A Rose by any other name
Taken from my back yard in Allen, TX. Bortle 9 skies.
Been a long time comin’
I finally got another monochrome camera after years of shooting color CCDs. I’m still re-learning the ropes, particularly using narrowband filters for very specific frequencies of light associated with ionized states of hydrogen, sulfur and oxygen. I’ll probably end up doing a lot of hydrogen and overlaying red, green and blue broadband filters over that …
M27 Once again, with Feeling!
Messier 27 1,300 Light Years away Image data collected over two nights on August 4th and 5th. A total of 6 hours of data, 73 exposures of 5 minutes collected on a QHY 8L CCD cooled to -15C. Scope is a Celestron EdgeHD @ f/10.
Dumbbell Time
Seeing turbulence in the air) wasn’t great. Stars were twinkling away with the best of them which does compromise image quality fairly significantly. Still, I wanted to get M27 again since I re-calibrated the settings for my camera and learned a bit more about exactly how far is too far with a CCD. This is …
Messier 51 – Whirlpool Galaxy
Shot through massive light pollution over staggeringly huge The Village At Fairview outdoor mall complex. This started as an add-on session to my first attempt at narrowband imaging and turned out much better than I hoped for. Of course this would be much more grand out in the country but that’s not what this site …
Getting on the Narrowband wagon – Horsehead Nebula
Barnard 33 – The Horsehead Nebula in Orion If you find Orion’s belt, the eastern most star is Alnitak. Just a bit South and West from that star is this region, cataloged by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1919 in his book of dark nebulae. This cloud of dust is #33 on his list so we …
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Doh! I forgot to post this M42 (again)
I shot this back in January. This should be a good place to start for the next round of winter images. 🙂
Playing Catch-Up
A few weeks ago my neighbor was commenting that he hadn’t seen anything new on my site for a while. Sadly, I’ve mostly been posting to astrophotography forums on Facebook and completely neglecting what I deem my primary personal repository for higher quality images. So here goes.
Our nearest galactic neighbor
I never thought I’d be able to pull this out of the soup we call urban light pollution but I did manage it. There was significant effort put into it and I know there is much more detail that could be gathered but this is what I’ve got. A touch over 5 hours of …
M42/M43, then and now
A friend of mine, Kush, has recently discovered the addiction know as astrophotography. He posted a picture of M42/M43 that made me think of my first images of that target and how I’ve progressed since then. Here we go! Circa 2004: Meade SN6 Meade DSI Pro (Mono camera, LRGB filters) Dec …