Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. You could teleport here from a street in Lisbon and not notice any change. Lisbon on an…
Endless Sea
In April 2022 we took a cruise, a highly privileged cruise. A mental health cruise. Ten choppy days, mostly island…
M97 and M108
M97 is also known as “the Owl Nebula” — you can barely see the two eyes. M108 is known, for…
S/N
A colorful mosaic; an extreme magnification of an image of space at the edge of a galaxy. Two prominent stars,…
NGC4244
Another galaxy floating in splendid isolation. According to this Wikipedia article it is part of the M94 group, which is…
Tadpole Nebula
The “tadpoles” are slightly lower left of center. There are two of them: bright structures rather than the usual dark…
Iris Nebula
I imagine this was a particularly dirty explosion, throwing dark dust clouds and obscuring large patches of a dense starfield.…
Well, the moon.
My telescope isn’t ideal for taking a picture of the moon, but I gave it a shot anyway. Not much…
Markarian’s Chain, #2
I managed to frame it better this time. Here’s an annotated version:
IC342, an invisible object
IC342 is a large, bright, nearby galaxy that would be “naked to the invisible eye” if it weren’t for the…