From Wikipedia: “The Cone Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785, at which time he designated it H V.27. The nebula is located about 830 parsecs or 2,700 light-years away from Earth. The Cone Nebula forms part of the nebulosityContinue reading “Cone Nebula”
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Horsehead & Flame Nebulae (Color)
Pacman Nebula (blue)
Moon 04/05/2016 – Illumination 6%
This is almost a New Moon. It is a single image taken a Nikon D200 and a Nikkor 80-400 telephoto lens at 400 mm. No mount was used.
Moon 04/04/2016 – Illumination 13%
This is a single image taken a Nikon D200 and a Nikkor 80-400 telephoto lens at 400 mm. No mount was used.
Solar 03/29/2016
This was taken through the Astro-Physics 130mm refractor using a Lunt Herschel wedge and an Imaging Source video camera. The Lunt wedge produces a white light image which was converted to something resembling an H-Alpha reddish tone. I have never tried this configuration before and was a little surprised at the amount of detail inContinue reading “Solar 03/29/2016”
Moon 03/29/2016
Taken with a Nikon D200 and a Nikon AF VR-Nikkor 80-400mm lens.
Stormy Weather
Yeager Canyon Trail
Here are three photos taken from Yaeger Canyon Trail where we were hiking today. The trailhead is just off Highway 89A in an area near Mingus Mountain and Jerome. The panorama looks out over Prescott Valley.
Sunspots 03/25/2016
As in the other solar photo taken today, this was taken through the Lunt 80mm solar scope in “double stack” mode for enhanced definition. In this case 2000 images were stacked to form the final image.
Astro La Vista Observatory 