Friday, December 26, 2025

Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) - PUBLISHED! (print!)

Honored!!

My NGC 6888 image is featured in the Astronomical League's "Reflector" magazine (Dec 2025, Vol 78, No 1). PRINTED.
(and featured as First image in Gallery!!!)

I received it in the mail today - awesome "next day" Christmas Present 🎄

"Reflector" is a *printed* national magazine where my work has been featured before (for those of you tracking) 🙂 The Astronomical League consists of over 240 amateur astronomical societies across the United States.

The original version I have here on my page as well as at my main site.

I captured this nebula this year during my last outing and using the big RC Truss-tube scope. Woohoo!!!

Original: http://jeffjastro.com/dso/NGC6888_21May25.htm

Friday, December 19, 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025

Rio Grande Gorge...

Yesterday.

Have wanted to see this for a long time. As part of our last-minute road trip, we went to check it out yesterday (13 Nov 2025). Incredible views 😍🤩❤️

We arrived back home today in Las Cruces around 1:30pm.

#RioGrandeGorge

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

The Sun --- and sunspots (close!) - TODAY (5 Nov 2025)

Hi all, Today I did the wider view (similar to before), and then extended the FL to check out the interesting sunspots and prominences area of the Sun, today (5 Nov 2025).

Just the longer FL attached here - full disk data are separate.

Thanks for looking!

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Galaxy M100 !

Galaxy M100 !
Distance: 60 million light years

This was the last of three targets I had on my last night out. I have already posted the other two results. So, here is this one. From my backyard here in Las Cruces - portable setup. For the curious, I have also recently updated my "Equipment" page on my website talking about the new hardware, here: http://jeffjastro.com/equip/

TPO 12" RC AP1100 GTO ATS Portable Pier QSI 690wsg 14x5mins Lum, 3x5min ea RGB Calibration frames: 10xdarks/flats/fdarks/bias