Not done much astrophotography recently but here are two pictures of moon taken in December last year
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Just love these photographs!!! That sky is amazing
The colors of the sunset that we saw coming home from an adventure on Cayuga Lake near Ithaca NY. This image is from the Rt. 201 crossing in Johnson City New York.
The moon coming up over the horizon at 6:57pm local time on the Vestal Parkway East. Also on the Rt. 201 Crossing.
9:24pm from the front yard in Binghamton NY.
9:32pm
9:47pm
10:03pm
And my last image of the night taken at 10:09pm. It was a fun, enjoyable outing to watch as the moon was going through its eclipse and I learned some new things with my camera as well. Night shots are still something that I’m working on and hope to master some day. Until the next eclipse, enjoy MT 🙂
Western Veil Nebula
Posted: August 26, 2015 in AstronomyTags: Astrophotography, Western Veil Nebula
NGC6960 sometimes known as the ‘witches broomstick’. Here are a couple of not terrible successful attempts by me to photograph it. The presence of a bright object alongside it makes the duration of the open shutter problematic. I tried doing longer shots but the nebula just gets blotted out by the bright object.
NGC 6960 (H alpha filtered)
NGC 6960 (Omega 3 filtered)
Taken using the Bradford Robotic telescope.
Here is another much more successful picture of the whole nebula, which shows how it became to be known as ‘the witches broomstick’
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By Hewholooks (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Eastern Veil Nebula (colour image)
This is a new target for me. The eastern veil nebula forms part of an area of heated ionized gas known collectively as the Veil Nebula. It is the remnant of a supernova that exploded 5-8 thousand years ago. It can be found in the constellation Cygnus and is approx 1470 light years from earth.
Eastern Veil Nebula (Omega -3 filter)
Eastern Veil Nebula (H-alpha filter)
I found this really amazing photo of the nebula taken by the Hubble telescope
photo from Hubble Heritage (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hubble-heritage/)
“NH-Pluto-color-NewHorizons-20150713” by NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI – http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR.png. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-Pluto-color-NewHorizons-20150713.png#/media/File:NH-Pluto-color-NewHorizons-20150713.png
Pluto as seen by New Horizons satellite 2015
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has reached its closest point to Pluto and is now sending back the most detailed pictures of the planets surface.
More images can be seen at http://earthsky.org/space/pluto-charon-new-horizons-flyby-updates-july-2015?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=818c35b2d9-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-818c35b2d9-393761461
Demairans Nebula
Posted: July 4, 2015 in AstronomyTags: Astrophotography, Demairans nebula, Orion Nebula
Omega 3 filter
This nebula is part of the Orion Nebula complex and is seperated from the main nebula by a lane of dust.
H-alpha filter
Taken using the Bradford Robotic telescope
Triangulum Galaxy
Posted: June 27, 2015 in AstronomyTags: Astrophotography, Bradford Robotic telescope, Triangulum galaxy
Located in the constellation Triangulum, from which it takes its name, this spiral galaxy is the 3rd largest after the Milky way and the Andromeda galaxy. It may be a bound satellite of the Andromeda galaxy. It is 3 million light years from earth; has a diameter of 60,000 light years and is estlimated to contain around 40
billion stars.
Unfiltered image
Infra-Red filter
Blue Filter
Red Filter
These are some photos taken using the Bradford Robotic telescope
The Lagoon Nebula is found in the constellation Sagittarius and is approx 4-6,000 light years from Earth. It is approx 110 by 50 light years in size and contains an area of active star formation.
These are some colour filtered shots of the Nebula
Haven’t found much time for astrophotography recently but here are some pictures of the Whirlpool Galaxy I have taken
