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Newport-based astrophotographer Jeremy Likness Capturing Oregon's coast at night.

Although astrophotography is certainly my focus, I experiment with all types of photography. This week, I decided to hea...
10/20/2026

Although astrophotography is certainly my focus, I experiment with all types of photography. This week, I decided to head over to the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area where I sat for a few hours and just observed and took as many photos as I could. Here's what I captured, with captions!

After a long night of shooting random scenes, the Milky Way finally slid into the position I planned out with the PhotoP...
10/16/2026

After a long night of shooting random scenes, the Milky Way finally slid into the position I planned out with the PhotoPills app. I took six exposures of overlapping panels to create a 3 x 2 grid of shots that I blended using Image Composite Editor (ICE). When I saw how perfectly positioned the Andromeda galaxy was, I also pulled in some higher focal length data to enhance its details. The position I chose happened to be next to a Sitka tree that was also blocking the base, but when I saw how it aligned so well with the Milky Way I decided to keep it. I call this, "Sunset's Gate."

I am releasing only three prints total: https://www.dswgalleries.com/product-page/sunset-s-gate

Sunset Bay at almost midnight was surreal. I was on a high and dry parking lot, but the waves were so violent that the n...
10/16/2026

Sunset Bay at almost midnight was surreal. I was on a high and dry parking lot, but the waves were so violent that the noise was constantly ringing in my ears. It occasionally would boom from a collision, and other times I'd hear an almost machine gun like sound tearing from far down the coast to my position, which I can only assume was the violence of waves crashing onto shore. I was waiting for a particular alignment, but while I waited, the Milky Way was so impressively visible with my unaided I, I couldn't help but keep shooting it. Here's my favorite frame from that period. If you zoom in, you can see the signature of massive waves crashing on the sea stacks but smoothed out from the long exposure.

The Northern Cross is a pattern of stars known as an "asterism" within the Cygnus constellation. It lies directly along ...
10/15/2026

The Northern Cross is a pattern of stars known as an "asterism" within the Cygnus constellation. It lies directly along the plane of the Milky Way, making it a rich region for astrophotography targets. It includes the top star, Deneb, a supergiant that is one of the brightest known stars, and the bottom star, Albireo, a color-contrast double star. The heart of the cross, Sadr, lies in a complex of hydrogen clouds and dark dust lanes that form several popular nebulae including the North America nebula and the Pelican nebula. I shot this with my 50mm lens from a dark site near Coos Day.

The sunsets were all incredible during our stay in Coos Bay. The first night, however, we were also treated to crepuscul...
10/15/2026

The sunsets were all incredible during our stay in Coos Bay. The first night, however, we were also treated to crepuscular rays. These are almost like shadows caused by clouds blocking sunlight low on the horizon. This was taken from the back of my camper in Bay Point Landing.

My wife and I spent the weekend at a beautiful site in Coos Bay: Bay Point Landing. This pictures pretty much sums up th...
10/15/2026

My wife and I spent the weekend at a beautiful site in Coos Bay: Bay Point Landing. This pictures pretty much sums up the visit: beautiful and relaxing.

Testing a new filter. It's intended for deep space, but since the night was mostly overcast I shot other targets as well...
10/02/2026

Testing a new filter. It's intended for deep space, but since the night was mostly overcast I shot other targets as well. I really loved the way these bridge shots turned out. The bright "light" in the one photo is actually the full moon.

I didn't have time to follow the full Harvest moon all the way to the horizon, so this is the best I could do to capture...
09/30/2026

I didn't have time to follow the full Harvest moon all the way to the horizon, so this is the best I could do to capture the sky and sea in the same shot.

The numbers are mind-numbing. 2.5 million light years? One trillion stars? This week had a run of clear, dark skies. Tho...
09/14/2026

The numbers are mind-numbing. 2.5 million light years? One trillion stars?

This week had a run of clear, dark skies. Though I'm not in a position to travel from our Newport home, the garage roof was just fine to capture my target: M31, the Andromeda galaxy.

Our nearest galactic neighbor is also enthusiastically approaching us at a rate of 250,000 miles per hour, on track to collide after the estimated billion years it will take to cross the estimated 250 million light years between our galaxies. And this is the busy neighborhood!

I dedicated three nights to capturing images through my Redcat 71 lens with a ZWO ASI294MC Pro astrophotography camera. I alternated between 30-second and 3-minute exposures then focused on 30-second based on the results. After several hours of processing that used over 1.5 terabytes of data, I was able to produce this 61-megapixel capture of our neighbor originally named the "Andromeda Nebula" when telescopes weren't powerful enough to resolve its individual stars.

Limited run of prints at: https://www.dswgalleries.com/product-page/nebulous-neighbor-signature-series-limited-edition

To the moon, past the Lake of Death and beyond the Sea of Cold, down the terraces and rampartsinto the lava field, behol...
09/01/2026

To the moon, past the Lake of Death
and beyond the Sea of Cold,
down the terraces and ramparts
into the lava field,
behold the Hercules from lore of old,
next to Atlas who
the whole earth did wield.

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