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Astrophotography?! Inconceivable! First light on Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) with my mono rig and wow, it looks good. This is a single 5 minute sub of SII, Ha, and OIII respectively. #astrophotography #photography #monochrome #eagle #nebula 🔭 📷

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POV: You're a humpback whale diving down to the sandy bottom to rustle up some dinner. These wiggly fish are called sand lance or sand eels. buff.ly/jh4pHzP #underwaterPhotography #sandEels #NewEngland #goPro #behavior #animals #photography #scubaDiving #scuba 🦑 📷

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POV: You're a humpback whale diving down to the sandy bottom to rustle up some dinner. These wiggly fish are called sand lance or sand eels. buff.ly/jh4pHzP #underwaterPhotography #sandEels #NewEngland #goPro #behavior #animals #photography #scubaDiving #scuba 🦑 📷

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I miss astrophotography, so I wrote about it! N.I.N.A. is excellent and my transition to monochrome imaging has been easy. Here are the templates I would hypothetically use if the clouds and smoke allow for imaging: buff.ly/3XZxFGb. #NINA #astrophotography #software #tutorial #blog #monochrome 🔭

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Guess who got outside to do a tiny bit of astrophotography today? ME! Still waiting for a clear night, but the forecast remains bleak. In sun-related news, wow! Look at that giant cluster of sunspots! Details + Full res: buff.ly/ellzQA0 #sun #solarimaging #sunspots #astrophotography 🔭 📷

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Folly Cove (and many of the other sites around Cape Ann) had massive aggregations of sand lance. These fish are eaten by many species, so the predators are following them in. buff.ly/TnnffL8 #underwaterphotography #diving #underwater #underwaterworld #scuba #animals #fish #wideAngle #gopro 📷 🦑

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Just like wild urchins, the green urchin in my aquarium likes fancy hats. This one happens to be a live hermit crab. This crab finally freed itself by pinching one of the tube feet causing the urchin to let go. #aquarium #hermitcrab #urchin #behavior #hats 📷🦑🦀

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I've been playing around with lighting and shallow depth of field and I like the way this one came out. This soft coral is nicknamed "Dead Man's Fingers" Olympus E-PL9 + 60mm macro lens @ f/3.2 #coral #bokeh #underwaterPhotography #scuba #olympus #macroPhotography 🦑 📷 🪸

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It's always fun to visit the local farm in the spring to visit the kids! This cute little goat was goofing around with siblings and the yearlings, but took this brief pause so I could take the picture. #goats #farm #spring #animalbabies #animals #kids

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After seeing a feed full of pink moons, I decided to make my own "strawberry moon." This berry was from our garden, but I'll admit, I did a little editing to swap in the starry background from one of my astro photos 🌕 🍓 #moon #stars #strawyberrymoon #fruit #photoshop

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This dive at Folly Cove was one of my favorites. We had a super leisurely swim with tons of tiny macro critters and then spent the return swim surrounded by shimmering sand lance. So nice! #underwaterphotography #diving #macrophotography #underwater #olympus #underwaterworld #shrimp #fish 🦑 📷 🦐

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It's World Ocean Day, so here's a photo with a ton of life! The clownfish in the sprawling anemone, several species of healthy soft coral, and a giant clam to cap it all off. Captured off Apo Island, Philippines. #coral #WorldOceanDay #wideAngle #clownfish #anemone #scubaDiving #photography 🦑 📷

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It's World Ocean Day, so here's a photo with a ton of life! The clownfish in the sprawling anemone, several species of healthy soft coral, and a giant clam to cap it all off. Captured off Apo Island, Philippines. #coral #WorldOceanDay #wideAngle #clownfish #anemone #scubaDiving #photography 🦑 📷

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Urchins use their sticky tube feet to move around, but they also pick up various items to bring along on their adventures. This one is carrying a mussel shell with a stately snail adornment. Quite regal, I must say. 🧐 #urchin #underwaterphotography #snail #scubadiving #NewEngland 📷 🦑

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Conditions weren't amazing today, but I hadn't been out imaging in awhile so I took some images of these massive sunspots. Now I just need this wildfire smoke to clear out! Full res + details: buff.ly/mQwe1fS #astrophotography #photography #sun #solarimaging #sunspots #solarflares

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A vine company in Vermont licensed one of my squid photos for labels on their wine and they just posted the first images of the label: buff.ly/itcBAgd. I'm a little biased, but I think it looks awesome! 🤩 🍷 🦑

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

A few images from my dive with New England Aquarium Dive Club last weekend. Conditions were not great, but still doable for macrophotography! #underwaterPhotography #scubaDiving #scuba #macroPhotography #NewEngland #Massachusetts #coldWater #snail #nudibranch #crab #diveClub #olympus 🦑 📷

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A few images from my dive with New England Aquarium Dive Club last weekend. Conditions were not great, but still doable for macrophotography! #underwaterPhotography #scubaDiving #scuba #macroPhotography #NewEngland #Massachusetts #coldWater #snail #nudibranch #crab #diveClub #olympus 🦑 📷

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The Tadpole nebula is a bright and colorful nebula named for the small bright pillars that extend out from the bottom left of the blue region. Full res + details: buff.ly/3tbUqBj Prints: buff.ly/Z7TmtCL #astrophotography #photography #space #telescope #qhyccd #skywatcherUSA #stars #nebula 🔭 📷

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is NGC 1788 located off the right side of Orion. I like the colors and texture in this region, but even with a bunch of exposure time, it's hard to draw out the dusty details from the background. Full res + details: buff.ly/h8lavIA #astrophotography #space #nebula #orion #photography 🔭 📷

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is NGC 1788 located off the right side of Orion. I like the colors and texture in this region, but even with a bunch of exposure time, it's hard to draw out the dusty details from the background. Full res + details: buff.ly/h8lavIA #astrophotography #space #nebula #orion #photography 🔭 📷

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Staff from a youth program asked if we would collect some critters - we agreed and collected nudibranchs, crabs, and a scallop. The current was pulling the whole time but this was a fun dive! #underwaterPhotography #photography #olympus #macroPhotography #nudibranchs #eggs #scallop 🦑 📷

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Nasty surface conditions and bad viz at Fort Constitution, New Hampshire. Lots of Onchidoris bilamellata, Dendronotus frondosus, tiny sculpin, Tenellia gymnota, Cuthonella concinna, you name it. #underwaterPhotography #macrophotography #nudibranchs #fish #NewEngland #NewHampshire #photography 🦑 📷

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Nasty surface conditions and bad viz at Fort Constitution, New Hampshire. Lots of Onchidoris bilamellata, Dendronotus frondosus, tiny sculpin, Tenellia gymnota, Cuthonella concinna, you name it. #underwaterPhotography #macrophotography #nudibranchs #fish #NewEngland #NewHampshire #photography 🦑 📷

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Sh2-280 is another fairly bright, hydrogen-rich area . I used NarrowbandNormalization to boost the blue oxygen and then played with curves and colors masks to get the red and fiery orange look. Full res + details: buff.ly/AsB0o0O #astrophotography #nebula #stars #space #telescope #astronomy 🔭 📷

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Do you want to get notifications about your long-running astrophotography processes? Here's how you can set it up for yourself (N.I.N.A. and PixInsight!): blog.briangweber.com/pushover-set... #astrophotography #nina #pixinsight #automation #software #pushover #notification #blog 🔭

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Do you want to get notifications about your long-running astrophotography processes? Here's how you can set it up for yourself (N.I.N.A. and PixInsight!): blog.briangweber.com/pushover-set... #astrophotography #nina #pixinsight #automation #software #pushover #notification #blog 🔭

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I snapped this artsy shot from center field at Fenway in April 2011. We'll see if this year's team can put something together, but they are looking very "mid" as the kids say. #photography #baseball #FenwayPark #Boston #GreenMonster #RedSox #NewEngland 📷 ⚾

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This is called Lower's Nebula and it is located in the arm/club of Orion. Like many similar nebulae, this one is dominated by red hydrogen emissions, so I went with the Foraxx color palette to highlight that. Full res + details: buff.ly/Y5G2f66 #astrophotography #photography #space #nebula 🔭 📷

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is called Lower's Nebula and it is located in the arm/club of Orion. Like many similar nebulae, this one is dominated by red hydrogen emissions, so I went with the Foraxx color palette to highlight that. Full res + details: buff.ly/Y5G2f66 #astrophotography #photography #space #nebula 🔭 📷

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Abell 31 is a large and dim planetary nebula in the southern sky trailing Orion. I piled up nearly 70 hours of integration time on this target with 10 minute narrowband subs. Details: buff.ly/EB4xte7 #astrophotography #photography #space #nebula #colorful #telescope #qhyccd #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Abell 31 is a large and dim planetary nebula in the southern sky trailing Orion. I piled up nearly 70 hours of integration time on this target with 10 minute narrowband subs. Details: buff.ly/EB4xte7 #astrophotography #photography #space #nebula #colorful #telescope #qhyccd #skywatcherUSA 🔭 📷

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I took this photo during a Mother's Day event back in 2011 at Fenway Park where we got to walk around the field. The Green Monster gets hit by many baseballs and some leave these imprints. It's really cool seeing the seams so clearly! #photography #baseball #FenwayPark #Boston #GreenMonster #RedSox

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

My April dive recap is live! It was a very shrimpy month, with European rock shrimp and zebra lebbid shrimp stealing the show. Enjoy the pictures! buff.ly/OXCLntc #newengland #scuba #underwater #underwaterphotography #diving #macrophotography #shrimp #snail #clam #fish #blog #nudibranchs 📷 🦑

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Finally got some clear skies, but it was a full moon so I focused on Ha data. I'll grab some SII and OII data once the moon fades at least a little, but this is 2h35m of Ha data on Tulip nebula. Looking awfully nice so far! #astrophotography #monochrome #nebula #touptek #flower #space

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

My April dive recap is live! It was a very shrimpy month, with European rock shrimp and zebra lebbid shrimp stealing the show. Enjoy the pictures! buff.ly/OXCLntc #newengland #scuba #underwater #underwaterphotography #diving #macrophotography #shrimp #snail #clam #fish #blog #nudibranchs 📷 🦑

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Finally got some clear skies, but it was a full moon so I focused on Ha data. I'll grab some SII and OII data once the moon fades at least a little, but this is 2h35m of Ha data on Tulip nebula. Looking awfully nice so far! #astrophotography #monochrome #nebula #touptek #flower #space

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 39 days ago • 763 comments

Last night's moon and today's sun! Neither are super interesting right now, but I'm just excited to have some clear skies for a change! Moon Details: buff.ly/aHMy9Dh Sun Details: buff.ly/MaUNaA2 #sun #moon #moonlight #fullmoon #sunspots #astrophotography #photography #space 📷 🔭

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments