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NGC 2251 is a type III2p open cluster in Monoceros about 2 degrees southwest of the much better known Cone Nebula and 3.5 degrees north of the Rosette Nebula. It gets lost in the many objects in the area that attract imagers. As a result, there aren't many amateur images of this cluster. Also...

OK I need everyones opinion. which do you prefer, # 1 the more vibrant # 2? OR, am I better with the heavy cropped image # 3? IC447 taken with 80 (5 min Antlia TriBand RGB filter subs taken last night) and 91 (5 min ALP-T 5nb filter subs) taken a few nights ago. Stellarview 102 Scope...

So I am a member of the Roper Mtn Astronomy club in Greenville SC and participated in a 1st for me collaboration of 5 different astrophotographers which total data on SH2-221 added up to just under 88 hours! wait WHAT? Full capture details are found in the attached link...

Wow, what a year. I tried to branch out with imagery other than astro this year. Traveled to some very cool places in the EU and Canada which made it hard to pick just 10. But here we go! #1 Favorate of all images I took this year. Taken with my cell phone of all things, but it...

20 hours of 5 min subs (wew) The faint Boogieman Nebula LDN1622 taken over the last 3 night in Holiday Colors Used my SVX102 w/reducer, ASI2600, Antlia ALP-T 5nm filter. Merry Christmas my friends

Christmas Lights taken at the Ashville last Friday night. Burrrr 35 deg that night. Why as a beginner do I seem to try to take the hardest imagery? Lights, brightness, dimness, different colors all hit my sensors at the same time lol Feel free to point out improvement suggestions for next...

So my original post of SH2-221 had 12.5 hours of data. As an experiment, i more than doubled my data, ending up with 28.5 hours to see what would happen. (that’s 341 (5min) light frames) wew! focal length was 334m focal ratio was 4.7. Antlia ALP_T 5nm filter and I was surrounded by...

Difficalt to capture and process over 2 nights I ended up with 12.5 hrs of/300 sec light frames Scope was at a 335 fl. 2600mc pro and the antila ALP-T 5 nm filter.

2 for one. Taken last night, captured 9 1/4 hours. WOGT 71, Asi2600MC, Antila ALP-T nm filter. 1st one I used my normal process. 2nd one I used the new Veralux process. I think in the future I will experiment with the adding channels from both versions to make a hybrid. Of these 2, which...

So I got an early Christmas present from my son: an i-optron skytracker pro. I'm looking for a light kit to match with my R8 and existing tripod that's easy to move about and set up, primarily for Milky Way shots. I have enough guided scopes for my bigger scopes and deep space stuff. The...

I repocess the Wizard with this new script called VeraLux. Thoughts? This may save me from always over cooking my images?

So I was relooking through my Northern Lights folder and found this one I hadn't processed yet and it may be the most detailed of all of them But as I tend to over cook my images I would like feedback of everyones thoughts the processing on this one? Happy Thanksgiving! Ed

My wife and I were in Mt Dora Fl for a wedding last weekend (Same town as the bubble's were taken) and we had the morning to kill so we stopped at a local park where I took these radom shots. Pretty park (and town) Hignly recommend. Getting used to my R8 Picture of the picture...

Mt Dora Florada. I found out, its hard to capture/focus on bubbles I drove my auto focus nuts trying to capture these Canon R8, with the Canon 28-70 f2.8 stm lens A progression of focus points

After near 20 hours I just couldnt pull out the lighting as I hoped. Limits of a color camera I guess along with my feeble processing skills. Super dark nebula taken from my driveway, Anderson SC. WO GT 71, ASI2600mc pro, Skywatcher eq6r, Antila ALP-T 5nm filter. (233) 5 min light frames...

Nothing special, but this one taken with my Canon R8 and my 100-400 lens set at 400mm. 1/250 sec at 100 ISO & f11 my next adventure is mounting my R8 to my Cat 8 with no focal reducer making it around f2200

taken 10/23/2025 6 1/2 hours of lights using my William Optic GT71 which is 332mm FL, ASI2600mc, Antilla ALP-T 5nm filter Shown is Nebulae NGC7538, NGC7635 and Sh2-157\ Question: do you prefer the one with LOTs of stars #1 Or fewer stars #2? Ed Litoborski Interstellar Astrophotography...

So I've see several videos where folks are recommending turning your cellphone upside down and low to the ground to give your image a whole different look. My question is do you get the same result when using a dslr camera? im trying to figure out what turning it upside down does?

Trying out my new Iaowa f2 x 17mm lens mounted to my R8, the shot below is a 3 sec exposure at iso 800 I was trying for a Milkyway while imaging with my telescope last night. I did pick up the tale of the milkyway as shown below but the brighter core was way below the trees. I guess I have...

2 for the price of one Taken last night with right at 6 1/2 hours of 5 min subs from my home in SC Used my SXV 102, 2600 mc with the Antila 5nm filter. Taking the same image tonight but with a wider field of view scope (my Williom Optics 525mm Capturing the lobster claw along with these 2. I...