Arp's catalog of strange galaxies is, of course, full of them but Arp 143 may be the strangest of all. It is listed in the NGC as two galaxies NGC 2444,...

Here's a series of Comet Lulin shots. The squares are for reference highlighting the brighter stars in Virgo. The Circle is the Comet. Each image is a...

This picture of NGC 3432 is from the only good night (by city standards) of imaging I have had this year, which was January 2nd. I hope to get some colour...

My last two attempts to get the Running Man out to my server and others seems to have failed. It was finally picked up by...

Yet another "find" when cleaning the hard drive. This one from only a few months ago. I was trying for an Arp galaxy at -7 degrees declination but clouds...

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Hi all, this is a new shot in Halpha from Rome (Italy). The instrument is refractor Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + ccd Sbig ST-10XME + filter H-alpha. The exposure is...

I went and took all the good data I had of M42 since going digital and put them together to see what I would get. The scopes used were 8"f/4 newt and a 4" tak...

Cleaning out the hard drive I came upon this 2 year old data. Seems I processed it last August but did such a horrid job of it I never posted it. Before...

Yet another pair of Sharpless objects. I took this along with Sh2-152/3 back in 2007 a few nights apart. I had good flats for Sh2-152/3 but I never took...

I got myself a Skywatcher ED120 as a wide field scope recently. This is "second" light ("first light" was such an incredibly cold night that mount, scope and...

This is Sh2-152 and Sh2-153. They overlap. The Sharpless page says the brighter part is 152 while the fainter part above it is 153. However Simbad says...

More interesting visually than the first pair I posted is UTC 12915 and UGC 12914 east to west (left to right). Here there is some visual evidence of the...

I've been covering Arp Galaxies as time permits (I have several dozen waiting processing). They are usually very interesting but aren't the only interesting...

I got some clearing Saturday night so I went for it. There was some high clouds drifting in and out...the kind you don't see until its on top of your target....

Hi all, this is a new shot in Halpha from Rome (Italy). The instrument is refractor Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + ccd Sbig ST-10XME + filter H-alpha. The exposure is...

Hi all, this is a new shot in Halpha from Rome (Italy). The instrument is refractor Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + ccd Sbig ST-10XME + filter H-alpha. The exposure is...

Around new year I have been taking some images of M1. First I took some narrow band images with Astronomik 13nm Halpha and OIII-filters. Hoping to get better...

LBN777 is a very faint reflection nebula in Taurus. I've seen it called the Vulture Head before though it looks more like an eagle head to me. Maybe that's...

King 5 is an open cluster in Perseus. The King catalog of star clusters is small. There are only 26 members and #3 is missing or a duplicate of NGC 609,...