sh2-240 is a faint one to be shooting with a full moon overhead. the very transparent skies helped a lot. but the moon made it tough: bad gradients. as the...

changed it a little to make it look better

Here's a picture with the 14" Meade ACF at Kiripotib farm in Namibia, showing the "bug nebula" NGC 6302 in the southern part of Scorpius. I took a series of...

Here's the first image I took on Nov 2, 2007. Focus was not as good. Also this is a short 100:100:150 second RGB image. Off-&-on clouds tonight so I'm...

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...

I have some older stuff, but this set seemed to be the easiest to process simply because M102 is so bright. Taken from the middle of Berlin with a 10" Meade...

Arp 69/NGC 5579 is located in Bootes. By redshift it is about 173 million light-years distant. By Tully-Fisher it is only 115 million light-years away. ...

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/dark_transfer_curves_page.htm Characterization of Certain Camera Parameters via Dark Transfer Curve Dark Transfer Curves...

Recently I used a moonlit city night with rather bad transparency for some images of NGC 281. Main goal of the night was to see how good stars looked at the...

I've attached on image along with an animation. I'm not sure if this is my best result of Jupiter, but I'm really pleased with the sharpness and the...

there was a Dream Machine up on Astromart two weeks ago and I bought it. Yesterday it arrived and I was fortunate enough to have clear skies for the testing....

NGC 6894 is usually displayed red. For some reason unknown to me it came out rather blue in my image. I turned the levers quite a bit to make it look more...

Hi - Io and the GRS were in view together after twilight in Florida. Our winds were still up, cutting significantly into the seeing. I ramped up the frames...

SH2-271 and SH2-272 are two emission nebula, part of a much larger mostly invisible to visibly light molecular cloud in northern Orion just east of his club. ...

I took these on 09/05/2010 at the request of a friend. I wasn't expecting much, and in fact, only took 2 photos (a total of 12 minutes at ISO 800) because I...

I couldn't avoid imaging Omega Centauri in Namibia... Taken from "Tivoli" farm in Namibia with an ASA 12" astrograph at 1069mm focal length on an ASA DDM85...

"Stefan Lilge" wrote ... George, the blurring of the bright stars is a good effect to make them stand out better among those many fainter stars that...

NGC 7497 is a galaxy about 60 million light years distant set in the Integrated Flux Nebula in Pegasus. The IFN, also known as Galactic Cirrus is dust far...

15x15 minutes Intes-Micro M73 (7" F3 custom astrograph) Celestron CI-700 Mount w/Gemini QHY8 ccd camera cropped and reduced 50% full size...

Abell 35 is the first post from my "emergency schedule" after I damaged my Atik 383 camera in Namibia. I had to image with my SXV-H9 camera (good idea to take...