independent astronomer. exploring space from earth with my own telescopes
Austin, TX
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Since a lot of people are confused about what this is, every telescope here is owned by a person. Each person can log in remotely to use their telescope to capture photos of space from our dark skies!
This is what I’ve been up to the last year! Building the largest remote observatory in the world
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Today I pointed my telescope at our sun and captured the sharpest image I’ve captured to date
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My last image of comet Neowise for a while. It’s been fun, see you in 6,000 years :)
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For the last 134 years people have photographed the andromeda galaxy, but everyone up until now has missed this giant undiscovered nebula!
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Finally, after over a year of work, I am proud to present the largest image ever captured of the complete Andromeda Galaxy!
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The finished product! 45hrs of exposure to create one of the most detailed images captured of the crescent nebula
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Here’s the full moon as it looks right now! Go outside and take a look you won’t regret
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This is what I’ve been up to the last year! Building the largest remote observatory in the world
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What’s happening on the sun today! This is the clearest solar image I’ve captured to date
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Here was my setup, an AR127 refractor, ASI174mm, daystar quark, solar guider, and hem27
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This is my telescope and some of my photos! Everyone here is an amateur astrophotographer taking images just like these
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While I was capturing the lunar eclipse from the Arizona, I was also capturing it remotely from Australia 8,000 miles away. This shift in perspectives shows the parallax of the moon and the stars
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Here is the clearest photograph I’ve taken of the sombrero galaxy, a peculiar and famous galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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Here’s the best image of the sombrero galaxy I’ve ever captured. About 45hrs of exposure from the observatory
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See the dark circle created by the images of the eclipsed moon? That is the shadow of the Earth, projected out into space.
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This is what the Milky Way looks like from some of the darkest skies in America!
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The Perseid meteor shower and aurora last night over our observatory in central texas!
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I discovered a never before seen nebula in the night sky! This is Fal1 - The Kyber Crystal Nebula
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As the moon dips behind the shadow of the earth, the stars and nebula of the night sky begin to show themselves. Here is how that looks to a deep sky camera setup!
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Comet atlas as seen from Namibia a couple days ago! Captured with my remote observatory using a 135mm lens
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A new supernova our team discovered and photographed for the first time, in the constellation Sagittarius! Right next to barnards galaxy
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My latest image of comet Neowise, this time framed with the mountain I hike for my last shot!
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The gas giants of our solar system shot last night. These are to scale as they appear in a telescope
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The reason a place like this must exist is because astronomy is exponentially more difficult to do from light polluted skies.
To circumvent this, people used to drive hours outside the city any time they wanted to do astro. This is a huge logistical barrier, and economic barrier to doing astro.
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And I’ve put this image up as a print here astrofalls.com/collections/p…
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Here is the largest image of the lagoon nebula ever captured by an astrophotographer (I think)
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Finally, here is the image which has been burdening my hard drives for the last month, Cepheus to Cassiopeia
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The flaming star nebula in narrowband, one of the trippiest looking nebulae when shot up-close
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I captured this rare photo of the Andromeda Galaxy, it shows the full extent of the galaxy’s halo
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Here it is! The Atlas SNR, a newly discovered supernova remnant hiding right in orion:
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In the Summer of 2022 I discovered a nebula which is unlike anything else in the night sky. These are the Blue Sprites of M24:
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