Patriot_Astro

Here’s an image I took about a week ago. By far my favorite image I’ve ever taken thus far. It’s only five hours worth of data, and I’m absolutely shocked at how much I love this picture. Melotte 15 in SHO. I’ll post both stars and starless, that way everyone’s happy. :)

While you wait to see if any of my lunar eclipse pictures turned out ok… here’s some solar images I took last week. Enjoy!

The Rosette Nebula is about 5,000 light-years from Earth. At about 130 light-years in diameter, it is quite photogenic. Radiation from the stars being formed here cause this emission nebula’s glow through the excitement of the atoms within the nebula itself.
I shot this one from my backyard with a SharpStar 61EDPHII and ZWO ASI1600MM with Narrowband filters on a SkyWatcher EQ6Rpro mount. Processed using a modified SHO palette within PixInsight.
Single night of imaging on 2022-02-17.
Enjoy!

This is a picture I took of the Sun earlier this week. (I’ve got 2 more solar pictures coming over then next couple days, so be sure to follow my account!) The prominence’s on the edge are much larger than people realize. The larger one here is about 2.5 times the size of the Earth!! Most people don’t realize how big these can get (and this isn’t even a big one).

Orion Nebula @ 275mm in SHO (Sii/Ha/Oiii) collected over 2 nights in December 2021 (3rd and 8th). It is made up of a total of 320x 45 second exposures split across the 3 filters then combined into an RGB image. Enjoy!

I had a little fun processing the Flame Nebula to make it a bit more "Flame-like" :) Enjoy! [picture from October 18, 2021]