The Andromeda Galaxy is arguably one of the most spectacular objects in the night sky. In typical city lights, it's completely invisible even though its apparent size is roughly 6 times as wide as the moon. In dark skies, you can see it with your nak…
A few days ago, a Type Ia supernova was discovered in Messier 82 (NGC 3034, the Cigar Galaxy). Because of clouds, it took a few days for me to image it. Here's my first shot of M82 and the supernova. M82 and supernova SN2014JDetails: 12x …
When doing astrophotography, I've always dodged the moon like the plague. Since not imaging when the moon is up severely limits how much shooting I can do, I decided to see what I could do with a full moon high in the sky. I was pleased t…
After getting a pretty good image of the Orion Nebula from my backyard, I wanted to try some tougher targets. With about half the moon in view and it sitting near Orion, I had to move away from the Milky Way to find a good deep space object to image…
