Elizabeth Howell PhD (she/her) @howellspace@qoto.org

I managed to get Photometric Colorization working using Orion A and avoided removing green noise until the end, I think this has resulted in better preservation of the underlying color and this is a much nicer result.

If I squint REEEEEAAALLY hard, I can see the Horse Head Nebula.

#astrophotography #Astrodon

#GoinToCalifornia #NGC1499 #astrophotography #SharpCap live stacking #Hyperstar #Starizona #lEnhance

A deeper look at Orion's Belt!
Data from TelescopeLive network and processed by me in PixInsight and Photoshop.
#astrophotography #space

Something that I hope to spend more time on now that I've wrapped up my PhD is astrophotography.

This photo of the Milky Way was captured over the dark skies of the Ozarks in August 2020. Designated as an International Dark Sky Site, the glow of light pollution is still visible on the horizon, in this case the light dome from Little Rock and surrounding areas.

This photo is a stacked and tracked 30-image composite taken over 30 minutes.

#Photography #Astrophotography #Astrodon #MilkyWay

Tom Bock

The Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebulae....1500 light years away, in Auriga.

This is 47hrs of narrowband SHO data, captured with FLT91 scope and 2600MM Pro. Hope you enjoy!! #Astrophotography

going to cheer myself up by participating in #photomonday and share a few snaps that were firsts for me in my amateur journey.

the 2 attempts at #astrophotography were taken last year during our #leafpeeping camping trip, and the first time i was able to capture the #milkyway

the other is the first time i was able to get #lightning when we were at #devilstower earlier this year and is a few different shots stacked together.

nothing special, but man was i excited both of those nights

An old favourite game! PACMAN NGC281 #Astrodon #astrophoto #astrophotography #astronomy

Need to get better at masking to really pop the details in Horsehead, but got some more good data last night.

#astrophotography

The Eridanus Loop (Sh2-245), the lesser-imaged half of the Orion-Eridanus Superbubble. The more commonly imaged half is the much brighter Barnard's Loop in Orion. #astrophotography

The Rosette Nebula 🌹
Taken with a modified DSLR and a small telescope from my rainy UK garden in Suffolk.
#astrophotography #space #nebula

Eclipse of the Earth by the Moon! NASA's #Artemis1 got this view before this morning's extremely close (130 km/81 miles) flight above the lunar surface to reshape its orbit. https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/21/orion-successfully-completes-lunar-flyby-re-acquires-signal-with-earth/ #space #moon #nasa

This was the first image of the #Earth 🌍 taken from the #NASA #Orion spacecraft as it rounded the limb of the #Moon 🌖 and was reacquired by the #DSN. Every human is in this photograph. With the population of the planet having just crossed the 8 billion mark, https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/, this is the biggest family photograph ever taken! #Artemis #Artemis1

The #Earth as seen by the #Apollo 10 (left, in1969) and #Artemis 1 (right, in 2022) missions.

Those 2 pictures are taken 53 years apart, with #spacecraft on their journey towards the #Moon.

In 1969, 3.6 billion people are on the #picture (minus the 3 #astronauts)
In 2022, 8 billion people are on the #picture

credits: #NASA

#Space #Photography

I've been working on a Curiosity rover wheel replica lately! It's about 1/5th scale and trying to stay as authentic to the original as possible (which makes some interesting machining challenges at such a small size).

The wheel's skin is just 1mm thick, and the grousers are ~2mm tall. The original wheel skin was just 0.75mm even though the wheels were nearly 500mm in diameter! The originals were machined from a single billet of aluminum and anodized black.

#cnc #machining #mars #space

I can remember being a 12 year old kid looking at the photos of space in Sky & Telescope Magazine - amazed at the wonders people recorded. It just seems surreal to me that others are now staring at my photo of M31, The Andromeda Galaxy, in the December 2022 issue. Such an honor. #astrophotography #astrophoto #astronomy #space #photography

Why don't we start the day with an old friend? These are two images from #NeowiseComet back from 2020. Feels like such a long time ago. I had about two hours before the sun was about to rise, I almost ran to that small hill and set up the DSLR and tripod.

#astrophotography #astropic #astromony #photography #space #universe

My best two images from Octobers partial solar eclipse.

I'm super proud of these considering I took them on my phone!! I used solar glasses over my phone camera, because I'm very hi-tech.😂

Did you manage to see the eclipse?

Please never look at the sun without proper eye protection!

#Astrophotography #Astrodon #Eclipse #Photography

And here's Pleiades, lots of noise in this one that I struggled to remove, I think there was a lot of light pollution. I might try a lower ISO now that I have a tracker and can do longer exposures.
#astrophotography

A road less traveled .... this is "Little Rosette" nebula (Sh2-170) which is also the "dot" in the "Question Mark" nebula. Located between Cassiopeia and Cepheus.

Captured with a 6" refractor, one-shot-colour camera (QHY128C) & dual-narrowband filter (L-Extreme). From my Bortle 5/6 light polluted back yard 😦

233x5m exposures over 8 nights in October (it was a good #astrophotography month!).

I think there is room for improvement if I work on my processing skills.

#astronomy #astrodon