About the Artist, Steve Dellicarpini

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Steve Dellicarpini

A lot of my work is an interpretation of imagery, objects, and experiences encountered during my travels. These interpretations can manifest in either fantastical or realistic ways. This process leads to wildly different pieces in a variety of materials. Recently, I have been casting in bronze and incorporating dissimilar metals to create contrast and interest. For me, sculpting is my souvenir, combining my experiences and memories of a time spent somewhere into a physical artifact.

M33 Triangulum Galaxy All the other "deep space" objects I've posted recently have been within our galaxy, no more than 7000ish light years away. This one however, is incredibly deeper, around 2.73 million light years from earth. All the surrounding stars in the image are in our Milky Way and between us and the Triangulum Galaxy. If you traveled 60,000 light years from earth and took this picture again, it would be entirely black around the galaxy, but it would appear the same size. Just thinking about that really makes me feel really small...

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ripping past us at a mere 150,000 mph. Looking forward to catching it next time around (hopefully I still feel like going out to photograph it when I'm 80,000 years old!) #comet #Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

The Horsehead & Flame Nebulas More fantastic Orion deep sky objects from last weekend! These two are right next to the lowest star in Orion's belt, Alnitak. Get out to some dark skies and look up! #joshuatreenightskyfestival #darksky #stellarvue102t

M42 or The Orion Nebula With the autumn night sky showing up earlier and earlier and the longer nights, I can take a deeper look into the most famous constellation in the night sky, Orion. This is actually the middle "star" in Orion's sword! Dark skies make this possible in only an hour and a half. Enjoy! #stellarvue102t #joshuatreenightskyfestival #darksky #skysthelimitobservatory #29palms

I am happy to announce I have now in my possession a book I have wanted for decades! It far exceeds all expectations! I have already had the opportunity to reference it a few times! #magnoliclothiers #tobinsspiritguide

Eastern Veil Nebula This is just a piece of a huge supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. The entire nebula is about 36 times the apparent size of the full moon. This small bright piece is about the size of 1 full moon. As with most nebulas, excited oxygen and hydrogen are the reasons for the blues and reds. I am continually amazed what I can capture with this telescope and a narrowband filter in our extremely light polluted skies! #astrophotography #stellarvue #asi2600mc #optolonglextreme

Had to decompress for a bit before posting but I can confirm the burn is still good! Really helps when you have such a great camp and pretty tame weather. The week really flew by as it tends to do. Burning Man success! 🔥 🎆

This has to be one of my favorites so far, M20, the Trifid Nebula. The blue comes from ionized oxygen and the pink, ionized hydrogen. It's such a cool combo especially with the dark nebula in the pink. #m20 #trifidnebula #stellarvue #zwo #astrophotography

NGC7635 or the Bubble Nebula Distance: ~9000 ly The "bubble" is the result of crazy hot gasses leaving the atmosphere of the bright young star inside the bubble. As the hot gas spreads out it makes the surrounding hydrogen glow red. On the right edge of the frame, in the wide shot, you can see M52, a tight cluster of stars. These all formed in a similar nebula to this one. Once the gas is all used up, all that remains is stars. If you looked up in this direction and your eyes could collect all the light that reached them in 1200 hours, this is what you would see! Telescopes and modern cameras are considerably better at collecting light and made this image possible in just 6 hours. #nebulas #stellarvue #zwo #deepsky

First stacked image from the scope! 60 minutes of pretty poor data from the Omega Nebula. There was a tree backlit by the fire pit that kept blowing into frame and creating weird color casts on the edges. I'm still new at this, but being able to create this image in 2 hours blows my mind. It's unbelievable to watch the exposures come in and realize this stuff is up there! I've always loved space but it becomes way more personal and real when you build a machine that can see and capture deep sky objects like this.

Getting some settings on the astro rig dialed in while sitting by the fire in the backyard. I don't want to waste the new moon! (not like it really matters from a bortle 8 location anyway 😎)

Chased the Big Boy from Roseville to Truckee on Monday. This is one hell of a machine! You could hear it coming from 2 miles away! #4014bigboy

What is with this heat?!?! Driving on 101 in Atascadero then parked at Morro Rock. By the water it's even cooler! A 60° temperature swing in effectively 20 minutes. There were no clouds, no fog, no rain or raging thunderstorms like I'd expect either. 🫠🥶🤔