A duck in the little pond behind my house at 300mm #birds

🧪Due to the Gifford Fires, there was a lot of smoke in the air and the moon looked as red as a lunar eclipse! I got this shot using my EOST6 hooked up to my 6SE. This isn’t over saturated; the moon was really that red! What do you this kind of moon should be called? I was thinking of "Ember Moon".

1.5yrs of progress imaging the moon. What have I learned? -Don't be afraid of multiple exposures to achieve HDR. -Clouds can be your friends, not just a nuisance. -Capture what you saw, not what you wish you saw. -Limit glow to taste. #moon #lunar #astrophotography #photography #progress

🧪 David and I are astrophysicists, and we put together a review of the paper reporting the detection of DMS/DMDS on K2-18b. We walk through the paper figures and methods and cover how these kinds of measurements are made and what it implies for the search for life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK9B...

🧪We published a paper exploring the ability of a black hole's photon ring to measure how fast the BH is spinning, using the kinds of images we hope to make with BHEX. One cool result was tools (e.g., below) to measure the geometry of the PR. Read our study here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

🧪 Have you seen Ashton Hall's viral and bizarre morning routine, which includes a pool dive where he appears to start a dive at 7:36am and touch the water 4 min later? We asked: how high would he need to jump to actually take 4 min to land in the water? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdvn...

🧪 I captured last night's total lunar eclipse! I used a Celestron 6SE and a EOS T6 Rebel DSLR to capture the moon at different phases during the eclipse. For the partial eclipse, I exposed the moon 3 times for the red, lit, and middle part, and then composited it in procreate to show all the light!

🧪I caught the full Mars occultation by the Moon last night! I used the same techniques I describe in previous posts to make these composites showing the full scale of the Moon in comparison to Mars. I also made a timelapse of the entire event, see it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUO... #Mars #Moon

🧪sunspots on the sun during a solar storm! I took this image with my S50 50mm APO, with some light post processing. The sunspots visible here are the source of the huge CME/solar storm a few weeks ago that caused aurorae at unusually low latitudes. #space #sun #solar #storm #aurora

🧪My friend David and I are astrophysicists. He's at the CTI Observatory in Chile right now, and we made this walkaround of the telescopes and crazy views! David worked there for many yrs so he knows all the equipment/science very well. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7km9... and sneak peek below!

🧪What's a day on Mars like? Beats me--but here's 90 minutes of the Mars day! I made this hyperlapse with the 6SE + ZWO ASI224MC + Celestron 2x Barlow + IR cut filter, 40,000 frames per image over 120s, top 1% stacked, each frame 5-10 min apart. #mars #space #timelapse #planet #solarsystem

I’m giving a presentation about writing✍️, science🧪, and animals 🦊🐍🦉🦑🐞 to the local 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, and I felt like my presentation needed something new, so… my secret weapon is a skunk named Nacho.

🧪I am a member of the BHEX collaboration, a space mission which will detect the "photon ring" of a black hole for the very first time. We made a free app which can simulate black hole spacetimes on your phone! Check out the download and discussion here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4218...

🧪How do we image the planets with consumer hardware? A thread 🧵I’ll cover: 1) what makes planets hard to image? 2) What equipment is needed to overcome these challenges? and 3) what does the process look like? This is based on a video I made on this topic here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-fD... (1/8)

🧪 I’m making a Solar system 🪐 composed of my own shots of the planets. These images were made with consumer hardware: a 6SE + ASI224MC + IR cut + 2x Barlow + FireCapture. For each, I used lucky imaging to stack the best of ~30k frames. Just Venus and Mercury to go! #space #planets #astrophotography

well this place already seems a lot nicer