Sunrise sky art.

NGC1795 - The Fish Head Nebula. Captured from my rooftop observatory in downtown Houston.

🔭Askar FRA500
📸ZWO 2600MM Pro
🏔️ZWO AM5
🔴Antlia 3nm HSORGB
🕐100 hours
💡Bortle 9
💻PixInsight

Full acquisition details:
www.astrobin.com/8i7cav/

Here's a perfect example of the power of stacking.

On top is a single 5 minute exposure, bottom is a stack of 208 x 5 minute exposures adding up to 17 hours total.

This is where the magic stuff is in astrophotography, especially when you live somewhere as light polluted as I do.

Here’s a deep 140 hour exposure on the Cave Nebula, a huge area of dust and gas located 2,500 light years away from Earth near the constellation Cepheus.

The light for this image was gathered over 12 nights from my rooftop SkyGlow observatory in downtown Houston.

I did a bit of a drizzle test on undithered data. Check it out!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQpS...

Every astrophotographer’s worst nightmare (aside from the neighbors installing LED ‘security’ lights):

A surprise thunderstorm overnight woke me up in a state of sheer panic as both rigs were up on the obsy dutifully firing off subs in the pouring rain.

pt 1

I've been wanting to break the 100 hour mark on a project for a while now, and I've finally done it!

Here's 109 hours of exposure shot with my twin rigs on the Cosmic Question Mark Nebula.

🔭Askar FRA500 f/3.9
📸ZWO 2600MM Pro
⛰️ZWO AM5
🔴Antlia 3nm SHO+RGB
🕥109 hours
💻PixInsight
💡Bortle 7 & 9

Epic guiding tonight!

The Cosmic Question Mark Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia, shot from the ultra light polluted Skyglow Observatory in downtown Houston and my brother's slightly less light polluted house in the suburbs.

🔭Askar FRA500 f/3.9
📸ZWO 2600MM
⛰️ZWO AM5
🔴Antlia 3nm OH
🕥70 hours
💻PixInsight
💡Bortle 7, 9

Since I'm new to Bsky, I'll try to post one of my astrophotos per day until I've posted everything I've ever shot, newest to oldest.

Day 3 of 28: The Orion Nebula

🔭Askar FRA500 f/3.9
📸ZWO 2600MM
⛰️ZWO AM5
🔴Antlia 3nm Ha, Oiii
🕥15 hours
💻PixInsight
💡Bortle 9

Since I'm new to Bsky, I'll try to post one of my astrophotos per day until I've posted everything I've ever shot, newest to oldest.

Day 2 of 26: Veil Nebula Complex.

🔭Askar FRA500 f/3.9
📸ZWO 2600MM
⛰️ZWO AM5
🔴Antlia 3nm Ha, Oiii
🕥53 hours
💻PixInsight
💡Bortle 9

Since I'm new to Bsky, I'll try to post one of my astrophotos per day until I've posted everything I've ever shot, newest to oldest.

Day 1 of 26: The Bubble Nebula with a side of M52.

🔭Askar FRA500 f/3.9
📸ZWO 2600MM
⛰️ZWO AM5
🔴Antlia 3nm Ha, Oiii
🕥59 hours
💻PixInsight
💡Bortle 9

OK, I think I'm *finally* done processing the Iris Nebula, a gorgeous reflection nebula and a complex of cold molecular hydrogen clouds.

This combines the best 16 hours of 5 minute exposures from my Indiana backyard, using my favorite scope (115mm APO triplet, with a 1.2"/pixel resolution). 🔭🧪

A little bit about me: my day job is at a childrens hospital, and astrophotography is a great balance to that stressful work.

My wife is an actual rocket scientist. Her job is literally to land things on Mars! How cool is that?!

But, mostly I’m all about astrophotography and will post plenty here!

My name is Chris and I take pictures of the night sky with my telescope and astrophotography camera, mostly from my rooftop observatory in ultra light-polluted downtown Houston.

Here's some of my best images from the past couple of years.

Hi folks, I'm Chris and here's my face.

This is probably the only photo you'll see of me because I'm generally looking and pointing things up into the night sky! 🤣

Clear skies!