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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
