Prescott AZ – Page 11 – Astro La Vista Observatory

Astro La Vista Observatory and Granite Mountain

Astro La Vista Observatory from the sky.

This is a photo of the Astro La Vista Observatory taken with the assistance of a DJI Phantom 3 Professional Drone.

Horsehead Nebula (IC 434)

It is a now a good time to image and visually observe the Orion Nebula since it can now be found in the Eastern sky. For those with binoculars, Orion is an easy target. The Horsehead Nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is the star that is farthest east onContinue reading “Horsehead Nebula (IC 434)”

Horsehead Nebula – IC 434 (Work in Progress)

This is a composite of 11 thirty minute H-Alpha images.

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.

Massive snowstorm hits Prescott, AZ!

This is the aftermath of the massive snowfall in Prescott! Guess I won’t have to pull the snowblower out of its permanent home in the storage facility where it’s innards are probably clogged with ethanol residue. 🙂

WIZARD NEBULA – NGC 7380 (COLOR)

It has been difficult to find enough imaging time between the rainy weather days to complete this project. Of course, you never are really finished since you can always add more images to the stack. This image was composed by stacking 15 thirty minute H-Alpha images, 4 sixty minute H-Alpha images, and 8 thirty minuteContinue reading “WIZARD NEBULA – NGC 7380 (COLOR)”

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)”