This was taken with my Motorola Droid MAXX phone. Mt. Rainier and the Capitol can also be seen in the photo.

Happy Thanksgiving! The skies in the Seattle area are clear but hazy, due to a pressure inversion. The moon is a day past full and very bright in the sky. Despite that, I photographed the Andromeda Galaxy over Port Orchard, Washington. The Canon 60D was piggybacked atop an 8" Orion Astrograph Newtonian on a Celestron Advanced VX mount. Total exposure time was 45 minutes (15x180 sec subs with 5x180 darks at ISO 1600, 200 mm Canon lens). I would have been able to bring out far more detail on a darker night, but this was the best I could do with what was given to me tonight. :)

Here's a view of the planet Uranus. Tonight, the planet is very near the moon and the skies are bright. This image was captured with an Orion G3 Starshoot CCD camera at the business end of an 8" Meade LX200 with a Lepus .62 telecompressor in between. This is 150 four second exposures stacked with Maxim DL. I had to quit when everything iced up.
A careful eye will see artifacts in this image caused by the glare from the nearby moon...

12″ Meade LX90 telescope; Canon EOS 20D at prime focus, single exposure.

Single exposure, Canon EOS 20D. Meade 12" LX90.

What a beautiful moon tonight ... there is a large wildfire in Chelan county, east of the Cascades Mountain Range. The smoke gives the nearly-full moon an eerie color. I got this shot tonight from my Port Orchard, Washington home. (Canon T3i, 70mm).

This is what it looks like when you are photographing M15 and a passenger jet goes through the photo …

Here is a photo of Comet C/2014 Q3 Borisov. It is currently magnitude 13.2, which makes it a very dim object in the sky. In this photo (click to enlarge photo of necessary), you can see a “fuzzy blob” near the center of the photo. That is the comet. Orion 8 Astrograph Newtonian, Baader MPCC coma corrector, Canon T3i (modified) at prime focus, f3.9, ISO 1600, 5×23 subs, 3 darks.

The Elephant’s Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.[1] The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant’s Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. Orion 8 Astrograph Newtonian, Baader MPCC coma corrector, Canon T3i (modified) at prime focus, f3.9, ISO 1600, 17×23 subs, 2 darks.