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”
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Messier 81 & 82
From Wikipedia: “Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode’s Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Due to its proximity to Earth, large size and active galactic nucleus (which harbors a supermassive black hole), Messier 81 has been studied extensively by professional astronomers. The galaxy’sContinue reading “Messier 81 & 82”
Messier 78
From Wikipedia… “The nebula Messier 78 (also known as M 78 or NGC 2068) is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects that same year. M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group ofContinue reading “Messier 78”
Boogie Man Nebula – Lynd’s Dark Nebula 1622
This Dark Nebula is located in the Constellation of Orion. It is about 500 light years distant, versus about 1300 light years for the Orion Nebula. This was taken through a 4 inch Takahashi refractor. A total of 49 RGB filtered images were stacked with 21 H-Alpha images for a total of 22.8 hours ofContinue reading “Boogie Man Nebula – Lynd’s Dark Nebula 1622”
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”
Flaming Star Nebula
“The Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) is a diffuse emission/reflection nebula in Auriga constellation. It surrounds the irregular variable star AE Aurigae, a runaway star believed to originate in the Orion’s Belt area in Orion constellation. The nebula is approximately 1,500 light years distant. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.0 and measures about 37’x19′Continue reading “Flaming Star Nebula”
Jellyfish Nebula – IC 443
“IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. On the plan of the sky, it is located near the star Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth. IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova thatContinue reading “Jellyfish Nebula – IC 443”
Pleiades – M45
Though people sometimes refer to this open star cluster in the Constellation Taurus as the Seven Sisters, there are actually only six stars that are readily visible to most observers. Charles Messier chose it as one of his Messier objects (M45). I find it interesting that Subaru chose this grouping of stars to serve asContinue reading “Pleiades – M45”
Soul Nebula – Monochrome – Work in Progress
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”
Astro La Vista Observatory 