I seem attracted to the unusual and there's not much out there more unusual than this voorwerp. It is small and I needed a night of good seeing. Never got...

Taken on 19 Sept 2009 from a farm just south of Blueknob state park, PA. TOA150 at F/7.3. STL-11000M, 1x10 min each LRGB. Cropped.

I'd taken the luminosity on this guy two years ago. I remembered (or thought I did) taking color data the following year. I couldn't find it. So figured I...

Hi all, this is a new shot in Halpha from Rome (Italy). The instrument is refractor Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + ccd Sbig ST-10XME + filter H-alpha. The exposure is...

My first attempt at Arp 200 (April 2009) was not all that great so it went back on the reshoot list. I think this is a great improvement. Arp 200/NGC 1134...

I didn't see my first post so here it is again. Here is my first light deep sky image with my new (for me) Canon XTi. I hope to get it modified fairly soon. ...

After NGC 4319 I looked for another target for the second half of the night of May 3 and had the bad idea to reshoot NGC 5921. As NGC 5921 is rather low (+5...

Same data just pushed the curves farther into the noise which allowed me to hike the contrast -- maybe too much. Anyway, there are things I like about this...

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

Arp 294 is an interacting pair of galaxies about 135 million light-years distant in southern Ursa Major. It appears the upper one is about to ram into the...

sound logic - trully wonderful photo. Richard Crisp wrote: "George Normandin" wrote in message ...

The picture shows my long-time friends and fellow observers Tony P and his CG-11, and Gary D and his Astro-Physics 6-inch refractor on an Astro-Physics 1200...

UGC 08496 is an interacting double galaxy in Canes Venatici 4 degrees northeast of M3 about 230 million light-years distant. The southern galaxy is compact...

MRK 0231 is a very active galaxy in Ursa Major a bit less than a degree north of Alioth the star in the handle of the Big Dipper before the bowl. NED...

even though the weather wasn't worth a hoot, I decided to giddyup my gear and do a bit of horsebacking last...

Hi, This is my first deep-sky astro image since last November. We have gotten over 105" of snow this season and its not even April. Rick I don't even want to...

This has been a week I'd like to forget. First the motherboard of my main computer went out. In doing so it scrambled the hard drive. Fortunately I do...