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The horse head and flame nebulae are shown on the right and left sides of the image respectively. The horsehead appears as a dark, profile view of a horses head in a deep red field of dust. Between the flame and the horsehead is a very bright star named Alnitak. Alnitak is a massive pain to work around due to just how bright it is. The flame nebula has lots of dark structures running through its core, giving it the appearance of fire.

With all the downtime I had this winter, I was starting to think I’d fully miss out on the Orion targets. Either way, after 2 months of hardware problems here’s the Horsehead!
I’ve always wanted to shoot this one but just never had a good opportunity in the pnw.

#astrophotography #photography

Ha! Never thought of it like that. It does have a “yin & yang” kind of appearance to me.

Flaming Star (IC 405) and Tadpoles (IC 410) nebulae in the Auriga constellation, shot from my front deck over a few recent evenings. Redcat 51/L-Enhance/Nikon D5600a, 10 hours total exposure. #astrophotography

Hey, a clear night in November! Managed to get about 90 minutes on the Double Cluster in Perseus last night. Redcat 51/Nikon D5600a 🔭

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) in constellation Boötes, Oct 21, 2025. (Redcat 51, 1 hour stacked)
#astrophotography #comets

IC 1396 (w/ Elephant's Trunk Nebula) in HOO palette. The dead street lamp outside my house really helped... hope they never fix it! 12.5 hours, Redcat 51, L-Enhance, Nikon D5600a.
#astrophotography

WR 134 is a dying Wolf-Rayet star about 6000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. The surrounding structure is formed by WR 134 blowing off massive amounts of its shell and its intense radiation. WR 134 is the second from right of the four lined up stars in the centre.

WR 134 captured from my patio on 14 nights in July & August 😊🔭

This nebula around the star WR 134 was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of 58 h in mono with Ha and OIII narrowband filters and merged with RGB stars.

#Astrophotography

@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?

North America and Pelican Nebulae, captured from my front deck (Bortle 7) over several nights last week. 8 hours with dual narrowband filter + 1 hour without (for stars). Redcat 51, L-Enhance, Nikon D5600a. #astrophotography

I’m fine with people using my images (for whatever purpose) as long as I’m given credit! Feel free to DM me if you want a higher resolution version of any of these. - Zach

Thanks so much George! I really appreciate it.

A bit of ‘low hanging fruit’ from a recent trip into the North Cascades, BC, Canada.

M8 & 20 (Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae), 90 minutes with Redcat 51 + Nikon D5600a. #astrophotography

Just over one hour on the Rho Ophiuchi region using a 'nifty fifty' lens. :)

Taken last week from a very dark beach on Vancouver Island. #astrophotography

Made it to my favourite dark site for the first time in a while! My intended target was behind puffy clouds, so I changed plans and pointed north.

Milky Way from Cassiopeia to Aquila, 1 hour stack @11mm. #astrophotography #MilkyWay

Life has been really getting in the way of hobbies this year, but I'm finally finding some free time again. Here is a neat little waterfall I discovered last week on Vancouver Island! I took this using a neutral density filter and a 4 second long exposure.

#nature #waterfalls

The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros - giant cedars in my neighbour's yard always make this one a challenge, but I got a few more hours on it this year.

Redcat 51/L-Enhance/Nikon D5600a, 7 hours narrowband + 1 hour broadband. #astrophotography

NGC 1499 (California Nebula) - January has been kind to us this year on BC’s ‘wet coast’; I managed to get 11 imaging nights in total! Happy for the opportunity to dig in to a bonus winter project. :D

Redcat 51/L-Enhance/Nikon D5600a, 14 hours integration
#astrophotography

Very nice!

IC 1805 (Heart Nebula) - this "preschooler’s valentine" made for a fun January project, and I ended up spending quite a bit more time on it than I'd planned. 😉

Redcat 51/Optolong L-Enhance/Nikon D5600a, 14.5 hours integration
#astrophotography

Thanks Darren - much appreciated :)

Thank you so much! :)

There's a large amount of stuff in this one. 😀

Cygnus to Scutum, taken from my favourite Bortle 2 mountain perch (summertime). #astrophotography #MilkyWay

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M45, the pretty Pleiades ✨
Imaged January 2024 and reprocessed recently with PixInsight.

Nikon 300mm f/4D with step-down filter ring, D7200, 5.5 hours integration.
#astrophotography

MASTER PixInsight FROM SCRATCH in ONE VIDEO (Really🤯) - LEVEL UP your astro images! + data provided YouTube video by Cuiv, The Lazy Geek

Thank you Peter. I’ve been trying out PixInsight for the first time, using the first workflow in this video: youtu.be/XCotRiUIWtg?...

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)

I’ve been having a bit of fun this week going back to some old datasets and reprocessing them with newer & better tools. It’s a wonderful time to be getting into this hobby! 😀

Nikon 300mm f/4D + D7200, 6 hours integration
#astrophotography #Andromeda #galaxies

Thanks Chris! :)

Cygnus Loop (aka Veil Nebula) - this was my most ambitious #astrophotography project of 2024. I spent a total of 9 summer evenings absorbing these faint photons... :)

Redcat 51/L-Enhance Filter/Nikon D5600a, 16 hours integration. 🔭

Kemble’s Cascade and the Golden Harp Cluster (NGC 1502) - this neat and colourful asterism can be found in the northern constellation Camelopardalis. 🔭

Redcat 51 + Nikon D5600. #astrophotography

Planet Mercury rising above Boundary Bay, BC, early Monday morning. Have a peaceful holiday! 🎄🔭

A wide field view of IC 434, Flame and Horsehead Nebula. This is one of my favourite 'backyard projects' to date!

Redcat 51 + Nikon D5600a, 7 hours integration.
#astrophotography #deepspace