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Images

Captured from our villa in Grand Cayman using the portable Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi mount.
Cayman's M31: Andromeda Galaxy
A first look at the Andromeda Galaxy as it reappears in the fall of 2022. Captured unguided on the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM).
M31: Andromeda Galaxy in 2022
5 nights of dedicated imaging for 15 hours of RGB (combination of 45-second, 1-minute and 3-minute exposures) and 5 hours of narrowband (Optolong l-eXtreme). Honestly, I processed this about four or five times before getting to a result I was satisfied with... future revisions may come!
⭐ M31 Andromeda Galaxy with 20 Hours Integration
Anticipating Andromeda. This is the time of year that M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, begins to appear for longer periods of time. I've done some fun shoots in the past, but this year I feel like it's time to go for a magnum opus photo (for me, personally) and I decided to practice some shots. Those are just practice shots, so I won't be posting them, but I did have my Sony Alpha 6300 ride shotgun on the imaging runs. It snapped this photo of the bright stars that define the Andromeda Constellation chasing the galaxy off the edge of the frame. This is 10 2-minute exposures.
M31 with the camera
The Andromeda Galaxy for 24 minutes in one-shot color.
Andromeda's Splendour
An interim stack of multiple sessions for a 2022 project to achieve as detailed an M31 as possible.
⭐ The Andromeda Galaxy in 2022
A detailed capture taken by composing multiple exposures and filters.
⭐ Composite Andromeda Galaxy
A dramatic version of M31 with a bit more saturation combined from 6 1/2 hours of exposure taken over the course of 2022.
Dramatic Andromeda
First attempt at capturing this galaxy with nothing but an ordinary camera and zoom lens.
M31: Andromeda Galaxy with Camera
Over 2,000 10-second exposures went into stacking 6 panels that were blended to produce this capture of Andromeda with neighboring galaxies M32 and M110.
M31: Andromeda Galaxy Mosaic
A detailed image taken over just a few minutes with a remotely controlled telescope in Spain.
⭐ M31: via iTelescope in Spain
The Andromeda Galaxy occupies a large field of view. It is both near to the Milky Way and bright enough to see with the naked eye.
M31: Andromeda Galaxy
Wide angle shot using the Star Adventurer Mini (SAM).
The Milky Way meets Andromeda Galaxy
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Videos

The basics of astrophotography from image acquisition, polar alignment, guiding, and calibration through image processing.
How can I take pictures of beautiful deep sky pictures like the Elephant Trunk Nebula?
Collage of planets, galaxies, nebulae, and more that I captured in 2022. From Saturn and Andromeda to Thor's Helmet and the Milky Way.
My best space pictures taken in 2022
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