Amateur Astronomer Captures Beautiful Photos of Space from His Front Yard

Michael Zhang

Reddit user tirceol‘s father is an amateur astronomer who captures some amazing photographs of space from his front yard by hooking up a camera to his telescope’s eyepiece. He uses everything from a webcam to a Meade camera to capture the images, which are sometimes composites created using multiple photos. The above image shows the Andromeda galaxy 2.5 million light years away.

Saturn (pretty close):

Triangulum (3 million light years):

Jupiter (pretty close):

Orion (1500 light years):

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