Forum: Astrophotography

I try very hard to make a new solar corner the last days. Only for the sun. My best love. So guys i believe to enjoy this corner to the future. With too much love from me to you. My new love.

Sh2-127/LBN 436 is an emission nebula in northern Cygnus not far north of M39. Galaxy map has this to say about it: "Radio analysis reveals that Sh 2-127 consists of two distinct components - a larger weaker and more diffuse source (WB89 85A) to the northeast, consistent with ionisation by an O7...

Arp 287 is a pair of interacting galaxies, also known as NGC 2735 and NGC 2735A, located in northern Cancer. Arp put these in his category: Double galaxies, Wind effects. In fact it is the very first entry in this category. Arp said of the pair: "Slanted parallel streamers off each edge of main...

Hi I thought I would have another look at this and see just how much dust I could get to show given the limited RGB time and light pollution, I took the original data from the previous image posted here and made a shadows and highlights adjustment followed by adjusting the black point and two very...

Hi I don't normally do RGB imaging due to light pollution but I am currently waiting for my next narrow band target to clear a neighbours tree so I thought I would have a go at M31 as it was visible all night and by the time my narrow band target was available I had got carried away with M31. This...

Hi I took this image before my recent M31 shot but haven't really been happy with it until now after two reprocesses. This was taken over two nights with 50x5 minutes for luminance and 20x5 minutes each for RGB. It was taken with a Takahashi FSQ106ED f5 and Starlight Xpress H36 on a Paramount ME...

Observation under 2/5 with light clouds and heavy mist from athenes, GREECE. Today elements is the next.......... 1) Four regions with sunspots. 11101, 11102, 11103, 11105. 2) Region 11105 has a lot of sunspots. 3) Region 11101 has a big sunspot but weak faculae.

Arp 167 is a pair of interacting galaxies located in Cancer, just east of M44, at a distance of about -- Houston we have a problem. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty about these two galaxies. The two galaxies are NGC 2672 and NGC 2673 right to left. NED classes them as E1-2 and E0 pec...

Sh2-93 is also known as LBN146. I can't find much at all on this emission nebula that is located in the constellation of Vulpecula a short distance east from SH2-90 I ran in late May. Galaxy map has two distance measurements for it. One of about 12,000 light years and another of 8500 light...

Hi Group!, Another set of images before Hurricane Earl approached us, And now waiting to clear up but Fiona is close by and another behind it :(.

After 3 non Arp postings it's time to get back to that catalog, at least for a couple postings. Arp 11 falls under his category: Spiral Galaxies: Split Arm. It is located in eastern Pisces not far from M74. It and the galaxy to its north east (upper left) have a red shift that puts them a...

Hi All, While processing some new data, I ran across a folder with unprocessed Data in it from March 4, 2010. I must have gotten busy and forgot to process this folder back in March. It is my shot of M46 Open Star Cluster with NGC-2438 Planetary Nebula (A Dying Star). This image is only...

Seeing 3/5 today from athenes and we have a possible new region on the center of the disk. The new area giving small flares. We have a light cloud of gas at NE of the solar limb. SOLAR IMAGES

A few observe elements today under 3/5 seeing from greece...... 1) strong sunspot 11101 with cycle umbra and penubra. 2) a beautifull group of detached and "rain" prominences. 3) a great propeller schema by the arch transition filaments of the sunspot. CORONADO SOLAR IMAGES

Good afternoon from athenes with 3/5 seeing. The elements today is ....... 1) the sunspot inside AR11101 remain strong. 2) The large filament making weak and it is near the limb now 3) Three area with small prominences around limb.

Today is a great day. Seeing good after a long long long days before. Today we have the next elements...... 1) Region 11101 has big sunspot under filaments who gave circle schema. 2) the large filamennt near to the limb give prominence the next days. Great target. 3) Region 11100...

Hi All, It appears the Alpha Aurigid Meteor Shower has begun this morning. I captured a dozen or so coming out of Auriga this morning from 3am to 6am, despite the partly cloudy skies over Dayton, Ohio. This Meteor shower runs from the 24th August thru Sept 6th, with the peak occurring the night...

Here’s my shot of tonight’s Full Moon rising through haze, clouds and trees. It was taken from Arlington Heights, Illinois on 2010 AUG 24 at 19:51 CDT. That was 29 minutes after moonrise and 12 minutes after sunset. http://www.curtrenz.com/FM 1008.jpg

Seeing poor today in athenes. Two solar elements today..... 1) Active region 11101 at the east of the disk. 2) A new enormous filament at the SW of the disk. Solar images

Since you get to see many pictures taken with large telescopes, here is on with a little telecsope, a Nikkor 28 mm f/3.5 lens, attached to a Nikon D40. August 13, 2010 from Chilao, CA. 13 pictures were taken with 15 second exposure each, and the result was registered and coadded using IRIS. aCyg is...

When I went to process this one I found I had no darks available for the 30 minute H alpha frames. Apparently I planned on taking them but never did. I scaled my 10 minute master dark to 30 but this camera doesn't seem as linear as most. It didn't work though with my bad eyes, I go in for cataract...

I came across the new video on You Tube of yet another flash in Jupiter's upper atmosphere without a impact blob showing. South is up in the video with the flash along the north edge of the NEB left of center. I don't know if this has been confirmed anyplace or have any knowledge of the poster...

Took these images last night (full moon,scattered clouds). Didn't turn out too bad. http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6865/transition2.jpg

Sharpless 115 is a very large emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan, about as far west of Deneb as the North American Nebula is east of it. It is thought to be about 7,500 light years distant and contain enough gas to make 4400 stars the size of our sun. It covers several times...

Hi All, I captured M2 Globular last Thursday night, the 12th of August 2010. This is a 70 minute exposure with my QHY8CCD Camera and homemade 16” Diameter scope captured from Yellow Springs, Ohio USA. As most of you know these Globular Clusters contain well as over 500,000 stars, and are...

Hi I thought I would post this even though I am planning on adding more data later to smooth the image a bit better. It is a wide field of the following DSOs NGC7635 - AKA Bubble nebula M52 NGC7538 NGC7510 Sh2-157 - "Lobster Claw" nebula Sh2-161 There may be more in there but I haven't had...