Prescott AZ – Page 12 – Astro La Vista Observatory

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”

MONSOON

Supernova in NGC 4386

This is a recently discovered Supernova that I calculate is currently at magnitude 14.5. It is a crop of a 200 second exposure taken with a QSI 583wsg camera and the C11 Edge HD. Below is an inverted view.

Sun on 06/24/2014

Taken with a Lunt 80mm solar telescope using a DMK 21AU04 camera at 60 fps, 1000 images stacked.

New Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station

This weather station provides on site weather. It is accessible in the main menu under Astro La Vista Weather.

Summer Solstice and International SUN-Day.

Randy Shivak came to our Summer Solstice event and shared his beautiful solar telescope the attendees.

Panstaars C/2012 K1 (Update)

This is the latest photo of this comet. It was imaged using a Hyperstar lens at F2 on a Celestron C11 Edge HD with a Starlight Xpress H9C color camera. The best of 90 images were stacked using Maxim DL and then the image was processed further in Photoshop CS6. The individual exposures ranged betweenContinue reading “Panstaars C/2012 K1 (Update)”

A Messier Miss in Leo – NGC 2903

This is one of the better objects missed by Charles Messier in the preparation of his list of objects to avoid when searching for comets. Located in the constellation Leo it is around 31 million light years away and has the luminosity of 19 billion suns. It has been adorned with festive star spikes justContinue reading “A Messier Miss in Leo – NGC 2903”

The Outer Limits Galaxy – M104

Otherwise known as the Sombrero Galaxy or Messier 104, a black and white photo of this galaxy was shown in the ending credits of each episode of the original version of “The Outer Limits.” It is fitting that the Sombrero Galaxy is the first deep space object taken from the Astro La Vista Observatory givenContinue reading “The Outer Limits Galaxy – M104”