A selfie using the Orion StarSeeker IV GoTo Telescope in the backyard on a bright Moon night, August 5, 2020. The waning gibbous Moon is rising at left. Taken for book illustrations. Shot with the Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the Nikon D750. I am looking at Jupiter.
A selfie using the Orion StarSeeker IV GoTo Telescope in the backyard on a full Moon night, August 2, 2020. I’m using the app on the phone to control the telescope. Taken for book illustrations. Jupiter and Saturn are at right of the overexposed Moon. A stack and blend of multiple exposures with the Nikon D750 and 24mm Sigma lens.
A selfie observing Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) with binoculars on the dark moonless night of July 14/15, 2020 from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. A faint aurora colours the sky green and magenta. The faint blue ion tail of the comet is visible in addition to its brighter dust tail. The ground is illuminated by starlight and aurora light only. This is a blend of 6 exposures stacked for the ground (except me) to smooth noise, and one exposure for the sky and me, all 13 seconds at f/2.5 with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 6400. Topazs DeNoise AI applied.
