The glorious Milky Way galaxy looking on the meridian looking south over the Chihuahua Desert.

The Milky Way rises over the red lights of the upper observing field during Sunday night at the Texas Star Party 2022.

The Milky Way rises over historic Prude Ranch and an abandoned work tool from years gone by.

Zodiacal light is a cone of light rising into the night sky. It is dust particles along the plane of our solar system, believed to be from the surface of Mars, and reflected by the Sun just after astronomical twilight.

I am conducting an imaging study of the Rho Ophiuchus area with multiple instruments. This is an 85mm focal length lens on a full frame modified camera.

Continuing the study of my favorite area of our galaxy. Taken with a 135mm lens on a full frame camera.

Continuing my study of my favorite region. This is using a 400mm telescope and a modified full frame camera.

A composite of 111 one minute exposures taken with the Canon Ra and 135mm f2 Rokinon lens at f2. Sky tracked with iOptron Sky Guider pro.

Only 1 hour of data on this composition. I will build on this for the rest of 2022.

A bicolor presentation featuring hydrogen alpha and oxygen III filtered data.

A bicolor presentation of the Lagoon nebula in Sagittarius. Hydrogen alpha and oxygen III filtered data.

Lord Rosse was the first to discern the spiral shaped pattern of the “nebula” with his 6’ reflector in 1845.