Two too brief periods of clear sky allowed me to collect luminance data to replace poor luminance data collected in 2005. Blinking the frames I selected for...

Hi all, lens Nikon 300/2,8 @ f/4 for this Cave Nebula with ST-10XME + filter H-alpha. Exposed: 5 x 1800...

Another two fer deal in Arp galaxies located in Canes Venatici, about 3 degrees northeast of M3. Arp 183 on the left is UGC 8560 and Arp 36 on the right is...

Arp 302 is a pair of interacting galaxies known as UGC9618 located 460 million light-years away in the constellation of Bootes. Arp put it in his class:...

hello, my second attempt at long(er) exposures, now that I have my autoguider setup. this is M1, 14x300sec, 10" lx200 f/6.3, ATIK 16HRC, autoguided with...

Arp 220/IC 4553 is the closest known Ultra Luminous Infra Red Galaxy (ULIRG) known and one of the brightest. Though all this was unknown at the time of...

I forgot to mention that my previous post of the colliding galaxies, Arp 209 was taken July 8, 2010 so I'm now officially less than a year behind. Not sure...

Arp66/UGC 10396 falls under Arp's category: "Spiral galaxies with small high surface brightness companions on arms." I assume the "companion" Arp is...

I'm taking a rather long break from Arp galaxies as all the summer ones are already done. That doesn't mean an end to interesting, but rarely imaged...

Did it again, grabbed the first try at processing it, not the last try. Why I keep these around I don't know. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it...

A clear sky to brighten one's hopes and a full moon to brighten the sky. All I wanted was a meteor passing the Dipper and I saw a beauty-it happened in the...

Arp 226 is better known as the "Atoms for Peace" galaxy. It is considered to be a galaxy merger. It is about 200 to 220 million light-years away (depending...

Arp 2 fer located in north central Cetus. Arp 8 Arp 8/NGC 497, in the lower left corner in my image, is a spiral Arp put in his "split arm" category. It is...

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My newsprovider was down for a while, but seems to be ok again... NGC 6164/6165 is a rather large planetary nebula in the southern constellation "Norma" that...

Arp 309 is made up of two interacting galaxies, NGC 942 (lower) and NGC 943 (upper). The pair is located in Cetus about 200 million light-years distant. ...

Recently I wanted to image something with my Meade 10" ACF and the only target that came to my mind was M1. Taken from the middle of Berlin with a 10" Meade...

IC 166 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia. It is about 10,750 light years from us by one paper I found. The WEBDA puts it at 13,000 light-years. Pinning...

Arp 131 belongs in Arp's category for elliptical and elliptical like galaxies close to and perturbing spirals. It is located on the western border of...

NGC 147 is a low surface brightness dwarf elliptical galaxy and well known satellite of M31. Oddly, I found a wide range of distance measurements to this...