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A civilian transit- Our sun and a commercial airliner. Check the attachment for a video
See the video from the moment of capture in the attachments. This is our sun in hydrogen alpha light with a plane transiting the disc.
Every full moon of 2020 in a half second. In 4k!
Download is attached!
A 200+ megapixel image I saved for a rainy day- well, it's raining!
This was captured the evening before the grand conjunction, on December 20th. My focus was on the planets that night, so I didn't share this. But it turned out to be one of my favorite scenes of the year.
A cosmic Mashup- our moon and the California Nebula
This may be more art than science, but it's still a fun image to create. This is close to accurate scale for angular size. Image if nebulae were as bright as the moon- they'd be huge in our night sky!
Hubble's famous "Pillars of Creation" Before and after edits
the nebula is hidden deep within the data of my raw files, and is brought out during processing. Anyone that wants to learn this side of the hobby can do so- I share a dropbox file with all my calibrated RAW stacks to aspiring astrophotography patrons. I do have a free tutorial and dataset as well pinned to my instagra...
Happy New Year! Celestial Events in January and 2021
Hello and happy 2021! In addition to listing January's celestial events, I'm going to throw in a few highlights for the whole year to look forward to. Don't worry, I'll still do my monthly notice so you will have a reminder before things happen. I will also start including "Observations challenges&#...
Quick note-my email for you
Something appears to be wrong with Patreon’s notification system and as a result several messages fell through the cracks. Each of you are always welcome to email me, for any reason, by using ajamesmccarthy@gmail.com. that’s my personal email. If I don’t respond to a message within 24 hours than there is a solid ...
A spacecraft transited the moon this afternoon
See attached for a slowed-down video of the pass.My ISS transit shots tend to get the most questions, so I thought I would write up exactly how I get them. If this looks familiar, I posted it originally in here a couple months ago.First- I check transit-finder.com.This is a web resource that allows you to put in your l...
22 Days of the moon in 4k
When I observe the moon nightly for an entire lunar cycle, funny things happen. I see the moon for what it is, a wiggly sphere caught in a perpetual dance with Earth. You can really see the depth to it in this timelapse.The gif is HD, but not 4k. Check the download to see this in full 4k.
Celestial events in December- an incredible month awaits.
An incredible conjunction, a fantastic meteor shower, and a total solar eclipse. What a month!December 13/14- The Geminids Meteor ShowerThis is the best meteor shower of the year, and it coinsides with a new moon. How lucky is that? I'll be travelling to dark clear skies around this time to watch the incredible sho...
Lunar Libration visualized in a single photo- the product of 12 days of images
The "motion blur" is caused by the moon's angle to Earth subtly changing each night.
I'm thankful for my Patrons :) Here's the sun today you lovely people.
This is our sun's full disc as of this afternoon. The activity is clearly picking up, showing a lot of interesting features, with more on the way!
81 Megapixel image of the moon and Jupiter as they set last night
The colors and clouds etc all all natural, captured in camera this way. However, the position of Jupiter and the moon was adjusted to fit both in frame. Jupiter was much further away than this.
A new active region on the sun- captured in detail here
I also attached a video that shows how it looked in-camera as it was captured. It is in monochrome, but the light striking the sensor was red. These images are created by stacking the best frames from the video and processing them to reveal their depth. One of my tiers for my patreon is 1:1 coaching if you would like t...
