I recently aquired a TS 80/480 triplet APO that works quite well with the reducer for my Skywatcher ED120, giving a focal length of 416mm. I chose IC 1848 for...

UGCA 92 is a member of the highly obscured Maffei group. It is located in Camelopardalis some 6.5 million light-years away. Distance to these obscured...

DDO 005/PGC 2689 is a strange galaxy near the right edge of my image. A note at NED shows lots of confusion about this galaxy in the MCG catalog (it is MCG...

M74 is a face on grand design spiral galaxy located in Pisces about 32 million light-years away according to the HST website. Most sources say it is 100,000...

Arp 9/NGC 2523 is in Arp's class for spiral galaxies with split arms. Arp's comment reads: "Bifurcated arm does not start at end of bar". In fact it has...

NGC 7694 is an irregular Magellanic galaxy in Pisces. NED and the NGC Project both class it as Im Pec? The MCG catalog has a couple comments I can't...

VdB 1 is a reflection nebula complex just south of Beta Cassiopeia. Fortunately for my narrow angle view I didn't have to deal with it but did have to watch...

I was finally able to get out to the observatory last night. Had a very good session. This is the core of the Heart Nebula. This nebula is so large that I...

SH2-197 is a very unusual entry in the Sharpless catalog of Nebula. It was compiled in 1959 from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates. #197 fooled...

The Violin Clef galaxy has no catalog name that I could find. A radio source is located nearby however, NVSS J000415+032242. The coordinates for the galaxy...

HIPASS J2351+20 (HI Parkes All-Sky Survey) is a system of three galaxies at about 235 million light-years located in the Great Square of Pegasus. All three...

Continuing with my dark period imaging. This one is even fainter than the last one. Cas 1 (not to be confused with Cas A a supernova remnant) is a heavily...

Arp 61/UGC 3104 falls under Arp's category for spiral galaxies with high contrast companions on an arm. It is located in the constellation of Eridanus. ...

NGC 1154 and NGC 1155 are a pair of galaxies in western Eridanus about 200 million light-years distant. While it isn't mentioned in the literature that I...

NGC 262 is a much studied spiral galaxy in Andromeda about 190 million light-years away. It somehow missed being in Arp's Atlas as it would fit his category...

NGC 6643 is a nearby spiral galaxy in Draco about 65 million light-years by redshift. Like NGC 7260 in my post of a couple days ago, I put it on my to-to...

I couldn't sleep Tuesday night, so I stayed up and worked on some of my early images. This is my latest attempt to make old data look new. I think it looks...

I took the data for this image on April 18th of this year at Curby, but when I processed it, I didn't like the result, and set it aside. I came back to it...

NGC 7257/7260 is located in northern Aquarius about 200 million light-years distant by redshift measurements. Due to a positional error mid 19th century it...

This is another retry at an Arp entry I wasn't happy with the first time around. I wanted to get a lot more time but the weather had other ideas and most of...