Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The moon this morning #Astronomy #Astrophotography 211519
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is NGC 6934, a small globular cluster in the constellation Delphinus. There was a lot of moon last night, so I wanted to stick with something that I thought had a chance of holding up under all that light. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 314626
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An extremely wide view of the sky this morning. On the left is Castor, Pollux, and Mars, all in a line. Under that, near the lower left corner, Jupiter shines brightly. And of course, that's Orion on the right. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1276
Reposted by Catherine Ryan HydePersiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hi #BookSky 💙📚 I've finished re-reading Have You Seen Luis Velez? by @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social - and, as ever, I adored it! So much kindness and hopefulness in this one.goodreads.comHave You Seen Luis Velez?An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. N… 071
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The big, beautiful face-on spiral galaxy M74 in the constellation Pisces. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 619329
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Right in the center of the frame is the globular cluster NGC 7006 in the constellation Delphinus. Its relative size is so small that it could be easily taken for a star unless you zoom in. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1225
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The small (from here) globular cluster M30 in Capricornus. It doesn't get much over 30° above the horizon at my latitude, which doesn't help for clarity. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2526
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The galaxy NGC 7479 in Pegasus, which is right on the cusp of being too small for my equipment. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1496
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 14/09/2026M45, the Pleiades. I usually like to take this at a shorter focal length so that I can frame all of it. Right now I'm trying to stick with the same equipment from night to night. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 114326
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is Pickering's Triangle, a fairly faint bit of nebulosity that sits between the Eastern and Western Veils. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 27711
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I've also spent two nights working on M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. I wanted about 10 hours of it, but I ended up with a little less than 8 due to intermittent clouds. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1445
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I added another 3 hours to this last night and processed it again, considering only the core of the galaxy and bringing out the supernova. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2559
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is a cropped version of the NGC 7331 image, just barely showing the supernova. At this focal length, it's pretty faint. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 3687
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I was able to add another 3 hours to this (NGC 7331 and Stephan's Quintet) last night, and I reprocessed it. I like this version better, if only because you can zoom in and make out the star in the center of the galaxy. The center is not as blown out. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2313
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The moon with Venus just before sunrise this morning. A quick cell phone capture. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 3241
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The big galaxy here is NGC 7331, with several much smaller companion galaxies floating above it. Or appearing to, anyway. The galaxy cluster in the lower left is Stephan's Quintet. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 25911
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is the moon last night through all that drift smoke coming down from Big Sur. No processing on this. I didn't enhance the color at all. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2334
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Here is another image from later, in the second half of the eclipse. Beyond that, I think they're all going to look pretty much the same. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1231
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Late in the eclipse. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1302
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It was 95% cloudy when we arrived, 95% cloudy when we woke up, and almost perfect for the eclipse. This was the only cloud action we had during the eclipse. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1333
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The full moon setting when we got up this morning. It was awfully nice of the clouds to clear out during the eclipse. 1120
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The moon at about 97% eclipsed last night. I'll probably have more images, but I'm still going through them. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 110114
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Orion is back in the pre-dawn sky. This is just a cell phone snapshot. 0193
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A revision of M15. I was experimenting with being a little bolder, but not everybody was ready for it. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 210316
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A not entirely successful (it's awfully noisy) image of the comet 10P/Tempel. It's pretty close to the horizon, which is not ideal. I was shooting at a very short focal length, thinking I'd leave room for a tail The joke was on me. I couldn't even bring out a tail. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 3292
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I finally got enough clear sky to finish that image of (the globular cluster) M15 I was working on. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 514823
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The moon and Venus again with a little extra mood thrown in. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1243
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is the globular cluster M15 in the constellation Pegasus. I was only able to get a little over an hour before the fog came in. I would definitely work on this more if I could get another clear night, but it remains to be seen whether I will. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1718
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The moon with Venus tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 36311
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I had a little bit of clear sky last night to finish this image of the Eastern Veil. I managed to bring it up very close to 9 hours of total exposure time. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 38113
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is five hours of the Eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus. I wanted a lot more time to work on it. If I get any more, I'll redo this. But it's not looking good. It's looking like clouds and fog. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 0454
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In the past I've had really abysmal luck with meteor showers. But I did catch a couple of Perseids last night. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 59010
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Collinder 399, an asterism in the constellation Vulpecula, more commonly known as the Coathanger. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2476
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 06/08/2026EarthSky.org has their best deep sky photos from July collected and I was pleased to see the two of them are mine. earthsky.org/todays-image... #Astronomy #Astrophotographyearthsky.orgEarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world 1174
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is M57, a little planetary nebula in Lyra. I shot it under a full moon as an experiment to see how the nebula would do with a narrowband filter. See what I can get away with doing in moonlight. #Astronomy #AstroPhotography 0573
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The seeing was unusually good, and the surface of the sun looked interesting to me, so I took its portrait in white light and Calcium-K. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 1251
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I reprocessed the Western Veil Nebula, and I'm happier with the fine detail I got this time. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2828
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 25/07/2026NGC 6960, the Western Veil Nebula. It's a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. The very bright star is 52 Cygni. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 27814
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The sun in Calcium-K, looking quite interesting (in my opinion). #Astronomy #Astrophotography 0348
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The solar surface is interesting today with another big active region rotating into view. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 0232
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The globular cluster M2 in the constellation Aquarius. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 0364
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I didn't think I was going to have clear skies last night, but I did have five clear hours. I used them to work some more on M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. It allowed me to bring out a little more detail on the very faint outer shell. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 37414
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The waxing moon and Venus are putting on a show tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 48611
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The planetary nebula M27 in the constellation Vulpecula. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2509
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is M102, the spindle galaxy, in Draco. I'm not all that happy with the way it turned out. It's just too small for the equipment. I had to crop it to the point where it pixelates if you try to look too closely. But I didn't want to waste three nights of data. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 3363
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is NGC 6820 in the constellation Vulpecula. It's one of my favorites with its very distinctive single pillar. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 35210
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The globular cluster M92 in Hercules. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 0428
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A wide-field image of the Sadr region in Cygnus. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 24210
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The galactic center moving over DarkSkyLand last night. I wanted to try out my new wide-angle lens. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 2639
Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 10/07/2026And this is a starless version of those three nebulae in the galactic center. Left to right: NGC 6604; M16, the Eagle Nebula; M17, the Omega Nebula. #astronomy #astrophotography 0232
