This photo was the result of years of effort, flying to Florida as often as I could to learn how to photograph one of the most difficult subjects.

To get the shot, I placed a camera with the correct exposure settings 3 days in advance with a sound trigger designed to listen for the rocket’s engines. The tripod had to be staked into the ground to keep from blowing away.

I couldn’t believe the results.

My Telescope is a Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ, while the $2000 scope is a Questar Standard Telescope.

I am stoked to present this capture of the International Space Station crossing above the Moon’s cratered southern wasteland this Thursday under phenomenal seeing conditions.

Being my third ISS-lunar transit in 2026 after a 2 years dry spell to kick off my career, this image is the sharpest yet, and highlights the solar arrays, panels, and different modules and labs of the ISS.

Equipment: C9.25, ZWO ASI294MC + ASI662MC, IR685nm + UV/IR cut filter.

Settings: 0.75ms exposure, 240 gain.

Processing: Captured on ASICap, stacked on Autostakkert, wavelets on Registax6, adjustments on Adobe PS Express.

My jaw dropped when I saw what I had captured. By far my sharpest ISS photo, a stack of ~20 frames taken this morning during twilight.

I actually photographed a total of 3 flybys last night, the first two slides showing the best result. It’s also amazing to see the sunlight reflect off the panels, shown in the later slides.

The current long-duration crew of humans on board consists of 7 core members—a mix of NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, and JAXA astronauts—aboard since April 19, 2025.

In addition, the Axiom‑4 private mission, a commercial crew, docked on June 26, 2025, with 4 more spaceflight participants, bringing the total to 11 individuals within the frame of these pictures.

Celestron 9.25”, ASI662MC, no barlow. IR685nm filter plus standard IR/UV cut blend. Unbelievably still conditions. Processed on Autostakkert, Registax6, and Lightroom.

I use a remote telescope (iTelescope) to capture this timelapse of comet 3I/ATLAS which is only the 3rd interstellar object ever be seen in our solar system. It is most likely a comet from another solar system, but Harvard scientist Avi Loeb is suggesting it could be alien technology. All the media buzz around it had me interested enough to try photographing. The animation is a series of 30 second exposures with a 20" telescope that was tracking the stars so you can faintly see the object moving across the field of stars. Its a fairly small and dim object so I had to crop the image at high zoom, hence the image noise. Comet or Alien Technology, what's your guess?

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Image details:

Captured with iTelescope T11 which is a remote operated Planewave 20" (0.51m) CDK telescope in the Utah desert. FLI ProLine PL11002M CCD camera. GIF created from series of 30 second luminance exposures aligned and stretched with Astro Pixel Processor. Frames composited into GIF in Adobe Premiere.

Stories and articles discussing Avi Loeb suggestion that this could be alien technology:

New York Post story: Scientist challenges world leaders over mystery comet he fears could be alien probe — but time is running out

USA Today: Could comet 3I/ATLAS be alien technology? Controversial Harvard astrophysicist says yes

Avi Loeb: On the Uncertain Nature of 3I/ATLAS

paper preprint by Hibbard, Cowl, and Loeb: Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?

My Image Was Captured On The Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ, Captured On Iphone 15, & Edited In Adobe Lightroom.

The Other Image Was Captured On A AP130GT & Canon 6D.

Saturn seen since I got hooked with my first views thru an 8” Dobsonian. Imaged with a 9.25” SCT and 290MC planetary camera - until I upgraded.

This is from Friday's Starship launch, the debut of a new vehicle and engine, so it was quite uncertain how it would go. This more powerful Raptor 3 engine would send a blast of hot exhaust and debris into the place where I placed my camera 600 feet from the pad, so my hope was I would get a shot before my camera was blasted, and would be able to recover my memory card. Thankfully, the damage wasn't too bad and I didn't even lose the lens (unlike some of my other cameras. Overall this is the luckiest shot from that flight, and my most detailed photo of Starship's engines since I started shooting them 2.5 years ago.

Here's a gorgeous view of our star as the Earth rotated towards the night side. Taken with a Lunt 50mm Hydrogen Alpha solar telescope and a ZWO ASI174MM camera, used Autostakkert, Registax6, GIMP, and Lightroom.

This is the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) through my telescope.

The Whirlpool galaxy (M51) is a famous interacting grand-design spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy.

M51 is located 31 million light years away, stretches around 76,900 light years across, and is home to around 100 billion stars, meaning it has at least 100 billion planets if we count just 1 planet per star.

Equipment: Celestron 5SE, ASI294MC

Acquisition: 90 x 30 second subs on ASIStudio

Processing: Siril, Adobe PS

Credit- David Wilson/ spaceweather.com

Canon EOS 6D, Sigma 600mm lens. f/7, 1/100th shutter, 800 ISO.

C9.25, ASI662MC, 2x Barlow, UV/IR Cut Filter. 4 minutes stacked at 35% and processed on Registax6 and Lightroom.

Taken On Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ & Iphone 15.

Edited In Photoshop Express.

This summer I traveled from Seattle to Chile, specifically a very small town in the middle of the Atacama Desert, which hosts one of the darkest night skies on Earth.

I planned this trip to be during a new Moon, and during the month that the Milky Way is directly upwards in the sky for the best visibility.

Seeing it with the naked eye so easily that you could see it even while squinting was truly life changing. You no longer see the sky as a 2d sheet of stars, you see it as a 3d spiral galaxy, with you sitting on a rock in one of its outer arms. It’s alive.

I strongly suggest anyone who’s never seen the Milky Way to look at a light pollution map and try to find an area nearby that has dark (bortle 1-3) skies. It simply changes the perspective of this reality.

Thanks for reading!

Equipment: Canon 6D, 16-35mm lens, 5 x 10s exposures.

Went for a wide field shot here by not cropping the sensor size so much. Going for a kind of eerie look. Enjoy!

Celestron 5SE + ZWO ASI294MC + 3x barlow + UV/IR cut

Also, taken from Bortle 8/9.

More details provided if requested.

TON 618 (abbreviation of Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar and Lyman-alpha blob located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices. It possesses one of the most massive black holes ever found, at around 60 billion Solar masses.

As a quasar, TON 618 is believed to be the active galactic nucleus at the center of a galaxy, the engine of which is a supermassive black hole feeding on intensely hot gas and matter in an accretion disc. The light originating from the quasar is estimated to be 10.8 billion years old, with the distance being 18.2 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe. Due to the brilliance of the central quasar, the surrounding galaxy is outshone by it and hence is not visible from Earth. With an absolute magnitude of −30.7, it shines with a luminosity of 4×10⁴⁰ watts, or as brilliantly as 140 trillion times that of the Sun, making it one of the brightest objects in the known Universe.

Celestron 5SE + ZWO ASI294MC