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.
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Tadpoles – Happy New Year
These are the Tadpoles of IC-410. They seem appropriate for the New Year when we are celebrating a fresh start or a new beginning. This emission nebula lies about 12000 light years away, and the Tadpoles are about 10 light years long. This is a stacked composite of 17 half hour h-alpha exposures taken through myContinue reading “Tadpoles – Happy New Year”
Looking Backwards
This is a bird’s eye panorama of the Granite Oaks Subdivision and Williamson Valley road from the direction of Granite Mountain.
Granite Mountain Panorama
Snow hits the observatory…
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”
Sunset from the Observatory
Elephant Trunks Nebula – IC 1396 – Color
My earlier greyscale photo of this nebula was derived from 15 one hour exposures through an H-Alpha filter which were used as the red channel in this color image.. An additional 11 half hour images were taken through an OIII filter for the blue channel. An RGB color image usually uses three different monochrome images.Continue reading “Elephant Trunks Nebula – IC 1396 – Color”
Astro La Vista Observatory 