Astrophotography

I’ve been in love with images of outer space since I can remember. As a child, I watched spell-bound as our Astronauts landed on the moon, my own self-made cardboard models hanging from the ceiling mimicking the missions every move from launch, to lunar landing, to their return to Earth. The vivid paintings and eventual photographs in National Geographic over the years kept me captive for hours…

I acquired an iOptron Skyguider Pro camera mount system in 2019. This system aligns my camera to the north star and compensates for the earth’s rotation, allowing me to take extremely long exposures of the heavens, picking up faint sources of light from such bodies as nebula and galaxies that are otherwise hidden from our eyes. Further, I can enhance these images by taking multiple exposures during the night, and then “stacking” them with a multitude of free, open-source software available online.