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Posting telescope images taken from my back yard.

05/30/2026

The Barnard's E dark nebula (B142 and B143)

This is a 2 hour exposure. So many stars and some very nice dark nebula.

05/20/2026

Abell 39

Abell 39 (PN A66 39) is a faint planetary nebula (a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from a red giant star late in life). It is located in the constellation Hercules, which has been almost directly overhead (which helped imaging through our smoky night sky). It is the 39th entry in George Abell's 1966 Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae, discovered as part of the National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. It is about 3,800 light-years from Earth . It is almost perfectly spherical and also one of the largest known spheres with a diameter of 2.8 light-years. This planetary nebula has been expanding for an estimated 11,000 years.

This is a 11 hour exposure. I started working on this nebula last year and this month. I used a Optolong L-Pro

05/14/2026

The Tadpole Nebula

IC 410 (also known as the Tadpole Nebula or IC 410) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. It is part of a larger star-forming complex that includes the nearby IC 405 (Flaming Star Nebula.)

This is a 6 hour and 18 mon. exposure I took over the winter.
The Tadpole's are a
at the top left corner of the nebula.

05/10/2026

M13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules.

Messier 13 (M13), also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a globular cluster located in Hercules constellation. It is one of the brightest and best known globular clusters in the northern sky. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 5.8 and lies at a distance of 22,200 light years, or 6,800 parsecs, from Earth.
After a few night of getting ready for galaxy session I decided to image M13 again. This a 9 hour exposure.
Processing in PixInsight with the new skills I have learned over the few months I was able to bring out the star colors and get a clear and clean background.

05/02/2026

NGC 4151 ("The Eye of Sauron")

This image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151, dubbed “Eye of Sauron. It is 43 million light years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici and is 37,540 light years across.

This is a 6 hour and 30 min. exposure I took last month.

04/29/2026

The Needle Galaxy.

One of my better and favorite Galaxies.

The Needle galaxy, because in most telescopes it looks as thin and sharp as a pin. It is a spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away, but because it is seen almost perfectly edge-on, its spiral structure is concealed.

This is a project I started in 2023 and now I am going to start working on this galaxy added more time to see how well of an image I can get.
This is a 7 hour and 37 min. exposure so far.

04/25/2026

Messier 64
Distance
17 million light-years
Messier 64 (M64), also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, Evil Eye Galaxy, or Sleeping Beauty Galaxy, is a famous spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 64 has an apparent magnitude of 9.3
This is a 10 hour exposure. 119- 5 minute sub frames

02/10/2026

Wizard Nebula.

The Wizard Nebula is a collection of interstellar gas surrounding the open star cluster, NGC 7380. It lies approximately 7200 light-years away from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 7.2 in the constellation Cepheus.
This has been a fun project. I have a 12 hour exposure on the Wizard Nebula using The Askar Color Magic C1 and C2 Filters in the hope to bring out the Ha, OII and SII gas clouds. I think this look very nice.

01/22/2026

Just A little Northern Light from last night.

01/20/2026

Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across – about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri – and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.

The seething star forming this nebula is 45 times more massive than our sun. Gas on the star gets so hot that it escapes away into space as a "stellar wind" moving at over 4 million miles per hour. This outflow sweeps up the cold, interstellar gas in front of it, forming the outer edge of the bubble much like a snowplow piles up snow in front of it as it moves forward.

As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it slams into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble.

Dense pillars of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust appear at the bottom right of the picture, and more "fingers" can be seen nearly face-on, behind the translucent bubble.

In this project I wanted to see the center of the red nebula The Bubble Nebula.
The first two pictures are 2 hour and 30 min. exposures with a 3 inch telescope. The larger picture picture of the Bubble Nebula was taken with my 8 inch telescope also a 2 hour and 30 min. exposure.

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