nebula

I had never heard of this target before last night when Telescopius suggested it as a good target for my 8" SCT telescope. It's a challenging target, very small and with a lot of contrast, so I gave it all night (10 hours) and was happy that almost all my subs were usable. Celestron 8" EdgeHD...

This has probably been the best week for astrophotography that I have had since getting started with the hobby in 2021. A week of consecutive clear skies meant that I could leave my rigs set up so I could do some really long integrations and compile several nights' exposures without having to...

A new one for me, the Orion Nebula! When I got my Dob last year, I knew this would be one that I would want to photograph. It is big, bright, and colorful. As a result it is an easier target for someone like me who is operating outside of what my focus normally is (planetary astrophotography...

A lovely clear, albeit moon-lit night, greeted me on my birthday here in southern New Zealand, so I set up my ASIAIR to shoot two subjects with my 8" SCT, starting with M17, the Swan/Omega Nebula. This consists of 24 10-minute subs plus associated calibration frames.

I'm trying to clear out old junk from my astro drive, removing all the subs that are out of focus, contain nothing but clouds, etc. In the course of doing that, I discovered that I had several sessions of the Eta Carinae Nebula that were pretty much all centred on the same segment of the nebula...

I am sure I'll pay for it later, but there has been a nice string of cloudless nights lately here in Oamaru, so I have made the most of it. Last night I had the 8" SCT going for a few targets, but for reasons I cannot discern I could not connect to it while the session was going so when I woke...

Sorry for my long silence--between a short trip around the South Island in late July, and guests at the lodge in August, I have been a bit distracted. But I have been keeping the telescope and cameras busy, including attempting my first multi-panel mosaic of this target, the darkest dust clouds...

You know how sometimes you're surprised by a clear night and find that you hadn't planned out what you might photograph if the conditions were to permit? Well, that happened to me the other night. It was a spectacularly clear day all day, and predictions were for cloud to roll in that evening...

If you want to see a good Rosette, check out the one that Carlos just posted. NGC 2239 the Rosette Nebula in SHO Hubble palette | Focal World This is what the Rosette looks like when a master is at work with a mono Astro camera. :) Now mine? I will put this in the miracle category. I certainly...

I caught this down on Molas Pass south of Silverton in SW CO. I have not shot Deep Space Astro from there before, but knowing that area (It's one of my favorites) and knowing how dark it gets at night, I figured it would be a really good dark sky to shoot deep space in. The problem was the moon...

Eagle Nebula in modified SHO (Hubble) palette

From 2 weeks ago in Joshua Tree National Park which has Bortle 3 skies where I was shooting from. This one is called Cat's Paw Nebula, and it does kind of represent a cat's paw, so I found it pretty cool. Now this is one that I had thought I wouldn't be able to capture do to it not being among...

Roughly 4 hours total data over 3 nights in Bortle 5 light pollution (suburban Brisbane backyard): Horsehead and Flame nebulae by Tony, on Flickr

This was from a month ago out in Joshua Tree National Park. I have a favorite little spot to set up there that has almost the whole sky open to shoot. I gave up on processing this one at least twice over the last month. It's a super faint Nebula, it's one you can't see by eye or see in the...

This was taken 3 weeks ago in February but I just got to start processing this. I probably spent about 8 hours on this one. There was quite a few total restarts on this, mainly from the Starnet++ program that removes stars. I would run the program but not really like the artifacts that it could...

I am finally having some time to process photos again, so I dug into my Astro backlog and working on the Orion Nebula from February that I had taken. This also includes the Running Man Nebula above Orion. One of the tips I have picked up is after stacking the multiple images needed to do...

I captured this last month out in Joshua Tree National Park, it's the North America Nebula or NGC 7000. Since my mom broke her hip I have not really been able to do any kind of processing other then super fast editing. With editing Astro, they are much more time consuming, so this one was much...

This is the California Nebula, if you rotate it in your mind, you can see how they came up with this name. I am including 2 more images for those who just might be a little curious. The first is the Stacked image coming out of the DeepSkyStacker program that is a Freeware program for Astro...

So this is my first shot at Antares Region and only my 3rd time out using the SkyGuider Pro to capture Deep Space Objects. I felt much more comfortable each time I go out, especially with trying to find these Deep Space Objects. Since my gear is as basic as it gets, I can't just push a button to...

Hi everyone first post here, thanks to Sunny Sra for introducing me to this forum. This is my first deep sky imaging session in more than 4 months; with the bushfires and now rain/storm here in Australia clear skies are hard to come by. Did manage to get a bit last couple days though and was...