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2025 – April Calhoun County Park

 

M63 – AP130EDT w/ ZWO ASI533MC and AP900GTO Mount

 

NGC 3521 – AP130EDT w/ ZWO ASI533MC and AP900GTO Mount

 

The Leo Triplet – AP92 with FF and ASI2600MC Duo and Juwei-17 Mount

 

Markarian’s Chain – AP92 with FF and ASI2600MC Duo and Juwei-17 Mount

 

 

 

Calhoun County Park – August 2024

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

December 2023: Calhoun County Park

 

 

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!

October 2023 – The Pacman Nebula

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.

January 2023 – Sh2-261

Sh2-261 AKA Lower’s Nebula – 10 Hours of Exposure time from Clinton, TN

Sh2-261, also called Lower’s Nebula in honor of Harold and Charles Lower who discovered it in 1939,  is located between the Orion and Perseus arms of the Milkyway.  It is dominated by H-alpha emission with little O[III] emission.