This was another side-quest project while waiting for a much bigger project's target to rise. The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a star-forming area and emission nebula that's part of a much larger area named IC1396. It hangs out about 2400 light years away in the same chunk of sky as the constellation …

Honestly, this started out as another "filler" project. I was looking ahead to winter projects and wanted to get fairly deep looks at several targets I hadn't shot before. A little over a month ago when I started this, those targets didn't get high enough in the sky to start imaging until several ho…

The Soul Nebula is very near my last project, the Heart Nebula, and is also an emission nebula in the Cassiopeia constellation. I captured over 56 hours of data for this image between October 17th and 23rd, 2024. I think this is another "my biggest project to date." I used Siril’s OSC_Extract_HaOIII…

The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula in the Cassiopeia constellation. The light from this left the Heart Nebula 7,500 years ago and thankfully found its way to my telescope. It's massive at 165 light years across. Between Oct 9 and Oct 16, 2024, I captured almost 43 hours of data for this image. I…

The Pacman Nebula is another new target for me. It's an emission nebula in the Cassiopeia constellation. It's about 9500 light years away and 48 light years across. Between Sep 9 and Oct 8th, I captured 35 hours of data. I used Siril’s OSC_Extract_HaOIII script and a 60/40 Ha/OIII split on the green…

This is Sh2-54, an emission nebula region in the Serpens constellation. It's about 6200 light years away and 126 light years across. I've imaged the Eagle Nebula and Omega Nebula near this, but I haven't imaged Sh2-54 before. I decided to shoot it late in its season, so I was only able to get a few …

In between other projects over the last three months, I snuck in exposures of M27. I started the project by just shooting a few test frames when I needed an easy target. That evolved into a little side quest to get enough data for a decent image. Most nights, I imaged M27 after one target had set wh…

My longest project to date at 38.5 hours of imaging, this is NGC7822. NGC7822 is in the constellation Cepheus. It contains a large emission nebula, Sharpless 171, a star cluster Berkeley 59 and a young star forming region. The nebula is about 2900 light years away and about 75 light years across. I …

The Wizard Nebula is an open star cluster with a large emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is about 8500 light years away and about 20 light years across. I captured this data between July 16th and August 2nd, 2024 and combined a total of 26.5 hours of imaging for this photo.&nb…

I crunched some more data from the telescope in Chile. This is 100 sub-exposures at 120 seconds each taken with an Explore Scientific ED102 refractor on an iOptron GEM28 mount with an ASI183MC camera. Processed with Siril, GraXpert, StarNet, NXT and Photoshop.…