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Messier 77 and NGC 1055 - RGB - DSOC - 29h 50m - 2023-12-27.jpg This is M77 (top) and NGC 1055 (bottom). From my reading M77, aside from the obvious ring structure is a barred spiral galaxy and has an active galactic nucleus though those features are hidden from us at optical wavelengths. NGC 1055 ...

It seems the constellation of Andromeda does have more than M31! This is NGC 7640, a barred spiral galaxy. NGC 7640 - LRGB - SRO - 31h 55m - 2023-12-12.jpg This is 31h 55m of LRGB data Lum 69×900″(17h 15′) bin 1×1 Red 29×600″(4h 50′) bin 2×2 Blue30×600″(5h) bin 2×2 Green 29×600″(4h 50′) bin 2×2 Equi...

M33 is a perennial favorite for imaging and for good reason. This was my third attempt and on the largest scope with the finest image scale and I was amazed at the level of fine detail visible in the galaxy. It's worth viewing at full size! This is 40h 55m of HaLRGB data. You can see all the technic...

Messier 20 - HaSOLRGB - 2023-09-29.jpg M20, the Triffid, the nebula that everyone has seen a picture of even if they aren't interested in astronomy. For some reason I'd never seen an image of the Triffid that showed a lot of detail, especially in the reflection nebula so I was surprised and a bit a...

WR 134 - HOO - 2023-08-10.jpg WR 134 was one of the first three Wolf-Rayet stars identified in 1867 (hard to believe we've been doing spectroscopy for nearly 160 years!) and though the surrounding nebula is not as famous as its cousin the Crescent Nebula), it is still a popular astrophotography tar...

This is Barnard 143 in Aquila. When I started this I thought it was going to be a fairly standard looking dark nebula but there was enough faint detail to bring the dark nebula into the light! This is 24h 55m of LRGB data. The image was processed by me with input from our telescope team members Chri...

antenna galaxies 2.jpg This is an LRGB image of the Antennae Galaxies in Corvus. It is 21.25 hours of LRGB data taken with an FLI ML16803 camera on a Planewave CDK14 all riding on an Astro-Physics 1600GTO mount located at Sierra Remote Observatories in California. The image was processed with PixIn...

m27.jpg This is not your father's dumbbell nebula. :) This is 40h 45m of HOO data on M27. The goal was to see how much of the faint outer fringes of the nebula could be brought out. It took a few rounds of processing to finally strike a good balance between core detail and outskirts detail. It's am...

Deer Lick Group, Stephan's Quintet and some IFN This is 40h 5m of LRGB data acquired on a Planewave CDK14 using an FLI ML16803 at Sierra Remote Observatories in California. Data was acquired rom 16 Oct 2022 through 24 Oct 2022. The image was processed in PixInsight. https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/...

This data was acquired in July & August 2021 before the smoke situation out west got horrible. This is 32.5 hours of HOO data on the Crescent, or as I can't unsee now the "Brain with the Blue Combover Nebula". :) Tech details and full size version available at astrobin: https://www.ast...

Elephant Trunk Closeup (modified SHO) While I think "E.T.'s Finger" might be a better name we'll go with the traditional label. :) This is 25 hours and 15 minutes of data captured between 23 and 30 September 2021. All the tech details along with a full size version are available at astrobi...

The Ghost of Cassiopeia (Sh2-185) in HSO Image acquisition & processing by Linda Thomas-Fowler equipment owned by John Kasianowicz This is 38 hours of HSO data roughly even split across the filters. I tried to process this thematically to try to make the image make the name. that drove the choic...

It's a dusty galaxy out there! https://lindasastronomyadventures.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/ldn673-take3.jpg?w=800 LDN 673, a dark nebula in Aquila. This is 18 hours of LRGB data taken at Sierra Remote Observatories with a Planewave CDK14 and an FLI Proline 16803. All the technical details are on a...

We may have felt like we were living in a bubble the last 16 months but if there is life here, they really are! This is NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula taken with a Planewave CDK14 at Sierra Remote Observatories. This is 28.5 hours presented in an SOH palette. Full size version and tech details at astro...

This is M51, the iconic Whirlpool Galaxy, but for the the star of the show (no pun intended!) is how this pair of galaxies almost makes gravity something you can see. The ballet of gravitation interaction, while frozen in time, feels active and full of motion. https://lindasastronomyadventures.files...

https://lindasastronomyadventures.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/lbn581-hso.jpg?w=900 This is LBN 581 (also known as NGC 7822) in the HSO palette. It is 25.3 hours of data. LBN 581 is very strong in h-alpha and much weaker in both OIII and SII which may explain why it doesn't get a lot of love from im...

Ann wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:03 pm Welcome, Linda! I can see that this is your first post here. Your portrait of M33 looks very nice indeed, particularly at full size.

Do come back here and post more pictures!

Ann

Thanks, Ann!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49362259292_29c71f4580.jpg M33 by Linda Thomas-Fowler , on Flickr 14.7 hours from Bortle 7 sky in Northern Virginia. In the fall, M33 was my secondary target. When the primary target for the night went behind the neighbor's tree I would switch to M33 which, by th...