The Local Group spiral galaxy, Messier 33 in Triangulum, with some of its star forming nebulas showing up as green-blue regions in its spiral arms. The field also contains some faint and much more distant 13th to 15th magnitude galaxies. This is a stack of 20 x 4-minute exposures, with the Starfield Optics Géar115 f/7 apo refractor taken as part of testing the scope, with its 0.8x Adjustable Reducer for f/5.6 and with the stock 45-megapixel Canon R5 at ISO 800. Autoguided and dithered with the MGEN3 autoguider on the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount. No dark frames or LENR applied on this mild night in November. Noise reduction with RC-Astro Noise XTerminator. All stacking, alignment and processing in Photoshop.
A wide-angle view of the total eclipse of the Moon of November 8, 2022, with the red Moon at right amid the stars of the northern winter sky and Milky Way, plus with bright red Mars at top. Above and left of the Moon is the blue Pleiades star cluster, while below it and to the left is the larger Hyades cluster with reddish Aldebaran in Taurus. The stars of Orion are left of centre, including reddish Betelgeuse, while at far left are the two Dog Stars: Procyon, at top, in Canis Minor, and Sirius, at bottom, in Canis Major. So this is a gathering of many red stars, planets and the rare red Moon. I shot the frames for this scene beginning at 3:50 am MST, 10 minutes before mid-totality during this 1h25m-long total eclipse. Some ice haze this night added the natural star glows. Either bands of airglow, or perhaps just reflected lights off the icy haze add the reddish bands to the sky. The sky scene appears over the old abandoned pioneer house on my property. This is a stack of 4 x 1-minute tracked exposures at ISO 1600 for the sky, blended with a single 1-minute tracked exposure at ISO 1600 for the ground to minimize blurring (I left the tracker running at the sidereal rate for all frames), plus a 5-second exposure for the Moon itself at ISO 400 to preserve the colouration of the disk and not overexpose it. However, I enlarged this short exposure Moon by 1.5x to cover up the overexposed Moon better and to better simulate the naked eye view where the eye and brain always thinks the Moon is much larger than the 0.5° it really is in the sky. A mild Orton glow added to the entire scene with Luminar Neo. All frames the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 16mm and f/2.8 on the Canon R5, and on the Star Adventurer tracker. Shot from home in southern Alberta on a night that we were lucky to have clear at all, as it had been snowing heavily all day. It cleared at night as predicted, but the temperature dropped to -25° C, so just operating gear was a chore, limiting my ambitions this night! And my travels. Snowy roads kept me home, but for once I didn't need to chase clear skies for a lunar eclipse.
