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The Night Sky from my back yard. Posting telescope images taken from my back yard.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎Jason PerezDrop a comment to welcome them to our community,
08/30/2026

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Jason Perez

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

WR 134 - A Wolf-Rayet Star Region In Cygnus.Not sure about this one. This is a 7 hour exposure with my 8 inch SCT and Op...
08/27/2026

WR 134 - A Wolf-Rayet Star Region In Cygnus.
Not sure about this one. This is a 7 hour exposure with my 8 inch SCT and Optolong L-eXtreme Dual-band Filter.

Iris NebulaThis a nice image of the Iris Nebula I took after the simple process of aligning my telescope's internal mirr...
08/27/2026

Iris Nebula

This a nice image of the Iris Nebula I took after the simple process of aligning my telescope's internal mirrors so that light travels straight to camera. Proper alignment gives you sharp, clear images of stars and planets. Without it, views look blurry or smeared.
It is only a 1 hour 33 min. exposure but still looks nice. I going to add more time to this one with my Meade 8 inch SCT telescope.

The Tulip Nebula.Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is som...
08/17/2026

The Tulip Nebula.

Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically.
This is a 6 hour exposure I took with a Optolong L-eXtreme and my Meade 8 inch SCT.

Messier 57 The Ring Nebula.I took this image after collimating mirrors /lens on my Meade 8" SCT. We need a collimated le...
08/04/2026

Messier 57 The Ring Nebula.
I took this image after collimating mirrors /lens on my Meade 8" SCT. We need a collimated lens system to get nice round stars. So after the collimating it's time to test to see if the stars are round. YEP.. I also see some else in this 52 min. exposure taken with my 8" SCT. Can you see the little fuzzy about 11 o'clock from M57?
That's IC1296 is an extremely faint barred spiral galaxy of Hubble-type SBbc in the constellation Lyra in the northern sky. It is estimated to be 238 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 97,000 light-years in diameter. I think I will keep imaging IC 1296 to if I can get more details. But for 52 minutes not to bad so far.

I have been changing out gear in my observatory. I named my observatory, The Yellow Star observatory. We have a consider...
08/04/2026

I have been changing out gear in my observatory. I named my observatory, The Yellow Star observatory. We have a considerable upgrade in the making. A new MLAstro One Harmonic drive equatorial/alt-az dual-mode mount with a Load Capacity for
Imaging: Up to 35 kg without CW. With Robotic Polar Alignment Ready. How cool is that? I swill now be able to use my dual Meade 8" scopes. This set up is about 52 pounds and is just to much weight for my Sky watcher EQ6 Pro mount.
To learn more about the MLAstro One Harmonic drive mount go to MLAstro web site. All the information you will need to know about the system.

With MLAstro – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers 🎉
07/21/2026

With MLAstro – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers 🎉

The North America Nebula.I have been working with the Askar color magic filter set to see what I can do. So far this is ...
07/07/2026

The North America Nebula.
I have been working with the Askar color magic filter set to see what I can do. So far this is two areas of The North America Nebula. I took the images in 2025. Total exposure time of the first three images are 5 hours and 35 min. The first two images are close up shot of the third image. The last full view of The North America Nebula is a four panel Mosaic I have been working on and to continuing this summer.

Messier 94 - The Cat's Eye GalaxyMessier 94 (M94) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It’s a...
06/08/2026

Messier 94 - The Cat's Eye Galaxy

Messier 94 (M94) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It’s about 16 million light years from us and has two rings. The inner ring structure is about 5,400 light years wide, and the outer ring is about 45,000 light years across. The outer ring contains more than 20% of the galaxy’s mass. There is a lot of star formation occurring occurring in this galaxy, particularly in the central region. There are numerous other little galaxies in the image.
This is a 7 hour and 45 min. exposure I took over two nights.

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