Starship Asterisk*

The Heart Nebula https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Heart_reduc_v2@0.5x.jpg Taken on Sep 15, 2024, this is 4 hours of the Heart Nebula taken with a small telescope in Dual-Narrowband. The processing highlights the bright hydrogen alpha along with the subtle blue of Oxygen 3 molecule...

Full April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse timelapse from start to finish. Taken from Richford, VT.

The Phases of a Total Solar Eclipse https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Naztronomy-Total-Solar-Eclipse_Phases.jpg The sequence captures the various phases of a total solar eclipse. The diamond rings on the 5 o'clock and 11 o'clock positions are oriented to show how we saw it in real ...

Amazing Prominences During Totality https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Totality_4-8-24_Naztronomy.jpg A very bright prominence appeared near Third Contact, visible to the naked eye. Looked like a hot pixel to the eye but in fact, it was a naked-eye prominence near the southern limb ...

April 8, 2024 Totality In HDR https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Totality_HDR_md.png Higher resolution available on demand. Captured with a small refractor telescope and DSLR, this is a combination of 12 exposures ranging from 1/2000s to 1s combined using the Pellet method. Several ...

Geminids Meteors in a light polluted back yard https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Geminids_Meteor-Shower_2023.jpg Higher resolution image here: https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Geminids_Meteor-Shower_2023.jpg 19 Meteors can be seen in this image. Some really di...

Rotation of the Earth Visualized through Star Trails https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir CometMode_StarTrails_Aug2023.jpg Higher resolution image here: https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/CometMode_StarTrails_Aug2023.jpg Taken on August 26, 2023,this is a 4+ hours ...

This is a video showing the capture and processing of the International Space Station transiting the sun as seen through a small Hydrogen Alpha solar telescope.

Gear used:

• Lunt 40

• ZWO ASI 120mm Mini

• Sky-Watcher SolarQuest

ISS Transits the Hydrogen Alpha Sun https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir ISS_Sun_Composite.jpg Higher resolution image here: https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/ISS_Sun_Composite.jpg Taken on August 6, 2023,this is a composite of all the frames in which the Internat...

Crescent Nebula in Cygnus https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Crescent_Nebula_2022.jpg Higher resolution image here: https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Crescent_Nebula_2022.jpg (even higher can be provided) Taken in June 2022 over 4 nights, this is about 11 hours ...

The Milky Way Galaxy https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir milky_way_sm.jpg Higher resolution image here: https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/the_milky_way_galaxy.jpg (even higher can be provided) Taken in June 2022 from the Catskills in Upstate NY, this is only a 29...

M45 - The Pleiades https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir M45_xs.jpg Higher resolution image here: https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/M45_102922.jpg (even higher can be provided) M45 is one of the brightest and most recognizable deep space object in the night sky. Ta...

Sun through a homemade Solar Filter https://www.Naztronomy.com Copyright: Nazmus Nasir This is the sun taken on 4/21/2023 from the outskirts of Boston, MA as part of my solar eclipse/solar safety outreach that I'm doing in person and over YouTube. The total cost of this is about $12 although the ef...

Formerly known as the Andromeda Nebula https://www.naztronomy.com/ Copyright: Nazmus Nasir Higher Res can be found at https://flic.kr/p/2nQ6aYY (and https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/M31.jpg) Cataloged by Charles Messier as M31, The Andromeda Galaxy was originally thought to be...