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The Great Andromeda Galaxy Up Close and Personal One hour of luminance, one hour of RGB, and and hour of Ha for the star forming region highlights. FLI Proline 16803 and an Esprit 150 refractor. Paramount ME II. By Richard S. Wright Jr. http://www.eveningshow.com/galaxies/m31_fli_espirt150.jpg.php

Messier 31, The Great Andromeda Galaxy It's amazing how far astrophotography has come in the last few decades. This image was taken with an off the shelf DSLR (a Nikon D810a) and an 80mm refractor (Esprit 80) at a dark sky site in south Florida. One and a half hours of 5 minute exposures stacked to...

The Helix Nebula This image is a narrowband/RGB combination shot on the same night with two scopes side by side. A fast f/3 (RH-200) system shot Ha and OII for three hours, and a little over and hour of RGB was shot with a DSLR (Nikon D810a) next to it after the moon set with an f/7 refractor. The ...

Milky Way Over Tortuga The Dry Tortugas has probably the darkest skies of any national park. Located 70 miles west of Key West it is accessible only by boat or seaplane. Primitive camping is available, and here I've caught my son laying flat on a picnic table star gazing. This is a two minute expos...

Stargazing in Paradise Taken at the Dry Tortugas National Park off of Key West Florida from the campgrounds. My daughter and son-in-law posed for me while I exposed for 60 seconds with a modified Canon T3i on a sky tracker. Just before the exposure ended, I gave them a little flash to lighten them ...

Jupiter and Venus at NSP

Taken at the Nebraska Star Party, 2015. Onlookers prepare for a nights observing, and are currently looking at the planetary duo, still in close proximity just after sunset.
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Messier 13

Messier 13, the great globular cluster in Hercules. This is my favorite object to view with an eyepiece or shoot. Imaged with an Officina Stellare RC-250 and QSI 683 CCD camera. Paramount ME II.

Richard S. Wright Jr.
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Venus and Jupiter Up Close and Personal On the night of June 30, 2015, Venus and Jupiter were so close together in the sky they could both be captured simultaneously in the same field of view with a 1050mm focal length telescope and a DSLR camera. This image is a composite showing the scene as view...

Starlight by Moonlight Richard S. Wright Jr. A six second DSLR exposure as a nearly full moon rises lights up the landscape and the sky. In a longer exposure the reflected sunlight starts turning the sky blue just as if in daytime, while the stars are still able to shine through. The radio antenna ...

Aurora from March 11, 2015 outside Fairbanks, AK
By Richard S. Wright Jr.

Holding Back the Dawn By Richard S. Wright Jr. http://www.eveningshow.com Stars and the Milky Way are straining to be seen or photographed against the slowly brightening sky of early morning twilight. Shot near a state park in Okeechobee Florida, true dawn was to the left as you are looking south in...

The Evening Show On the evening of January 21st, 2015 I captured this image on a tripod with my Canon 5D Mark III. The moon is featured prominently just after sunset illuminated by both the sun and earth shine. To the upper right of the moon shining brightly is the planet Venus. To the lower left M...

Running Towards Orion
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Peek-A-Boo Moon I call this Peek-A-Boo moon because at the bottom you can see the tip tops of some mountains and crater rims "peeking" up out of the darkness from beyond the terminator where the sunlight is just grazing their tops. I was also very happy with how well the subtle color vari...

The Great Andromeda Galaxy

I captured this image of M31 on a night of exceptional seeing and transparency in South Florida. Only a little over an hour of total exposure went into this image. Shot with a QHY10 color camera on an 80mm APO refractor and a Paramount MyT.

Richard S. Wright Jr.

The North American and Pelican Nebula

4.5 hours with a Canon 60Da/ Canon 200mm f/2.8 @ f/4.

Richard S. Wright Jr.

Venus & Jupiter Conjunction
Canon 5D Mark III on a Tripod
24-105mm f/4L Lens @ 105mm, f/11
ISO 800, 1.6 sec.
Taken from Lake Mary, FL

A higher res version is here:
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Messier 13, The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules My favorite object in the eyepiece, and it makes for a nice astrophotograph too I think. This is only 1.5 hours of data on a CCD with an f/3 RH-200 telescope. 3 minute subs, 10 per color channel. It shows what can be done from light polluted skies ...

26 West, the Moon and Jupiter Taken at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman, NC. A 10 second exposure on a tripod shows 26 West, a radio telescope that was once instrumental during the Apollo program for ground to space communications. A young man in the corner is composing his own s...

The PARI Galaxies The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute has a traveling exhibit where they show off a photographic glass plate from APDA. They have one of the largest astronomical plate archives in the country, and countless school children have marveled at the tiny galaxy pair shown in this g...

The Whale and Hockey Stick WhaleAndHockeyStick.jpg http://www.eveningshow.com/galaxies/#whaleandhockeystick.png Copyright: Richard S. Wright Jr. The Whale (NGC 4631) is an edge on spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away. Both the Whale and the Hockey Stick (NGC 4656) seen at lower left have...

Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
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Gamma Cygni Region It took three months go get enough clear nights go gather nearly 16 hours of narrow band data for this wide field image. I may well have spent more time processing this than I did imaging it over the months since, as I've been through several iterations and palettes, most of whic...

The Heart and Moon http://www.eveningshow.com/rawImages/HeartAndMoon.jpg No, this is not one exposure, but both images were taken with the same camera and lens, with a hydrogen alpha narrow band filter. It shows a number of things. One is the relative size of a common deep sky astrophotography targ...

The Rosette Nebula http://www.eveningshow.com/rawImages/RosetteSynthRGB.jpg A Synthetic RGB composed of Ha and OIII data. Ha = Red OIII = Green OIII + (Ha*0.2) = Blue Larger version here: http://www.eveningshow.com/rawImages/RosetteSynthRGB.jpg Full Image details here: http://www.eveningshow.com/ne...