The imaging session was cut short by clouds, resulting in less than two hours of exposure time
Read MoreOrion from Horsehead to M42 in color
Category Archives: deepsky
From the Horsehead to the Orion Nebula
To be able to use a wide field with nebulosity in the constellation Orion I used the unmodified Nikon Z6 in combination with a 35nm h-alpha filter to be able to show the faint hydrogen clouds which are visible here.
Read MoreIC1848 – Soul nebula
Sometimes IC1848 is also called the soul nebula, can you see why? This is my longest exposure yet. The 35mm h-alpha filter allowed to bring out the faint nebulosity in spite of the nearly full moon.
Heart Nebula
IC 1805 is a cloud of glowing hydrogen in the constellation Perseus. The gas is ionized by the hot young stars of the cluster Melotte 15 at the nebula’s center.
Read MoreNorth America and Pelican Nebula
The North America (NGC7000) and Pelican Nebula (IC7000) get their iconic shapes from an obscuring cloud of dust that is silhouetted against the glowing cloud of ionized hydrogen.
Read More2019 Summer Milky Way
I used the new moon weekend before the nights become too short later in June to shoot some images of the summer Milky Way.
Galaxies with 60mm
The constellation Virgo is home to the Virgo galaxy cluster, the largest in our vicinity (if you count millions of lightyears as vicinity). The image above are individual crops from an image taken with a 60mm refractor telescope.
Read MoreM81 & M82 with 60mm aperture
M78 and the Monkey’s Head
Even after more than two hours of exposure the image of the reflection nebula M78 and it’s surroundings is quite grainy. This object needs much more exposure. When pushing the raw files to bring out the faint nebulosity the background becomes a bit streaky, therefore I kept the image quite dark.
Read MoreComet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto
