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

Ever wondered what it looks like at night?

This had quite a large moon so in usual fashion you cant expose for it and the MW at once, so superimposed a bit more detail with a secondary shot.

This was a 7 shot vertical panoramic (cropped later) with a 14mm lens

#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #PhotoMonday #astro #astrophotography

One of my latest deep space photos. This is close to 16 hours on the Triangulum Galaxy, named for the constellations we see it through.

#astrophotography #astrodon #space #galaxy

Here's a green flash I photographed a few years ago at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, back when I worked there. This phenomenon happens at sunset or sunrise if conditions are right, especially if the atmosphere is strongly layered.

This is a rapid burst of shots taken one after the other. The whole sequence lasted only two seconds, which gives you an idea of how ephemeral green flashes are.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #sunset

Work in progress: 3-panel mosaic on the California Nebula.

Left: original coloring.
Right: Ha (reds) and [OIII] (blues) separated and recombined.

I only managed time to get 3 hours on each panel, originally imaged at 1.2 arcseconds per pixel. Posted here at half resolution.

Final version and full details on AstroBin coming later today. #astrophotography #astrodon

I just presented Data Organization for Astrophotographers at #astropalooza! The slides are available here for anyone who wants to review them at their own pace. #astronomy #astrophotography

https://www.slideshare.net/kovachjc/data-organization-for-astrophotographers

My most recent capture. This was from last night and it was the first clear night in weeks. It also was my first night with my new mount, the ZWO AM5. I’m a big fan. This is the soul nebula, captured in SHO. #soulnebula #astrophotography #astronomy #zwo #am5

The Western Veil nebula, aka the witches broom 🙂 part of a supernova remnant in the constellation of cygnus.

So this image is actually a combination of data from two different telescopes of mine. The Altair 115 triplet and the Altair 200mm newt

Image is 20x240s on the 115 triplet with dual band filter taken back in July, combined with 55x 180s with the 200mm newt (now at f3.8..thank you nexus) taken last night 😄also with the dual band filter .

#astrophotography #universe #astronomy #space

Wow! This is my first time imaging Seagull Nebula (IC 2177). This is only 3h of data, but I will be grabbing more exposure time whenever I can while it is "high" in the sky. So pretty!

#Astrodon #astrophotography #seagull #astronomy #space #nebula

Jupiter peeking through the trees. #astrophotography #jupiter

Composite of last night's #Moon using 155 stacked images. 96.6% waning gibbous 🌖

#Astrophotography #photography #photo #PhotoOfTheDay

Here is a picture I took of the sun back in 2017.

#Astronomy #Astrophotography

I'll shoot anything, but my preference is to shoot the stars.

#photography #milkyway #nightsky #astrophotography #stars #utah #darkskies #sony #explore #rvlife #rvtravel #nomad #exploreyourworld #outdoors #hiking #kanab #Thursday #pics #photo #photographers

The mars-lunar occult last night over Iceland, by StefaNari #astrophotography

https://hostux.pics/image/w%3Anull-kw0bc913rr4a1.u8t

@AlexSanterne Around 11 hours on the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae from Bottle 5 skies. Equipment used: William Optics Zenithstar 81 with 0.8x reducer, QHY268C, SkyWatcher HEQ5 Pro, the only filter I used was a UV/IR cut filter. #YourBestAstroPic2022 #astrophotography #astrodon #space

On the final day of #StarrySights #NASA #Hubble gave to us --
Bright blue-white and orange #stars in the open cluster NGC 376. 🤩

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-captures-a-glittering-neighbor

#astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography #HubbleFriday

When I use both darks and bias my shots are ending up extremely grainy, but when I use each separately they're much nicer (albeit still with some background noise)

Am I doing something wrong?

Picture order is: both -> darks -> bias (details in the media descriptions)

#Astrodon #astrophotography

So this is 37,000+ year old starlight filtered through some dust clouds above a clump of star stuff thats managed to organize itself into the adventure capital of New Zealand

#Aotearoa #nz #Photography #Nature #naturephotography #LandscapePhotography #NewZealand #LongExposure #astro #astrophotography