Connor Matherne

I may not be Webb, but here is my favorite I've taken of a different galaxy. This is the Whirlpool Galaxy

@AJamesMcCarthy @konstructivizm Thank you for being active on Twitter even if my ass isn't 🫡🫡🫡

@konstructivizm This was originally captured by @MatherneConnor, this post simply copied his caption from a Reddit post several years ago. He’s a brilliant astrophotographer everyone should follow.

That's not camera noise- it's tens of thousands of stars. My image of the Snake Nebula, one of the most star dense regions in the sky

@Yzd_08 Thanks my guy. New Year's resolution: be more active on social media 😵‍💫

@MatherneConnor Bro I've just discovered your account and it's easily the best I've come across this whole year. You're doing amazing work

My photo of the Elephant Trunk Nebula. Amazing what can be captured on Earth, even from thousands of light years away.

The winner of #NAstroCoverComp 2022 is… the wonderful image of Centaurus A from @Benjy_man et al.! Another winning image of Cen A, to add to the 2021 winner; this time with @mwatelescope. Congratulations to everyone involved!🏆 (Read the paper here: rdcu.be/c1KFx)

Set my telescope on Christmas Eve and caught something unexpected...

@LSUResearch @NASA Could not be happier to be an alum of a great school and support the faculty and future Tigers any way I can 💪

"Anything I can do to help get the public excited generally results in more missions and funding for awesome scientists to lead great projects like #Artemis or the Mars Perseverance Rover." - Connor Matherne (LSU '17, '19) @NASA

@astrofalls The non-flat or no calibration camps of astrophotography are... interesting.

Show of hands how many of you take flats for all of your astrophotos

@Chapman_Histo Broken up into multiple nights :)

@MatherneConnor I apologise for an extraordinarily dumb question - it isn't a straight 24hr exposure, right?

I used 24 hours of exposure to create this photo of the Witch's Head nebula. Always amazes me what beautiful colors are contained within the swirling gas and dust of the cosmos.

Super sad to hear that Artemis 1 was scrubbed today, so here is a closeup photo of the moon I took to hold you over.

@FreedomFeens Oh yeah of course Dean, I can see how my title may have been interpreted to mean that only I call it this / I am naming it or something. Of course I recognize that is its common name. Probably could have chosen better wording.

@MatherneConnor It's lovely. FYI, we ALL call it the Dolphin Nebula. That is the name. Also Dolphin Nebula. Like most DSOs, it has a bunch of names. But Dolphin Nebula fits, even more than a lot of nebs' names. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh2-308

33 hours of exposure on a small portion of the sky using a telescope. I call this one the Dolphin Nebula.

@rromea @PMurphyWWL @WWLTV 😂😂😂 Times are tough and books I have

@PMurphyWWL @WWLTV @MatherneConnor Where can I buy those speaker atands

MOON SHOT. A planetary scientist from Mandeville teamed up with another “astrophotographer” from Arizona to capture this incredible image of the moon. It shows the lunar surface in spectacular detail like we’ve never seen it before. 6 ⁦@WWLTV⁩ ⁦@MatherneConnor⁩

@HalGray217 @AJamesMcCarthy Sadly, the moon is about the size the continental US. That would essentially be the same as asking me to circle the flag in your front yard on a photo of the whole USA.

Two years ago, I teamed up with fellow astrophotographer and planetary scientist @MatherneConnor to capture the most ridiculously detailed moon image we could. Over the last few months we put our heads together again to come up with something even clearer. Behold:

@JulioCJuarezR No, no film. All digital cameras!

@MatherneConnor How?! I mean you probably are able to track the nebula with the telescope, I read you use film and not digital camera, so.... I am guessing you took one picture of a couple hours of exposure time, then, the next day you did the same with the same film... Am I right? Just amazing!

My longest exposure time ever for a single image. This is 107 hours of exposure on the Eye of God, a planetary nebula very near to our own solar system

@jakedowns @AJamesMcCarthy Different locations. I'm in Louisiana, he in Arizona

@AJamesMcCarthy @MatherneConnor is your collab using images from different geographical locations or just teaming up to process/stack images from a single place? thx

@PMurphyWWL @WWLTV @AJamesMcCarthy dad, look!

@nennneh @Enceladus_99 @AJamesMcCarthy Is this not clear?

@CowleyRhees @AJamesMcCarthy Which middle crater? Can you highlight it?

@AJamesMcCarthy @MatherneConnor Given what is said, all craters are rounded, Why is this middle crater Squared? Just interest me as it stands out like a saw thumb. Still looks out of place, my opinion .

@lucky_budd Rokinon 135mm, and I used my ioptron skytracker I believe (it was 3 years ago ish)

@MatherneConnor Wow!! Incredible! I took one of my first crocs at Milky Way last night, I typically do more telescopic imaging! :) I appreciate the education! What lens did you use for this? A simple sky tracker like a star adventurer?

I took this during a night under the stars in Joshua Tree. Amazing what can be seen when you are nowhere near a city.

@nennneh @Enceladus_99 @AJamesMcCarthy We do have (insanely) clear photos of the moon's surface though