Bangzheng (Tom) Sun, an astrophysics graduate student who works with Professor Haojing Yan, is a skilled astrophotographer. When he's not conducting research in astophysics, Sun captures high resolution images of deep sky objects.

Sun combines hours of exposure time at various locations, including Finger Lakes State Park (Bortle of 5), extremely dark skies in New Mexico (Bordle of 1), and even the Physics and Astronomy building roof (Bortle of 7) to create amazing deep sky images.

Although Sun calls his device a weak and small telescope, his results are impressive. The picture with the telescope shows the telescope running an imaging session with the beautiful constellation of Orion rising on the background. 

The Bortle Scale ranges from Class 1 (darkest sky available) to Class 9 (inner city skies)

Images: 

Stephens Quintet, NGC 7331, & Supernova SN2025. Total observing time 7.17 hours. Photo by Bangzheng (Tom) Sun

Pillars of Creation (Messier 16). Total observing time: 17.42 hours. Photo by Bangzheng (Tom) Sun

JWST" running an imaging session for the constellation Orion

The Shark Nebula. Photo by Bangzheng (Tom) Sun