JML Astrophotography
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Browse a captivating collection of stunning Astrophotographs. Alongside breathtaking panoramic views, you will also find additional information on the captured space bodies within these posts. Jeff Lesperance is an astrophotographer who created this blog to be an image gallery to showcase his images.
JML Astrophotography
1M ago
Pretty good day for looking at the sun today! Pretty cool prominences, including the giant one at about 4 o’clock on my photo. That one prominence is over 8 times taller than the Earth, and has a “spine” that’s spread out over an area nearly 28 times the diameter of Earth! Along with this prominence ..read more
JML Astrophotography
1M ago
On March 16th 2024, I took my first photo of the sun with my hydrogen-alpha solar telescope. The seeing (sky steadiness) was horrible due to filming the sun when it was fairly low on the horizon, and in windy conditions. Seeing quality is crucial to taking clear sun photos, which is why my first light ..read more
JML Astrophotography
3M ago
The Orion Nebula, aka Messier 42, is one of the brightest nebulae in the entire sky, forming the “sword” of the hunter constellation, Orion. M42 is about 14,00 light years away, and is about 24 light years in diameter. At mag. +4, it’s one of the very few nebulae visible to the naked eye. The ..read more
JML Astrophotography
4M ago
Right next to the California nebula both in my post feed and in reality is the Pleiades star cluster, aka Messier 45. At “only” about 444 light years away, it’s the closest Messier object to earth, and the brightest naked-eye star cluster in the sky. M45 was known to ancient cultures around the world, having ..read more
JML Astrophotography
5M ago
?California dreamin’? Unlike the US state that shares its name and general shape, the California Nebula is beautiful, being a large emission nebula in the winter constellation Perseus. The nebula is large, bright and close to us, at only around 1,500 light years away, but is notoriously difficult to see through the eyepiece, since it’s ..read more
JML Astrophotography
6M ago
M31 is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth, and is the largest major galaxy to Earth. In 1923, the galaxy was proven by Edwin Hubble to indeed be a separate galaxy from the Milky Way (at the time it was believed the Milky Way contained everything in the universe). The galaxy ..read more
JML Astrophotography
9M ago
The Cygnus Wall is the brightest portion of the much larger North America nebula (NGC 7000), located near Deneb in the constellation Cygnus. Nearly 20 light years long, the Cygnus Wall is the region in NGC 7000 where the most concentrated star formation is going on, and forms the Mexico-like region of the North America ..read more
JML Astrophotography
11M ago
The Rosette Nebula is a large HII region in the winter constellation Monoceros. Nicknamed the rosette for obvious reasons (and also the skull nebula), Caldwell 49 is about 5,000 light years from Earth, sort of near the star Betelgeuse. The Rosette is also very close to a really large supernova remanant named the Monoceros Loop ..read more
JML Astrophotography
11M ago
WASP-33b is an exoplanet in the constellation Andromeda, orbiting the star WASP-33, and is the first exoplanet I’ve (indirectly) photographed. WASP-33b is a “hot jupiter” exoplanet, meaning it has a mass roughly 3 times that of Jupiter (while having only 1.5 times the radius), but orbits it’s star 20 times closer than Mercury orbits our ..read more