Astrohaven – Page 2 – Astro La Vista Observatory

Astrohaven & San Francisco Peaks

Astro La Vista Observatory in April

The snow capped mountain that is off in the distance behind the observatory is called San Francisco Peaks. That is the location of Flagstaff, Arizona and Lowell Observatory.

Seagull Nebula – Three Panel Mosaic -Version 2

This nebula is now setting much earlier. I still need a little more imaging in the upper portion. Hopefully the next few days will offer an opportunity to complete the H-Alpha portion of this project. So far the total imaging time is about 15.5 hours. It looks like a color version will have to waitContinue reading “Seagull Nebula – Three Panel Mosaic -Version 2”

Running Man Nebula and Orion

Via Wikipedia “This object was named ‘The Running Man Nebula’ by Texas Astronomical Society member Jason Ware. Approximately 20 years ago his down stairs neighbor looked at the object and said it looked like a running man. He brought this up a TAS club meeting and the name stuck. Now widely accepted as ‘The RunningContinue reading “Running Man Nebula and Orion”

Rosette Nebula – Bicolor

I made this a bicolor image by adding 12 half hour exposures with the Oxygen filter to the h-alpha exposures. With bad weather expected, that is it for now.

Rosette Nebula – Enhanced Resolution

I love this particular section of the Rosette Nebula. I have managed to increase the magnification and resolution by not using a focal reducer with the AstroPhysics 130mm refractor, and replacing it with a field flattener. For the price of a slower speed and reduced field of view, precise higher resolution images are easier toContinue reading “Rosette Nebula – Enhanced Resolution”

Tadpoles – Color

The clouds are moving in, so imaging on this nebula has ended. Three narrow band filters were used and were assigned RGB colors based on what is called the Hubble palette. This was tweaked by removing some of the green coloration while emphasizing blue. A total of 35 thirty minute images were stacked, for aContinue reading “Tadpoles – Color”

Comet Catalina and Arcturus

These two found themselves together on New Years Day, the comet is on the left. This is a 60 second exposure with the 5 inch Astro-Physics Starfire Refractor and a .75 focal reducer.

M33 – Triangulum Galaxy – Color Work in Progress

M33 – Triangulum Galaxy

It is a little easier to image galaxies since you can use simple RGB filters. This was done with a Luminance filter and I plan to add the red, green and blue later. M33 is a part of the local group of Galaxies which includes Andromeda. It is “only” about 3 million light years from earth. Continue reading “M33 – Triangulum Galaxy”