Samil Cabrera

Make a wish 🌠✨ @astronycc picked up his Alpha 7 III + 24mm F1.4 G Master and drove 3 hours to see the Geminid meteor shower and get this shot. Worth it 🙌 15sec | ISO 2600 #SonyAlpha

Hello everyone! My name is Samil Cabrera. I’m originally from New York City but currently reside in Florida. As an astrophotographer, I travel the world to capture the beauty of the night sky. I want to extend my gratitude to @europeanspaceagency for the opportunity to showcase some of my favorite images from my journey. Below, you’ll find a brief description of each image in this carousel: 1. Lone Driftwood Tree and intense airglow captured in the Florida Keys. Stack of 20x15s exposures using a 20mm f1.8 and the Sony α7III. 2. The Great Orion Nebula 9.5 total integration time using a 275mm telescope and the Sony α7III. 3. Gygnus setting behind an otherworldly landscape in Arizona. Single 2 minutes exposure for the sky and 2 minutes for the foreground using a Sony 24mm f1.4 lens and the Sony α7III. 4. White Pocket, Arizona. While watching the Gemenids meteor shower a nice meteor photobombed the shot. I used a Sony 24mm f1.4 lens and the Sony α7III. 5. The famous “Green Comet” of last year captured using a 275mm telescope and the Sony α7III. 6. The Great American Eclipse of April 8th 2024 from Carbondale, Illinois. A once in a lifetime experience, being able to see the solar flares with the naked eye! This one is a single exposure showing the Baily’s Beads right before the end of totality. 7. Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex and Blue Horsehead nebula. The image combines a total of 8 hours of integration time captured on the Rokinon 135mm f2.0 lens and the Sony α7III. 8. The Northern Cross setting behind La Sal mountain in Moab, Utah. 20x15s exposures on a 20mm f1.8 Sony lens and the Sony α7III. 9. Orion Molecular Cloud Complex imaged from a dark site in Florida. 1 hour of total exposure 120s each using a samyang 50mm f1.4 lens and the Sony α7III.

Aurora Explosion— It’s incredible how dynamic auroras become during substorms. I was lucky enough to capture them during a geomagnetic storm on a trip to Alaska. Enjoy! — Sony α7 III Sony 20mm f1.8 Leofoto Carbon Fiber Tripod #aurora #auroraborealis #nightsky #northernlights #alaska #sonyalpha

Tonight’s Flower full Moon Named for the blooming season across the Northern Hemisphere. This one’s extra special… it’s the first of two full moons this month, making the second a rare ‘Blue Moon.’ Enjoy! — Sony α7 III 200-600mm G Lens 2X Teleconverter #flowermoon #fullmoon #themoon #nightsky #universe

Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS captured in October 2024 during its pass through the inner solar system. #stars #nightsky #space #starrysky #cosmos

Dolphins in Bioluminescence— I filmed dolphins swimming in Bio back in 2023, this is one of my favorite footage I captured during this trip.

Tonight’s full Pink Moon This month’s full Pink Moon is a special one. Today marks another historic moment as humanity returns to the Moon, with Artemis already on its way. Enjoy! — Sony α7 III 200-600mm f6.3 2X Teleconverter

Totality This morning the Moon turned deep red as it passed completely into Earth’s shadow. — Sony α7 III 200-600mm f6.3 X2 Teleconverter SW Star Adventurer Pro #bloodmoon #lunareclipse #fullmoon #wormmoon #nightsky

Big Bend, Texas Last year, @mikeabramyan and I traveled to one of the darkest skies in the US. Big Bend National Park was a bucket list location for me, and it did not disappoint. Can’t wait to go back soon. — Sony α7 III Sony 24mm 1.4 GM MSM Star Tracker #bigbendnationalpark #texas #nightsky #milkywaygalaxy #bigdipper

Tonight’s Full Snow Moon ❄️🌕 February’s full moon is called the Snow Moon because this time of year historically brings the heaviest snowfall in North America. Captured tonight 8:00 pm EST. Enjoy! — Sony α7 III Sony 200-600mm X2 Teleconverter #snowmoon #fullmoon #earth #themoon #space

Barnard’s Loop Using the 50mm f/1.4 lens by @viltrox.usa , I was able to capture one of my most detailed wide-field image of the Orion constellation. For this shot, I gathered a total of 2 hours of RGB data and 1 hour of H-alpha, revealing the massive hydrogen clouds that surround Orion and stretch far beyond what we see with the naked eye. Enjoy! — Sony α7 III Viltrox 50mm f/1.4 Astronomik 12nm H-alpha Filter MSM Star Tracker #orion #stars #universe #viltrox #sonyalpha

Aurora just exploded over Florida moments ago! 🩸 After hours of waiting, the sky finally came alive in deep reds, driven by a historic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that pushed conditions into a G4 geomagnetic storm. Visible to the naked eye and absolutely unreal to witness this far south for the fourth time during this solar maximum cycle. Enjoy! — Sony α7 III Viltrox 16mm f1.8 #auroraborealis #northernlights #florida #nightsky #milkyway