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Deciding to try my luck posting again in the Landscape forum. Here are 2 from a recent trip (about a month ago) to Badlands NP and Devil's Tower. A very fun trip, although as anyone could have predicted very HOT in the Badlands in August (DOH!) :D My favorite image from the park, shot from...

So, I continue to try to work through 'teething' issues with my remote setup in TX at Starfront Observatories, but things are starting to come together and I am taking data with a much lower rejection rate than I had been getting. I have also been able to get my autofocuser to start running...

This area of the sky greatly surprised me with all the stuff going on. I was trying to frame this to have the Tulip Nebula (Sh2-101) in the right of the frame but it ended up a little cut off. But in exchange I captured some amazing extra nebulosity in the left side of the frame. Data collection...

I am still having some issues with my newly installed gear out at Starfront Observatories in TX, but here is my second image created from data taken there. This is a very exciting region in the constellation Cygnus that has lots of exciting stuff going on when imaged in narrowband. This image...

So firstly, apologies to everyone for being AWOL from FW for so long. I have had lots going on, not the least of which has been the relocation of some of my astro gear from my friend's house in Green Valley AZ to a remote hosting site in TX called Starfront Observatories. I had been running my...

Here are a couple more from Sedona; 2 versions of the same sunset. Single frame, earlier in the evening: Panoramic view later in the evening (realizing panos always look less impressive at reduced size like this): Thanks for looking! Hope to post a few more soon from Grand Canyon to...

It has not been a productive year for me scenic photography-wise, with lots of things getting in the way of being able to go out and travel and take images. My wife and I were finally able to take a short trip this past week down to the Sedona area for a few days, which also included a quick one...

So I took a foray into 15 minute long subframes on this object, as the Oiii and especially the Sii signals were VERY weak. Even so I eventually decided on a red-blue look instead of the more conventional 3 channel SHO style image, although I did use all 3 narrowband datasets to make this. In...

Sh2-261 (Lower's Nebula) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is often referred to by the name Lower's Nebula, as it appears on a photographic plate taken by amateur astronomer Harold Lower and his son Charles in 1939. The area is being ionized by the O.7.5V runaway star HID...

So I've told myself to NEVER do this again, where I process some intermediate data, and then come back later with a full data set and can not duplicate what I got the 1st time. But @Comet Hunter (Ed's) inspirational effort on this target put it on my radar, and I decided to try some really long...

The Medusa Nebula (Sh2-274, Abell 21) is a low surface brightness planetary nebula in the constellation Gemini, originally discovered by George Abell in 1955. It is estimated to be at an approximate distance of 1,500 light years from us. This is small enough that it is probably more...

So here is a set of 2 images, made from the same data set, of the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) and the Christmas Tree Cluster. I first processed the data and get a more conventional SHO result, but I had wanted to try to use my narrowband data to get a more 'natural' looking color mix, so I ran...

Sorry to be so late to the party, lots of things going on these days for me. Thanks for looking, and for any feedback as well. So it was hard to keep this to 10 images, which I guess is a good thing :) I have divided this into categories of scenic and astro, with nightscape included in astro in...

So this one came out better than I was expecting, and this version is believe it or not a little desaturated from my original result. This nebula is a relatively bright target, but even so I think using long 10 minute subs for the narrowband data has really brought out some extra detail. I...

The Cocoon Nebula (IC-5146) is portrayed here in a wider FOV, showing the extensive dust and glowing gas in the region surrounding the actual nebula itself. This is a natural color RGB image with Hα data added to bring out the extensive dim clouds of ionized Hydrogen in the area surrounding the...

Due to weather, travel, seeing, possible gear gremlins, and being involved with some other activities that are currently taking up my time in the evenings, it has been a challenge to really get much good DSO astro data lately. I finally was able to put together a few nights of imaging on the...

Here is a vertical treatment shot from the edge of barker Dam in Nederland, CO, (105mm, 1.6 sec, f/4, ISO 1600), that starts to bring out the fainter ion tail of the comet, even with the strong moonlight. In this case I was able to run Blur Xterminator on this to clean up the stars a little...

I was lucky enough to get out last night with friends to try to capture comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) in the Nederland, CO area. I ended up with 3 images I liked. These 2 posted here are the 'landscape-style' images that include the context of the scenery; the 3rd will be posted to the...

Too tied up with local activities these days to travel very far away from home, but with the G4 level Geomagnetic Storm last night I had to drive out of the neighborhood and see what I could see. Earlier in the night I had been up on the roof and could see aurora in the electronic viewfinder so...

I have always wanted to have an all sky camera, but have never wanted to spend the really high price (well over $500, often more like $1,000) for a commercially made one. So recently, when I saw a simple packaging scheme for a Raspberry Pi based one using 3D printed parts I decided to give it a...