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ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY BY
BRENT BOWEN
N E B U L A S
Huge structures made of gas and dust.
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Orion Nebula
One of the brightest nebulae in the sky, and one of the nearest star-forming regions.Button -
Horsehead Nebula
One of the most photographed objects in the sky.Button -
California Nebula
1,000 light years away & 100 light year long.Button -
The Elephant Trunk Nebula
Hundreds of light-years across and about 3,000 light years from Earth, stars are forming in this area.Button -
Heart Nebula
A beautiful nebula located 7500 light years away.Button -
Eastern Veil Nebula
A faint supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus.Button -
Gamma Cygni Nebula
A nebula surrounding the star Gamma Cyngi, the center of the constellation Cygnus the Swan.Button -
North America Nebula
Covers an areas 4 times the size of the moon.Button -
Horsehead Nebula
Dark Nebula 1600 light years from earth.Button -
Cone Nebula
A small nebula surrounded by a huge area of stellar dust.Button -
Rosette Nebula
130 light years wide with a 30 light year wide central hole.Button
T H E S U N
An 800,000 mile wide ball of of gas fusing Hydrogen into Helium creating energy for life on Earth.
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Sunspot Region
A large group of Sunspots & filaments.Button -
Solar Prominence
A very cool looking prominence in this negative image.Button -
Sunspot Region
Hydrogen Alpha close up of a large region with white light data added for sunspot detail.Button -
Sunspots
Group of Sunspots rotating away from our view.Button -
Sunspot Regions
Long trail of sunspots.Button -
Sun
Created to look as if the Sun was miniture.Button
A N N U L A R E C L I P S E 2 0 2 3
On October 14, 2023 the Moon blocked most of the Sun. These images were taken from southern Utah.
(More images to come - as I find time to process them.)
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Prominences imaged in Ha.
Solar Flares seen peeking out behind the moon. Imaged with Hydrogen Alpha Solar Dedicated scope.Button -
Large Solar Prominence
A large Solar Flares slowly being blocked by the Moon. Imaged with Hydrogen Alpha Solar Dedicated scope.Button -
Annular Eclipse Maximum
These clouds really give this a Ring of Fire look.Button -
Annular Eclipse Maximum
Luckily some interesting clouds moved by during eclipse maximum.Button
S O L A R E C L I P S E S
The Moon blocking the Sun never fails to generate excitement.
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2017 Solar Eclipse
Composite of images showing Bailey's Beeds with the eclipsed Sun.Button -
2017 Solar Eclipse
Composite of images showing Bailey's Beeds with the Hydrogen Alpha image of the Sun just prior to the eclipse.Button -
2017 Solar Eclipse
The Sun's corona during totality.Button -
2017 Solar Eclipse
A single photo of the eclipsed Sun showing the surprising pink prominences.Button -
2017 Solar Eclipse
Partial Eclipse imaged with a Hydrogen Alpha telescope.Button -
2014 Annular Eclipse
A series of images taken durning an Annular Eclipse.Button
T H E M O O N
A 2,200 mile wide body that's 240,000 miles away - the farthest distance humans have traveled from earth.
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The Moon
The Moon, as if it were floating above the ground.Button -
The Moon
Apollo 15 landing site.Button -
The Moon
The less seen waning Moon.Button -
The Moon
I vert high-res image created from 24 separate photographs.Button -
Mare Imbrium
A close up of one of the more photographed regions of the moon.Button -
The 3D Moon (use blue/red 3D glasses)
Created with images taken a day apart then separated into red & blue channels.Button
T H E M I L K Y W A Y
The mass of stars in our own Galaxy - about 100 billions of them.
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The heart of the Milky Way.
A wide angle view of the core of the Milky Way.Button -
The Milky Way's Rho Ophiuchi region.
A colorful region just outside of the Milky Way's core.Button -
The Milky Way.
A wide angle shot with a boulder in a desert foreground.Button -
The Milky Way.
A wide angle view with a Pinyon Pine.Button -
Rising above the Tetons (part 1)
A super-high resolution composite image with the Tetons.Button -
Rising above the Tetons (part 2)
A super-high resolution composite image with the Tetons.Button
I M A G I N G G E A R
B R E N T B O W E N
I received a small telescope for Christmas when I was in Junior High. For years I kept thinking I should buy a nicer telescope, one that I could take photos with. In 2013 I bought a Celestron 11" telescope with a motorized mount - I'd never seen anything like it. That was the beginning of what has become an obsession.
In 2023 I finished construction on a Observatory located in Boulder, Utah, on Black Bolder Mesa. I named it Black Boulder Observatory. I've only begun to take some 'real astrophotos.'
- Brent Bowen
Contact me at: brentbowenstudios@gmail.com
(c) 2023 All images are copyrighted and cannot be used without written permission.