Explore the universe from my backyard

Gallery

Every image in this gallery was captured from my own backyard, revealing the incredible beauty of the night sky from home.

How I capture the Cosmos

I often get questions about how I capture my astrophotography images. The link below will take you to a few pages that walk you through my process—from planning and shooting deep-sky objects to stacking and editing the final image. See what it takes to turn a dark sky into stunning photographs.

Sky Map

The sky map is a work in progress.


Explore the night sky, scroll around, and see where my photos were captured in their real celestial homes. More objects are being added as I process and upload new images.
Click below and take a quick tour of the universe from my lens.

Recent Projects

Explore my latest images with insights on the imaging and target

Posts

New Telescope First Light: Seeing M51 in a New Way

This image marks first light with my new telescope, the Celestron EdgeHD 800, an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain designed for longer focal length imaging. With a native focal length of 2000mm, and about...

Beyond the Belt: Exploring Orion’s Nebulae

The Orion constellation is easy to recognize, marked by three bright stars forming its belt and a “sword” hanging below. What’s less obvious is that this small patch of sky is packed with a variety of...

Celestial Photobomb: Vesta and the Monkey Head Nebula

I set out to capture the Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174 in Orion) with my usual astrophotography setup, aiming for a gorgeous deep-sky image. I took 70 frames at 300 seconds each (about 6 hours total...

Galaxy Portraits: A Collection of Distant Worlds

Galaxies I’ve Captured Over the Past Two Years I don’t have the ideal telescope focal length for imaging tiny galaxies. My current setup is a wide-field telescope, which is great for big nebulae but...

The Veil Nebula: A Massive Star’s Explosive Legacy

The Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). It represents the visible remains of a star that exploded in a supernova thousands of years ago. This vast nebula...

Andromeda Galaxy Astrophotography: Neighbor to the Milky Way

One of my first deep sky objects to image, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest spiral galaxy to our own and on a slow-motion collision course with the Milky Way! I captured this image over...
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