Category: Astrophotos

Here’s another M33 shot incorporating the 22mins of data I had previously and adding another 94 mins of data for a total of 116 mins, approaching 2 hours of 60…

The Andromeda Galaxy (IPA: /ænˈdrɒmɪdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs…

The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by…

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC (New General Catalogue) 598. With…

NGC 869 and 884 are often designated h and χ Persei, respectively. The cluster is about 14 million years old. Located in the Perseus OB1 association, both clusters are located…

Supernova 2022hrs, discovered by amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki on April 16.619 (14:50h UT) is in NGC 4647, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. He used a 0.5-metre,…

It’s always exciting to try out a new setup for the first time, although the net result is generally a picture of all the work that needs to be done…

This image of distant interacting galaxies, known collectively as Arp 142, bears an uncanny resemblance to a penguin guarding an egg. Data was collected on the evening of February 2,…

The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros. Imaged on iTelescope T20, a 106mm Takahashi refractor with an SBIG STL-11000 camera by taking 6 300s exposures each in Luminence, Red, Green, Blue filters…

After attending the Sacramento Mountain Spectroscopy Workshop last year and getting excited about doing spectroscopy on my own telescope, I’ve been looking at various spectrometers for quite a while but…