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It began with the simple thought: what would it look like if I took the monochrome images I captured with the Redcat and the one-shot color images captured with HyperStar? The result is this, one of my favorite versions of the Seven Sisters.
2024-01-17
Was testing out the new HyperStar and gathered 119 45-second subs before the winds became too strong to image accurately. HyperStar gathers light 25x faster than the unmodified EdgeHD.
2024-01-16
A longer look at the Pleiades reveals the faint dust and tendrils of blue nebulae that interconnect the bright blue stars of this bright cluster.
2023-11-17
A steady mount and extremely clear skies gave me the conditions I was waiting for to test long (3-minute) exposures. This is just 7 of them. I purposefully increased the saturation to make this an almost celebatory looking skyscape.
2022-11-05
The Pleiades rise with Mars. This is my second year of astrophotography, and I got a bit sentimental when I realized I would be able to see the Pleiades in the morning. When I started this hobby in 2020 in the Pacific Northwest, the nights were long and cold while the planets rose high and early. Orion dominated the southern skies, and the Seven Sisters were ever present. My first photographs using a regular camera were of this easy-to-locate cluster with pockets of nebulosity. Seeing them again heralds Autumn, with new nebula, wide field shots of flames and horseheads, rosettes and runners, sisters and monkeyheads. So, I decided to capture a picture and as I was framing the 55mm shot, I realized Mars could just squeeze into it. It was past nautical dawn, so I ditched the idea of a 5-minute exposure. Normally I stack 30-second exposures, but I felt like 2 minutes would be enough to capture the cluster even if I didn't catch the wispy blue nebulosity while keeping Mars from completely oversaturating. Here's the result. This is a single two-minute exposure of 'The Pleiades rise with Mars.'
2022-07-31
My favorite signal of winter is the magical faint glow that glimmers in your peripheral vision but fades to a blur when you gaze head on. Magnification reveals several bright blue stars burrowing through long filaments of ionized gas and dust. The brightest of these are the famed Seven Sisters or Pleiades.
2022-11-17
A long exposure reveals the wispy tendrils of nebulosity that surround the major stars in M45 like a cocoon.
2022-01-25
The Pleiades is one of the closest star clusters to Earth and filled with bright blue stars.
2021-09-09