There were several fine versions of M16 in this forum recently, so I felt like reshooting it on August 25. I can't get objects that low during culmination as...

I spent more time with this but because of some high clouds the color is off after trying to correct the background sky. 4 X 3min of data with the 200mm lens...

I can't shake the vision of a cartoon head with two feet waving at me while reworking this one to dig further into the noise. Nebula is a lot noisier now but...

Hi to all, another new subject for me...the Crescent nebula. Data are on the image. I hope you enjoy. REgards -- --

Well, I wasn't going to post any more from Stellafane 2007, but I found two images that I thought people might be interested in. They show that amateur...

I don't remember if posts advertising items for sale are ok on S.A.A. If not, I apologize. Briefly, I have a Celestron C5 reflector and Tele-view Ranger...

This is a total of 2h 20 minutes from the dream machine on the 18" cassegrain the image was shot unattended. the focus looks a bit soft to me. I guess...

I thought this would have been brighter with 12 minutes of data. The high clouds may have robbed me a bit but I think I should use the 300mm for this to make...

The sky cleared for about 2 hours this morning so I didn't spend alot of time here since it will be up higher later in the year. This is just 2 x 2.5min of...

I finally got to try my lens adapter out with a deep-sky subject. I was concerned that the old Olympus lenses would show a ton a aberrations with the...

I just learned of and now have purchased this...

I got two email from folks who saw Stefan's comments on this post but didn't get the post. I was going to refer them to Replayer but that didn't pick it up...

A while back, I found, buy chance, a picture that was taken of a lunar eclipse as it rose over the terminal of Denver International Airport. Beautiful...

Again a reasenable clear night last night. Manage to take 16 shots at 120 sec exposure.... (still not enough shots Richard but the nebula sunk behind the...

Hi all I hope You will appreciate the new shot of the area Gamma Cygnus. http://www.danilopivato.com/ done with this...

Some nova fade slowly, some rapidly. This appears to be a slow nova. Some stay blue as they fade but those that throw out hydrogen turn red as they fade. It...

From Blue Knob, PA. 6 September 2007. Taken with an NP-101 at F/5.4. One 20 minute exposure taken with a Hutech modified Canon 350D at 400ASA.

Rather quiet of late isn't it?! I've finally got the Vixen etc set up at the new house - but still in Scarborough (UK) here's today's version - no white...

I bought an adapter that lets me mount my Olympus lenses onto my Canon XTi and so it was nice and clear this morning so I tested it out. This was 20 seconds @...