Bad photos that I am proud of. I served as coordinator of the Queen’s Observatory during my PhD, which sparked a serious amateur astrophotography habit.
Aurora Borealis — May 2024
Captured from my backyard following a major solar storm. One of those nights where you run outside in your socks.
Total Solar Eclipse — April 8, 2024
Photographed with a DSLR and kit lens. No amount of preparation makes totality feel real.
Messier Objects Tour — 2020
A project to photograph Messier catalogue objects. Highlights include M61, which happened to host a supernova during my imaging run.
Saturn with rings
My first attempt at Saturn. You can see the rings, but it is still pretty blurry.
Lunar Eclipse — 2019
Captured a Lunar Eclipse!
Full Moon — Feb 2019
Captured the full moon in a good amount of detail! It’s pretty bright so that was a good target for my phone camera.
M51 — The Whirlpool Galaxy
Multiple versions, raw and processed. The processing pipeline for this one grew into custom stacking code to align images with larger pixel offsets than commercial software could handle.
M57 — The Ring Nebula
My first serious stacking attempt. I keep coming back to this one.
M42 - The Orion Nebula
Attempted to do Astrophotography with my phone and GIMP. It worked better than I thought it would, but still not very good.
M27 — The Dumbbell Nebula
The first time I got a photo with colour and interesting structure. It stuck.