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NGC 6914 in Cygnus

AP130GT f/6.3 refractorAP900GTO mountQHY16200 CCD18 x 10 minutes each RGB onlyPixInsight and Photoshop The blue and red, reflection and emission nebula combo is among my favorite type of object to image in the night sky. NGC 6914 is the blue … Continue reading

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IC 405 The Flaming Star Nebula

AP130GT f/6.3 refractor AP900GTO mount QHY16200 CCD 25 x 8 minutes each LRGB PixInsight and Photoshop This was a quality night towards the end of the imaging season last November, and I just got around to posting it 🙂 There … Continue reading

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NGC 1333 Revisited

Here’s NGC 1333 in Perseus from the CalStar overflow party at Lake San Antonio.  The little red knots surrounding the blue reflection nebula (“Herbig–Haro” objects) are star forming regions which have earned the keen interest of astronomers.  You can find some … Continue reading

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The Helix Nebula

Often depicted in various ways as an “eye” in space, the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is definitely one of the more awesome planetary nebulae out there.  It’s a fantastic example of a star that has gone nova after it’s outer shell … Continue reading

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Cloak and Wizard

“Cloak and Wizard” LRGB was captured from my imaging site in the Siskyou volcanic wilderness under dark Bortle 2 skies. This is a few hours of LRGB with 12 minute subexposures with 3 hours (also 12 min subs) of Hydrogen-Alpha added from Frazier Park, … Continue reading

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Milky Way in the Southwest

A late-spring visit to the southwest provided the perfect opportunity to experience the amazingly-dark skies there. In this small town in southwest New Mexico, the skies were *very* dark. Bortle scale 2 dark.. to the point where the Milky Way … Continue reading

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Milky Way Over Saguaro National Park

A pano-stitch of 4 frames. Sony a7S ii Sony FE 35mm f/1.4 ZA set to f/4 13 second exposure ISO 12800 After a few days in New Mexico and Texas on business, I concluded my short trip to the southwest … Continue reading

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Gamma Cygni and NGC 6914

4 panel mosaic of the Sadr (Gamma Cygni) region including reflection nebula 6914 (to the right) Nebulosity around the constellation Cygnus is commonly imaged with narrowband filters which is especially good for isolating the hydrogen emission nebula. This image, however, is taken as broad … Continue reading

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IC5146 Cocoon Nebula Reprocess

Reprocessed some data from 2008. This image of the Cocoon was taken through a telescope and CCD camera that I helped develop, and it was one of those nights were everything was cooperating and the seeing was good.  I really … Continue reading

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Billions and Billions

  I revisited my image of the Coma Berenices galaxy cluster to see how far some of the background galaxies are. It’s been a fun datamining activity during the “processing season”. It’s amazing how far a medium-sized refractor can go … Continue reading

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