Astronomy and Space

This is NGC 4490, also known as the Cocoon Galaxy. Its distance of 25 million lightyears away from Earth makes it difficult to tease out […]

Wider field of view surrounding the Crescent Nebula I’ve also spent the past week opening up a wider field of view surrounding the Crescent Nebula […]

This is my best view yet of the massive, face-on spiral galaxy M101. This galaxy is massive. Measuring 170,000 lightyears in diameter, it is nearly […]

Third Quarter The left of the moon appears illuminated and visible,while the left half appears dark. Waning Crescent A small sliver of the illuminated side […]

Full Moon The entire illuminated side of the moon is visible from Earth, appearing as a complete circle. Waning Gibbous A large portion of the […]

Something special to share with you today. This is more than 100 hours of data collected in all filters with my largest telescope at 4,000mm […]

What do you mean “uninteresting”!? This is M65, a spiral galaxy roughly 35 million lightyears from Earth which I haven’t seen frequently imaged in detail. […]

First Quarter The right halt of the moon appears illuminated and visible, while the left half appears dark. Waxing Gibbous A large portion of the […]

It has hydrogen, helium ammonia and methance. What makes Uranus unique is its sideways spin,similar to rolling a ball along the ground but with its […]