Starship Asterisk*

M42 taken from my backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 250 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Dec. 30th, 2023

Birth Of A Phoenix We enter a new age where the bounds of observation and photography are opening to everyone at the push of a button in a phone app. The barriers of cost and skill are being removed to provide learning and enjoyment to a much wider audience. A single shot capture of a Turkey Vulture...

The spooky Ghost of Cassiopeia IC 63 taken from my backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 74 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Oct. 30th, 2023. 231030 SH2-185_Ghost_RTU_74_300-cr...

SH2-132 taken from my bortle 4 backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 75 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Oct. 15th, 2023.

Objects: NGC6946 Galaxy and NGC6939 Star Cluster Exposure: 86 x 300 seconds = 7 1/4 hours Bortle scale: 4 Optics: William Optics GT81 Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Mount: Losmandy GM811G Filters: Radian Triad Ultra Software: Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop Notes: I've been working on bringing out the dust ...

IC1396 taken from my Bortle 4 backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 170 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Oct. 4th, 2023. 231004 IC1396_Elephant_Trunk_170_300-crop-lpc-cbg-csc-S...

IC1318 taken from my Bortle 4 backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 87 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Oct. 3rd, 2023. 231003 IC1318_Butterfly_87_300-lpc-cbg-csc-crop-St-Edit....

NGC7023 taken from my bortle 4 backyard in Hartford, AL, USA. 187 shots at 300 seconds each taken with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. The last set of images were taken Sept. 25th, 2023.

Mars in the Beehive

Shot this June 3rd, 2023. 60 shots at 15 seconds each from my Bortle 4 backyard in Hartford Alabama with a ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera, William Optics RedCat 51 telescope, and Move Shoot Move NOMADe star tracker.

Shot this May 28th, 2023. 48 shots at 300 seconds each from my Bortle 4 backyard in Hartford Alabama with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount.

M45 - 366 shots at 300 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on Oct 9th - 22nd, 2022.

NGC1499 - 160 shots at 300 seconds each. Shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on the nights of October 9-11, 2022.

NGC7023 - 126 shots at 300 seconds each in a 3 panel mosaic. Shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on October 2nd, 2022.

NGC7822 - 162 shots at 300 seconds each in a 3 panel mosaic. Shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on October 2nd, 2022.

IC1396 - 114 shots at 300 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on October 4th, 2022.

M27 - 26 shots at 300 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on September 24th, 2022.

From the Swan to the Eagle - 28 shots at 300 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on Sept. 23rd, 2022.

M78 & a few NGCs - 80 shots at 300 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on Jan 4, 2022.

M44 Beehive Cluster

IC-1848 - 52 shots at 300 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount taken on December 13, 2021.

SH2-190 - 24 shots at 600 seconds each shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. Just released photo but it was taken on Dec 03, 2021.

Looked at the conjunction this morning and saw the oddest clouds. Shot with a Pixel 3 in Hartford, AL, USA
This appears to be the launch of NASA's Crew 4 Mission on SpaceX Falcon 9.

The Peanut Nebula - SH2-205 By far the dimmest object I've ever shot. I would shoot a few hours and process, see nothing and shoot a few more hours, repeat for 15 hours. Finally finished shooting on March 3rd, 2022. 180 shots at 300 seconds each from my Bortle 4 backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera,...

Starless image of the area around Markarian’s Chain. This image of a small portion of the Virgo Constellation was created using a 385mm telescope and a 26mp camera.  The shoot was broken down into a 10 pane mosaic.  Each pane was shot 31 times at an exposure of 300 seconds from my backyard with a ZW...

24 shots at 600 seconds each of SH2-142 shot from my backyard with a ZWO ASI2600MC camera, William Optics GT81 telescope, and Losmandy GM811G equatorial mount. Taken on Nov. 15th, 2021. (yes, I'm 4 months behind on image releases)