Arp 148 is more commonly known as Mayall's Object. It is a pair of colliding galaxies about a half billion light years away. One galaxy has "just" pierced...

Hi all, a new image of the autumn sky: NGC 7380 the Wizard & Sh2-142 nebula in H-alpha from Rome. I hope both of your...

Here's my first attempt at Saturn this year (actually my first astrophoto after about 2 years hiatus from the craft). Taken in marginal seeing last night....

Arp 184, AKA NGC 1961 is almost too far north for me to image as it is in my Polaris tree except for a few minutes each night. This image took me two months...

I already have an Astronomik UHC filter in 1,25", but needed a larger version for my new QHY8 camera (which currently is visiting London, according to the...

Arp 184, AKA NGC 1961 is almost too far north for me to image as it is in my Polaris tree except for a few minutes each night. This image took me two months...

Arp 135, NGC 1023, is also the namesake of a galaxy group -- the NGC 1023 group of course. It is much closer however at only about 20 million light years. ...

Taken in rather poor seeing but the favourable libration gave a decent angle to image these two "marginal" craters. Hayn is the prominent crater left of...

Hi all, a new shot of the sky autumn: the Heart nebula with Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + ST-10XME + filter H-alpha 6,3nm. Exposed 10 x 1800 seconds from...

Friday Evening we had a nice Pass of the International Space Station. It went between Orion and Canis Major. The ISS hit Mag. -2.4 so it was shining bright. 30...

Sharpless 228 contains a known infrared star cluster. Since I can't take imaged deep in infrared light it doesn't show in my shot. It is hidden by the dust...

NGC 2366 is a much ignored, dwarf galaxy, in the M81 group. Why it doesn't get more attention from amateur astro imagers I don't understand. While it is a...

Hi all a new shot of the winter sky: The Orion Nebula M42 with Takahashy BRC250 + filter H-alpha. Two sequens exposed: 25x90 seconds for the central part of...

NGC 1788 is a Orion Nebula, not THE Orion Nebula but it certainly is a nebula in Orion. We normally think of emission nebula when mention is made of Orion...

NGC 7217 is a very strange galaxy in Pegasus. It has a huge core of old stars that show filaments of star clouds resembling arms. These grow faint then...

Sharpless 239. This is a mostly reflection/dark nebula with several Herbig-Haro objects imbedded in it -- the pink spots. It also contains a mystery I've...

Hi all, I wish to introduce to your attention this picture, that you can see at the following link: www.danilopivato.com Showing NGC1499 California...

Taken from a farm just south of Blueknob State Park on 21 March 2009. Taken with an 6 inch refractor at F/7.3. Three 20 minute exposures using a Hutech...

Arp 160 has been in the news recently as an image of it combining white light data from Hubble and X-ray data from Chandra has been recently released. I...

I'm returning to Arp galaxies with Arp 24, NGC 3445 in Ursa Major. Looking at my image you might think it belongs under the class of spiral with bright...