The Bubble Maker - WR134 in Cygnus. A Wolf-Rayet star sculpting a spherical emission bubble with its relentless stellar wind over millennia. Imaged in Hubble palette mapping (HOS). NGC 6883 and β² Cygni also in the field.

https://adfr.io/astro/20260522_wr134

#Astrophotography #Astrodon #WolfRayet #Cygnus #Nebula #NarrowBand #OIII #Halpha

My latest capture of the Sunflower Galaxy - Messier 63 in Canes Venatici, 27 million light-years away. A flocculent spiral: two tightly wound main arms breaking apart into short, feathery segments. Two bonus galaxies hide in the field - UGC 8313, a tiny companion to the upper right, and UGC 8365, a background barred spiral at 69 million light-years in the lower left.

https://adfr.io/astro/20260423_m63

#astrodon #astrophotography #galaxy #messier63 #sunflowergalaxy

NGC 281 - the Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia. A return to a familiar object, this time with a new setup and considerably more integration time. In the Hubble palette (HSO), the dark Bok globules stand out with particular clarity - dense dust structures being eroded by the radiation pressure of the young cluster IC 1590, while possibly hiding new star formation deep within.

https://adfr.io/astro/20260407_ngc281

#Astrophotography #Narrowband #NGC281 #PacmanNebula #Cassiopeia #HSO #HubblePalette #astrodon

Skywarden just got a framing assistant. Open any object, get a rotatable, draggable FOV overlay on a real sky survey image - sized to your exact optics and sensor.

Auto-rotates to best fit the object into your frame. For larger targets, it calculates the mosaic tile grid too.

Try it: https://skywarden.app
Changelog: https://adfr.io/projects/skywarden

#astrodon #astrophotography #astrophotographer #astronomy #indieDev #skywarden

The Leo Triplet - three spiral galaxies 35 million light-years away in Leo.

NGC 3628 appears perfectly edge-on, its dust lane and warped disk shaped by billions of years of tidal interaction. M65 and M66 complete the trio with asymmetric arms and disrupted structure.

https://adfr.io/astro/20260322_leo_triplet

#astrodon #astrophotography #astrophotographer #astrophoto #deepsky #galaxies #galaxy

Sh2-171 – The Question Mark Nebula in Cepheus. A two-panel mosaic covering over 100 light-years of active star formation, powered by Berkeley 59 — a cluster just 2 million years old. Its O5V star BD+66 1673 burns at 45,000 Kelvin, sculpting the dark pillars visible throughout the frame. Processed in Hubble Palette (HSO).

https://adfr.io/astro/20260310_sh2-171

#Astrophotography #Narrowband #Sh2171 #NGC7822 #Cepheus #HubblePalette #DeepSky #Nebula #astrodon #astrophoto #deepsky

AI-Assisted Development: One month into Claude Code, reviewing AI code and shipping apps fast. This is my experience so far.

https://adfr.io/thoughts/20260228_ai_assisted_development

#ai #vibecoding #claude #claudecode #codex

LDN 1235 (the Shark Nebula) in Cepheus, ~650 ly away. A dark dust cloud revealed by the Milky Way star field it extinguishes, with faint blue reflection near the head (vdB 149/150).

Full image: https://adfr.io/astro/20260120_ldn1235

#astrodon #astrophotography #deepsky #darknebula #LDN1235 #SharkNebula #Cepheus

NGC 2175 - the Monkey Head Nebula - in Orion, about 6.400 light-years away. A star-forming H II region (Sh2-252/NGC 2174) sculpted by the O-type star HD 42088 and dark dust lanes.

https://adfr.io/astro/20260118_ngc2175

#astrodon #astrophotography #astrophoto #deepsky #nebula #NGC2175 #MonkeyHeadNebula #Narrowband #astronomy

Sh2-155 – The Cave Nebula

An active star-forming region in Cepheus, about 2,400 light-years away. Dense foreground dust carves a “cave” into glowing hydrogen gas, shaped by intense UV radiation from young, massive stars. A faint but deeply structured object revealing the quiet processes of stellar creation.

https://adfr.io/astro/20251228_sh2-155/

#Astrophotography #DeepSky #Nebula #Sh2155 #CaveNebula #Astronomy #Space #astrodon #astrophoto