Bubble Nebula – Astro La Vista Observatory

Bubble Nebula – New Greyscale Version

Bubble Nebula – Wide Angle View

With clouds hanging over the observatory, there is another option. You can process raw images from a remote observatory. Raw images for this project were taken last September from a remote imaging observatory that is located in New Mexico at an elevation of 7400 feet. The telescope was a 106mm Takahashi FSQ 106EDXIII telescope. AContinue reading “Bubble Nebula – Wide Angle View”

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.

BUBBLE NEBULA – HALLOWEEN VERSION

I was surprised to see the gremlin’s face when I processed this image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). This was obtained by stacking about 13 hours of exposures (39×10 minutes and 28×15 minutes) taken with the Astro-Physics f6.3 130mm refractor in combination with the QSI 690 camera. My Astro-Physics mount is getting more accurateContinue reading “BUBBLE NEBULA – HALLOWEEN VERSION”