Astro Creationist Store After many months of configurations and registrations, I am proud to announce that the Astro Creationist Store is finally going live. Astro Creationist Store is the place I am selling prints of my astro images. At this point, I am unable to receive online payments, therefore sending a check or cash are the only options. There is a form to be completed to purchase an image that is located under the Store in the menu. I am able to print images ranging fr

On Sunday, December 14th, I captured an image of Messier 81 (M81), which is also known as Bode's Nebula. M81 is not a nebula, but is in fact a barred spiral galaxy. Bode's Nebula was catalogued as a nebula by early astronomer Charles Messier. At the time, there was a misconception that there was only one galaxy: The Milky Way. In 1924, Edwin Hubble was the first to prove that some of these faint objects, which were classified as nebulae, were in fact "island universes" (th

It has been some time since my last image. After fighting against the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, clouds, rain, and high humidity, I finally managed to capture a whole 14 hours on the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101). I was able to add roughly 2.5 hours of integration time (from Bortle 4 skies) for my broadband data, and 7 hours of data for the H-alpha regions (across varying phases of the moon). H-Alpha Regions What are H-Alpha regions? H-Alpha (or Hydrogen Alpha) regions are c