Also I goofed and said these were the wrong pair of galaxies. They are NGC 5258 and NGC 5257, left to right. I wasn't using my computer glasses. The 8...

Hi Group, I am still having trouble receiving binaries to this group even though Demon, my ISP, says there appears to be no problem. Maybe the group isn't...

The super nova is the bright star above the core of the center galaxy. See the annotated image. SN2011by was discovered by Zhangwei Jin and Xing Gao (China)...

II Zw 073 is a very strange pair of galaxies in northeastern Bootes about a quarter billion light-years from us. Individually they are UGC 9796 and MGC...

Mrk 496/NGC 6090 is a pair of merging galaxies, a bit over 400 million light-years distant in Draco. They remind me of the Antenna galaxies, Arp 244 but for...

Hi all, this is a new shot at galaxies NGC 3628, M65 and M66. The shot is very deep (exposed 5h) because I wanted to see the interactive areas between M65 and...

From Blue Knob, PA. 6 September 2007. Taken with an NP-101 at F/5.4. One 20 minute exposure taken with a Hutech modified Canon 350D at 400ASA.

Quotation from: alt.astronomy , subject: Beauuutiful! Full Selene Painius wrote Selene is a major planet. Planet Selene orbits Earth and Sun on...

1x240 seconds Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian Celestron Advanced Series GT Sbig ST2000XCM processed with AstroArt and Photoshop Type of object: Galaxy RA...

1x900 seconds Intes MK-69 (6" f/6 Mak-Cass 900mm fl) Vixen Sphinx SXD Mount Sbig ST2000XCM only took one shot while doing some test, I'll have to revisit this...

can you tell the difference. Mark -- Fly Lexx!

NGC 3079 and NGC 3073 are a pair of interacting galaxies. NGC 3079 is the big one in the center. To the right of it and down a bit is NGC 3073. The small...

Arp 59 falls under Arp's classification: Spiral Galaxies with Companions on Arms: Small high surface brightness companions. It is located just under 200...

IC 166 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia. It is about 10,750 light years from us by one paper I found. The WEBDA puts it at 13,000 light-years. Pinning...

I see some fool has posted a bunch of messages that says the suns energy doesn't come from the nuclear reaction that goes on within it. First of all I did...

Taken using a Hutech modified Canon 350D (400ASA) and TeleVue NP-101. Exposure was 4 minutes 7 January 2007 from my back yard 28 miles south of Washington, DC....

The newest (late 2003) observatory at Stellafane. It contains a 10-inch RC Cass of early make. The dome was rescued from being sent to the trash when the...

Over 30 minutes of time compressed into 3 seconds of video. A series of 15 one minute shots with a Canon Rebel DSLR riding on an Orion EQ-1 mount. There...

Dodging the t-storms tonight (literally), cheers - Rod Key Colony Beach FL nex-image celestron 12 meade classic losmandy titan nothing special - Io just...

I can't seem to grab the right image. Trying to do too many things at once. Cleaning up a lot of downed trees and torn apart chimney from high winds while...