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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”

MONSOON

RAINBOW

Sharpless 86 (Work in Progress)

Andromeda (M31)

Andromeda Galaxy(M31) taken with a Williams Optics Star 71 (71mm) telescope. The camera was the QSI 583wsg. It is a composite of 55 five minute images taken with luminance, red, green, and blue Astrodon filters.

PROPELLER NEBULA (DWB111)

The Propeller Nebula is a very faint emission nebula in Cygnus. This is a stacked group of 30 five minute exposures in H-Alpha and 30 five minute exposures in O3 for a total exposure time of five hours. It was taken through the Astro-Physics 130mm Starfire Refractor and the QSI 690wsg camera.

PELICAN NEBULA

With the improving weather I was able to finish this off. The benefits of longer exposures are starting to pay off. The image is a stacked composite of 90 five minute narrow band exposures taken through the Astro Physics 130MM Starfire refractor for a total exposure time of 7.5 hours. It was processed in MaximContinue reading “PELICAN NEBULA”

PELICAN NEBULA – Work in Progress

Well, the weather is turning bad, so I don’t know when I will be able to add data to this narrow band photo of the Pelican Nebula. I would like to add a little more color and some more detail. So far I have stacked 10 five minute H-Alpha images and 10 five minute OIIIContinue reading “PELICAN NEBULA – Work in Progress”

Moon Shot

Before deep sky imaging begins, it is always fun to take a look at the moon. This shot was taken through an Astro-Physics 130 GT refractor while the sun was still up by using a hydrogen alpha filter in the QSI camera. The thirty .02 second exposures were stacked for a total exposure of 0.6 seconds.

Globular Cluster M14 in the Constellation Ophiuchus.

When he discovered this object in 1764, Charles Messier described it as a nebula without stars. Obviously he was wrong, but this points out a primary difference between the efficacy of using your eyes to observe things in our digital age when ccd cameras can see details like this through a four inch refractor telescope.Continue reading “Globular Cluster M14 in the Constellation Ophiuchus.”