🎇 On June 26, Imran Sultan, Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern's CIERA & award-winning astrophotographer, spoke at Parlour & Ramp Gallery on simulating galaxies & capturing the cosmos. 🌌 Explore his work: imransultan.com/ | @imran.astro | @GalaxySimImran #astrophysics

Excited to give a talk next week for the Art of Science outreach series in Pilsen! I’ll be sharing my work on galaxy simulations and astrophotography-- flyer below!

Lucky for us, @GalaxySimImran was ready to capture the phenomenon—filming the entire event, which lasted about four hours early Friday morning, using a refractor telescope and DSLR camera.

Did you catch last week's blood moon? Don't worry if not, graduate student Imran Sultan has you covered 🌝 The blood moon was visible during a total lunar eclipse, when Earth cast its shadow over the moon.

Ten breathtaking astrophotography images you should see right now (January 2025) diyphotography.net/ten-breat…

Thank you Miguel Tsang and @thedailynu for this lovely feature! Your article beautifully captures my journey of photographing the night sky over the past few years

Does the Moon ever engulf Mars? Yes, but only in the sense that it moves in front, which happens on rare occasions. This happened just yesterday, though, as seen from some locations in North America and western Africa. This occultation was notable not only because the Moon was a fully lit Wolf Moon, but because Mars was near its largest and brightest, moving to opposition -- the closest to the Earth in its orbit -- only tomorrow. The engulfing, more formally called an occultation, typically lasting about an hour. The featured image was taken from near Chicago, Illinois, USA just as Earth's largest satellite was angularly moving away from the much more distant red planet. Our Moon occasionally moves in front of all of the Solar System's planets. Given the temporary alignment of orbital planes, the next time our Moon eclipses Mars will be a relatively soon February 9. Image Credit & Copyright: Imran Sultan

Over the moon to share that my image of this week's lunar occultation of Mars is featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day! 🔭Huge thanks to @APOD for this honor. Captured on a freezing night in Des Plaines, Illinois-- see it here apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250115.…

Tomorrow night there will be a rare astronomical event called a lunar occultation. For about an hour, the Moon will eclipse planet Mars. Here is my video of the last time this happened in December 2022

Heart and Soul: Grad student Imran Sultan wins global photography competition for the second year in a row 💜📸 Sultan's photo of Heart and Soul Nebulae—found in the Cassiopeia constellation—won the 2024 @royalsociety Publishing Photography Competition's astronomy category.

Congratulations to CIERA graduate student Imran Sultan (@GalaxySimImran) on winning the @RSocPublishing Photography Competition Astronomy category...for the second consecutive year! ciera.northwestern.edu/2024/…

Thrilled that my image of the Heart and Soul Nebulae was selected as the Astronomy winner in the Royal Society Publishing 2024 Photography Competition! Thank you for this honor, @RSocPublishing! 🌌 #RSPPhotoComp

Selected from more than 500 entries across five scientific categories, see the remaining category winners and runners up here: royalsociety.org/news/2024/1…

The November Supermoon and Jupiter

At 'only' 2.5 million light years away, this is the Andromeda Galaxy, the sister galaxy to our own Milky Way! Andromeda was one of the first 'deep space' targets I captured when I began astrophotography, and it was rewarding to revisit the beautiful galaxy this fall

Some more photos of the #northernlights from dark skies in Wisconsin

Here's a 30 minute timelapse of last night's incredible aurora! #northernlights

Astronomer Evenings is back (with a fresh new flyer!) this Friday, September 27! Join CIERA researchers for an unforgettable night learning and observing at Dearborn!