Nebula – Page 2 – Astro La Vista Observatory

Pacman Nebula (blue)

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”

Seagull Nebula – Work in Progress

This is a three panel mosaic that needs a little more imaging time to complete.

Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

From Wikipedia: The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion’s Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The nebula was first recorded in 1888Continue reading “Horsehead and Flame Nebulae”

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”

Pacman Nebula – NGC 281

“NGC 281 is known informally as the “Pacman Nebula” because of its appearance in optical images. In optical images the “mouth” of the Pacman character appears dark because of obsuration by dust and gas…” NASA Administrator 7/30/2015 This was imaged through the Takahashi 4 inch refractor. It is a stacked composite of 52 thirty minuteContinue reading “Pacman Nebula – NGC 281”

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.

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.