A bright asteroid moved into the field of view when I was taking the sub-images for this object. I made a quickie composite to show my buddies on the astro-imaging forum I frequent.
Asteroid 7 Iris and The Sombrero Galaxy
Category Archives: Galaxies
NGC 1365 Fornax Spiral Galaxy
Taken in January of 2008. Reworked in 2016. A very southern target and hard to get a good window to shoot sub-images. I managed only 10 shots for this particular imaging session. At minimum it needs quadruple that, unfortunately.
Comet Holmes on Jan 12, 2008
Comet Holmes passing through a galaxy cluster. Note all the faint fuzzies in the background.
Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4565
This image was taken with an 8″ F/4 Schmidt-Newtonian telescope. 32×6 minute exposures @ ISO 800 were used.
M51 Spiral Galaxy
One of my better M51 images from back in the day.
The Owl Nebula & M98 Galaxy
This was taken with my Meade SN-8 and a modified Canon 350XT. I have three detail views from this. Here’s a close-up of the Owl Nebula. Here’s the detail view of M98. Finally, I have a detail view of a compact galaxy group called, Hickson 50. Those smudges of light are galaxies that are over 2 billion light-years away!
M64, The Black Eye Galaxy
This image of the Black Eye galaxy was one of my better ones taken with my Celestron C8 that I’ve been having since 1983. It won a contest on the astro forums I frequent back in 2006.