M101 Galaxy with Supernova SN2023ixf | Canon 700D (AstroMod) on EQ6-R Pro | ~9h integration 🧭 A Familiar Galaxy, A New Light With a few more years of experience behind me, I’ve gotten to know M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, fairly well. I’ve imaged it before — a beautiful face-on spiral in Ursa Major that stretches…
March 31, 2019 – First attempt at autoguiding with the SkyWatcher EQ-3 Pro 🌌 A Dream, Interrupted Autoguiding had become my next big step — the gateway to longer exposures, better tracking, more usable data, and less frustration with drift and alignment. I had read all about it. Planned for it. Bought the gear. And…
May 25, 2019 – M1 – 32 minutes total | 20s subs @ ISO 1600 ⚠️ New Lessons: Alignment Woes & Short Exposure Strategy This session was meant to be a continuation of my previous attempt on M81 and M82 — to gather more data and improve the image quality significantly. That was the plan….
February 16, 2019 – M81/M82 – 1h 29min total | 50s subs @ ISO 400 | +1°C 🧭 Two Galaxies, One Frame This session was about something new: capturing two galaxies in a single shot. I’d spotted M81 and M82 in Stellarium the night before and realized they would both fit perfectly in the frame…
January 31, 2019 – SkyWatcher 150/750 | Visual observation + handheld smartphone 🌌 Looking, Not Capturing Astrophotography is usually where my heart lies — but on this evening, I decided to take a step back. No guiding, no stacking, no processing. Just me, the scope, and the sky. I set up my SkyWatcher 150/750 Newtonian…
🌄 A Rushed Morning Session This was another early-morning shoot squeezed in before work — quick setup, fast alignment, and fingers crossed for usable data. It was Wednesday, January 23rd, and I had my eye on two planets: Venus and Jupiter. Remembering the chaos from last time (Venus flying out of frame every few seconds),…
🔭 A Dedicated Night for a Stellar Jewel This time, I followed my own advice: one target, one night. No distractions, no side quests — just M42, the Orion Nebula. In the previous session, I had gathered 32× 60s subs, but the result was noisy and lacked depth. So I returned with a clear mission:…
🔭 A Night of Three Targets This session was all about progress: revisiting old targets with new techniques, pushing my equipment a little further, and once again learning how rushed setups come at a cost. The three objects on the menu: Venus, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and the Orion Nebula (M42). 🔴 Venus – Bright…
🌄 A Celestial Dance at Dawn This image was taken just before sunrise — that quiet moment when the night gives way, but the stars haven’t yet let go. The Moon was in its waning crescent phase, three-quarters of the way to new moon, and Venus shone brilliantly beside it — so bright, it almost…
✨ A Moment Under the Stars These two images were taken by my brother while he was in Denmark. They capture a breathtaking slice of the night sky — the Milky Way stretching across the heavens, the Pleiades glowing faintly in the distance — and my brother, standing beneath it all. He’s in the foreground,…