Starship Asterisk*

Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF (with anti-tail) passes by the Knife Edge Galaxy (NGC 5907) Comet ZTF_Knife Edge Apod.jpg Another nice comet to image! Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) even has a third tail known as an anti-tail. This anti-tail seems pointing toward the sun, but it's an optical illusion that can appear as...

Solar Active Region 3053 Photographed on July 8, 2022 I had clear skies, and great seeing which allowed me to photograph this spectacular active region on the sun. I feel like the coming years are going to produce some amazing solar activity as we inch closer to solar maximum. Equipment: Astro-Tech ...

Messier 13, The Great Hercules Cluster m13 FB 2.jpg My first globular cluster image! Never had much of an interest in imaging star clusters. Can you blame me when there's so many awesome nebulae and galaxies out there? But I gave this one a shot, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Maybe I ...

Ced 214/NGC 7822 CED 214 APOD Submission.jpg Equipment: Astro-Tech AT115EDT, ZWO ASI1600mmPro, Baader narrowband filters, Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop Total integration: 16.1 hours More acquisition details and higher resolution version can be found on my profile at Ce...

*I'm reposting this in the February APOD submissions as I realized I posted this in January's accidentally right before it closed.
Ced 214/NGC 7822
Capture details can be found on my AstroBin profile at Ced 214 / NGC 7822

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy Imaging telescope: Celestron C9.25 Imaging camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Guiding camera: ZWO ASI224MC Software: PixInsight, Photoshop Accessory: ZWO ASIair Pro · Starizona Hyperstar 3 Dates:Oct. 21, 2020 Frames: 104x120" (gain: 70.00) -10C bin...

Astrophotography processing is a long process and we put a lot of effort and passion into the images we capture. This video shows that process via a smooth transition from a linear stacked image all the way to a completed photo in less than 60 seconds. The image I used was my shot of the Rosette Neb...

IC 405 - The Flaming Star Nebula in Ha grayscale I was planning on doing an HOO version of this, but my OIII data was not good. I am pretty pleased with the grayscale version using my Ha data. My only complaint is that my tracking was off for some reason, giving me oblong stars. Oh well. Flaming Sta...

The Fish Heart Nebula I framed the Fish Head Nebula with the heart of the Heart Nebula and I dubbed it the Fish Heart Nebula. I processed this in Pixinsight combining the Ha, SII, and OIII data in the SHO palette. I then used the ColorMask script to make masks in magenta, green, cyan, and yellow to ...

Exploring the Universe in One Night I shot 15 different targets in one night using an H-alpha filter. Each photo is one 600s exposure. I did some linear noise reduction on each photo with MLT in Pixinsight, then I stretched them. I made the collage using Adobe Spark and then finished the final adjus...