This was a nasty. Minor Planet Center's orbital elements weren't right as an hour of fruitless hunting pointed out to me. JPL's site was unreachable due to...

FGC 1471 is an edge on spiral in Coma Berenices. NED says it SA(s)b? with two cores separated by 0.8" one Sy3 the other Sy1.9. I rather like flat galaxies...

Abell 48/Pk 29+0.1 is a very red planetary nebula in eastern Aquila just above Scutum, right in the heart of the Milky Way. One estimate of its distance put...

I'm jumping out of order here. Normally I post in order taken (FIFO) which means I'm processing and posting February images. But I took an image in late May...

Well I got tired of M42 so I moved on to this. Its a lot more challenging shooting through a 26mm ep with a 4064mm F.L. This was taken through a 16" f/10 SCT...

this came out a little better: more signal, 9 x 10 minutes binned 2x2 from the Stinger 450 at 5760mm focal length and f/12.6 halpha from baader, pl9K from...

Not to be confused with Jones Emberson 1. I was surprised to find nearly half the images turned up by Google that were labeled Jones 1 were really Jones...

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...

The Cancer Galaxy Cluster is far larger than my field of view. It is about 220 million light-years distant and in the constellation of Cancer of course. I...

NGC 7380 is an open cluster, only part of which is in the image with the rest off the right side. My viewing logs of it and those of other club members I...

I'm down to processing the worst of the data taken when the screw fell out of my filter wheel. In this case the color images were so bad nothing could...

Stefan drew my attention to this one. I didn't expect conditions to allow me to get it until next year but we had a night of near ice free conditions that...

NGC 3367 is a rather small (a bit more than 2 arcminutes) galaxy in the southern part of Leo. I "found" it in a wide field image of M95/M96, where it was...

NGC 6826 is apparently the only known triple shell, giant halo planetary. Considering there are only 3 in the first category and 6 in the second that isn't...

It's a bonus when I can get two strange objects in one field. This possibility is why I invested in as large of a chip as was available at the time I bought...

Hey Guys, NGC 4565, 6 x 120 sec No autoguiding No filters 10 SCT with fr 6.3 Homebuild CCD camera (cooled) Evening started clouded but ended up clear, due to...

I see the local farmers are just now starting to plant their sunflower fields so time to process my image of M63 I took some time back. I imaged it last...

First light, new camera... Guess I can't complain about the moon at least the sky was clear enough to try out the QHY8, http://www.qhyccd.com/QHY8.html It is...

I was working on polar alignment of the 6-inch Astro-Physics refractor and got it tracking well enough that I figured I'd try some planetary images. Since I...