Supermoon April 7, 2020
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6i Lens: Vivitar 500mm fixed focus Stack: 30 images of various exposures and ISOs
Year: 2021
Leo Triplet
Image taken: April 12, 2021 | Location: Back Yard Upper Left: M 66 / NGC 3627 classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy. Discovered in 1780 by Charles Messier and lies 31 million light years from Earth. Lower Left: M 65 / NGC 3623 also classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy. …
2020 Saturn + Jupiter = Christmas Star
Taken: December 20, 2020 | Location: Backyard Very cloudy, but my Google Pixel XL caught the bright conjunction for just a few seconds when it “popped” into a hole in the clouds. Taken a couple of days after the great conjunction on December 22, 2020 at 18:08 local time after …
Eagle Nebula
Image taken: August 16, 2020 | Location: Back Yard William Optics Z103 and Canon Rebel T6i again. This time I processed the images through Astro Pixel Processor. Also called M 16, this nebula is about 7,000 light years from Earth and is about 5.504 million years old. The Eagle Nebula …
First Light z103 Dumbbell
Image Taken: July 28, 2020 | Location: Back Yard Dumbbell Nebula M 27: This was my first ever “astrophotography” photo. I used the Canon EOS Rebel T6i connected to the William Optics Zenithstar 103 telescope. After stacking in Deep Sky Stacker, this turned out ok for my very first “processed” …
Omega Nebula
Image taken: July 27, 2020 | Location: Back Yard This may actually have been my first light with the z103 and the Canon T6i (750D). I believe I was trying to use a 1.25″ sky glow filter that I later found was not really tuned for astrophotography. Alternate processing of …
Comet Neowise
Taken: July 15, 2020 | Location: Front Yard Equipment: Canon EOS Rebel T6i with factory lens kit and a tripod.
The Plane Moon
Taken: January 4, 2020 | Location: Back Yard Very hastily taken…I was setting up a regular photo tripod and the Canon EOS Rebel T6i with an inexpensive manual focus 500mm focal length at 67mm aperture (f/8) lens. It was a relatively warm early evening for January. The corner of my …
Mercury Transits the Sun
Image Taken: November 11, 2019 | Location: Back Yard Using the 6″ AstroView Newtonian reflector with a glass solar filter (white light), I used image projection with an eye piece (did not record the size), and was able to take an image with a Google Pixel XL. Mercury is the …
2018 Icy Lunar Eclipse (close)
Taken: January 31, 2018 | Location: 41.11640781556921, -100.79241070855745 Equipment: Canon EOS Rebel T6i f/5.6 1s 250mm ISO800