M1, The Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula (which looks nothing like a crab in photos) is one of the iconic nebulae in the night sky. It’s even the first entry in Charles Messier’s famous […]
LBN 581 – HSO
LBN 581, like many objects in the night sky goes by many names. This one is also known as NGC 7822 and Cederblad 214. This is not one of the […]
Pacman Nebula
The Packman Nebula (NGC 281) is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia. It is about 4,100 light years away and is about ½ degree by ½ degree so roughly the same […]
Pickering’s Triangle & Western Veil – HOS
Earlier this month I did an HOO narrowband version of […]
Western Veil & Pickering’s Triangle
Back in 2018 I was incredible excited to take my first image of the veil nebula. It wasn’t very good though I was pretty excited about it at the time. […]
Leo Triplet
This was an image that was posted before its time. My original intent was to get eight hours each of red, green and blue and then try some hydrogen alpha […]
M81 & M82
Near the start of my astrophotography journey I did an image of M81 & M82 using a DSLR and a 200mm lens. It wasn’t very good though I was quite […]
Soul Nebula
The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia. It almost certainly gets its name because of its proximity to the Heart Nebula in the sky and not due to […]
IC 5068
IC 5068 is a nameless emission nebula that is near the Pelican Nebula in Cygnus. This image shows just a part of it. The image is a bit over 14 […]
PixInsight Comet Processing – Failure & Alternative
When I saw that Comet C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) was going […]
M33 HaRGB
A few weeks ago I posted an image of M33. Then the hydrogen alpha filter I had ordered finally came in and I was curious to see what adding in […]
Rosette Nebula
The Rosette Nebula is one of the iconic deep sky objects of the deep sky. It’s also the official state astronomical object of Oklahoma. We both learned something new today! […]
Perseus Double Cluster
The Perseus Double Cluster is one of the most popular places to point a telescope for visual observers in the northern hemisphere. The sight of the two clusters in a […]
M33
Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest galaxy in our local group of galaxies (behind the Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way). It is […]
Cocoon Nebula
This data actually is about six week old at this point. It was challenging to process and I was hoping to get more but six weeks of clouds have pushed […]
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 […]
