Ben's Astro Stuff 🇺🇦

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New space photos whenever the sky is dark, clear, the equipment is working, and I have time and energy. :P #astrophotography #astronomy #space #stars #nightsky #milkyway #universe #astro #astrophoto #cosmos #telescope #nebula #deepsky #stargazing

An astrophoto of the M106 galaxy
Round stars, and a flat image.
This is the star Mirfak, and the surrounding star-field.
Cloudy sky at night with my observatory in the foreground
An image from my astro camera. Mostly clouds but a couple of stars poking though.
Milky Way picture.
M16 - Eagle Nebula [In SHO] by BensAstroStuff Published: Aug 13, 2025 Total integration: 8h 18m Integration per filter: - Hα: 2h 32m (76 × 120") - SII: 2h 44m (82 × 120") - OIII: 3h 2m (91 × 120") Equipment: - Telescope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 200P - Camera: ZWO ASI294MM Pro - Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G - Filters: Optolong H-Alpha 7nm 2", Optolong OIII 6.5nm 2", Optolong SII 6.5nm 2" - Accessories: Sky-Watcher Quattro Coma Corrector, ZWO EAF, ZWO EFW 7 x 2″, ZWO OAG (Off-Axis Guider) - Software: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), INDI Library Ekos, KDEdu KStars, Nikita Misiura StarNet, Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2, SetiAstro CosmicClarity, Siril Team Siril, Steffen Hirtle GraXpert For more information, visit AstroBin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/bf9nmg
An Astrophoto of the Crescent Nebula, taken by Ben's Astro Stuff.
An astrophoto of the eagle nebula. Monochrome.
An astrophoto of M31, the Whirlpool Galaxy
A picture of an Orion brand Newtonian telescope on a small goto equatorial mount, with a guide scope mounted on top. Both the main and guide scopes have dedicated astro cameras attached to them. There is a computer attached to a wooden board hanging from the center of it, with a network cable coming out of it and leading off-frame. There is also a power cable and power supply on the ground. The entire thing is on the grass next to a small backyard concrete walk. A cinder-block garage is behind it.
It's a picture of mostly sky. It's just after sunset and there are thin clouds in bands low on the horizon. There's an observatory with the shutter open in the lower left-hand corner.
That's not an observatory... *this* is an observatory!
A picture taken with a fish-eye camera of the inside of my observatory. The telescope is pointing out though the shutter in the dome.
Another airplane putting streaks in my astrophoto.
It's part of a single frame astrophoto. You can see the ghostly shape of an airplanes tail in between the streaks from it's lights.
A fully overcast, cloudy, and rainy sky over my observatory.
It's a PHD2 guide graph. It's really flat.
A picture taken just after sunset. The crescent moon and Venus are in the center. The horizon has silhouettes of trees.
It's a video of an amp gauge hooked up to a telescope mount. As the mount moves, the gauge shows the increasing current draw.
It's a picture of my Atlas EQ-G mount. It's mounted to an adapter plate and bolted down to my workbench.
A digital photograph of a star field.
Mushroom shaped stars in the corners of the camera image due to incompatible coma corrector.
An image of a star field with a graph overlaid showing the apparent sensor tilt.
A video showing the planets visible from my house tonight.
Screenshot of USPS tracking on my telescope parts. Expected delivery on friday the 24th.
My observatory in the snow.
All the new parts, installed and labeled
A screenshot of the app 'Astrospheric' forecasting somewhat clear skies for the evening.
An image of an Orion Atlas EQ-G mount with a replacement SkyWatcher control board. The new control board's face plate is white, and doesn't match the black paint of the mount.
My new telescope is on the mount!
A workbench covered in astrophotography equipment
An astrophoto of the Iris Nebula from Cherry Springs State Park, taken by Ben's Astro Stuff.
An astrophoto of the center of the heart nebula, taken by Ben's Astro Stuff.
This telescope is way out of collimation.
A video of me freezing my butt off in my observatory so I can collimate my Newtonian telescope.
Cold mount goes brrrrrrr... and contorts itself upside down but pointing at the right target.
NGC 2264 - Cone Nebula & Christmas Tree Cluster taken by Ben's Astro Stuff.