I re-edited the levels in the previous image to adjuect the red, which was too high. I think this one looks more natural. George

My third scope (but first decent one) as a 12-year old, was an Edmund Newt on a GEM. The guys set up next to me had this neat old 10-inch. The same guys were...

Hi to all, i am just returned from holidays and i have updated my web site with one of the images taken during the good nights before the full moon. I...

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/m16_mk1sn2_dm_geg_cs4_s2hao3_page.htm

Thanks to all who have been commenting about my images over the last week. Joel

Some nova fade slowly, some rapidly. This appears to be a slow nova. Some stay blue as they fade but those that throw out hydrogen turn red as they fade. It...

Hi all I hope You will appreciate the new shot of the area Gamma Cygnus. http://www.danilopivato.com/ done with this...

I bought an adapter that lets me mount my Olympus lenses onto my Canon XTi and so it was nice and clear this morning so I tested it out. This was 20 seconds @...

There were several fine versions of M16 in this forum recently, so I felt like reshooting it on August 25. I can't get objects that low during culmination as...

Hi folks, Here is a recent image of IC5067, Pelican Nebula in Cygnus. This was taken on September 10th 2007 using a Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Starlight...

This is the last photo I took before my filter motor came completely loose ruining everything after it. Even this had problems needing a photoshop pseudo...

I am very sad to hear of this. I never knew Tom but knew of him and have both enjoyed his writings and respect greatly his optical...

Also done during mount setup. 5 x 30 sec. No filters 10"@ f/6.3 -- Dirk van den Herik A journey of thousand lightyears

The sky was fairly stable for the night of Sep. 27/28 but there were thin clouds about and the moon was up, so I worked on two clusters that were away from...

Average seeing at best. I'm finally starting to get some better results on a consistent basis. Now if I can just get some better seeing.

Another globular cluster that fits my FOV... Had good transparency and fair stability. Full size and info: http://www.wheeland.us/cluster/n6934_gs.htm --...

It has been a few years since I had the FS102 out for any imaging so I thought it would be a good idea to get it out and use it. It was fairly breezy through...

Taken under near-full moon. A 10:10:15 RGB image with an STL-1301E camera and a 20-inch RC Cass working at around F/5. The focal reducer was never intended...

I still need to shoot flats but here is what it looks like after 200minutes exposure it is curious how similar to Lum it looks. The key differences are the...