This one was one of my better images taken in 2012. I had a new camera and I was putting it through its paces.
The Flaming Star Nebula and the “Tadpoles”
Category Archives: Nebulae
California Nebula
The beautiful California Nebula in Perseus.
The Orion Nebula Complex, January 2012
This was 84 sub-images of 3 min each at ISO 800 combined with 5 subs of 15 minutes each shot at ISO 400. All images done with a Televue TV-85 with a 0.8x focal reducer for F/5.6 speed, a Canon T3 modified DSLR camera and a IDAS-LPR filter.
Gamma Cass, IC 63 & IC 59
I took this with my Televue TV-85 refractor and combined 2 nights worth of data. The exposures ran like this: 46×180″ ISO1600, 11×900″ ISO400 and 57×360″ ISO800. Gamma Cassiopeia is the really bright star in the center and overwhelms the sensor, so I had to suppress it quite a bit in processing.
The Belt of Orion
This is a composite image of the Belt of Orion area combining images shot with a Canon 200 mm F/2.8 lens at F/3.5 and at F/2.8, plus the Orion Nebula area and Horsehead area each imaged separately with a TV-85. RegiStar was used to align the separate images and PSCS2 was used to stack and blend the images together and crop them to form the final version seen here.
M45 – The Pleiades
M45 2011 Version – Calibrated and stacked in IRIS, export to PSD file. Post processing in PSCS2 with Noel Carboni’s Astronomy Tools, Gradient Xterminator, Neat Image, Astroplugins, DeepSkyColors HLVG and WhiteCal and CS2 Smartsharpen.
The Lagoon Nebula – M8
The Horse Head Nebula
One of my better Horse Head Nebula images. This was taken in Dec ’07 with the TV-85 APO.
M8 and M20 w/200mm F/2.8 Canon Telephoto
One of my better images of this rich Milky Way area containing the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae. Shooting in the middle of summer is always tough, but I got a break when I took these some time in July of 2007.
Rho Ophiuchus Complex
Back when the southern sky was still dark enough to shoot long exposures, I managed to do 3 minute subs at F/2.8 and ISO 400 speeds. Taken sometime in July of 2007.