Astronomy Nightly

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.…

The Lion Nebula is another nebula in the northern sky’s constellation Cepheus. It's a large area with emission nebula along with several star clusters and dark dust areas. I captured this data between July 10th and July 15th, 2024 and combined a total of 24.5 hours of imaging for this photo. Here's …

The Iris Nebula is a reflection nebula in the northern sky's constellation Cepheus. It's roughly 6 light years across and 1400 light years from Earth. The bright nebula core is surrounded by a huge area of dark dust that I previously haven't had much luck capturing because of how faint it is. To bri…