Starship Asterisk*

Object: NGC 4038/4039 - The Antennae Galaxies - 21 July 2004 - FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 7814 - R&B=26 Aug 2006,PseudoGreen - FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 7049 - 13 March 2003 - FITS data obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.
Processing by: Steven Marx Click to view Original FULL scale image

Object: NGC 1579 - Trifid of the North Imaging by: David Kopacz Processing by: Steven Marx Coordinates RA: 04h 30m 09.5s Dec: +35° 16′ 19″ 10.5hr integration at F/3.6 with ASA N10 Newtonian Astrograph. Located in the constellation Perseus about 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across. Illumi...

Object: NGC 6302 - Butterfly Nebula Processing by: Steven Marx NGC 6302 - 27 July 2009 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive. What resembles butterfly wings is actually a dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope o...

Object: NGC 5866 - Spindle Galaxy Processing by: Steven Marx NGC 5866 - 12 Aug 2003 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive. The Spindle Galaxy lies in the Northern constellation Draco, at a distance of 44 million light-years (13.5 Megaparsecs). It has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years (...

Object: NGC 1309 Processing by: Steven Marx NGC 1309 - 27 Sept 2005 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive. A spiral galaxy located approximately 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It is about 30,000 light-years across; about 1/3 the width of our own galaxy, the Milky ...

Object: NGC 5005 Processing by: Steven Marx NGC 5005 - 29 June 2004 - Images obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive. Also known as Caldwell 29 is an inclined spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy has a relatively bright nucleus and a bright disk that contains multiple dust lanes...

Object: NGC 1579 - Trifid of the North Imaging by: David Kopacz Processing by: Steven Marx using PixInsight Coordinates RA: 04h 30m 09.5s Dec: +35° 16′ 19″ 10.5hr integration at F/3.6 with ASA N10 Newtonian Astrograph. Located in the constellation Perseus about 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-yea...

Object: LBN (Lynds Bright Nebula) 438 in Lacerta Imaging by: David Kopacz Processing by: Steven Marx using PixInsight Coordinates RA: 22 41 05.7 Dec: +37 43 35 14hr integration at F/2.8 700mm FL with ASA N10 Newtonian Astrograph. LBN438 is a cometary shaped galactic dark nebula illuminated by an int...

Object: M33 - Triangulum Galaxy A deep look at Messier 33. Imaging by: David Kopacz Processing by: Steven Marx using PixInsight. Coordinates RA: 01h 33m 50.02s Dec: +30° 39′ 36.7″ 98x300s 8.16hr ( NO Ha ) integration at F/2.8 700mm FL with ASA N10 Newtonian Astrograph and FLI ML8300. M33 in the cons...

Object: LBN (Lynds Bright Nebula) 438 ; Lacerta Imaging by: David Kopacz Processing by: Steven Marx using PixInsight Coordinates RA: 22 41 05.7 Dec: +37 43 35 14hr integration at F/2.8 700mm FL with ASA N10 Newtonian Astrograph. Dark nebula in a the constallation Lacerta. Copyright David Kopacz (dat...