Charlie Rehor - Astro Pics

M42 - Great Orion Nebula

This is perhaps my favorite nebula. This stellar nursery forms the sword of Orion. When I started my astrophotography journey by building a tracking equatorial mount out of servos and door hinges, this was the first target I attempted to image. Having grown beyond my homemade mount, I'm glad to do this cosmic gem justice. 50x180s processed in Siril from a Bortle 8.

IC 434 - Horsehead and Flame Nebula

A notoriously difficult target, I'm glad I was able to pull the head out of the Horsehead. The bright star just above the Flame nebula is Altinak, the left star on Orion's Belt. This was my second major attempt, as my focus was a tad off on the first, which I didn't notice until stacking. 29x180s processed in Siril from a Bortle 8.

SH 2-275 - Rosette Nebula

The Rosette (NGC 2239) is a large HII region between Gemini and Canis Major. Many of these targets were taken with an HII/OIII narrowband filter to combat the heavy light pollution at my apartment on campus. This was my first try at this target, and I'm satisfied with the result. 60x180s processed in Siril from a Bortle 8.

NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula

An emission nebula in Cassiopeia, the Pacman Nebula is a favorite of mine. The strong hydrogen alpha emission paired with narrowband filters allows incredible detail to be pulled from cities. Low wind and luck allowed me to take 300s exposures without trailing. 16x300s from a Bortle 8 processed in Siril.

M27 - Dumbbell Nebula

The Dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula within the summer triangle asterism. Contrary to the name, planetary nebulae aren't related to planets - they're the remnants of novas from stars similar our sun. 27x180s from a Bortle 8 processed in Siril.

NGC 2239 - Eastern Veil Nebula

The Eastern Veil Nebula is part of the Cygnus Loop. This supernova remnant left behind beautiful clouds of ionized gas along with either a black hole or neutron star. The blue in this image is OIII, while the reddish-pink is HII.

2024 Total Solar Eclipse

I'm fortunate to say the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse was the 2nd total eclipse I've seen, as I was in the path of totality on August 21st, 2017 in Herculaneum, Missouri. I took these images on top of the parking garage at the Indianapolis International Airport, right before my flight, beating all the traffic in the process. It's a breath-taking event to see, and I hope you were fortunate enough to see one.

May 2024 Aurora

When CMEs brought the northern lights down to Colorado in May of 2024, we took a road trip up north into Wyoming to try and get the best view. We were fortunate enough to see the colors with our own eyes. The words of Aurora Borealis by CW McCall bounced into my mind - "life is but a collection of memories, and memories are like starlight - they go on forever."

Later that evening, I was able to hear the raspy distorted sound of CW (morse code) on the 6 meter ham band (50MHz) caused by backscatter from auroral propagation. I wasn't particularly fast on my morse code copying at the time, but I was able to pick up "CQ CQ VE..." the "VE" is the first part of a callsign of a Canadian ham.

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