Astrophotography – Page 9 – Astro La Vista Observatory

Elephant Trunk Nebula w/o stars

ELEPHANT’S TRUNK NEBULA (IC 1396) (SINGLE PANEL VERSION)

I recently did a 2 panel mosaic of this nebula. This is a single panel version with much more exposure time. It is a composite of 15 one hour exposures through an H-Alpha filter.

NGC 896 – A nebula in the Constellation Cassiopeia

NGC 896 is the brightest part of the Heart Nebula and is about 7500 light years from earth. This is a narrowband image taken with the Astro-Physics 130mm Starfire telescope which is composed of 12 one hour exposures and 12 thirty minute exposures through a combination of H-Alpha, O3, and S2 Astrodon filters.

ELEPHANT’S TRUNK NEBULA (IC 1396) TWO PANEL MOSAIC

The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust located in the constellation Cepheus at a distance of 2400 light years. This is a two panel mosaic composed of five 60 minute exposures (5 hours) taken through the Astro-Physics 130mm f6.3 Starfire Refractor with a .75 focal reducer and an Astrodon 3nmContinue reading “ELEPHANT’S TRUNK NEBULA (IC 1396) TWO PANEL MOSAIC”

WIZARD NEBULA NGC 7380 (GUIDED)

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)”

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.

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.