Messier 17 – The Omega Nebula
The image in this article was reprocessed using improved tools and techniques. To see the original image, click here. Messier 17, also called the Omega Nebula and the Swan Nebula,…
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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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Messier 92
Clouds, rain, and excessive humidity. That's life in East Texas, especially during the spring and early summer. Soon enough it will probably be hot, dry, and dusty. But for now,…
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Messier 13
It's been raining a lot lately, but one night I was able to take advantage of a short window of clear sky before the humidity got too high. Here are…
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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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Small Problems
The weather was mostly cloudy and rainy for three weeks after my first series of imaging sessions with the Dwarf 3. However, I did manage to get in a short…
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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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