As this year comes to an end, I am going to review my astronomy photos. It seems like there were more cloudy and rainy nights than usual, so there were fewer deep-sky astrophotos. But the Sun put on a great show with the total eclipse in April and the spectacular auroras. Also, there was Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS that kinda lived up to the hype.

Let’s start in January-February 2024:

Heart nebula from Cassiopeia.

The Orion and Running man nebulae.

Flame and Horsehead nebulae.

My favorite constellation in the sky: Orion. Taken with a 40mm lens attached to Nikon Z6 camera through a diffuser filter. The filter brings out the colors of the stars.

In March, I was able to capture Comet 12P-Pons-Brooks. It didn’t get as bright as was expected.

One of the highlights of this year was the total solar eclipse on April 8th. After making and canceling and making new plans, we watched 3 and half minutes of totality from Plattsburgh, NY.


These 2 were my most favorite photos of the eclipse.

As the solar activity is around maximum of the current cycle, Auroras were seen from places 40N and lower. We were treated with a wonderful display in Connecticut on May 10th. Best birthday present anyone ever gave to me.



In June, during the firefly season, I tried capturing the star trails and fireflies in the same image. I like this idea and will try to get more photos like this in 2025.

Saw this nice 22 degree halo around the Sun in July.

Evenings in August are usually nice to catch the Milky Way stretching across the sky. The iPhone camera does an excellent job with long exposure photos to capture the Milky Way.

In August, there was another nice event to capture - the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter. These two bright objects were just half a degree apart from each other.

We visited Iceland in September and experienced Auroras on multiple nights. It was just mind blowing!




I was able to create a star trails image with Aurora on the horizon. Wish I had taken more photos like this.

The high solar activity continued in October and we saw more Auroras from Connecticut at 41N latitude.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS made a nice appearance first in the morning sky and then in the evening sky throughout October.


There were some clear skies in November and I could get back to deep-sky astrophotography again to capture some favorites like Andromeda galaxy, Perseus double cluster, Iris nebula and Eastern Veil nebula.



In December, captured North America and Pelican nebulae using newly acquired astronomy camera ASI2600MC-duo. Look forward to using this into the new year.