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So, I was a little nervous when I finally decided to try to process this Planetary Nebula, SH2-290 or also known as Abell 31. It’s known for being extremely dim and I only had 2.5 hours of hydrogen and 2.5 hours of oxygen data on it. However, the masters showed promise! I could not believe how...

Hi all ! Caught a chance for some LRGB time on M 33 . I was able to get 3 hours of lum and 1 hour each of RGB. Two minutes at a time. Tech: SVX 130 refractor ASI 1600mm pro, 1/3 gain MyT mount Baader filters Processed in PI Be well and Happy Holidays ! Bob

Here’s planetary nebula NGC 6781 in Aquila. It seems to be over looked by most folks and I’d like to see more pics of it !This is only one hour each of Ha and O3. The weather has been pretty rough for the last two months here. It’s nice and bright but really small so your seeing a heavy crop...

Hi all, this blue ball of largely oxygen gas is catalogued as Abell 39, with no nick name I’m aware of. From the driveway, I caught 4 hours of data through an oxygen filter, 5 minutes subframes, and an hour each through red, green, and blue filters, with 2 minute sub frames. I framed it off...

So, I know it might be a little over the top, but I’ve always wanted to get this shot ! It was a real challenge to get the Ha blended in and then I just went crazy with it 😀 Thanks to Steven Miller on YT for some cool videos on this very topic, great stuff !! Tech stuff for M 81 SVX 130 ASI...

So don’t look her in the eyes or you might turn to stone ! Well I don’t really see the snakes, but let me introduce you to the Medusa Nebula! 1955 was a very good year 😀 This image represents 4 hours of total exposure time with three minute sub frames divided half for hydrogen and half for...

Here’s one of this season’s grandest and yet frequently overlooked deep sky imaging targets, The Cone Nebula ! It’s a huge cloud of mostly hydrogen (red) gas with a little oxygen (blue) thrown in too. It lies about 2700 light years out and is located in Monoceros, just to the left (east) of...

So my latest project is in the can , the Heart of the Heart Nebula, aka Melotte 15. I used all starless image processing thanks to Starxterminator and the combo used a mix of SHO and HSO narrowband palettes. Captured with the ASI 1600 mono using 3 and 4 minute subs at unity gain for a total of...

These colder temperatures are making me look forward to Spring flowers (and Galaxy season 😀) so for now, here is The Tulip Nebula captured in SHO for about six hours total of 180 second subs from the driveway. SVX 130 ASI 1600 mm Pro MyT Grown in PI !

Ever since I first saw this very cool nebula I’ve wanted to try my hand at it. Finally had a couple of clear moonless nights and while waiting for IC 1805 to get up in the sky, I went for it ! This is about 3 hours O3 and 1 hour Ha. I’m going to make it a priority next year with a billion hours...

The Sharpless Catalog contains some pretty faint objects and this is one of them, Sh2-112 in HOO. It’s a total of four hours exposure, 2 Ha, and 2 O3. Three minutes subs were probably not enough even with the ASI 1600. Too many cool targets, too little time to image ! Thanks for looking !

Hello All, I’ve got something to share that I’ve always had concerns about. For two years, I’ve done battle with bad halos around bright stars with my ASI 1600 MM and my budget O3 filters. I’ve tried three different ones to no avail. For Fathers Day, I asked for a premium (wink wink) version ...

So , do you see the Pelican ? Hope so ! This is IC 5070, aka, the Pelican Nebula. I was very surprised to see just how faint this is. I got about 1.5 hours with each filter and it probably needs twice that, ouch ! This is close to the North America Nebula in Cygnus the Swan. This is a tricolor...

Here is my Eagle Nebula. Cathy says it's not quite Hubble, and I tell her I didn't spend a Billion dollars either ! You decide 😀 Also called M16, it's in the constellation Serpens. This is a tricolor pic with red=hydrogen, sulfur=green, and oxygen =blue. About two hours for each filter. This is...

Hot off the keyboard is NGC 4725. Because of massive cloud cover for the last two months, it’s taken me almost three months to finish this project ! This Galaxy only has one arm which wraps around the central region several times. I really like it’s tiny friends too ! SVX 130 MyT mount ZWO...

I couldn’t get the Moon the other day so I decided to re-process my Bubble data from last year while trying some new tricks in PI. This is about 3 hours of Ha and 3 hours O3. Captured with asi 1600mm with 3 minute subs from my driveway ! Old data is great to have 😀

Description JE-1 with Stellarvue SXV 130 and ASI 1600 mm pro. About three hours total exposure consisting of 5 min subs, 90 minutes for both Ha and O3 filters and processed in the HOO palette. Processed in Pixinsight. Pretty dim object, but very rewarding!

Ever looked down and found a $20 bill on the sidewalk ? Well that’s what it felt like this week while looking through an old hard drive and finding my wide field project of the Heart Nebula taken back in 2019 ! Never processed before ! This was all fun ! Here’s some stuff from Wikipedia: The...