Kat
LightNews LightNews
banner
quantumkat.bsky.social
Kat
@quantumkat.bsky.social
4.5K followers 2K following 2.6K posts
✨ Katherine
Astrophotography Enthusiast / Hobbyist Photographer
🌌 Astrophoto: Every image here is my own—from capture to processing.
📷 Photo Art: Unique creations, 100% original.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
quantumkat.bsky.social
Kat @quantumkat.bsky.social · Feb 13
The Elephant Trunk Nebula, when nature paints a masterpiece. 🎨
Where stars are born and dreams take flight.

🔭 N130/900 | 📸 A7S | ⌚ 5h Ha / 3h RGB
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social : What do you see in the cosmic canvas ?
A vibrant deep-space image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula, a cosmic region filled with colorful swirling gas and dust. Countless stars shine brightly across the scene, scattered throughout the nebula’s rich hues of purple, blue, red, and gold. The nebula’s intricate structure is shaped by stellar winds and radiation.
Reposted by Kat
bflachsbart.bsky.social
Wolf’s Cave Nebula (LDN 1217 / vdB 152) captured on two nights a couple of weeks ago 😊🔭

This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 with Hyperstar for a total integration time of about 8.5 hours. I combined OSC and mono Ha data for this image.

#Astrophotography

@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social‬ what do you see?
Wolf’s Cave Nebula is a peculiar target: A reflection nebula at the tip of dark nebula. And this strange combo is even accompanied by an ancient planetary nebula and some supernova remnant filaments. All in one frame!
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Fields wrapped in silence #evening
#blueskyartshow
A vineyard covered in white protective sheets stretches across rolling hills under a vivid orange and blue sunset sky. In the distance, a plume of smoke rises vertically, contrasting with the peaceful landscape.
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Kat
jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Crossing the Great Meadow' (2023) -- Homeward Bound After a Hike, Shadows Lengthen Across the Tall Grasses and Marsh, Acadia National Park, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow ✨ #Evening

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
crossing the great meadow in the early evening on the jesup path back to the golf course at the edge of town... and eventually into downtown bar harbor
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Industrial silence under a burning sky #evening
#blueskyartshow
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
👨‍👩‍👦‍👦7 sisters family portrait
My last attempt on the Pleiades.
Easy to capture, not that easy to keep clean , in particular, collimation to get crisp star spikes.
📷Newton 130/900 · Sony A7S · 6h exposure
#astrophotography
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ?
Deep-sky image of the Pleiades (M45; NGC 1432/1435) in Taurus, ~440 light-years away and ~100 Myr old. The frame shows hundreds of hot B-type members, not just seven: the brightest include Alcyone, Atlas with close companion Pleione, Merope, Maia, Electra, Taygeta, Celaeno, and the Asterope pair. Wispy blue reflection nebulosity veils the cluster—strongest around Merope (NGC 1435) and Maia (NGC 1432)—with faint dusty filaments and soft halos across a wide field. Stellar cores are tight with symmetric Newtonian diffraction spikes; overall color is blue-white stars against a dense, warmer background starfield. Captured with a Newton 130/900 and Sony A7S over 6 hours of exposure.
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Reposted by Kat
jhedoux.bsky.social
On teste, encore et encore, même à travers les nuages 😶‍🌫️😜
J'ai même un morceau du cluster M12 avec la comète C/2025 A6 Lemmon 💫☄️

C'est complexe, notamment au crépuscule, les nuages sont toujours présents.
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted by Kat
photodog.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
A lone tractor lost in the mist #autumn #blueskyartshow
Red tractor with a trailer standing still in a fog-covered field at sunrise, surrounded by soft golden light and hazy trees in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Kat
dorotapawlak.bsky.social
Fade to brown 🍂 🍁

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #EastCoastKin #photography #scape #treescape #nature #PhotographersOfBlueSky
November 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Morning mist rising over the river as #autumn colors glow
#blueskyartshow
Calm river bordered by trees in autumn shades of green and gold, with a small house partly hidden among the foliage and a misty haze above the water under a pale blue sky.
November 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
#autumn Bolbitius titubans slowly growing after the rain, #blueskyartshow
Two small yellow Bolbitius titubans mushrooms emerging from moist straw and grass, their glossy caps reflecting soft daylight.
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Kat
thatphotoguy.bsky.social
Goodnight #bluesky. I Joel you all have a great rest of your day, sleep well, and wake up healthy & happy.

An old shot but a nice one to finish the evening with. Goodnight.
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by Kat
churchstreetimages.com
Happy All Saints Day! #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Autumn all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments.
#photography #vines
Vines climb brick walls in an alley, their colors range from deep red to brilliant orange to yellow-green
November 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
quantumkat.bsky.social
A rainy #autumn day in the southwest of France
#blueskyartshow
View of a green field and autumn trees through a rain-covered window, with blurred raindrops creating a dreamy effect on a cloudy day.
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
quantumkat.bsky.social
#inside the stillness of dawn.
#blueskyartshow
A misty rural landscape at dawn with a dirt path curving through grassy fields, a bare tree in the center, and warm golden sunlight filtering through the fog under a clear blue sky.
October 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Kat
abbphotos.bsky.social
Inside a sunflower oil mill in Esna, Egypt. People bring sunflower seeds and the miller pushes to turn the stone to crush them. There's a spout where people put their jug to collect the oil. It has been the same for centuries.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside
#travel #egypt
#photography
#eastcoastkin
Black and white photo showing inside an old mill building with clay walls. A stooped older man is pushing a large wooden bar to turn a huge millstone around a well-worn trough.
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
#inside waiting for takeoff , through rain and reflections.
#blueskyartshow
Raindrops scattered on an airplane window with an airport terminal, control tower, and aircraft faintly visible in the background under a cloudy sky.
October 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Ethereal Geometry
A close-up of a delicate dandelion seed head, its intricate filaments radiating like fine threads of light against a dark green background. The photograph captures the fragile beauty and perfect symmetry of nature’s design, each seed waiting to be carried away by the wind.
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Kat
jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'The Inner Bounds' (2023) -- For Several Weeks After Coming Home From My Long Weekend Stay, I Dreamt About Lazy Tom's Bog Every Night, Kokadjo, Moosehead Lake Vicinity, ME

#BlueskyMonday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
an isolated bog in rural Maine in tones of greenish grey, the water a perfect mirror, a mountain rises in the distance, over the forest
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Earth and sky, mirrored in silence. #vertical
#blueskyartshow
A vertically symmetrical photograph of a tree line reflected in perfectly still water, creating the illusion of a seamless column of green foliage under a vivid blue sky with a soft mist in the background
October 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reposted by Kat
davemeredith.bsky.social
Coneflower (Echinacea) #glow courtesy of a very fast APS-C portrait lens on a FF camera for the #BlueSkyArtShow.

Part of my project photographing plants with unusual lenses.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Old bricks, new light. #glow
#blueskyartshow
Black and white photograph of a sunlit old European street with brick arches and shuttered windows. Two pedestrians walk through patches of bright light that contrast with deep shadows, highlighting the architecture’s texture and rhythm.
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
Chasing the last #glow
#blueskyartshow
A moody landscape showing bare winter trees silhouetted against a cloudy sky. Warm orange and gold light filters through the clouds, creating a soft, dramatic #glow that contrasts with the darker foreground.
October 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
quantumkat.bsky.social
💫M33 : the Triangulum Galaxy

One of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye under very dark skies (~2.7 million ly away).

🔭Captured last summer with my 130/900 Newtonian and a Sony A7S / 24 hours total integration.

@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social what do you see ?
A detailed astrophotograph of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), a spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on against a field of countless stars. Its bright yellow-white core fades into loosely wound spiral arms with blue star-forming regions and a distinct pink nebula, NGC 604, near the upper right of the core. The background is deep black, dotted with sharp points of starlight.
October 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Kat
marysunshineisgone.bsky.social
That face
Bee, orange flower
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM