Hi all, this is a great nebula located in the south-west part of Cepheus, with nicknamed the Flying Bat Nebula. Given the large size of the nebula was...

Last year I had some, for me, great seeing and got 9 20 minute luminosity frames of this one binned 1x1 for 0.5" pixels. But the color data was weak and...

Just occasionally you wake up just before dawn and get a perfect sky... Vixen SP102M, Nikon 4500 Kev - Scarborough

As I said a beautiful morning, and our first frost. Wouldn't normally post this, but it does show the sky conditions when I took the moon pic. Quite pleased...

Arp 202 is a pair of interacting galaxies about 150 million light-years from us in southern Lynx. Arp classed them under Galaxies not classifiable as E or...

Arp 329 aka Hickson 55 is yet another chain of elliptical galaxies Arp logically put in his Group Character: Chains of galaxies class. Also known as UGC...

Hi All At least a clear sunny day, hooray. Here's the sunspot currently visible. White light only as not much doing Ha. Usual details, Vixen SP102m, Green...

I could not pass NGC 1365 when I was in Namibia... Meade 10" ACF at f/7.2 on Vixen New Atlux Mount, SXV-H9 camera, 6x15 Minutes for Lum, 15 minutes each for...

21x5 minutes at8rc &st2000xm -- John N. Gretchen III http://www.tisd.net/~jng3

Time for a break from Arp galaxies. I took NGC 2346 last January. I'm a bit behind in my processing. It is a rather famous planetary nebula in Monoceros...

Dang, forgot ASTRO: again ______________________________ Arp 215, NGC 2782, is thought to be the result of two galaxies that have almost merged. The core is...

Was a nice sunny warm day yesterday and slightly hazy last night, needless to say its now raining, blowing hard and cold. Just when I was in the mood for...

Hi All OK, its not deep sky. I left the scope out after doing the sun during the daytime, got these shots of the moon, expecting to leave it out all night...

Hi Group, Can anyone here explain what is happening in the enclosed processed AVI? It was taken with an Orion USA Solar system webcam, through a C9.25 SCT...

Arp 215, NGC 2782, is thought to be the result of two galaxies that have almost merged. The core is still elongated and appears double at some wavelengths. ...

Arp 126 is an interacting galaxy pair also known as UGC 1449. The pair are about 240 million light-years distant. The northern galaxy of the pair is classed...

I have some more pictures from Kiripotib Farm in Namibia, this is the barred spiral NGC 1672 in Doradus (a bit above the large magellanic cloud). Taken from...

I hope you will appreciate the enclosed picture taken out from a mosaic of 20 images in Hydrogen-Alpha of the heart of Cygnus: from gamma to eta Cygnus: : The...

ARP 335 (NGC 3509) is a possible double galaxy that Arp put in his Miscellaneous category, M82 being the well known galaxy in this classification. Looks to...

Used 1.15:1.00:1.10 G2V color balance as specified for my camera and filter combination. Hardly can tell any difference.