The Flaming Star Region, including the Flaming Star Nebula (Sh2-229, IC405), the Tadpole Nebula (Sh2-236, IC410), the Spider Nebula (Sh2-234, IC417), the Fly Nebula (Sh2-237), the Starfish Cluster (M38), and some more stuff. This is a wide field monochrome image using 3 hours of Ha data taken from my backyard in the light-polluted Frankfurt area […]
This is a very wide field monochrome image of the region around the Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster. They are sitting in the middle of a much larger emission nebula with lots of structures. Composed of more than 6 hours of Ha data taken from my backyard in the light-polluted Frankfurt area – […]
Dark nebula Barnard 22 with embedded reflection nebula IC2087. An LRGB composite using 30+20+20+20 individual frames with 900 sec exposure time. Data taken at the Deep Sky West Observatory. Exposure: LRGB, (30,20,20,20) x 900sec Date: 2017-01-22…28 Setup: Takahashi FSQ106 EDXIII with QSI 683WSG-8 Site: Deep Sky West Observatory, NM, USA
This is a first test image with a new setup at Deep Sky West – an Astro-Physics 305mm f3.8 Riccardi-Honders Astrograph. A nice galaxy machine.. here M106 as a test. Exposure: LRGB, (27,33,18,33) x 300sec Date: 2017-02-22…2017-03-15 Setup: Astro-Physics RH-305 with FLI ML8300 Site: Deep Sky West Observatory, NM, USA