astrophotography

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Pelican Nebula

The Pelican Nebula is located just off the “east coast” of the North American Nebula in Cygnus. It is an emission nebula about 1,800 light years away and has an […]

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Eastern Veil Nebula

The eastern veil nebula, NGC 6992, is part of a supernova complex known as the Cygnus Loop. The entire loop is quite large covering more than six degrees of sky […]

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Propeller Nebula

The propeller nebula is one of the few deep sky objects where it is completely obvious how it got named. The “propeller” is clearly visible in the center. This is […]

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IC 1396 – Elephant Trunk Nebula

The Elephant Trunk Nebula is a very large emission nebula, actually larger than my field of view. I would need to do a mosaic to fit it all in which […]

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NGC 6888 – Crescent Nebula

The Crescent Nebula is an emission nebula in Cygnus a couple of degrees from the star Sadr, not far from the region in this image. According to Wikipedia, its shape […]

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M16, The Eagle Nebula

This was my first and perhaps only image from the Almost Heaven Star Party. I attended AHSP last year for the first time but it was cloudy or rainy for […]

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The Astro Imaging Channel Workshop

I was honored to be invited on to the weekly YouTube program, The Astro Imaging Channel, to do a short presentation on how I processed M13 data that was made […]

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PixInsight Processing With Flat Darks

This is a presentation I put together for a member of our local imaging group on how to use flat darks when doing image calibration in PixInsight.

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PixInsight Mask Creation

This was for the September 2019 meeting of NOVAC’s Byron Bergert Imaging Group. It is a basic introduction to mask creation in PixInsight.

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PixInsight Processing: Markarian’s Chain & M87

This was presented at the July 2019 meeting of NOVAC’s […]

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A Portion of IC 1318

IC 1318 has a couple of other names. It’s also known as the Sadr Region and the Gamma Cygni Nebula. Sadr and Gamma Cygni are both names for the bright […]

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M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy

M51 is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy because of the look of the spiral shape when viewed through a telescope. It’s a fairly small target for my modest telescope […]

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M13

It’s been almost a month since we had a night that promised to be clear all night through. The last week or so we’ve had weather that taunted us with […]

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A DIY Flat Panel For Astrophotography

Anyone who engages in the hobby of astrophotography is familiar with the need to create “flat frames.” These are frames shot of a uniformly lit light source and are used […]

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Markarian’s Chain & M87

The universe is vast. It’s hard to comprehend just how big it is. For me, this image helps make that visceral. Without any effort, more than a dozen galaxies are […]

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Flaming Star Nebula

The Flaming Star Nebula has emission and reflection components. This turned out to be very difficult to process because of color splotchiness in the image. I’m not sure what the […]

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