The moon - waxing gibbous moon taken during blue hour on the 25th Feb 2026
Luna - 25th Feb 2026
Nikon Z30 - Skywatcher Skymax 127mm Maksutov
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A tulip-shaped nebula is off-center in a dense starfield in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula itself is bright with colors ranging from green to teal and dark dust lines. The surrounding area also glows a faint green as gas emissions cover the area.
☘️ St. Patrick's Day has arrived! ☘️
To celebrate the occasion along with the arrival of spring, here's the Tulip Nebula processed in a very green way instead of natural red.
Prints: buff.ly/NDzxGQa
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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.
Full res + details: www.astrobin.com/15lhx0/
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A 74% waxing crescent moon captured with a monochrome camera and sharpened with PixInsight.
I took the rare break in the clouds as an opportunity to get my first moon image in awhile. This image was captured on January 27th with the moon 74% waxing. Lovely, as always!
Details: buff.ly/aaCr54W
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A full disk solar image showing off a combination of lines and spots covering the surface
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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This is the region around Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. Featured are the Flame and Horsehead Nebula, which both shine brightly in the dust.
Horsehead and Flame Nebula are a rite of passage for any new camera gear, so I pointed my ToupTek585M at it and snapped away with L, R, G, and B filters.
Prints: buff.ly/k6rAEso
Details: buff.ly/C5bdeLj
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Sulfur II filter
Hydrogen-alpha filter
Oxygen III filter
Here are the stacks by filter that I combined to make this image
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A large colorful nebula with a gold-orange rim, wispy clouds streaming off the outside, and a bright blue center.
Located between the constellations Orion and Gemini, Monkey Head Nebula is a large, colorful nebula is an excellent narrowband target.
Prints: buff.ly/nQZ74Eh
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A 97% illuminated waxing moon photographed on the evening of Jan 1, 2026
A full disc solar image featuring a few clusters of sunspots at various latitudes in the middle of the surface
My first sun/moon pair of 2026! The moon was 97% illuminated last night and then sun was captured this morning as it peeked up over my house.
Moon: buff.ly/2uiGNHo
Sun: buff.ly/1OSCm4T
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A two panel mosaic of the Dark Shark Nebula with jaws open facing the left side of the image. The dark dust needs a ton more exposure time to sharpen the edges and bring out the texture.
This is a two panel mosaic of Dark Shark Nebula with about 2h on R, G, B and 4 h on L per panel. This is still very much underbaked and will need more exposure time, but it's starting to take shape.
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Sun image from 2025-12-05 showing the massive sunspot band in the middle of the disc.
Sun image from 2025-12-08 showing the massive sunspot band two-thirds of the way toward the right edge of the disc.
Sun image from 2025-12-09 showing the massive sunspot approaching the right edge of the disc.
It's been fun watching this large cluster of sunspots cruise across the sun and change shape over the past several days. It's possible there may be aurora activity tonight, but not for me ☁️
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A three-panel mosaic of the Soul Nebula in a SHO palette, with the strong H-alpha signal showing up in green. This was a quick stack and stitch with almost no processing.
Last night I did a quick run of 30 minutes per narrowband filter on each frame of a 3-panel mosaic on Soul Nebula. I stacked it up with basically zero processing and I like how it looks! More integration time incoming!
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A full disk monochrome image of the sun, stacked from 750 frames of video and colorized orange. The main feature is a tight band of sunspots right in the middle just below the equator.
Yesterday's sun! I had seen some images of this massive band of sunspots, so I decided to take some images even though conditions weren't ideal. Hoping for some more aurora magic!
Details: buff.ly/nu2MOO3
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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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Prints: buff.ly/x3VhDAQ
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A full, supermoon captured with a monochrome camera just after midnight on November 5th.
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 92% waxing moon with the shadows receding off the left side
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.
Full res + details: buff.ly/MCd3wOE
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Helix Nebula is planetary nebula located roughly 200 light years from Earth. This image was captured using a monochrome camera and narrowband filters.
This awesome planetary nebula is Helix Nebula. It is roughly 200 light years from Earth and is located in the Aquarius constellation in our skies.
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#astrophotography #nebula #helix #eye #space #telescope #touptek #skywatcherUSA
Full disk monochrome solar image colorized orange with assorted sunspots dotting the surface in several groups.
Solar image from 2025-10-04 - I checked out these sunspots with my eclipse glasses, but they're better with some magnification 😎
Details + full res: buff.ly/hnMn6KJ
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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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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.
Prints: buff.ly/XcA1b59
Details: buff.ly/vl4o5VC
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A full disk solar image taken with a monochrome camera and colorized orange
Yesterday's sun from the backyard!
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A full disk monochrome solar image colorized orange with a surface covered in sunspot clusters
The sunspots are back! The cluster in the bottom right is a very interesting shape. This image was captured yesterday.
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My current astrophotography rig, now with monochrome camera! Added a ToupTek ATR585M + automatic filter wheel with 1.25" ToupTek filters.
Here are the images I've processed with this setup so far: buff.ly/zwyn4f9
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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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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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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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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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Prints: buff.ly/c27O80c
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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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After several recent nights of getting shut down early by clouds, I managed to get 3 nights in a row with clear skies until the early hours of the morning. I decided to shoot an area of Cygnus that I had rarely seen imaged and never in a single shot. With 6 hours per filter, I was able to keep the best 85% of the frames and still wind up with over 15 hours total exposure time. 918 minutes, to be exact. The main highlights are the nebula Sh2-115 at the bottom and the two planetary nebulae Sh2-116 (also known as Abell 71) 1/3 up the frame near the right and the very faint Weinberger 1-10 near Omega Cygni 1 and 2 and the reflection nebula VDB 134 at upper right. LBN 381 fills most of the frame and gives me the feeling of waves crashing together from different directions. Celestron RASA 8, Sky-Watcher USA Wave 100i mount, ZWO ASI2600MM camera, and Baader 6.5nm f/2 SHO narrowband filters. Acquired with the ASIAir Plus and processed in DSS, PixInsight, GraXpert, and Photoshop.
Scout is showing off the rig used to take the image in the second picture, though she would much rather be barking at squirrels!
Sh2-215, Sh2-216 (Abell 71), Weinberger 1-10, VDB 134, LBN 381, etc in Cygnus in Hubble Palette (SHO). More in alt text @celestronuniverse.bsky.social
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A full disk image of the sun with sunspots dotted all over the surface!
A 72% waning gibbous moon captured during the day and heavily processed to bring out some contrast
My goal was to grab some images of the amazing sunspots, but I noticed the moon was still barely up over the house so I had to try that as well.
Sun: buff.ly/b98KCyP
Moon: buff.ly/cqroeei
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