
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Here's Tulip Nebula captured in monochrome SHO. Color palettes are fun! I put the individual channel images in the thread.

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August 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The sun is awfully quiet right now - not a lot of sunspot activity.

Image captured at 11:34am on September 11.

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September 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Here are the stacks by filter that I combined to make this image

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Sulfur II filter Hydrogen-alpha filter Oxygen III filter
January 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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The sunspots are back! The cluster in the bottom right is a very interesting shape. This image was captured yesterday.

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A full disk monochrome solar image colorized orange with a surface covered in sunspot clusters
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Located between the constellations Orion and Gemini, Monkey Head Nebula is a large, colorful nebula is an excellent narrowband target.

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A large colorful nebula with a gold-orange rim, wispy clouds streaming off the outside, and a bright blue center.
January 5, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Astrophotography on this account? Inconcievable! This is the sun from yesterday (September 9). A good variety of spots.

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A full disk solar image captured with a monochrome camera and colorized orange. Sunspots dot the area just north and south of the equator with a few big spots in the west.
September 10, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Abell 31 is a large and dim planetary nebula in the southern sky trailing Orion. I piled up nearly 70 hours of integration time on this target with 10 minute narrowband subs.

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A planetary nebula in the middle of the frame with a red ring around the outside, a teal center, and faint dust lines throughout.
May 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Been doing a little night time imaging this week from the marsh.
Celestron and SkywatcherUSA gear used.
The Pleiades cluster The Orion Nebula The Andromeda Galaxy
December 8, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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I watched some more processing tutorials, so I gave M 17 another go. The main trick here is color masks using the ColorMask_mod script in PixInsight and masked curve adjustments.

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Subject: M 17 Nebula. The background sky in the image is filled with red nebulosity marked with dark dust lines, while the nebula is a sea of textured blue.
February 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM