Department of Space Exploration

I'm Alex. Astrophotography blog: a mix of mostly other people's work with my own original content mixed in at least once a day.

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what kind of camera do you use?

Depending on the subject, a Canon EOS 6D, or a Canon EOS 70D. The full frame 6D for wider fields, and the 70D for really distant objects.

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The Eastern Veil Nebula (Top), and the Western Veil Nebula (Bottom): two halves of an ancient supernova that exploded around 5000 years ago in teh constellation Cygnus. 

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M3 - A globular star cluster in Canes Venatici, one of the most spectacular Globular Star clusters in the night sky.

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M45 - The Great Orion Nebula & Running Man Nebula

Taken 1-19-2018

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The Great Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula, imaged through a Telescope

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The Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula

By: Alexander Rebelle

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November Milky Way

by Alexander Rebelle

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August Milky Way

by Alexander Rebelle

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8-21-2017 Solar Eclipse as viewed from Sagamore Beach, MA between the hours of 1:28 PM, and 4:02 PM.

by Alexander Rebelle

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Late Summer Milky Way

Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts

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Supernova SN 1987A

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“The Heart and Soul of the Northern Sky”

By Alexander Rebelle

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Vela Supernova Remnant : The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs through this complex and beautiful skyscape. At the northwestern edge of the constellation Vela the telescopic frame is over 10 degrees wide, centered on the brightest glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the supernova explosion that created the Vela remnant reached Earth about 11,000 years ago. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant, the Vela remnant is likely embedded in a larger and older supernova remnant, the Gum Nebula via NASA

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The northern rim of Crater Lake just after astronomical twilightwhen the show really begins.

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“The Milky Way”

By: Alexander Rebelle