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Hey there, I'm the author of this composite. These images were captured with my lens on a star tracker in Arkansas. The camera was not level at the time of the exposures because I didn't make any adjustments to the camera during tracking by adjusting where the camera was on the right ascension axis....

Moon and Venus rise into the morning sky on the morning of February 7th, 2024. Single shot with a 135mm lens showing Venus and the Moon appearing close to each other in the night sky. Captured from a beach along the Forgotten Coast in Florida near Panacea, Florida. EXIF: Samyang 135mm f/2.0 lens @ f...

Moon and Venus rise into the morning sky as the Milky Way climbs higher above them on the morning of February 7th, 2024. Captured from a beach along the Forgotten Coast in Florida near Panacea, Florida. EXIF: Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 lens @ 28mm f/3.5, ISO2000, 20s. 3 image vertical panorama in horizontal...

Milky Way over New South Wales Australia Photographed in mid June about 2 hours north of Newcastle, NSW Australia EXIF: 9 photos with Sigma 14mm f/1.8 lens and Sony a7iii @ f/2.5 ISO8000 15s My 2nd ever attempt at a Milky Way pano. I have plenty of astrophotography experience, but doing panoramas is...

The Milky Way over St. Marks Florida Two compositions of the Milky Way Core over the St. Marks Lighthouse in Florida. Captured on March 21, 2023. Florida's Forgotten Coast, one of the darkest places one can find for astrophotography in Florida. Located in northern portions of the state, this landmar...

"Crepuscular Rays over Florida" Phenomenal crepuscular rays were observed this evening over Tallahassee. They were enhanced thanks to the haze in place and when this cumulus cloud moved in front of the sun the show began! Captured with a DJI Air2s drone about 400ft up just outside of Talla...

Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky with a hint of the zodiacal light. Captured February 18, 2023. 📍 Lake Talquin, Florida. Sony a7iii Viltrox 20mm f/1.8 lens Copyright/Credit: Wright Dobbs (@wrightdobbs) https://twitter.com/WrightDobbs https://www.facebook.com/wrightdobbsphotography https://instag...

Weather was really crappy, but sometimes mother nature throws you a break! That was the case for me yesterday evening as I hoped to catch the trifecta of celestial objects in the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus. However, with an expansive stratus deck overhead I was about to give up when I saw a few glimps...

Captured the center of the Orion constellation Monday night in this exposure with about 22 minutes of data. I don't have an astro modified camera, but I was able to pull out the little Ha data that the A7iii could capture and enhanced it to bring out those details. It's amazing how large these objec...

"NASA/SpaceX CRS-26 Mission Re-Entry" This was a single long exposure that captured the reentry plasma/fireball from the NASA/SpaceX CRS-26 mission coming back to Earth. This occurred early Wednesday morning on January 11. The Cargo Dragon capsule had a splashdown just offshore of Tampa, b...

"Conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Saturn" January 23, 2023 in Tallahassee, Florida EXIF: 2 images focus stacked. Each image ISO 1600, f/3.5, 1/25s with a Samyang 85mm f/2 lens and Sony a7iii. Some crop. Copyright/Credit: Wright Dobbs (@wrightdobbs) https://twitter.com/WrightDobbs https:...

"Fall is Here" October 8, 2021 in Cape San Blas, Florida EXIF: 23 images stacked at 20 seconds, ISO 2500, f/3.5 with a Viltrox 20mm f/1.8 lens and Sony a7ii. Beach: 2 images at ISO 2500, f/5.6, and 80s. A little over a year ago I went out to Cape San Blas, Florida to scout out locations fo...

"Jupiter near Opposition" Captured in mid September (Sept 14) as Jupiter neared opposition. Imaging location: Near Panacea, Florida USA. Sony a7ii, Viltrox 20mm f/1.8 lens @ f/3.5, 20s, ISO4000. Credit/Copyright: Wright Dobbs https://twitter.com/WrightDobbs https://www.facebook.com/wrightd...

"The Big DIpper from 30,000 ft" Taken on a plane as I was coming back from Las Vegas, NV for a wedding. Really cool to see the Big Dipper in the morning twilight from 30,000 ft. Captured September 21, 2022 Sony a7iii, Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens @ f/1.4, 1/8s, ISO4000. Credit/Copyright: Wright D...

"The Sun Illuminates the outflow from Major Hurricane Ian" Sunset in the Panhandle of Florida in Tallahassee on September 27, 2022 brought both beauty and a scary harbinger of what was to come for fellow Floridians to our south. These upper level clouds, which traveled hundred of miles fro...

"Fall is on the Doorstep" It's been quite the wet summer for us across the Panhandle and Big Bend of Florida and while it hasn't totally shut the door for astrophotography, it's made things difficult. Combined with my work schedule, I have to take every opportunity when the skies will be c...

The Milky Way over Cape San Blas Sony a7ii camera. One year ago today, I took a small trip to Cape San Blas to take in the sunset, the stars, and capture some amazing scenes. Yesterday, Google reminded me of my trip last year, so I decided to look back at my RAW files and started working on this bl...

"The Scars of Hurricane Michael" The local area is coming up on nearly four years since devastating Category 5 Hurricane Michael made landfall across the Florida Panhandle in October of 2018. While the greatest devastation was along the coast, the trail of damage continued well inland, inc...

"All the planets in one photo" Captured at St Cloud, Florida around 545am local time on June 24th, 2022. "What a beautiful morning in Florida to capture the Planetary Alignment of Summer 2022. All the planets of our Solar System are pictured in this 3 image panorama taken from St. Clo...

"A Planetary Alignment and the Milky Way" Captured at St Marks Wildlife Refuge, Florida "Captured this planetary alignment with the Moon and the Milky Way core in this panorama on the morning of April 27th. Captured this one on the St Marks Wildlife Refuge in Florida and pictured in t...

"NASA SLS Rocket's First Morning on the Launchpad" Captured at Cape Canaveral Seashore National Park, Florida. "The first morning on the launchpad (LC-39B) for NASA's Space Launch System Rocket. The SLS rocket will eventually take astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Ap...

"ISS Flies Through the Milky Way" Captured in the Florida Big Bend The International Space Station flew overhead and through the Milky Way in this scene pictured from the coast of the Florida Big Bend on the morning of March 13. It also flew right near the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The I...

"GOES-T Heads to Space" Captured at Playalinda Beach, Florida. "A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket, carrying the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), soars upward after lifting off from Space La...

A panorama I captured on the morning of February 26 out on the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge showing the Moon, Venus, and Mars rising into the sky below the Milky Way Core. Why does the moon and nearby sky look so bright for it only being a waning crescent moon 22% illuminated? Well, to capture the Milk...

I've been wanting to capture this composition for a while and had to wait for the right time of the year when the Big Dipper constellation rises between these two trees. 5 tracked (with a star tracker) images stacked at ISO 4000, f/3.5, and 60 seconds and the foreground was a single image at f/3.5, ...