Messier 20 – The Trifid Nebula, and Messier 21
The Trifid Nebula is located a little above the Lagoon Nebula when viewed facing south in the northern hemisphere. It is an interesting mixture of emission, reflection, and dark nebulae…
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Messier 8 – The Lagoon Nebula
The image in this article was reprocessed using improved tools and techniques. To see the original image, click here. If you live in the mid- to lower-latitudes of the northern…
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North America and Pelican Nebulae
The image in this article was reprocessed using improved tools and techniques. To see the original image, click here. Another break in the weather! My son and I went out…
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Antares Nebula
Amid the continuing spring storms, the sky cleared up for a few hours one Saturday night/Sunday morning. I went to the Dominey Observatory to visit a friend and do some…
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Reprocessed Images
Astrophotography, in my experience, is one of those things where the quality of the results is often proportional to the expense. And by "expense," I mean in both time and…
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Spaced Out
March 24, 2022 - March 27, 2022 This is a long post with a lot of technical gobbledygook. If you just want to look at the pictures, then scroll to…
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First Success
I purchased a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount a few years ago, but it has mostly sat unused for reasons that I won’t go into here. Its performance on the few…
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