Starry night over cornfields and silos
Starry night over cornfields and silos

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Orion Nebula M42
Last look at the Orion Nebula for another season

Like old friends coming and going, so do the stars, constellations and deep sky objects [...]

March 17 2015 Northern Lights. Shawn Nielsen
March 17th 2015 Aurora

It was a great night for Aurora (Northern Lights) sky watchers here in southern Ontario. [...]

Pleiades star cluster rising high overhead in the early Fall pre-dawn sky of September
The Winter night sky in the Fall

I was up very early this morning, September 3rd, and noticed it was clear out. [...]

Cygnus Wall in NGC 7000. Shawn Nielsen, 2014
Cygnus Wall in NGC 7000 Nebula (Narrowband)

This is 5 hours of H-alpha and Oxygen 3 data combined to produce a false [...]

Light dome from Kitchener-Waterloo caused by artifical light sources (street lights, porch lights, business lights and signs). This not only washes away the stars in the night sky but also has been linked to negative affects on our night time environment health (ecology).
Light pollution dome from Kitchener and Waterloo

Badly designed and implemented outdoor lighting such as street lights, house lights, business lights and [...]

Moon and Venus February 26, 2014
Moon and Venus before dawn

Just a quick post here… very cold this morning, February 26, 2014. The Moon and [...]