Happy Halloween! In this version of the Wizard Nebula I increased the sub-exposures from 15 minutes to 30 minutes which required guiding. I then stacked 11 images. This increased the resolution substantially. The wizard nebula is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that lies about 8000 light-years from us. In a telescope you wouldContinue reading “WIZARD NEBULA NGC 7380 (GUIDED)”
Monthly Archives: October 2015
WIZARD NEBULA – NGC 7380 (unguided)
This is another Halloween treat. Can you see the Wizard in this image of the Wizard Nebula? The total exposure time was about 6 hours through an H-Alpha filter. I will be working on a color version.
BUBBLE NEBULA (COLORIZED)
This is the result of stacking an additional five hours of SII and OIII narrowband images with the H-Alpha images that were used to produce the black and white version.
BUBBLE NEBULA – HALLOWEEN VERSION
I was surprised to see the gremlin’s face when I processed this image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). This was obtained by stacking about 13 hours of exposures (39×10 minutes and 28×15 minutes) taken with the Astro-Physics f6.3 130mm refractor in combination with the QSI 690 camera. My Astro-Physics mount is getting more accurateContinue reading “BUBBLE NEBULA – HALLOWEEN VERSION”
Astro La Vista Observatory 