You can do captures like this for a couple hundred dollars. DM for consultation or suggestions. It helps a lot if you don’t have light pollution and atmospheric interference like in all big cities. There are no filters needed but you could use a neutral density filter. If your moon is washed out c

Mtn top in Tennessee nice clear August Moon and Sun. #moon #LUNA #lunar

Night and day Moon. Time (UTC): 2025-07-18T10:00 Moon Phase: 45.64% (22d 23h 28m), (Waning Crescent) Obscuration: 0 Age of Moon: 22.978 days Moon Diameter: 1938.8 arcseconds Distance from Earth: 369678 km / 229707 mi J2000 RA: 1.8325 J2000 Dec: 14.9369 Subsolar Longitude

Great clear sky ! Nice active Sun regions. #sun #aphelion #solarphotography

Moon on 6/30/2025. #moon

Live from my telescope in TN. #moon #LUNA

No filters with Nice bright red moon for eclipse. Check my TikTok posts for eclipse predictions. #eclipse #lunareclipse

Some deeper study of the Orion Nebula and Herbig-Haro objects with my telescope in Tennessee. #nebula #astronomy #HerbigHaroObjects

Check out this cool capture from my telescope in Tennessee. #nebula

Good timing watching to moon turn red from conditions on earth. #moon

A Bortle class 2 dark sky helps to capture a lot of data quickly. #GALAXY

Had to watch satellite radar and predictive model to patiently wait for this capture. Tennessee is up to 37 inches of rain. #moon #astronomy