The Pinwheel Galaxy, a spiraling collection of about 1 trillion stars. It is relatively flat, but shaped like an over easy egg, thicker in the middle and thinner out toward the edges. It located a mere 22 million light years away toward the constellation Ursa Major of which the big dipper is a part.

Eagle Nebula taken with about 350 sub images of 60 seconds each stacked on top of each other plus about 100 calibration images using my telescope from Goldendale, Washington and Malheur field station in SE Oregon near the Steens Mountain earlier this summer.

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the twilight on 12 October 2024. I took this photo with a stock DSLR with a stock telephoto lens set to 250 mm Focal length. I shot at about 1600 ISO with about a 3 second single exposure.

Here is my quick and dirty shot of the moon with a basic DSLR camera from Oct 13, 2024. The moon at about 240,000 miles is about 180 times closer than the comet Tsuchinshan - ATLAS today. Although the moon presents the same face to the earth, it is rotating and experiences day and night.

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