And another try for M63. 8 x 180 sec 9 x 120 sec 7 x 90 sec Stacked in Maximdl Processed in CS 10"SCT No auto guiding (working on it..) Some vignetting occured...

Hi to all, here is one of the last deep sky images done in the last days of the 2006. Information are on the image. Umidity stressed a lot, reducing...

Hi All This is my first go at taking a photograph of Mars and for my first go i'm really proud of it!! lol :) 8" LX200 ACF, Phillips Toucam, 500 frames...

Hi to all, After 6 moths of nothing.....just one night last week-end. I am really concerned about the bad weather hre in Liguria Italy...... Here are...

Hi to all, finally i had my first light using my C9.25 and the SXVF-H9C (in the past i used 100mm refractor, SIGMA lens and a Newton). Seeing was...

Hi to all, I send anelaboration of the sun spot NOA953 in the day of the 28th April. A short period of seeing 6 permitted some high...

Did'nt think 1st light would be like this but it was!! 2 year old Nokia N73, looking down the 26mm eyepiece of my 8" Meade LX200 GPS!!! Its a lot better than...

Hi John, Hurricane Ike is passing south of here by a wide margin (winds currently are about 35 knots on the reef). I've "retired" (moved it to the office)...

Clouds cut this one short ... 14 by 120 sec with no darks or flats (I had less than 20 minutes to cover up for an approaching storm). This is not a big...

Hi to all again... as promised yesterday here is the last image taken on the night between 22/23 December. Resized for the newsgroup. Same instruments as for...

Sorry, I have not gotten any ALT....ASTRO for two days. Earthlink sent a message today saying that their server has been upgraded. I can't image nothing...

Arp 181 is a pair of NGC objects in northern Draco about 429 to 440 million light-years away. Arp put it in his category for galaxies with narrow filaments....

Arp 74/UGC 01626 is a pair of galaxies not far from Gamma Andromeda. Arp put it in his class for spirals with high surface brightness companions on their arm....

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To make a space art picture like that one Chlesley Bonestell did of Saturn as seen from Minas, I grabbed a recent image of Saturn and photoshopped a picture...

Here's a photoshopped "eye candy" picture that would be taken by an orbiting space probe close to Mars. A shot of Mars' horizon with the two moons off in...

See I forgot ASTRO in the header. Trying again with links to the images to save bandwidth. B174/LDN1164 is a dark nebula that nearly fits my field of view. ...