These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

— William Shakespeare

Astrophotography

The dark side of photography. Deep space and planetary imaging. Occasionally some day light pictures of the Sun.

The Trifid Nebula

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/28/2013 - 12:28pm

The trifid nebula. Shot in H alpha light a earlier this week. Total exposure about one hour.

The Trifid Nebula

The omega nebula

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/28/2013 - 12:26pm

The Omega Nebula shot over two nights this week.

About half hour in H-Alpha light and 10 minutes each in RGB

The omega nebula

The Pelican Nebula

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/28/2013 - 12:24pm

THe pelican nebula a couple of nights ago, shot in Halpha 1/2 hour exposure.

The Pelican Nebula

Lagoon Nebula

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/21/2013 - 7:34pm

Half hour image through H alpha filter of the Lagoon Nebula 

Lagoon Nebula

Eagle nebula

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/21/2013 - 7:32pm

The Eagle Nebula in Sagittarius. 1.5 hour image H Alpha and RGB filters 

Eagle nebula

Crescent in Cygnus (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105)

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/14/2013 - 9:19am

The crescent nebula in Cygnus. Taken over two nights, first in H-Alpha light, then in filtered Red Green and Blue light. Total exposure 1.5 hours for the hydrogen alpha light and 15 minutes for each color.

The color light was taken last night, the H alpha a week prior. Both shot through a 5" f7 refractor from Verona on a crescent and subsequent first quarter moon nights. 

Crescent in Cygnus (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105)

Crescent in Cygnus

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/07/2013 - 9:18pm

Crescent in Cygnus from Verona. 1.5 hours exposure.

Crescent in Cygnus

bubble in cassiopea

By marzulloj at Sat, 09/07/2013 - 9:14pm
bubble in cassiopea

Bubble In Cassiopea

By marzulloj at Sun, 09/01/2013 - 9:09am

The bubble nebula in Cassiopea, also known as Caldwell 11.

Two hours H Alpha exposure through a 5" refractor and Starlight express CCD camera.

Bubble In Cassiopea

C/2011 L4 PANSTARR

By ebfaulkner6a at Thu, 06/20/2013 - 9:52am

Experimenting with PANSTARR L4 located near the dipper of Ursa Minor, 6x5min exposures with 30 sec delay between images, negative (inverted) image taken with Explore Scientific 127mm EDT carbon fiber telescope on CGEM DX mount "star" guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar. 6-19-2013 10 pm

C/2011 L4 PANSTARR