First is M76 little dumbbell This is 3H 10 minutes taken at 3366mm focal length using a ML4022 camera on the Stinger 450 classical cass The seeing was...

All wide field images of the Veil nebula show an isolated patch of nebulosity below the eastern part of the Veil (NGC 6992 and 6995). I always wanted to image...

Supernova remnant CTB1 (also classified as no. 85 in Abell's catalogue of planetary nebulae) has been a rather popular object a few month ago in several...

This is from April 2009 when I was imaging in a deer park south of Berlin surrounded by wolves, tigers and goats (and some other astro imagers ;-) Seeing was...

Hello everyone, Here's my first post to this newsgroup. Hope you'll like it. I shot the comet from my just finished DIY-backyard observatory in suburban part...

Conditions for this were awful. Clouds, fog, moon and seeing were all against me. Took several nights over two months to get this much. This has been a...

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...

After the dud of Arp 150 I'm cleaning out my duds with another. This time it is Arp 61. Like Arp 150 I was trying to shoot binned 1x1 but again got...

Arp 141 is a pair of interacting galaxies in Camelopardalis (a giraffe) that had been too far north and lost in my now defunct Polaris trees. I suspected it...

NGC 2744 is the strange galaxy in the NGC 2749 galaxy group which is located in Cancer the crab. It certainly is a train wreck of a galaxy. It is often...

OK..... this is the scope that won "everything"; First place in "mechanical" and "craftsmanship. It's a 18-inch F/4 Newtonian made by Ross Sackett of Memphis...

Darn, I grabbed the wrong images. These have better color saturation. Rick

Back in 2010 I imaged Arp 274 though didn't get it processed until May of 2011. I centered on Arp 274 not realizing a companion to these was just outside the...

Ok i know that there is no picture of the sky attached to this, but i have had more fog and cloud lately than you can shake a stick at!!! But i just wanted...

Hi - Early Saturday eve 9pm EDT Here is the great red spot, Ganymede, and Io. I was not early enough to catch Io's shadow. Key Colony Beach, FL 12 SCT Meade...

5 second exposure at 10:51 EST using a 5 inch refractor and Canob 40D. Cropped image, no image reduction

Just for fun another picture from the beginning of September with the unmodified Fuji X-A1. After my Namibia holidays (where the camera only had to do some...

Rarely seen vdB 37 is a rather red reflection nebula. It is lit by HIP 24716 a 7.74 magnitude M2 giant star. The nebula is in northern Orion. The Sky shows...

UGC 10675 is a double galaxy in Hercules about 0.8 degrees northeast of Epsilon Herculis. At least it is listed in the UGC as a double galaxy. This misled...