Astrophotography of the Multi-Wavelength Universe

Last year, I took an astrophotography course at UNC titled “Astrophotography of the Multi-Wavelength Universe.” In this course, I utilized UNC’s global network of Skynet telescopes to capture color images of the moon, planets, star clusters, star-forming regions, star-death regions, and galaxies. Additionally, I used Skynet’s radio telescopes to explore the invisible universe, focusing on pulsars, supernova remnants, and supermassive black holes.

This was my favorite class at UNC because it combined one of my favorite aspects of astronomy, optical observing, with the scientific side that allowed me to deepen my understanding of the objects I was observing. The main assignment for each unit was to create a blog post detailing both the radio and optical observations. These posts included how we captured the images and the scientific processes behind understanding these celestial objects.

Here, I will share some of the pictures I took along with the scientific data. If you’re interested in learning more about each object, a link to each blog post will be on each picture.

P.S. I highly recommend visiting the “Pulsars and Polarization” blog post, as it includes a sonification of PSR 0929+10!