Nebulae

Much improved ultrawide spectrum V2 of the Flame and Horsehead from this morning’s imaging run…. Single 125 sec ISO1600 full spectrum ultrawide band composite capture with the [...]

Test shot of Alnitak plus the Flame and Horsehead Nebulae from Monday morning on the 21st… 121 seconds @ISO3200 as full color with my D90 and GSO RC6 + 0.75Xfocal reducer….Much [...]

Not sure that practice truly makes perfect but definitely does allow for much improvement of results… Another full color image yet again of M42+M43 from my Nikon D90 from imaging captures [...]

Oxygen iII narrowband only test channel image of M42/M43 region from 123 seconds ISO3200 exposure made on the morning of Sept. 15th with my Nikon D90 and the RC6 @F6.7 with the 0.75X focal [...]

Hydrogen Alpha “Ha” narrow band light channel only image of the Omega or Swan Nebula -M17. Single 184 seconds ISO6400 “boost mode” shot with darks and post processing [...]

HorseHead Nebula…A stack of 3 images(4,5,6 min jpg.) and processed in PS C.C. Taken early morning 9/17/15 with a SV 130mm APO refractor and guided with PHD 2(new version 2.5.0)

M1 The Crab Nebula from early this morning. 3 exp stacked all 4 min in length and processed in PS C.C. and LR C.C.

Full color impressionist rough of the Lagoon Nebula M8 from Monday evening with oh-so-lovely light pollution “accents”….

120 seconds full color unfiltered “test rough” of M20 the Trifid Nebula for use to calibrate my narrowband multichannels composites with once I get the OIII and B/Hb samples [...]

70 seconds single exposure @ISO3200 through my Orion ST80 of the area at Alnitak which shows the Flame and Horsehead nebulae quite well for its typically lackluster optical performance as an [...]