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Sorry for being late to the party. I thought it would be easy to pick 10 or less images this year, but due to a big year for my astrophotography, it was harder than I expected. That also resulted in me posting 4 scenic shots and then 6 astro shots this year. With trips coming up this year to...

The Angel Nebula, or NGC 2170, is a stunning reflection nebula in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn), known for its ethereal blue hues and wing-like dust structures, reflecting light from nearby hot stars within the massive Monoceros R2 star-forming region, roughly 2,400-2,700 light-years...

So this one was a new object that I was not initially familiar with. This active star forming region in Orion hosts a number of dark nebulae in addition to the blue reflection nebula (Cederblad 51) located at the rough center of the image. Dark dust lanes weave through and ionized Hα and Sii...

So it is easy in this hobby to get caught up in comparing your results to the results of others. Some of that is of course human nature, but getting obsessed with it can really be demotivating, as there is almost always going to be someone else with more experience, darker skies, more time to...

So I ended up with 2 different 'mixes' for the same data - you can chime in on which is preferred. NGC 1491, also known as the Fossil Footprint Nebula, is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Perseus, located approximately 9,8000 light years distant. It is energized by stars putting...

CTB1 is a faint supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia, also known as the "Garlic Head Nebula" or Abell 85. Initially mistaken for a planetary nebula, it is the expanding shell of gas and dust from a star's explosion about 10,000 years ago. Sh2-170, commonly referred to as the Little...

IC 63, also known as the "Ghost of Cassiopeia," is a nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 550 light-years from Earth. Its ghostly appearance is the result of powerful ultraviolet radiation from the nearby blue-giant star Gamma Cassiopeiae, which is ionizing and eroding the gas...

This started off as just a single frame image of the wonderfully complex NGC 1333 (also known as the Embryo Nebula), in the upper right portion of this final image. But once I saw what was also nearby, I decided to frame this as a 2 panel mosaic that included the IC 348 region as well (which...

I went shark hunting, for a target that has been on my list for a while, but that I have not tried for until now. I was able to wait until the better portion of the moon cycle to go after this very faint object and I think that paid off. I initially took LRGB data, plus short RGB data for the...

Deciding to try my luck posting again in the Landscape forum. Here are 2 from a recent trip (about a month ago) to Badlands NP and Devil's Tower. A very fun trip, although as anyone could have predicted very HOT in the Badlands in August (DOH!) :D My favorite image from the park, shot from...

So, I continue to try to work through 'teething' issues with my remote setup in TX at Starfront Observatories, but things are starting to come together and I am taking data with a much lower rejection rate than I had been getting. I have also been able to get my autofocuser to start running...

This area of the sky greatly surprised me with all the stuff going on. I was trying to frame this to have the Tulip Nebula (Sh2-101) in the right of the frame but it ended up a little cut off. But in exchange I captured some amazing extra nebulosity in the left side of the frame. Data collection...

I am still having some issues with my newly installed gear out at Starfront Observatories in TX, but here is my second image created from data taken there. This is a very exciting region in the constellation Cygnus that has lots of exciting stuff going on when imaged in narrowband. This image...

So firstly, apologies to everyone for being AWOL from FW for so long. I have had lots going on, not the least of which has been the relocation of some of my astro gear from my friend's house in Green Valley AZ to a remote hosting site in TX called Starfront Observatories. I had been running my...

Here are a couple more from Sedona; 2 versions of the same sunset. Single frame, earlier in the evening: Panoramic view later in the evening (realizing panos always look less impressive at reduced size like this): Thanks for looking! Hope to post a few more soon from Grand Canyon to...

It has not been a productive year for me scenic photography-wise, with lots of things getting in the way of being able to go out and travel and take images. My wife and I were finally able to take a short trip this past week down to the Sedona area for a few days, which also included a quick one...

So I took a foray into 15 minute long subframes on this object, as the Oiii and especially the Sii signals were VERY weak. Even so I eventually decided on a red-blue look instead of the more conventional 3 channel SHO style image, although I did use all 3 narrowband datasets to make this. In...

Sh2-261 (Lower's Nebula) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is often referred to by the name Lower's Nebula, as it appears on a photographic plate taken by amateur astronomer Harold Lower and his son Charles in 1939. The area is being ionized by the O.7.5V runaway star HID...

So I've told myself to NEVER do this again, where I process some intermediate data, and then come back later with a full data set and can not duplicate what I got the 1st time. But @Comet Hunter (Ed's) inspirational effort on this target put it on my radar, and I decided to try some really long...

The Medusa Nebula (Sh2-274, Abell 21) is a low surface brightness planetary nebula in the constellation Gemini, originally discovered by George Abell in 1955. It is estimated to be at an approximate distance of 1,500 light years from us. This is small enough that it is probably more...