Starship Asterisk*

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51912132426_9cd079a029_b.jpg Instagram: https://instagram.com/dheeranet/ Close-up of the Orion nebula over dunes at White Sands National Park. For this shot, due to the park closing not that long after it got dark, I had to set up a tracker, simulate the position...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51869458650_6586dafba8_b.jpg Instagram: https://instagram.com/dheeranet/ Orion nebula, horsehead nebula, witch head nebula, and more rising over a volcanic plug in the Navajo volcanic field in northwestern New Mexico, as seen with an 85mm lens on a full frame cam...

Another submission -- Markarian's Chain over Mt. Lassen There are at least 19 galaxies in this image I can count, and probably many more! This was shot with a 500mm lens from a very precise location several tens of km from the mountain. I had carefully selected this location where Markarian's Chain ...

Happy new year everyone! The Cygnus region of the sky including the North America Nebula, Deneb,Sadr, and the Crescent Nebula rising over the Alabama Hills in California. Shot with a 100mm lens (which gives you an idea of just how HUGE these nebulae are in the sky) and ~2 hours of exposures, mostly ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50770771023_e676b33327_c.jpg Milky Way over volcanic fissures by Dheera Venkatraman Milky Way galactic core over volcanic fissures in Mono, California. Taken in July 2020. Bright dot to the upper left is Jupiter. Rho Ophiuchi (previous submission above) can be se...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50744277707_4a58e23dc5_c.jpg Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex over Mt. Haeckel and nearby peaks by Dheera Venkatraman This is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex setting over Mt. Haeckel and other peaks in the vinicity of Sabrina Lake in California, as seen with a 100mm len...

My submission: Pleiades rising over Half Dome at Yosemite National Park. Taken with a 180/2.8 lens, full frame camera, and star tracker. Social media: https://instagram.com/dheeranet/ https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48986900812_fe2f027e2d.jpg Pleiades (M45) rising over Half Dome by Dheera Venkat...

My submission: Heart Nebula, Soul Nebula, Double Cluster, and 2 Perseids meteors rising over a chapel on a hill in California. Taken with a 135/2.8 lens and full frame camera, reference shot denoised and enhanced with a stack of 400 x 30s more stacked sky images. This image is designed to give peopl...