High Point Scientific

09/10/2026

Thank you @‌photosbybkm on Instagram sharing your amazing shot of the Crescent Nebula!

"NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula, alongside the very faint Soap Bubble Nebula (in the bottom left).

My very first capture with the SVBony SV605CC and the SVBony SV220 3nm 1.25in Dual Narrowband Filter! Safe to say it works wonders! Bortle was roughly a 4, and moon was 48% illuminated.

Gain 120, Offset 15, Cooled to 0C
Lights: 40x300s
Darks: 40x300s (Taken prior)
Biases: 40x1/20000s (Taken prior)
Flats: 9x20s (Sky Flats)"

09/08/2026

Thank you @‌pluto1_astrophotography on Instagram for tagging us in your magnificent shot of M71 and WR-128!

"M71 and WR-128. My latest image from my telescope at

🔭 EXPOSURE DETAILS
🔭 Telescope: Sharpstar 130HNT
📷 Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro
🏗️ Mount: Sky-Watcher Heq5 Pro
🎯 Guide Scope and Camera: Apertura 30mm + ZWO220MM Mini
🌈 Filters: Antlia EDGE Ha Oiii
⛰️ Bortle Scale: 1
⏱️ INTEGRATION TIME
🔴 Ha — 280 × 600s — 46h 40m
🔵 OIII — 186 × 600s — 31h 0m
Total Integration: 77h 40m
💻 SOFTWARE
💻 Computer: ASIAIR
⚙️ Editing: PixInsight + Photoshop"

09/04/2026

This week, we're thrilled to be featuring @‌astropixjapan on Instagram 🤩

Head over to their profile and hit that follow button to keep up with all the latest posts!

📷 (1) The North America & Pelican Nebulae
📷 (2) The Lagoon Nebula
📷 (3) The Leo Triplet
📷 (4) The Needle Galaxy

Share your images in the comments for a chance to be featured next!⁠⁠ Whether or not you purchased your equipment from us, we appreciate good astronomy when we see it and we want to highlight your hard work 🔭

09/03/2026

Wow! Thank you @‌astro_neohio on Instagram for sharing your amazing shot of the Pleiades Star Cluster!

"Friday night at 2:30 am when I went out to shut down my telescope after imaging the Andromeda Galaxy, I noticed a familiar faint glow in the North East, the Pleiades cluster, so I decided to image it for a few hours. After centering it in the telescope, I went to bed until my alarm woke me at 6 am. This is the resulting image. The Pleiades, AKA the Seven Sisters, is one of my favorite things in the night sky even though it represent the on coming return of fall and winter.

SeeStar S30 Pro, 3.25 hours @ 30 second subs, processed in Astro Wizard and Lightroom."

09/02/2026

Thank you @‌astro_raffaele_calcagno on Instagram for tagging us in your beautiful shot of the Red Silk Veil Nebula!

"LBN 331 — The Red Silk Veil Nebula

LBN 331 è una debole nebulosa a emissione immersa nel ricchissimo campo stellare del Cigno. I suoi filamenti di idrogeno si sviluppano attorno a 32 Cygni, creando una struttura ondulata e particolarmente delicata.
La sua forma ricorda il celebre Velo del Cigno, da cui deriva il soprannome Silk Veil, anche se LBN 331 non è un resto di supernova.
Osservando attentamente la struttura, ho notato, nella parte centrale dell’immagine emerge anche una curiosa somiglianza con il muso di un coccodrillo, una forma che sembra quasi nascosta tra i filamenti della nebulosa.
Un soggetto estremamente debole e poco conosciuto che emerge nel fitto campo stellare del Cigno.
📍 Costellazione: Cigno (Cygnus)
🌌 Tipo: Nebulosa a emissione / regione H II
📏 Distanza: circa 1.100–1.200 anni luce
⭐ Stella: 32 Cygni
📚 Cataloghi: LBN 331 — Simeis 107 — DWB 171, 172, 177, 178, 179

⚙️ Dati tecnici
🔭 Tubo / Montatura
Skywhatcher 150/750 mod. · ClearSky ST-20
📷 Camera
ZWO ASI294MC Pro
⏱️ Integrazione & Filtri
137 × 300″ · Optolong L-Para
Integrazione totale: 11h 25m.
💻 Acquisizione
ASIAIR Mini
🎯 Sistema di guida
Take 60/240
ZWO ASI224MC · Filtro UV/IR Cut
📍 Località
Faggiano (TA), Italia
🌌 Qualità del cielo
Bortle 6
📅 Data di acquisizione
15-16-18-19 agosto 2026 (4 notti)
🖥️ Elaborazione
DeepSkyStacker · GraXpert · Photoshop
✍️ Crediti
Raffaele Calcagno"

09/01/2026

Wondering what you can find in the sky this month? Take a look at our September newsletter to learn all about:

🔭 Neptune at Opposition
🫧 The Bubble Nebula
💫 Messier 52
🌌 & More!

Mercury appears low over the western horizon and is only really visible in the last ten days of the month, with binoculars and a clear horizon definitely being...

08/31/2026

Wow! Thank you @‌astronauka on Instagram for sharing your stunning shots of the Lunar Eclipse!

"Pomračenje Meseca 04:00 - 05:40 🌙✨️

Mnogo grešaka je napravljeno tokom snimanja ovog pomračenja, pa je ideja da napravim timelapse od snimaka pala u vodu. Ipak, samo posmatranje tokom hladnijih jutarnjih sati je satisfakcija za sebe, pa sam svakako uživala u procesu 🫶🏻

Za kraj vam ostavljam mali kolaž nekoliko faza pomračenja, od trenutka kada je Mesec već vidno krenuo da ulazi u Zemljinu senku oko 04h, pa sve do 05:40, do koliko se na kameri video pre nego su počeli da ga gutaju oblačići ka horizontu.

🌝 Od opreme ništa posebno, Canon 6d sa 200mm f4 objektivom. Posmatranje započeto sa iso100 i 1/500s, a kako je svetla strana Meseca zalazila u senku, završeno je sa iso1000 i 1/250s."

08/28/2026

This week, we're thrilled to be featuring @‌diegoq_images on Instagram 🤩

Head over to their profile and hit that follow button to keep up with all the latest posts!

📷 (1) The Pinwheel Galaxy
📷 (2) The Pillars of Creation
📷 (3) The Andromeda Galaxy
📷 (4) The Moon

Share your images in the comments for a chance to be featured next!⁠⁠ Whether or not you purchased your equipment from us, we appreciate good astronomy when we see it and we want to highlight your hard work 🔭

08/28/2026

08/27/2026

Thank you @‌the.cosmic.arena on Instagram for tagging us in your out-of-this-world image! 🤩

"Obscured by Clouds

Despite not being my preferred album from Pink Floyd, “Obscured by Clouds”, released in 1972, surely seemed a nice fit to title this photo.
Despite quite unimpressive, what we see here is Westerhout 40, also known as Sh2-64 or RCW 174, one of the closest star formation in our Galaxy and surrounds several new born star clusters. However, in front of it there are dark molecular clouds belonging to the Serpens-Aquila rift, obscuring a large portion of it, leaving just some bit to be seen as dark red. This effect is also quite noticeable in the stars - looking closer, you’ll notice that they seem to disappear.
I did a small trick and added the nebula behind as seen by telescope Spitzer, using infrared light and thus rendering the dust in front invisible - don't miss the last photo.

I hope you enjoy and if you do, please share among your friends to support my work.

Tekkies:
Captured in August 2026, with about 15 hours of HaLRGB.

Twinstar FG80 | Noctutec Red Dwarf Mark II 200mm f4 | TS Optics GPU Coma Corrector 1x | QHYCCD 268M | Optolong LRGB | Astronomik Ha 6 nm | RBFocus Myrrdin 2.3 | RBFocus Camelot 2’’ | RBFocus Excalibur V2
Software: N.I.N.A. and PixInsight"