From Blue Knob, PA. 15 September 2007. Taken with an NP-101 at F/5.4. Stack of one10 minute and one 20 minute exposure taken with a Hutech modified Canon 350D...

He all, Just had to do this one again in H-Alpha. Took a serie of 19 shots of 120 sec each behind the 10" at f/6.3. no autoguiding. Processed in CS3 and...

When I tried to add last years color to this years H-alpha image I got a really washed out image. I gave up on it. With all the clouds of late I tried...

Hi Folks; Since it appears to be "M27 week", here is my shot of it using a conventional color (Bayer RGB) FireWire camera. Information on the shot (time,...

I had another clear morning with some high clouds around so I went for this planetary instead of something extended. This is 5 minutes of data with the C-11 @...

From Blue Knob, PA. 12 August 2007. Taken with an NP-101 at F/5.4. Stack of four 5 minute exposures taken with a Hutech modified Canon 350D at 400ASA. Part...

Hi folks, I had another gap in the clouds last night so I had a go at imaging the region around NGC6914 in Cygnus. The whole of Cygnus is full of potential...

Hi all, I know not beautifull as the one from Rick but sure a try.. Composed out of 3 images in H-Alpha, OIII and Blue... This one is my first try with my...

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...

Greetings everyone, This is the second light with my new DBK 21AF04.AS. My trusty Toucam Pro 740k that I purchased back in 2003 for $99.00 has gotten a...

My dad and my maternal grandfather were both professional magicians. My grandfather invented many stage illusions still performed today. The dancing...

Hi folks, Here is part of NGC7000 in Cygnus, just the "Mexican" region. I used my Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 with Astronomik HAlpha...

"ASTRO" added, so this might be a repost for some... Greetings everyone, This is the second light with my new DBK 21AF04.AS. My trusty Toucam Pro 740k...

IC 4954 is a reflection nebula in Vulpecula that I wanted to image last year but didn't manage to. This year I found the time, but the nebula was fainter...

I have finally got something to contribute... Not the best conditions but fun none the less. This galaxy is nearly edge on but a lighter dust lane can be...

I went and cracked out the FS102 tonight just for giggles tonight. I used a 3x barlow projection with the XTi at 100asa for 1/8 sec...tweaked in PS7 Joe

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

I got 6 minutes worth of this object but then stopped because I was getting a reflection donut and didn't want to process it out and figures it ruined the...

Hey Rick I cropped the image then reprocessed it. There is no reduction here...just cropped. I had not bothered to look for this guy because I thought it was...