Welcome to my site! My interest in astronomy began 25 years ago hosting stargazing events, teaching young people about the night sky, and how to use telescopes. For most of that time I was enjoying visual astronomy only. In 2015 I started the journey into astrophotography (AP). As experienced astrophotographers will attest - AP is significantly different and more challenging than visual astronomy. It has been very challenging to learn - but also very rewarding.
This site is a work in progress and will continue to grow as more images are accumulated. I hope that you will come back to see new images as they are added, blog updates about my learning process, and what’s going on at the observatory. I also enjoy photographing birds and nature/landscapes. Check out the links to the various galleries below. Unless otherwise noted, photos on this site are copyright Paul G. Sugg. Scroll down this page to view a few sample astronomy images.
LATEST IMAGE: IC 63 The Ghost Nebula in Cassiopeia
IMAGE CATEGORIES:
ASTRONOMY NATURE/BIRDS/LANDSCAPES
NOTE: only blue underlined links have images
ASTRONOMY IMAGES
SOLAR SYSTEM:
Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter1
Saturn1 Uranus Neptune
Pluto Ceres Comet Neowise Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Our Sun
OBJECTS IN OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY:
SINGLE STARS / MULTIPLE STARS: (S)
OPEN STAR CLUSTERS: (OSC)
OSC1 - The Perseus Double Cluster
OSC2 - The Pleiades
OSC3 - Messier 41
GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTERS: (GSC)
GSC1 - M3 GSC2 - M5 GSC3 - M13 GSC4 - M15 GSC5 - M12
DIFFUSE NEBULAE: (DN) ROSETTE NEBULA ORION NEBULA LAGOON & TRIFID NEBULAE
TRIFID NEBULA FLAME & HORSEHEAD NEBULA FLAMING STAR NEBULA (IC 405)
ORION NEBULA 2020 PELICAN NEBULA WESTERN VEIL (NGC 6960) THE CRESCENT NEBULA (NGC 6888)
THE HEART NEBULA (IC 1805) THE IRIS NEBULA (NGC 7023) THOR’S HELMET (NGC 2359) IC 63 THE GHOST NEBULA
PLANETARY NEBULAE: (PN) What are planetary nebulae?
MILKY WAY WIDE FIELD: (MW) MilkyWay1
STAR TRAILS: (ST) StarTrails1
BEYOND OUR GALAXY: (Other Galaxies) (G)
ANDROMEDA GALAXY SOMBRERO GALAXY PINWHEEL GALAXY TRIANGULUM GALAXY BODE’S GALAXY WHIRLPOOL GALAXY MARKARIAN’S CHAIN
THE OBSERVATORY/EQUIPMENT: (Photos of the Observatory, Events, and Equipment)
EVENTS: ASTRONOMY IN THE PARK PROGRAMS @ THE OBSERVATORY
NATURE/BIRDS/LANDSCAPES:
NATURE/LANDSCAPES LANDSCAPE1 LANDSCAPE2 LANDSCAPE3 LANDSCAPE4
LINKS of interest:
For technical information and detailed descriptions of images, go here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/psugg/
For the ClearSkyChart for Eridanus Observatory: http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/ErdnsObARkey.html?1
To see the Light Pollution Map for the area: http://www.cleardarksky.com/lp/ErdnsObARlp.html?Mn=eyepiece
For this week’s Sky-at-a-Glance provided by Sky & Telescope: https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
International Dark-Sky Association: https://www.darksky.org