AndromedaGalaxy

By day, my hands hold surgical drills, osteotomes, and bone plates in a laminar-flow operating room. But by night, I find peace under the open sky. About five years ago (back in 2021), driven by curiosity about the cosmos, I fell down the rabbit hole of astrophotography. Starting with a basic catadioptric scope pointed at the Moon and Jupiter, I soon became hooked on deep-sky imaging. From my northeast-facing balcony in central Guangzhou—battling Bortle 7–8 light pollution with narrowband filters and a harmonic mount—I have spent countless nights gathering faint photons that traveled millions of years to reach my sensor. This post is a personal catalog of the telescopes I rely on and the ten deep-space marvels (from Andromeda and the Bubble Nebula to the Fireworks Galaxy) I have managed to capture with my own eyes and instruments.