On Saturday, May 11, 2024, a huge X5.8 solar flare produced the strongest geomagnetic storm (level G5) since Halloween, 2003. Southwest Nebraska doesn’t often see Northern Lights, but we did on the evening of May 11. We parked near 41.236450, -100.798740 on Highway 97 to observe. My images were less …
What do you do when Canadian wildfire smoke and clouds choke out the sky? You go sight seeing!! This year I brought Cecelia and Jeanette with me, both were looking forward to seeing a fantastic dark sky Milky Way core. But like troopers, neither were disappointed. I had to return …
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6i Lens: Vivitar 500mm fixed focus Stack: 30 images of various exposures and ISOs
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. …
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 …
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 …
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” …
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 …
Taken: July 15, 2020 | Location: Front Yard Equipment: Canon EOS Rebel T6i with factory lens kit and a tripod.
