Originally posted on Jack Lee's Blog:
A few months ago I came across a photograph of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) that completely took my breath away. It was simply beautiful. When I discovered it was taken by a 16 year old, I could not believe it and I was simultaneously green with envy and extremely…
M33 from Arches National Park
Out near one of the least creative constellations in the sky, lies one of the northern hemisphere’s greatest deep sky treasures. M33 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to our Milky Way, second only to the Andromeda Galaxy. Of our galactic trio, M33 is by far the smallest with a mere 40 billion stars. […]
The Rho Ophiuchi Molecular Complex
In the constellation Ophiuchus lies one of our solar system’s closest star forming regions. Shown here is the Rho Ophiuchi nebula. This beautiful cloud of dust is being lit up by the colorful stars imbedded in it. The bright star Antares lies in the middle of the picture just below the globular cluster M4. […]
I Got APOD!
Today is a big day! My picture of M31 was chosen as today’s (July 30th) Astronomy Picture of the Day by NASA! This is a huge honor for me, and I am very humbled to have my image up among Hubble pictures and others. Thank you!
A Lagoon of Stars
In my previous post I mentioned M8/M20. Here is a closer view of the pair. The Lagoon Nebula (right) is a glowing cloud of hydrogen where new stars are forming. In the lower right is the Trifid Nebula. The Trifid Nebula is a trio of three types of nebulae. An emission nebula, a reflection nebula, […]
The Upper Sagittarius Region
Multitudes of bright yellow stars make up this central region of the Milky Way. Dark bands of dust block out the star light behind them. Also visible in this picture are many clusters and nebulae. Bright nebulae M8 (The Lagoon Nebula) and M20 (The Trifid Nebula) hang in the center of the image. The Omega […]
The Great Andromeda Galaxy From The Golden State Star Party
This is easily my most successful picture to date. This is a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It is the closest spiral galaxy to ours and is moving towards us at a breathtaking 110 kilometers per second. Andromeda is a relativity active galaxy in terms of star formation, as it eats any […]
The Pleiades
This was a two month project ranging from December 2013 to late February 2014.
I’m Published!
One of the UK’s largest astronomy magazines has published three of my pictures! All About Space’s Issue 25 has a full page of my pictures and me. Go check it out!
Mars and its North Pole
Visible in this image are the darker highlands of mars (top and bottom) as well as the norther ice cap (south in this picture). The white spots on the left horizon are large cloud patterns and dust storms. Taken with an Orion Xt8 8″ newtonian on an Orion Sirius mount. best 70% of 1340 frames […]
Bersonic Astronomy 