On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time. A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply

One of my all time favorite photos of anything space. @johnkrausphotos is an absolute inspiration.

Happy Birthday to the only country to ever do this

This is a composite photo, something I haven’t done as often lately. The clouds w/iridescence were captured during the day, and the moon & stars were captured at night and composited in.

Happy Birthday America!

Absolutely magical shot of a red sprite from low Earth orbit.

A dying star puts off beautiful shapes and colors. These nebulae are known as “planetary nebulae” because they appeared like dim planets through early telescopes. This was captured with an 8” scope. Should I capture it again with a larger scope to see what I can resolve?

My first nebula photo. Captured in 2018. Seeing these colors appear in the back of my camera after this 30 second exposure changed the trajectory of my life

A lot of you asked about who Bailey is after my last Greg post… she’s this angel that brightens my life. I share her from time to time but the cat usually hogs the attention

You don’t need a telescope or tracker to take cool star photos. I left a camera pointed straight up all night in the woods, and the resulting image revealed a river of stars.

The timing of this with the ID4 posts in my feed is kind of hilarious . This is actually pretty important astronomy news!.

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I must be angering the flat earth community, I’ve had a few more violent threats than usual in my DMs. Guys, just buy a telescope, it’s literally that easy to see the ISS. Why would millions of private astronomers collaborate on this lie 😂. Here’s raw footage of it I captured:

This account gets me every year 😂.

It’s using these sorts of filters that makes nebulae “false color”, as traditional red, green, and blue filters are replaced with these narrowband filters (sii, ha, oiii) which are two shades of red and turquoise. Naturally, this nebula is a highly saturated red.

Did you know you can photograph things like this from the city?. Emission nebulae like the “elephant trunk” here emit colorful fluorescent light with specific emission lines, easy to isolate with filters. Light pollution becomes practically irrelevant!

Gregory playing with Bailey’s tail while I operate telescopes from my living room.