Hendrenimaging

Roadside Canvas, Halloran Springs, CA

Canon R6 Mk II and RF 24-105mm f/4L IS

Nebula Sh2-124 in SHO narrowband (Hubble Palette) - @skywatcherusa.bsky.social Wave 100i and 100mm Apo at f/5.7. ZWO 2600MM and Optolong SHO 7nm filters. Taken from Long Beach, CA. 1000 minutes exposure time.

#astronomy #astrophotography #nebula #space #narrowband

@skywatcherusa Heliostar 76 H-alpha scope and Star Adventurer GTi with @player_one_astronomy Apollo-M Mini camera. First shot also using a @celestronuniverse X-Cel LX 2x barlow in DuoTone false color. Second shot in monochrome with inverted surface detail. Processed in AutoStakkert!4, PixInsight, imPPG, and Photoshop.

@skywatcherusa Heliostar 76 H-alpha scope and Star Adventurer GTi with @player_one_astronomy Apollo-M Mini camera. First shot also using a @celestronuniverse X-Cel LX 2x barlow in DuoTone false color. Second shot in monochrome with inverted surface detail. Processed in AutoStakkert!4, PixInsight, imPPG, and Photoshop.

Lots of activity on the Sun this weekend.

#astrophotography #astronomy #sun #solarpowered

After several recent nights of getting shut down early by clouds, I managed to get 3 nights in a row with clear skies until the early hours of the morning. I decided to shoot an area of Cygnus that I had rarely seen imaged and never in a single shot. With 6 hours per filter, I was able to keep the best 85% of the frames and still wind up with over 15 hours total exposure time. 918 minutes, to be exact. The main highlights are the nebula Sh2-115 at the bottom and the two planetary nebulae Sh2-116 (also known as Abell 71) 1/3 up the frame near the right and the very faint Weinberger 1-10 near Omega Cygni 1 and 2 and the reflection nebula VDB 134 at upper right. LBN 381 fills most of the frame and gives me the feeling of waves crashing together from different directions. Celestron RASA 8, Sky-Watcher USA Wave 100i mount, ZWO ASI2600MM camera, and Baader 6.5nm f/2 SHO narrowband filters. Acquired with the ASIAir Plus and processed in DSS, PixInsight, GraXpert, and Photoshop.

Scout is showing off the rig used to take the image in the second picture, though she would much rather be barking at squirrels!

Sh2-215, Sh2-216 (Abell 71), Weinberger 1-10, VDB 134, LBN 381, etc in Cygnus in Hubble Palette (SHO). More in alt text @celestronuniverse.bsky.social

#astronomy #astrophotography #celestron #skywatcherusa

B142/143 - Barnard's "E" Dark Nebula in Aquila. @celestronuniverse.bsky.social RASA 8, @skywatcherusa.bsky.social Wave 100i mount, ZWO ASI071MC camera, and IDAS LPS-2 filter. 1 hour of exposure time in Bortle 2 skies.

#astronomy #astrophotography #darkskies #easternsierra

Sh2-119 - Clamshell Nebula in Cygnus. @celestronuniverse.bsky.social RASA 8, @skywatcherusa.bsky.social Wave 100i, ZWO ASI071MC, IDAS LPS-P2 Filter. ~5 hours exposure time from dark Bortle 2 skies.

#astronomy #astrophotography #cygnus #rasa8

Milky Way rising over a Bortle 2 site at 10,000 feet in the Eastern Sierra. @canonusa.bsky.social R6 Mk II, Canon 50mm f/1.4L VCM lens at f/2, fixed tripod. 2 panels at 10 x 13 sec images at ISO 8000.

#astronomy #astrophotography #milkyway #canon #dakrskies

Images of the sun from my backyard today with the @skywatcherusa.bsky.social Heliostar 76 scope and Star Adventurer GTi mount. A @celestronuniverse.bsky.social XCel LX barlow was used on the higher detail monochrome image.

#astronomy #astrophotography #daytimeastro #sunlight

IC 5146 - The Cocoon Nebula - Images with the @celestronuniverse.bsky.social Origin by my friend Rod and processed by me in PixInsight and Photoshop. 290 minutes exposure.

#astronomy #astrophotography #nebula #starrysky #celestron

Scorpius and the Cygnus Rift from Landers, CA. Canon R6 Mk II and RF 50mm f/1.4 L VCM.

#astronomy #astrophotography #milkyway #starrysky #canon #r6mkII

I love you even more now than the day we married, @barbaraisrad.bsky.social! I'm so glad to share my life with you.

One decade together, many more to come!

#anniversary

Giant Sunspot 4079 at lower right had a nearby flare while I was shooting. A smaller flare is going off near the upper left limb with a large fan-like prominence at 10 o'clock. This image demonstrates the difference between a flare (bright white) and filaments and prominences (darker red and orange in this image). Flares are much more violent explosions that bring up hotter plasma from deeper inside the sun while prominences and filaments involve hydrogen streams at the surface (photosphere) flowing more gently along the sun's magnetic field lines.

Trying out the new @skywatcherusa.bsky.social Heliostar 76 with my Apollo-M Mini.

#astronomy #astrophotography #solarimaging #daytimeastrophotography

Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Canon R6 Mk II and RF 14-35mm f/4L IS - 7 frame mosaic

#canon #redwoods #humboldtcounty

I used AutoStakkert!3 software to analyze all 3000 frames for sharpness and contrast and stack the best 25%.

Jupiter, the Great Red Spot, and 3 of the 4 Galilean moons last night.

@celestronuniverse.bsky.social EdgeHD 8 on an AVX mount. Best 750 frames out of 3000.

#astronomy #astrophotography #jupiter #solarsystem #planet #moons

Dawn on the water - Canon R6 Mk II and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II lens - with and without a 1.4x TC II. Taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands Wildlife Preserve

#birds #nature #wetlands #canon #r6mkii

Joshua Tree National Park

#nationalpark #joshuatree

The Sea of Serenity, Luna

@celestronuniverse.bsky.social EdgeHD 8" telescope from Long Beach, CA

#astronomy #astrophotography #moon #luna

A bit too cloudy for stargazing last night. Canon R6 Mk II and RF 14-35mm f/4L IS lens at 14mm, f/4. 20 sec at ISO 6400.

#astronomy #astrophotography #canon #nightsky

Lunar Eclipse Sequence - Celestron Regal M2 80mm spotting scope and Canon 5D Mk IV. 1/1600s at ISO 800 x6 plus 0.4s at ISO 3200 for totality.

#astronomy #astrophotography #eclipse #moon #celestron

Lots of interesting prominences around the sun today.
Lunt 60 tilt-tuned, Player One Apollo M-Mini, Sky-Watcher USA Star Adventurer GTi. 750 frames stacked.

#astronomy #astrophotography #solarpower #hydrogen

All images taken with the R6 Mk II and either the RF 24-105 f/4L IS or an EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II lens.

New rig, who dis?

Seriously, though, the colors right out of camera on the @canonusa.bsky.social R6 Mk II blow my old 5D Mk IV out of the water! So much lighter and faster, also! Can't wait to try it under the night sky this summer!

#canon #r6mkii #canonphotography #photography

Sure! Canon 5D Mk IV and Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens, stopped to f/2.0, on a fixed tripod. 21 images of 13 seconds each at ISO 6400, stacked in Sequator in "Freeze Ground" mode with the sky selected. Stacked image processed in Photoshop to raise shadows, color correct, and adjust contrast.

Sure! I used a ZWO ASI2600 mono camera with an H-Alpha filter on a Rokinon 135mm f/2.8 camera lens and then switched over to a ZWO ASI1600 color camera with an IDAS NBZ filter for color. 60x3 min HA and 30x3 min color images via ASIAir on a Star Adventurer GTI mount. 270 minutes total.

ZWO ASI2600MM/1600MC, Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens at f/2.8, Sky-Watcher USA Star Adventurer GTi. Baader 6.5nm Ha f/2 filter, Hutech NBZ filter. 270 minutes exposure time.

NGC 2244 and 2264 - Rosette and Cone Nebula / Christmas Tree Cluster widefield in HaRGB. Taken this weekend under Bortle 4 skies at Songdog Ranch outside of New Cuyama, CA.

#astrophotography #nebula #rosette #nightsky #astronomy

Southern and western sky from New Cuyama, CA.

#astrophotography #starrysky #darkskies #astronomy

Sunset Vandenberg rocket launch - 02/22/25, New Cuyama, CA

#vandenberg #rocket #sunset #launch #desertskies

#astrophotography

Lunt 60 single-stacked tilt-tuned, Celestron 2x X-Cel LX barlow, Player One Apollo-M Mini, Sky-Watcher USA Star Adventurer GTi mount. Best 750 frames stacked in AutoStakkert!3, processed in imPPG, Registax, PixInsight, and Duotone false color and final contrast adjustments added in Photoshop.

Good morning, all!

Lots of activity on the sun today especially around sunspot AR3978 (double-lobed bright spot near lower left) and the limb above it in this image.

#sun #solarastonomy #halphasolar #lunt #celestron #skywatcherusa #solarpower #backyardastronomy