M42 C8 & TV-85 Data Combined
Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae Wide Field – Reworked
Here’s a rework of an image with data from higher resolution images overlayed on a base image that was taken with my 200mm F/2.8 Canon telephoto lens. The overlay images were closeups of M8 and M20 taken with the TV-85 telescope.
Moon Phases 2016
The Orion Nebula – Reworked Data from the C8
Here’s a reprocess of data taken on Nov 28, 2014. This was 24×60 sec and 27×300 sec @ ISO 1600 taken with a C8 at F/6.3, an IDAS-LPS filter and a Canon T3 (modified.)
Comet Lovejoy & The Little Dumbbell Nebula – Take Two
A closer pairing of Comet Lovejoy and the Little Dumbbell Nebula on the night of Feb 20, 2015, plus another tail disruption event was in progress.
Comet Lovejoy & The Little Dumbbell Nebula
The last significant encounter with another Messier object for Comet Lovejoy Q2 before it dims down more and moonlight eventually spoils the view. The best part of the apparition is about over. From now on, the comet will get fainter as it recedes from Earth and heads back out into deep space.
Its has been a fun time imaging this bright comet over the last two months. I had good public exposure with 2 news organizations publishing two of my images, one of them being NBCNews.com. Hopefully, another bright comet will soon appear and put on another show for us. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. 🙂
Comet Lovejoy Animation – Feb 7th to Feb 15th, 2015
Comet Lovejoy Fades – Lost Lots of Its Tail
Looks like the disconnection event over the last two days has shortened Lovejoy down to a nub. I expect that it might grow back a new tail, hopefully.
Here’s an another version of the data, but I added 35 minutes more of exposure to the mix:
The Orion Nebula with a Stock DSLR
Comet Lovejoy Tail Disruption Event
The nearly disconnected tail of Lovejoy blowing in the solar wind. Something in the local space environment disrupted it within the last 2 days, it seems. Probably some kind of solar event like a CME or rogue magnetic field change caused this.