Hello Everyone! A Few Months Ago, I Released Project DeLight -  An Initiative Against Light Pollution

mola walk

This is Comet PanSTARRS! 🌠🌠🌠

This gif was created throughout the night of July 25th and you can see the potentially interstellar comet in motion. 

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary One telescope on July 25th, 2022.

2022 May 15

Colors of the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace

Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth’s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red or yellow colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth’s atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is more rare and can indicate a moon seen through an atmosphere carrying larger dust particles. What created the purple moon is unclear – it may be a combination of several effects. The last image captures the total lunar eclipse of 2018 July – where the moon, in Earth’s shadow, appeared a faint red – due to light refracted through air around the Earth. Today there is not only another full moon but a total lunar eclipse visible to observers in North and South America – an occurrence that may lead to some unexpected lunar colorings.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220515.html

This is the Rosette Nebula! 🌹🌹🌹

This is definitely the best image I have taken of this giant molecular cloud! This nebula is a star forming region with hot, blue newborn stars at its center that is shaping this region to form a beautiful flower-like shape. As seen from Earth, this nebula appears almost 5 times larger than the full Moon! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 13th, 2020 at 3:02 UTC.

Swallowed

This is the Dumbbell Nebula! ⏳⏳⏳

Similar to many other planetary nebulae, the Dumbbell Nebula has a pattern of dark and bright knots made of gas and dust. These beautiful, ornate features are formed when stellar winds don’t fully blow away the nebula’s material and they leave a trail behind! 💘💘💘

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on October 17th, 2021 at 00:00 UTC. 

This is the Orion Nebula! ✨✨✨

There are around 700 newborn stars in this nebula and more are being born each year! This is without a doubt, the most photographed object in the night sky due to its bright and radiant colors. You might even be able to see it without a telescope (in good weather)! 😍😍😍

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on September 14th, 2020 at 5:36 UTC.

This is the Rosette Nebula! 🌹🌹🌹

This is definitely the best image I have taken of this giant molecular cloud! This nebula is a star forming region with hot, blue newborn stars at its center that is shaping this region to form a beautiful flower-like shape. As seen from Earth, this nebula appears almost 5 times larger than the full Moon! ✨✨✨

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Chile Two telescope on January 13th, 2021 at 3:02 UTC.

This is the Skull Nebula! 💀💀💀

The glow of this eerie nebula is perfect for Halloween! This planetary nebula has a binary star system with a third star orbiting it. The beautiful colors of this nebula come from the outer layers of a Sun-like star that died in an explosion! 👻👻👻

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Three telescope on October 28th, 2021 at 1:57 UTC.

✨💫🌠🌟🌌🚀 Thank you all so much for 10,000 FOLLOWERS! ✨💫🌠🌟🌌🚀

To celebrate, here is a collage of some of my best pictures that I have uploaded on this blog ♥ I cannot believe we just hit 10,000 followers WOWOOWWOW

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh telescopes.