Valentines Day is closer than you think. These were taken with the Takahashi 4 inch refractor. A total of 49 thirty minute narrow band exposures were stacked to form the final images.
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VDB 149 in Monochrome
This is van den Bergh 149, a dark nebula in Cepheus. It was taken with the Takahashi FSQ106EDIII and is comprised of 38 Luminance stacked luminance images with an exposure time of 900 seconds each. Total exposure time was 9.5 hours.
Baby Eagle Nebula – Version 2
I managed to reprocess this for a bit more definition. This is a faint nebula located in Taurus, about 5 degrees from the Pleiades. This was taken with a Takahashi FSQEDXIII and represents 24 hours of exposures.
Pleiades – M45
Though people sometimes refer to this open star cluster in the Constellation Taurus as the Seven Sisters, there are actually only six stars that are readily visible to most observers. Charles Messier chose it as one of his Messier objects (M45). I find it interesting that Subaru chose this grouping of stars to serve asContinue reading “Pleiades – M45”
Elephant Trunk Nebula – Wide
Last year I did a few pictures of the Elephant Trunk Nebula that had a smaller field of view. This is a has a wider field of view via the Takahashi 106 mm telescope. It represents 25 hours of exposures through narrowband filters.
Soul Nebula – Monochrome – Work in Progress
VDB 126
Another day, another catalog… This time we have an object that is listed in the “VDB” catalog of 159 reflection nebulae that was published in 1966 by Sidney van den Bergh. Considering the beauty of this object, further study is needed. Sixty eight five minute LRGB images from the Takahashi FSQ106EDIII telescope were stacked and processed in MaximContinue reading “VDB 126”
Pelican Nebula – Enhanced Detail
According to Wikipedia: “The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward.” “Millions of years from now this nebula may no longer beContinue reading “Pelican Nebula – Enhanced Detail”
Lynds Dark Nebula 1251
Lynds original catalog of dark nebulae was published in 1962. The catalog contains dark nebulae that were identified by Lynds’ visual inspection of the Palomar-Schmidt photographs. The clouds had to be visible on the red and blue photographs to be recorded. The original catalog contained 1802 objects. LDN 1251 is a Dark Nebula in theContinue reading “Lynds Dark Nebula 1251”
The Vulture Head or Baby Eagle Nebula take your pick…
This nebula is at a distance of about 400 light years and is fairly difficult for astrophotographers to capture. It is difficult to tease the eagle out of the background stars. This was taken through a Takahashi 106mm telescope through RGB filters. The imaging time was 24 hours.
Astro La Vista Observatory 