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The Heart of Space, a view of the Heart nebula and Melotte 15

The calibrated raw data set of this image has been shared to those of you with dropbox access

This is called the "Elephant Trunk" but many people see a woman. What do you see?

Data for this is available in Dropbox to those of you that subscribe to the "aspiring astrophotographer" tier.

The latest from the Arizona Monsoons

Rereleasing some of my most popular images- here's the high resolution ones for you

Lightning shots from last night's monsoon- roughly 2 minutes worth of shots

A collaboration with a planetary scientist: our moon in 174 megapixels

Some highlights from our solar system in one composite image. See if you can find everything!

ajamesmccarthy post A detailed shot of the sun from Tuesday. This one I included the solar corona, Captured during an eclipse and scaled to the image accordingly.

A detailed shot of the sun from Tuesday. This one I included the solar corona, Captured during an eclipse and scaled to the image accordingly.

I had to drive to California to get this one: Saturn at it's closest to Earth.

A shot of the lagoon nebula. This is a true color image!

A wild electrical storm moved over my house last night

The Super "Buck" Moon of July. An 82 megapixel image.

Last night's waxing gibbous moon, with colors enhanced to show mineral composition

An absurdly high resolution image of tonight's moon

A starless version of the Pillars of Creation

A 170 megapixel image of our sun from last week.

My massive composite image of this morning's planetary alignment

Last night's storm system that moved through Tucson- star trails and lightning

Look closely at this one- you should be able to spot the international space station!

It's come to my attention that I have unread messages in my patreon inbox. However, the messaging system for patreon is beyond broken. It won't load on PC, and it crashes the app when I try loading it from my phone, and I very rarely get the email notifications from it. For that reason, if you want to contact me, please reach out to me via email andrew@cosmicbackground.io. I read 100% of m...

"Heavenly Objects" Our waxing Crescent moon against the backdrop of a stunning sunset

Tonight's full moon. I call this one "Strawberry Saguaro"

Two images remastered - Lunar Rendezvous and Horsehead & Flame

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A detailed look at last night's waxing crescent moon

The densest starfield I've ever captured

This is near the core of our galaxy. The dark area in the middle is Barnard 72, known as the snake nebula.

A surprise Patreon perk for you

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