The Butterfly Galaxies
NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away
I took this using the large Celestron 11" EdgeHD telescope with the 0.7x reducer lens. This 3-hour, 10-minute image is a combination of 38 x 5-minute sub-frames stacked together.

Messier 104 ... The Sombrero Galaxy.
This galaxy is about 31 million light-years away. This galaxy appears to us as nearly edge-on with the appearance of a large central bulge. I took this nearly five-hour final image over two nights in early March.

Globular Cluster Messier 3 (NGC 5273).
This is just BEAUTIFUL.
This is a globular cluster located about 33,900 light-years from Earth and contains about 500,000 stars.
I took this using the Celestron 11" EdgeHD telescope at f/7 I stacked 27 x 180 sec subframes to generate this 1 hr 21 min image.

The Parade of planets (and Moon) through the telescope on Friday evening, February 7, 2025. (Saturn was too low in the sky to capture)

The Cigar Galaxy ... Messier 82
This galaxy is about 11 million light-years from Earth. In the sky, it is located in the Big Dipper (Ursa Major). In the core is an active starburst region (seen in the red).
I took this image using the large Celestron 11" EdgeHD telescope at f/10

The SW Evening Sky Saturday evening.

The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244)

I took this using the ION 130mm Refractor triplet telescope, which has a focal length of 728mm. I used narrowband 4.5nm filters: Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen 3. I combined them as Red=Hydrogen with the G & B as Oxygen. (NGC 2244)

The Planets on Parade ...
Venus and Saturn are in the SW Evening sky.
In the eastern sky are Jupiter and Mars.
This is what they look like through the 11" telescope.
(That little dot to the right of Jupiter is the Galilean moon, Europa)

Monday night, Dec 30, 2024 ... Two planets in the eastern sky. There's mighty Jupiter with one of its moons, Europa, and Rudy Red Mars is on the right. You can see these just by looking up during the evening in the east

The Belt of Orion
I took this image Sunday night using an 80mm telescope from the Heavenly Backyard Garden. These 3 stars make up the belt of Orion. On the lower left is the Horsehead and Flame Nebula.

The California Nebula ... NGC 1499
This is part of my latest project, creating a mosaic from collected images from my telescope. This is of two photos to get the entire nebula, about 1,000 light-years from Earth. The name comes from the shape of the nebula resembling that of California.

You can see Jupiter as that very bright object in the ENE sky shortly after sunset and will be high overhead around 1 am.
This is what it looks like through the large Celestron 11" telescope

My Thanksgiving weather for 2024.
Mild weather is to turn cold with a hard freeze on the way.

My Video: youtu.be/LjY_8nUV4oY
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This is a 140-minute animation (1 frame per minute) of Jupiter showing the Giant Red Spot transversing through the view. The moon"Io" shows up near the end of the cycle. I took this within the Heavenly Backyard with the 11" telescope.

Planets that are now visible.
Venus is extremely bright in SW shortly after sunset.
Saturn is high in the SW during the evening.
Jupiter is very bright in NE after 8 pm.
Mars is bright, ruddy red, rising before midnight in NE.
(I took these images using the Celestron 11" telescope.)

This is a way of photographing the planets called live stacking. So, let's go on a tour of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Uranus and view the LIVE STACKING ... it's amazing!
Video Link: youtu.be/0MHIVkopTnY

Jupiter animation with one of its moons, Io, along with the Great Red Spot, rotating over the course of one hour. The dark spot is the shadow of the moon Io.

Jupiter and the Giant Red Spot, along with one of its moons, Io.
The Red Spot is an ongoing hurricane of sorts. It is so large that two Earths could fit inside of it. The white spot on the left is the moon Io, and the dark spot is its shadow.
I took this picture in the Heavenly Backyard Friday night

A view of the planets from Nov 15, 2024.
I took these images in the Heavenly Backyard using the large Celestron 11" EdgeHD telescope.