Jordan Maples

I promise this is my last version upload of the Orion Nebula for the year (probably). I combined my 15 hours of narrowband and the 2 hours of broadband data into a single image. I spent a lot more time isolating the dust from the background. #photography #astrophotography

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I've finally got some fresh data to share with you all. Here's the Gecko nebula. I pulled in 20 hours of LRGB over the last few weeks. It's been a bit cloudy but I'm glad the weather is starting to clear up. I've got a lot of targets that I want to image this fall. #photography #astrophotography

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I've been reprocessing some data from last year while I wait for agreeable weather down at Starfront so I can finish a couple late summer targets and another mosaic. Here's the Horsehead. The data was gathered late November through early January of last year. #astrophotography #photography

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Here's the North America nebula, the Pelican nebula, and the dark nebula LDN 935 in between them. This image is in SHO as I implied in my other post of the LRGB version. This is a little less data than I normally go for at just under 13 hours. I hope you enjoy! #astrophotography #photography

Here's the North America nebula, the Pelican nebula, and the dark nebula LDN 935 in between them. This one is in LRGB and was about 20 hours of data. I usually only go for SHO on this (you can guess what my next upload will be) but it was fun one to do it in LRGB. #astrophotography #photography

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My dataset for LDN889 (and friends) completed last night so I took a first pass on it this afternoon. I think I'm going to reprocess it though. There are some things that I like and some things that I don't like about it. Either way... space stuff! #astrophotography #photography #space

Here's just about 27 hours of data on the Sagittarius Star Cloud. I saw a really cool HOO version of this on Telescopius and figured it would probably look cool in SHO. I'll probably take a stab at it in HOO tomorrow but for now I'm very happy with how this turned out. #astrophotography #photography

Last winter, I spent some time collecting data on the Horsehead nebula but I didn't get around to playing with the narrowband data that I collected. So today I combined it in SHO and really like the results. It's got a very funky vibe to it. #astrophotography #photography #space

I've been going through and reprocessing a lot of my data from earlier this year and realized I didn't do my M27 data. I suspect there are some interesting structures that could be pulled out of the background with more data, but that'll have to wait until next year. #astrophotography #photography

I spent some time taking pictures of WR134 the other day. I tried processing in both SHO and HOO but just couldn't find a way to make the SHO work out in an aesthetically pleasing way. I might play around with this a bit more before I call it done. #astrophotography #photography

Actual footage of me fielding any question in a D20 production meeting

I've been chasing down guiding problems and various issues with the telescope for the last couple weeks. I've had to throw out a lot of data, but I was able to scrape together about 30 hours of narrowband data for the Crescent nebula. #astrophotography #photography

I love how this picture of a grizzly turned out. It was just chilling in the pond, doing bear things and thinking bear thoughts. #photography #nature

I went to Northwest Trek yesterday for the first time since I was a kid. It was pretty hot out so most of the animals were sleeping out trying to stay cool. These raccoons were pancaked out just being little cuties. #photography

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The other day I mentioned that I shot M106 and earlier this spring and forgot about it. I got to work on processing and here's the result. I still can't believe that I just forgot about 17 hours worth of data. Oh well, hopefully I don't misplace a dataset again. #astrophotography #photography

I was going through targets to punch into target scheduler and thought, "I haven't done M106 in a while. Maybe I should point the scope at it for a bit". I guess I spent 18 hours looking at it in March. I can't believe I forgot about an entire project's dataset.

I don't remember how I came across the coordinates for Le Gentil 3, but I'm glad I did. Idk much about it but it's a cool bit of dark nebula with a super dense star field. I'm not sure if I'm done editing it or if I want to keep trying processing it. Thoughts? #astrophotography #photography

I’m finally editing some fresh space data again. I forgot what a pain in the ass mosaics can be though. Why did I decide to start the summer with a 2x2 and a 3x3???

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How big are Mina and Hornet anyway? Mina the Hollower accidentally digs up Hallownest's Princess. Scaling speculation in both size and combat abilities are very welcome! Who is having a boss fight and who is just getting annoyed?

Maybe one of my top 3 favorite deep-sky objects: (parts of) the Sadr nebula complex. 25 hours of exposure. Details & tech info: www.astrobin.com/xsvzqa/ #astrophotography

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So I went and made a website for all of my astrophotography. It's slow going as I set it up but it's coming together. It should be better for viewing than bsky. jordanmaplesastro.photography. I need to redo some of the things like the tag line and description.

The weather down at Starfront has been pretty bad for the last month and a half so I guess that means it's time to reprocess some old data. First up is M31 the Andromeda Galaxy! Same data different processing in quote post. Let me know which you like more. #astrophotography #photography

Still haven’t figured out a workaround to get PixInsight to launch. My hope is that there’s a new nvidia driver soon and that is the actual fix. I don’t really want to have to work off of my MacBook or reinstall windows or something

I updated my Nvidia drivers and PixInsight is just crashing on boot now... great. I was hoping to reprocess a couple shots from a couple months ago but I guess I just have to wait for a new driver to come out. Anyone else having issues with launching PI w/ nvidia-open-dkms 595.58.03-1?

M101 - The Pinwheel galaxy. I can see some artifacts that need to be cleaned up with more data. I'll probably need another 15-20 hours collecting data before I think I can truly give this target justice. We'll see if I can find time in the schedule. #astrophotography #photography