Guy Cooke Photography

Lunar Alpine Valley, left side(Monte’s alps), crater is Plato on right side, smooth area above is Mare Imbrium,
Sea of Rains and smooth area below is Mare Firgoris or Sea of Cold

Vega (α Lyr, α Lyrae, Alpha Lyrae) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra. With minor tracking error and a very slight columniation considerations to correct,
yet a reasonable pic is rendered nonetheless. I would give it a B or B+.

Vega (Alpha Lyrae) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky, and a close 25 light years from earth. Shall we go visit?

About a one minute exposure of Vega in the constellation Lyra.
In the film Contact, the message intercepted by Jodi Foster's character
is coming from this star. I love it's blueish color.

This is a two minute exposure in the vicinity of Cygnus" the swan".
The long exposure introduced a bit of 'noise' but the stars
just popped. This is looking back through one of the arms
of the Milky Way Galaxy--our galaxy.

Messier81 and 82. Every 100 million yrs or so M81 takes a swipe at 82. Eventually, they will combine.
We are 11 million light years distant from them and they are about 150,000 lyrs. from each other.
They are circumpolar, meaning summer or winter they are always visible. But this galactic game of tag will continue I’m afraid for a long time.

“The Bubble Nebula” (in very center of the red cloud on the right) is a region of oxygen (blueish) caught up in fierce high pressure winds (4 million mph),
pushing the oxygen into an outer layer of hydrogen (red). I love the myriad of stars. I get lost, hypnotized, mesmerized, fascinated. Takes my breath away.

Fetus Nebula
This very small and very far away object is nicknamed the fetus nebula. I think this is most appropriate because with this object it has two meanings to me.
First, and most obvious, it does look like an x-ray of a fetus inside of a womb with shapes and figures often somewhat obscured by mom’s body🫄 . Lovely!
But we know a fetus to be the beginning of life and so is the future of this nebula in just the most beautiful way possible. I will explain.
This planetary nebula is composed of new elements being thrown off of a collapsing, parent star spreading out seeding material
which has been created by the dying parent star over eons of time. These materials, being ejected from the dying star, are used by the galaxy in the future
creation of new stars and planets…..more life. 🥹👼 In the heavens, we see the grand patterns of life which God set forth from the beginning.
Much more could be said, but that is sufficient.
Ps. Boy or girl? It’s pink so…….

The cave nebula.(SH2-155) Got ‘m 3 nights ago. 190 subs.
But I see more openings than one. I could not see all of them until I processed the stacks. Looks like at least three caves.

I spent over 20 hours exposing on one part of the sky seeking a hidden gem just discovered 13 years ago. The great majority of light from deep space is initiated from the hydrogen spectrum.”mostly reddish “ But in 2011 a french astrophotographer named Nicolas Outters discovered an object heretofore overlooked by the deep space folks. Serendipity, luck and an oxygen filter showed an undiscovered object. Still a keen eye was needed to detect this hidden blueish gem thought to be caused by a low-mass star near the end of its life, blasting its outer layers off in two opposite directions.

I caught this comment , C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.
One of the more beautiful celestial objects you can see.
Comets can travel anywhere between 5,000 and 100,000 mph depending their position in the orbit around the sun. Note the two tails….the larger one is a dust tail and the smaller is an ion tail. The ion tail is attracted by the gravity of the sun, and so moves away from the dust tail, it being pushed by the
solar winds.

Celestron 9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain on EQ6-R pro mount by Sky-Watcher with ZWO ASI 2600 pro camera in Hyperstar position.

Guy Cooke, Astrophotographer