I did not think the image I posted on 5 June needed any noise processing but I tried it anyway. I believe it does make a difference. Taken about 4 AM from...

Taken from a farm just south of Blueknob State Park on 1 June 2008. Taken with an NP-127 at F/5.2. One 20 minute exposures using a Hutech modified Canon...

Taken from a farm just south of Blueknob State Park on 2 June 2008. Taken with an NP-127 at F/5.2. Five 1 minute exposures using a Hutech modified Canon...

What with no imaging weather here for over 2 months I went back and reprocessed an image from my "Blue Period". Back then I wasn't properly compensating for...

I decided to build an adaptor to hook up the Proline 9000 to the Stinger 18" f/12.6 classical cassegrain I did not expect it to work without serious...

Pardon the double post... I miss-typed the ASTRO: on the first one.... Had a fair night on June 21 / 22... Shot this galaxy way to the north far from the low...

on my monitor, with room light off or on, a b & c look the same and x y & z look the same. can I get some feedback on what you see? -- John N. Gretchen...

Here's the Toad + a Moonrise. Love You

Taken from a farm just south of Blueknob State Park on 1 June 2008. Taken with an NP-127 at F/5.2. One 20 minute exposures using a Hutech modified Canon...

3x600 seconds Intes MK-69 (6" f/6 Mak-Cass 900mm fl) Celestron CI-700 Mount w/Gemini QHY8 reduced 50% -- John N. Gretchen III N5JNG NCS304 ...

Arp 18 is cataloged as a spiral with a Detached Segment. Exactly how this differs from the previous category above I'm not sure. More commonly known as NGC...

Galaxies 2: SDSS J105205.52+362836.3 magnitude 17.9 33 million light years 4: PGC 2081645 magnitude 17.1 Distance 563 million light years 5: SDSS...

C/2008 J1 (Boattini) on June, 22, 23:44 UT. Stack of 20 x 60 seconds exposures. Newtonian 200 mm F/5, QHY2Pro CCD camera, 2x2 binning. Field of view is 30 x 23...

5x600 seconds Intes MK-69 (6" f/6 Mak-Cass 900mm fl) Celestron CI-700 Mount w/Gemini QHY8 reduced 50% full rez...

Continuing with my Arp Galaxy series here is Arp 205. I ran Arp 206 last update. Both are classed under "Material Ejected From Nucleus". It is also known...

This is a bit light of exposure time and definitely can benefit from more darks but it is a reasonable shot from the PL9000 camera/ AP180EDT f/9 with...