The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

Astrophotography

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

The bubble ????

By marzulloj at Sat, 12/06/2008 - 7:08pm

One of my favourite objects to image.
This is what I see.....
Now go back to the previous picture and see what you see..
 

The bubble ????

The bubble

By marzulloj at Sat, 12/06/2008 - 7:04pm

One of my favourite objects to image.
This is what the camera sees.....

The bubble

Watcher of the sky

By kuky at Sat, 12/06/2008 - 6:14pm

Watcher of the skies watcher of all
His is a world alone no world is his own,
He whom life can no longer surprise,
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown.

..from "Genesis"

Watcher of the sky

A horse is a horse, of course....

By marzulloj at Sat, 12/06/2008 - 12:37pm

One more shot of the horsehead nebula this early December.
I do not have a Hbeta filter, so the Halpha had to do.

A horse is a horse, of course....

The Pinwheel

By marzulloj at Sat, 12/06/2008 - 12:33pm

This little gem is straight overhead this early december evenings.
Just got my guider so I had to try it. The results are encouraging.

The Pinwheel

Saturn

By Anonymous at Thu, 09/11/2008 - 4:10pm

March 6, 2008

Saturn

NGC8622

By ebfaulkner6a at Sat, 09/06/2008 - 3:37pm

108 one minute combined image of NGC6822 in Sagittarius thru Orion 80ED and Orion Ha filter from southern New Jersey.

NGC8622

Elephant Trunk region

By ebfaulkner6a at Sat, 09/06/2008 - 3:13pm

Taken in August '08  one hour combined image of the Elephant Trunk region processed in Photoshop, false color adds something to it, not sure what! Hehehe.  Shot from Whiting, NJ thru Ha filter.

Elephant Trunk region

IC 1318

By dtrapani at Mon, 08/25/2008 - 8:56pm
IC 1318

Moon @ 8AM_2

By myamiphil at Mon, 08/25/2008 - 8:12pm

Moon a few days after the last Full Moon. 7 images staked with Registax 4.01

Third attempt at using the software. You don't want to see number 2!

Moon @ 8AM_2