Doug's Astro Images

All were shot with a 6-inch or smaller aperture refractor using a DSLR camera, a mirrorless camera with extended red response, or a 1-1/4 inch OSC eyepiece camera. Unless otherwise noted, all were shot from a Bortle 6-7 site.

• Auroras

• 2024 solar eclipse

• 2017 solar eclipse

• Lunar eclipses

• Planets: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn

• Conjunctions

• Rosette Nebula bisected by a meteor

• Messier Objects

• NGC Objects

• Comets

• Asteroids

• On Sept 24, 2019, I gave a 2-hour presentation on astrophotography for the BCA Photo Group. The first half hour shows some of my images (many have been improved since then) and the remainder is a how-to.
  Errata:
  • Arcsinh stretch is generally better than p-th root.
  • There is no discussion of autoguiding and dithering.