Astro La Vista Observatory

Cone Nebula

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 nebulosity surrounding the Christmas Tree Cluster.”

These images are a stacked composite of 18 thirty minute photos taken with a 4 inch Takahashi refractor in Rowe, NM. They were stacked and processed in Maxim DL, Pixinsight, and Photoshop. The third image shows the nebula without stars.

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 in the final image. The best of 2000 images were stacked.