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The Cone Nebula www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52597998312_b336746e91_h.jpg I captured this photo with a PlaneWave CDK600 at ObsTech using Voyager software and QHY600 camera. Total exposure of 24 hours. Hydrogen alpha 26x30min, Luminance 60x5min,...

The Flame Nebula
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The Running Chicken Nebula
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NGC 55
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The Helix Nebula www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52518418109_01c16379fd_b.jpg The Helix Nebula is a stunning deep sky target that was created as a result of a star near the end of it's life cycle expanding and shedding gas. The shells of expanding...

Horsehead Nebula
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Lunar Eclipse www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52079363799_df5910ace0_b.jpg Did you see the total lunar eclipse tonight? While watching the eclipse from our porch in Pittsburgh, I logged in to our telescope at ObsTech in Chile and luckily it was cl...

Milky Way with the Moon and Venus from Chile
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NGC 1097 with Optical Jets www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matthew Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51954547197_10dd9073ae_h.jpg This beautiful galaxy known as NGC 1097 has some pretty cool features. If you look closely you can see 3 jets appearing to emanate from the galaxy. These je...

Orion www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich and Mike Selby https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51920714101_c4f59b9f5c_b.jpg The constellation of Orion in the night sky is filled with absolutely beautiful deep-sky objects. When a small telescope and sensitive camera under dark skies is poi...

NGC 300
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Comet Leonard
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Copyright: Matt Dieterich Comet Leonard as seen through a PlaneWave CDK600 telescope at El Sauce Observatory in Chile.

Comet Leonard as seen from Chile
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Bryce Canyon National Park Milky Way www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51555493898_1e465b51c6_b.jpg Ever since I became interested in astrophotography, especially at National Parks, I heard Bryce Canyon was one of the best stargazing parks. The high...

The Eagle Nebula www.instagram.com/mattdieterich Copyright: Matt Dieterich and Mike Selby https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51391724072_44776f1e8a_h.jpg The Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) was made famous by the Hubble image showcasing the "Pillars of Creation". That image has to be one of th...

Sombrero Galaxy www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51357815669_88a5e72d54_h.jpg The Sombrero Galaxy is home to an estimated 100 billion stars. So many stars are in this galaxy that it literally causes dust surrounding the galaxy to reflect light. Ama...

Next Big Adventure www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51342599967_ae55f66d7a_b.jpg In 2015, I took a leap of faith and went on an adventure to fulfill my dreams of working in a National Park where I could share the night skies with visitors. That exp...

Sprites from McDonald Observatory www.instagram.com/mattdieterich Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51203049653_0216f5e298_b.jpg We experienced one epic night of Sprite shooting down at McDonald Observatory during our workshop last week! The evening started off with an a...

Zodiacal Light from New Mexico www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51155720136_ef73770045_b.jpg Last night after arriving to Dark Sky New Mexico Observatory, the Zodiacal Light was incredibly bright over the mountains! Zodiacal Light is an angled colu...

Thin Blue Line www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51091063418_ffed013818_k.jpg While flying down to Chile I was setup in the airplane shooting a timelapse of the night sky. After stopping the timelapse I captured this single frame of the thin blue li...

I setup a timelapse to shoot the Milky Way rising over the Andes and lighting hundreds of miles away over Argentina cause an incredible atmospheric phenomenon called a Sprite. The red glowing structure is one type of Transient Luminous Event (TLE) cause by thunderstorms and occur between altitudes o...

Zodiacal Light and Milky Way www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50936583481_06d739bb49_b.jpg I find chasing dark skies to be an incredibly fulfilling experience. Standing beneath thousands of visible stars appearing to sit on a blanket of black velve...

Craters of the Moon National Monument Milky Way www.MattDieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50878365121_b86e3d53c2_h.jpg Capturing large panorama shots like this one are a lot of fun to showcase just how stunning the night sky is from our National Parks. I se...

Winter Milky Way Deep Sky Objects
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California Nebula and Pleiades region www.mattdieterich.com Copyright: Matt Dieterich https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50832046337_7f170ffedc_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50832046337_7f170ffedc_z.jpg How many deep sky objects can you spot in this widefield view of the night sky? At ...