Hill's Space

Astrophotos

These are some of my favorite photos, organized into galleries. For the stories behind these photos, check out posts tagged astrophotography.

Deep Space Objects

The Orion Nebula!

The Andromeda galaxy! This was my first time stacking multiple exposures. In this case, 20 exposures 1/2s long were added together using python code. The stars look a little distorted because my code wasn't very good.

The star cluster M13

The Ring Nebula, M57!

Planets & Moon:

Saturn in 2024!

Saturn at 2023 opposition. Look at those rings glow, and compare it to 2024!

Jupiter, cropped from the Mars-Jupiter conjunction

Mars, cropped from the Mars-Jupiter conjunction

The mars-jupiter conjunction, low power!

The mars-jupiter conjunction!

Venus!

The moon!

The moon with some dramatic clouds!

The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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Immediately after the eclipse, we could see half the sky still in the Moon's shadow and half the sky returning to normal

The moon, the day after the eclipse

Hadley’s first steps:

Hadley's first light! This is the star Arcturus.

My first time seeing Jupiter's moons!

Jupiter and its moons! The streaking is because of a faulty mirror.

Polaris, showing off the fact that it's a double star!

My first time seeing Saturn's moon Titan!

My first time seeing the Andromeda galaxy's bright core! No hint of the outer spiral arms, though.

My first time seeing Saturn's moon Titan!