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Welostinplaces Deepak & Manisha (Husband+Wife)
In awe of nature and its beings. Capturing landscape, wildlife, nature & more.

Not quite the clear night I had planned, but the clouds gave the scene a mood of its own.
09/01/2026

Not quite the clear night I had planned, but the clouds gave the scene a mood of its own.

Late to the trend, but I had a few recent shots in mind that I thought would work perfectly for this. Had some fun bendi...
08/31/2026

Late to the trend, but I had a few recent shots in mind that I thought would work perfectly for this.
Had some fun bending the rules…

I had big plans for the lunar eclipse, but the weather had other ideas. What looked like a clear forecast a week ago tur...
08/28/2026

I had big plans for the lunar eclipse, but the weather had other ideas. What looked like a clear forecast a week ago turned into a mostly cloudy night across central Arkansas.

I still went out hoping to capture the eclipse, a time-lapse, and some landscape shots. Most of the partial stages were hidden by clouds, but luckily, around the peak near 11 PM CDT, I got a short break with only thin clouds moving through.

I captured the Moon using a Sony a7R IV with a Sony 200-600mm lens along with the 1.4x teleconverter [ISO 800, f/9, 0.6 Sec - 100 images], stacked and processed the frames, then immediately shot the surrounding sky at 200mm to preserve the stars [ISO 3200, f/8, 20 Sec], haze, and thin clouds as they appeared that night. I processed both separately and blended them for the final image.

Not the night I planned, but I’m glad I came away with a couple of images from the eclipse.

Zeta Ophiuchi and Dark Veil Nebula:Sh2-27 is a huge H II region in Ophiuchus, about 440 light-years away. The nebula is ...
08/24/2026

Zeta Ophiuchi and Dark Veil Nebula:
Sh2-27 is a huge H II region in Ophiuchus, about 440 light-years away. The nebula is illuminated and ionized mainly by Zeta Ophiuchi, a massive, hot O-type star whose ultraviolet radiation causes the surrounding hydrogen to glow in Hα.

Zeta Ophiuchi is also a runaway star, traveling through space at roughly 25 km/s. The curved feature immediately around the star is its bow shock. As Zeta Ophiuchi moves through the interstellar medium, its powerful stellar wind collides with the surrounding gas and dust, compressing it into the arc-shaped structure visible in the image. Interestingly, this bow shock has been detected strongly in both infrared and OIII emission.

The field is also filled with dark interstellar dust, creating the long dark lanes silhouetted against the much larger region of glowing hydrogen.

Object: Sh2-27: Zeta Ophiuchi and the Dark Veil
Date: 08-10-2026, 08-14-2026
Sky: Bortle 4.5

Acquisition details:
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: ZWO ASI 294MC Pro
OTA: Samyang 135mm F2 ED UMC (Canon Mount)
Guiding: Svbony Website sv165 30mm + sv905c
Filter: IDAS NBZ Dual Band and Svbony Website UV/IR Cut for Broadband
Controller: N.I.N.A
Lights: NB: 122 X 300s ; Broadband: 27 X 60s total 10H37'
Calibration Frames: 30 each of Dark, Bias, and Flats
Processed with SIRIL 1.4 (Using VeraLux and SyQon)

Astrobin (Hi-Res Image): https://app.astrobin.com/u/deepakpati?i=52nriv

Perseids and Milky Way.Here is an image I captured during the recent Perseid meteor shower, with the Milky Way in the ba...
08/20/2026

Perseids and Milky Way.

Here is an image I captured during the recent Perseid meteor shower, with the Milky Way in the background.

This is a composite from multiple nights, all shot from the same camera position. It was a slightly complicated image to put together, and I didn’t want to make this post too long with the whole process.

If you are interested in how I planned, shot, and processed it, I have shared the full story in the blog post linked below.

Exif:
Equipment: Sony a7III + Tamron 17-28 f2.8 at 17 mm (all the images, taken from the same location and tripod position)
Milky Way Sky: ISO 800, f/4.5, 120 Sec (15 images stacked)
Meteors: ISO 1600, f/2.8, 8 Sec
Foreground: ISO 800, f/8, 13 Sec during blue hour

Blog Post: https://welostinplaces.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/perseids-meteor-shower-2026/

Full Resolution: https://app.astrobin.com/i/p0c0zt

A wide view of Cygnus captured during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I photographed the region for several hours...
08/18/2026

A wide view of Cygnus captured during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I photographed the region for several hours and combined the meteors I caught along the way into the final image.
(Best viewed fullscreen)

Object: Cygnus and Perseid Meteors
Date: 08-12-2026 and 08-13-2026
Sky: Bortle 4.5

Acquisition details:
Mount: iOptron Sky Guider Pro
Camera: Sony A7III
OTA: Sigma 35mm f1.4
Guiding: N/A
Filter: No Filter.
Controller: Manual
Lights: 60s × 390 (6.5 Hrs)
Settings: ISO 1600, f/2.8, 60 Sec
Calibration Frames: 30 each of Dark, Bias, and Flats
Processing: Siril 1.4 and Photoshop.

Full-resolution: https://app.astrobin.com/u/deepakpati?i=3h6nit

Star Party at Lake Sylvia, AR.08/15/2026We had a great turnout for the event, and nature cooperated with us. It was a cl...
08/16/2026

Star Party at Lake Sylvia, AR.
08/15/2026

We had a great turnout for the event, and nature cooperated with us. It was a clear night throughout, with a mild breeze helping with the heat. The highlight was seeing the reactions of the kids and young ones as they viewed some of the targets through the telescopes or watched them appear on the live imaging screens.



Arkansas State Parks Only In Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas

After quite a while, I made a trip to Bald K**b yesterday evening to get some photos. I didn’t have any specific shots i...
08/08/2026

After quite a while, I made a trip to Bald K**b yesterday evening to get some photos. I didn’t have any specific shots in mind, so I just waited to see what came my way.

I’ve definitely had better luck there before. With cooler weather and some rain in the forecast, I was hoping for a little more action. Still, it was nice to sit in nature surrounded by birds.

I have shared plenty of hummingbird portraits, in-flight shots, and photos of them perched on branches. But what people ...
08/05/2026

I have shared plenty of hummingbird portraits, in-flight shots, and photos of them perched on branches. But what people don't usually see are the hundreds of "missed" shots. 😄 Every now and then, though, one of those blurry failures ends up looking more like abstract art than a mistake. Here are a few that I actually liked.

This photo was taken a few days ago at Bois d'Arc WMA during my photography club outing. I think it's safe to say this w...
08/04/2026

This photo was taken a few days ago at Bois d'Arc WMA during my photography club outing. I think it's safe to say this was my favorite image from the trip, and probably one of my best wildlife captures in quite some time.

It shows a Black-crowned Night Heron carrying what appears to be a young egret. As difficult as it can be to look at, this is nature in its purest form. Black-crowned Night Herons are opportunistic predators, feeding on fish, frogs, insects, reptiles, and even young birds when the opportunity presents itself.

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