Taken on 16 Dec 2009 from my yard 28 miles south of wash DC. TOA150 at F/7.3. STL11000M, 4x10 min L, 1x10 min RGB bin2x2. Cropped and reduced 50 percent.

Hi all, this is a new image of area adjacent to Barnard's Loop particularly interesting. Rich of peculiar objects (Herbig-Haro) and reflection nebulae other...

I imaged NGC 4013 in May 2009 and didn't take any notes about the conditions of that night. Looking at the raw data (especially colour) it must have been...

SpaceBanter failed to pick up the image and I have friends that use it after losing their ISP news service. So reposting for them. __________________ Arp...

I imaged NGC 4013 in May 2009 and didn't take any notes about the conditions of that night. Looking at the raw data (especially colour) it must have been...

14 december, LX200/f6.3, ATK 16HRC, 17x1 min RGB, 4x1 min 2x2 binning for lum. taken from my backyard observatory, also took images of M1 and M33 that...

Hiya All After 5 days of cloud... I'm delighted with these given its blowing (howling) a gale. Kev

Arp 257 is a double galaxy in Hydra about 170 million light years distant. Arp classed it in his category, Galaxies (not classifiable as E or S): Irregular...

yes we have a (small) sunspot at last! Kev

Visible light you can hardly see that spot today, its there - just. Ha is quite nice mind. Kev

Arp 224, NGC 3921, is considered to be a merger in progress. Simulations indicate it is about 0.5 to 0.8 billion years since the merger began. It is part of...

Hiya Two prominences, one in the North North West, and a smaller one in the SSE. (Top slightly left, bottom slightly right respt) kev

Hi all, here's a new photo that concerns the IC 5146, Cocoon Nebula photographed at 1750m of altitude, a high mountain near Rome (Italy). CCD SBIG ST-10XME +...

Arp 174 is a pair of galaxies with a large tidal plume. It is also known as NGC 3068 and is located about 300 million light-years away in the constellation...

Very nice image Danilo. Stefan "Danilo Pivato" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Hi...

Arp 120 is better known as The Eyes or NGC 4438 with NGC 4435. They are part of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster located some 60 million light years away. Arp's...

Ok, thought I would throw this in for a change, didn't get to image the sun today, just too windy As you can see, I've been trying to get the sequence All...

Skywatcher recently introduced dedicated reducer/flattener lenses for their ED refractors. To test the reducer I imaged two open clusters, h+chi (NGC...

I've been without internet access for a few days. so catching up on my posting. Of course the outage began the morning of Friday the 13th. ________ NGC...

Arp 191 is a pair of colliding galaxies in the constellation of Leo the lion. They are a bit under 400 million light years away. Arp made this comment...