deep space

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...

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...

Here is my version before I removed the stars. Technically most people remove the stars early on in the processing so that they don't get bloated by the processing itself. I did it just as I was almost done with the processing because that was when I thought about it. :) So in this with the...

It looks like Carlos and I were thinking similarly this last week as we both spent time capturing part of Rho Ophiuchi, the Antares Region as I call it. My goal was to get the M4 Globular Cluster, I will crop in for a tighter view of it later, but this was my view at 500mm. I limited myself to...

I went out a few weeks ago to capture some Deep Space photography. It was a night I have already mentioned that was very windy, and it was a bit hard at first to get shots without the wind blowing the tripod and camera around and turning every star into a squiggle. As I was checking my polar...

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...

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...

After shooting the Flame Nebula last week, I switched to Orion which is just next door to it. :) When I did this one, I was able to shoot it at ISO 1600 instead of ISO 6400, not totally sure why, but it's what I was able to do so I went with it. :) This also is a single image as the stacked...