Starship Asterisk*

I managed to collect 5-minutes of data on Supernova 2016cok in galaxy Messier 66 (in the constellation Leo) last evening, June 1, 2016 before the clouds rolled in. I place the magnitude at approximately 16.4 simply based on comparison to other stars in the field of view. The 5-minute stacked image w...

Antares and Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Region Wide-Field View The Rho Ophiuchi and Antares dark cloud region is located in the constellation Ophiuchus just north of Antares and is one of the closest star-forming regions to our solar system. This image was produced using nine 30-second exposures and a Canon...

Messier 105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3373 Galaxy Triplet in Leo The galaxies M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3373 form a nice galactic triplet in the constellation Leo. M105 is the elliptical galaxy on the top of the image, NGC 3384 is the elliptical galaxy on the left and NGC 3373 is a spiral galaxy on the lower r...

Light pillars captured this morning, March 17, 2016 from Hickory Run State Park, Pennsylvania. While out taking some wide field images of Mars and Saturn, I spotted these interesting light pillars looking to the east, there are several towns and a ski slope in that direction. I thought the color pat...

Here is an image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) taken over two nights earlier this month (October 11 and 12, 2015). Total exposure time was 36 minutes using 20 second subs at ISO 6400. A Canon 6D was attached at prime focus of a Meade LX90 12″ telescope, an Antares f/6.3 focal reducer was placed...

What does a spooky looking selfie, three planets and a dead satellite have in common? They are all in this photo from October 26, 2015. I thought I would try a selfie on Monday morning using my Canon 6D and Lensbaby Fisheye lens (15 seconds at ISO 3200), after examining the photo I noticed a small s...