Smoke visible with the setting sun
Barnard 150 Dark Nebula
M45 – The Pleiades
NGC 7129
SH2-155
SH2-171
Oct 122024
Oct 122024
Three nights with generally good conditions with the seemingly always present wildfire smoke.
IC 5146 – The Cocoon Nebula
SH2-88
NGC 6914 Reflection Nebula
TBD on some widefield DSLR shots
Jan 212024
M78 / NGC 2068 Reflection nebula in Orion. FSQ-106ED with QHY268C
NGC 1333 – A Reflection nebula in Perseus. FSQ-106ED with QHY268C
NGC 2264 – The Christmas Tree / Cone Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. FSQ-106ED with QHY268C
M45 aka The Pleiades, The Seven Sisters, Subaru (ever noticed the Subaru car logo?) FSQ-106ED with QHY268C
Auriga: The Flaming Star, The Tadpoles, The Spider and Fly Nebula… Canon R6 with Rokinon 135mm
The Witches Head in Orion – Truly a difficult target and I pushed harder than the skies allowed. Canon R6 with Rokinon 135mm
Best Meteor of the Night!
Jan 212024
NGC 281 / IC 11 / Sh2-184 – Commonly called the Pacman Nebula. Located in the Perseus Spiral Arm of the Milkyway. Taken over multiple nights totally 26 hours of total emission line exposure time from Clinton, TN.
Close up crop showing some of the interesting Bok Globules; dark nebulas of dense cosmic dust and gas from which new star formation can begin.
Jan 212024
NGC 7023 – The Iris Nebula
The Cave Nebula
Jan 212024
Dec 102022
IC 348 FSQ-106ED Scope with QHY268C Camera on AP900GTO Mount, 5.67 Hours Total Exposure
IC 348 Annotated
NGC 1788, FSQ-106ED Scope with QHY268C Camera on AP900GTO Mount, 8 hours total exposure
NGC 1788 Annotated
NGC1333 -AP92 Stowaway Scope with ZWO ASI533C camera on Atlas Mount, 6.1 hours total exposure
NGC 1333 Annotated
NGC 7293 – The Helix Nebula: AP92 Stowaway Scope, ZWO ASI533C camera, Atlas Mount. 4 hours total exposure time.
NGC 7293 – The Helix Nebula Annotated
IC 405 – The Flaming Star Nebula. AP92 Stowaway Scope, ZWO ASI533C Camera, Atlas EQ-G Mount. 7.9 Hours total exposure.
IC 405 Annotated
NGC 7822 – FSQ-106ED Scope with QHY268C Camera on AP900GTO Mount, 4.1 hours total exposure
NGC 7822 Annotated
Jul 122022
We had four relatively clear nights in a row. Some didn’t start great but all four produced usable imaging time even if the nights aren’t much more than 4 hours of astronomical darkness this time of year.
A couple shots with the Canon 6D DSLR and a Rokinon 135mm wide open at f/2.
M16 & M17 
M16 & M17 Annotated 
M8 Lagoon & M20 Triffid 
M8 Lagoon & M20 Triffid Annotated
vdB 123 
vdB Annotated
vdB 123 – Taken with FSQ-106ED and QHY268C OSC CMOS Camera on an AP900GTO Mount, 58 x 5min exposures totaling 4.8 Hours Exposure across two nights.
Sh2-136 
Sh2-136 Annotated
Sh2-136 Taken with FSQ-106ED and QHY268C OSC CMOS Camera on AP900GTO Mount, 79 x 5 minute exposures totaling ~6.6 Hours Exposure time across two nights.
M20 – The Trifid Nebula 
M20 – The Trifid Nebula Annotated
M20 – The Trifid Nebula: ZWO 533C OSC CMOS Camera with AP92 Refractor on Atlas EQ-G Mount. 57 x 5min exposures for a total of 4.75 hours captured across two nights.
May 072022
- Image Acquisition Location: Clinton, TN; Home Observatory
- Scope: AP130GTX
- Mount: AP1200GTO
- Camera: QHY268M
- Image Scale: ~0.92 arcsec/pixel
Sep 262021
