My sharpest Saturn yet and a noisy capture of the Eagle Nebula

This is a pair of mosiacs of the moon around the full moon. The one from the 31st is sharper (turns out I had a pinched corrector plate, and corrected between this images) and has the saturation cranked up to emphasize the color variations across the surface. I also attempted to get an image during…

This was a rough night with equipment trouble and early dew. So I only got a few shots in.

Jupiter is finally starting to rise before it gets too late. I aimed my scope at it at the end of the session and noticed a shadow spot from Io, so I recorded a time lapse covering about 10 minutes. The shadow is obvious, and Io can just be seen as a light spot moving…

I decided to try finding some new solar system targets. Most of the larger asteroids weren’t out but I was able to spot Hygiea. I also managed to image Neptune and Triton.

This is a portion of the eagle nebula, captured in Hubble’s famous Pillars of Creation image. I managed to get about 10 minutes of exposure before conditions worsened. This was taken at low altitude through the Detroit light dome, hopefully I can see it in dark skies some day.

This was my first clear night in a few months, but I wasn’t having much luck with DSOs. Saturn was back in the sky, so most of my session was focused on that.

Saturn is finally back in the evening sky. This is my first time looking at it since I got my first looks with my small starter scope.

We went to the city’s fireworks show and the sun peeked through a hole in the clouds right before setting. There’s currently a large cluster of sunspots that shows up as a dark spot in a cell phone image through the smoke. After the fireworks there was a bunch of heat lightning in the clouds…