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Starfest is Canada’s largest annual Amateur Astronomy Conference and Star Party held at the River Place Campground near Mount Forest Ontario.
www.nyaa.ca/starfest.html

Images are my own
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I went to the VLA to shoot C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over the array of radio dishes, and while I was there, there was a SpaceX launch in California. Not long after launch the plume was illuminated by the setting sun. #astrophotography
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) Oct 25 2025, in poor transparency, shot in New Mexico #astronomy #astrophotography
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
where is that pesky comet? #astronomy #astrophotography
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)
Tamron 150mm f/5.6 EQ6 Pro ASI6200 RGB 1X120s frame each filter. 5:45am Oct 16, 2025 near Kingston ON #astrophotography #comet
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the Aurora have been active this week :)
October 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
wow what a program! What an experience! What a Star Party! ... are you ready for Starfest 2025? Big announcement coming, registration will be opening soon... #starparty #astronomy #NYAASTARFEST
May 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NGC 3572 was recently an APOD, but this is not the photo that was the APOD. This is my photo own, I took the image with my Celestron EDGE HD 11" remotely from Chile. If you look up the APOD, you will see that mine is in much better focus. hmmm, maybe I should have sent it in ;) #astrophotography
May 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Greetings folks, please stay tuned for a big announcement in the coming days!
The opening of registration for Starfest 2025 will be announced soon. Starfest is just 117 days away!
Image credit @andreagir.bsky.social #starparty #astronomy #amateurastronomy #stargazing
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
NGC 6164, known as the Dragon's Egg Nebula, is an emission nebula located in the constellation Norma. The nebula was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1834, and is approximately 3,870 light years from the Solar System. Captured (by me) remotely in Chile. #astrophotography
April 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NGC 2467 is a star-forming region whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of a colorful mandrill. It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars. -Wikipedia. I took this image recently. To me, it resembles an SHO #Bluesky Butterfly! #astrophotography
March 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
widefield, narrow band, deep sky image of some nebulae and star clusters in Gemini on the boundary with Orion. At centre is IC 443 the Jelly Fish nebula, and in the upper right is NGC 2174 the Monkey Head nebula. The cluster in the upper left is M35 with NGC 2158 adjacent. #astrophotography
March 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The region around Orion's Belt and The Great Orion Nebula and M78 Rokinon 135mm f/2 ZWO ASI2600MC duo Pro with Optolong L-Ultimate dual band HA/O3 filter, with real RGB unfiltered stars. #astrophotography
March 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I got an IOTD on ASTROBIN!
www.astrobin.com/g9uxd7/
The Vela Supernova Remnant is a giant shell of gas and dust in the constellation Vela that's visible from the southern hemisphere. The remnant is nearly 100 light-years across, which is 20 times the diameter of the full moon. #ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
February 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The Lagoon And Trifid Nebulae in the Galactic Core. The Lagoon and Trifid are estimated to be between 4,000–6,000 light-years away from the Earth. Within the Trifid there is a stellar nursery full of thousands of embryonic stars. #astrophotography
February 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
IC 410 is located 12,000 lightyears from Earth in the Auriga constellation, and is nicknamed the Tadpole Nebula because of the tadpole-shaped clouds of dark dust that appear to be swimming towards the centre. #astrophotography . I took this last night with HA,S2 and O3 filters.
February 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Sharpless 2-240 also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, or SNR G180.0-01.7, is a supernova remnant (SNR) in the Milky Way, straddling the border between the constellations Auriga and Taurus. I took 25 hours of images with a dual band filter to bring out the finer details in Ha and O3 #astrophotography
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) refers to the faint, diffuse clouds of interstellar dust and gas that lie above the plane of the Milky Way, illuminated by the combined light of all the stars in the galaxy. Here, the IFN is illuminated by the Pleiades (M45). #astrophotography
January 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Long ago, in A Galaxy Far Far Away....this is but a corner of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearest galactic neighbours, 158,200 light years away, and home to an incredibly complex cloud of gas and dust within which we find NGC 2070, AKA The Tarantula Nebula. #astrophotography
January 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) is an emission and reflection nebula about 1,500 light-years away from Earth, and the "Tadpole" Nebula (IC 410) is an emission nebula about 12,000 light-years away. They are found in the constellation Auriga, the Charioteer. #astrophotography #astronomy
January 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
this is T Coronae Borealis in the constellation Corona Borealis, AKA the Blaze Star. It is a binary star and a recurrent nova. It is expected to explode soon. When it does, it will suddenly brighten for a short period of time before returning to it's current brightness. #astrophotography #astronomy
January 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 have been colliding for hundreds of millions of years. The collision has created two long streamers of stars, gas, and dust that extend from the crash site, which is why the pair is nicknamed the Antennae Galaxies. I took this mostly in December #astrophotography
January 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Cone Nebula in Monoceros.
The shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing ionized hydrogen. The nebula is approximately seven light-years long and 2,700 light-years from Earth. LRGBHa. #astrophotography
January 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Lower's Nebula is another interesting target in Orion, and is named after Harold and Charles Lower who discovered this nebula in 1939. I pointed my telescope for about 10 hours, using narrowband filters S2, Ha, and O3 over a couple of nights. #astrophotography
January 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
taken on different trips to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The Milky Way rising over the Andes. Then at dawn, a few years later, an image of the morning twilight with a vertical column of Zodiacal Light was captured May 11, 2024. Such beauty in the night sky! #astrophotography
December 30, 2024 at 4:24 PM