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All Images on this page taken with SBIG ST-7XME camera and Intes MN-61 telescope

 

 

Lagoon Nebula (M8) 20-150 second images taken on 17-July-2004

UHC filter used to reduce light pollution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trifid Nebula (M20) 11-150 second exposures on 18-July-2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunflower Galaxy in Canes Venatici (M63) 38 5-Minute exposures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cigar Galaxy in Ursa Major (M82)  16 5-minute exposures

 

 

 

 

Bode’s Galaxy in Ursa Major (M81) 15 5-Minute Exposures

 

 

 

 

Eskimo Nebula In Gemini (Inset: detail of nebula taken using 2X Barlow lens on same night.)

Main image 15 1-minute images, inset 10 2-minute images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galaxy NGC 4565 (Needle Galaxy) in Coma Berenices

This is the largest of the edge-on spiral galaxies and is 30 million light years away.

15 5-minute exposures on 15-Feb-2004

 

 

 

M16 (Eagle Nebula) Showing “Pillars of Creation”

5- 300 second exposures self-guided.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Swan Nebula (M 17) 4,900 Light-years,  300 Second Exposure self-guided.

 

 

 

 

Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888)

6 300 second exposures self-guided

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dumbbell Nebula M27

5 – 300 second exposures self-guided

 

 

 

 

 

Cocoon Nebula in Cygnus (IC 5146)

5 – 300 seconds exposures self-guided

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pinwheel Galaxy  (M101)

20- 300 second exposures taken 10-July-2004 (Colorized Version)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whirlpool Galaxy  (M51)

20 - 300 Second exposures (100 minutes total) taken June 26, 2004

 

 

 

 

Ring Nebula

5 – 300 Second exposures self-guided

 

M57 (Ring Nebula) taken using Barlow lens to increase magnification.

10 300-second exposures, processed with MaxIm DL (12-Jun-2004)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eastern Veil Nebula

5 – 300 Second exposures self-guided

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bubble Nebula  (NGC 7635)  in Cassiopeia.  12- 300 Second Exposures.

Processed in MaxIm DL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bubble Nebula (Pseudo color combined from UHC filtered and non-filtered images.

 140 Min total combined exposure.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owl  (or E.T.) Cluster in Cassiopeia NGC 457

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NGC 891- Edge-on Galaxy in Andromeda

 

 

 

 

 

Galaxy NGC 7331 in Pegasus plus companion galaxies (Deer Lick Group)  (12 – 300 Second Exposures)

 

 

 

 

 

 

M33 Triangulum Galaxy (9 – 10 Minute Exposures 5-Oct-2003)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Horsehead Nebula in Orion (10 10-minute and 19 5 -minute exposures 15 and 26-Oct-2003)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 7479 100,000,000 light-years away.

 

 

 

 

 

Globular Star Cluster M15 in Pegasus (30,600 light-years away)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crab Nebula in Taurus (M1) Supernova Remnant 6,500 light-years away

20 5-Minute Exposures under a full Moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiral Galaxy M74 in Pisces  15 5-Minute Exposures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reflection nebula around the star Merope in the Pleiades star cluster 40 60-Second exposures.

 

Running Man Nebula in Orion.  40 30-second exposures (False Color)

 

 

 

 

 

Orion Nebula M42 & M43.  40 30-Second exposures.

 

 

 

Cone Nebula in Monoceros  stack of 32 5-minute images from 2 hazy nights.

 

 

M78 Reflection Nebula in Orion  17 5-minute exposures. (10-Feb-2004)

The small Nebula (McNeil’s Nebula)  in the upper right above the double star has only been visible since early this year.

 

Lenticular Galaxy NGC 5866 (or M102)

10 – 300 Second exposures on 10-July-2004

 

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