Astro Blog

Nov 162010

I shot this data one night back in August and just got around to processing it. NGC6888 in Cygnus is a shell of gas blown off by the strong stellar winds of the bright Wolf-Rayet star in the center of the nebula. This image also captures a lot of the surrounding nebulosity.



Posted by Mike
Nov 092010

I have broken my dry spell with this 21 hour exposure of the face on spiral in Triangulum. This is a much photographed object but it has been many years since I shot it and thought it worthy of revisiting. I did not use the Hydrogen-alpha filter at all in this composite and yet I think the HII regions show up nicely. This was a fun project. Hope you enjoy it!



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