SH2-290

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: October 28 through December 8, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 795 Minutes

SH2-252

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: November 18 through December 8, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 405 Minutes
Ha = 135 Minutes
O3 = 255 Minutes

IC 1848

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: November 5 through November 21, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 585 Minutes
Ha = 600 Minutes
O3 = 600 Minutes

SH2-273

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: October 6 through November 17, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 615 Minutes
Ha = 360 Minutes
O3 = 450 Minutes

IC 1848

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Dates: October 14 through November 7, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 855 Minutes

SH2-155

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: October 14 through November 1, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 525 Minutes
Ha = 480 Minutes
O3 = 450 Minutes

SH2-254

Sharpless SH2-254 is the central large Nebula in the photo. In addition to this are Sharpless objects SH2-256, SH2-257, Sh2-255 and SH2-258 located above SH2-254. SH2-259 is located on the far left of the picture as the small hazy patch of light. For additional reading on the Sharpless objects refer to Dean Salmon's site.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Dates: October 20 through October 31, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 615 Minutes

IC 1848

The Soul Nebula or SH2-199 – The photo is of the lower portion of this Nebula.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: October 14 through October 31, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 600 Minutes
Ha = 300 Minutes
O3 = 645 Minutes

SH2-155

The Cave Nebula, Sh2-155 or Caldwell 9, is a dim and very diffuse bright nebula within a larger nebula complex containing emmison, reflection, and dark nebulosity located in the Constellation Cepheus. The picture above only contains the emmision part of this nebula.


Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Dates: October 14 through October 20, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 480 Minutes

IC1805

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: August 6 through October 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 510 Minutes
Ha = 405 Minutes
O3 = 360 Minutes

NGC 7293

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon R, G, B & Ha
Dates: July 14through October 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
RGB = 250 Minutes
Ha = 225 Minutes

Ced 214

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: July 28 through October 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 600 Minutes
Ha = 390 Minutes
O3 = 420 Minutes

M33

Revised for color balance 10-11-08:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon L, R, G, B, O3 & Ha
Dates: Semptember 30 through October 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village

Exposure Details
Luminance = 195 Minutes
RGB = 239 Minutes
Ha = 30 Minutes
O3 = 45 Minutes

Sharpless SH2-227 & NGC1857

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon R, G, B & Ha
Dates: Semptember4 through October 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 840 Minutes
RGB = 180 Minutes

IC 5070 Pelican Nebula

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: July 14 through October 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 720 Minutes
Ha = 405 Minutes
O3 = 675 Minutes

IC1805

Three-Part Mosaic of the “Heart Nebula”.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: August 6 through August 30, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 900 Minutes Total

NGC281

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: August 30 through September 8, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 450 Minutes
Ha = 190 Minutes
O3 = 345 Minutes

IC 5070 Pelican Nebula

Two part Mosaic of the Pelican Nebula.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: July 14 through August 29, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 780 Minutes Total

NGC7380

NGC 7380 is the open cluster entwined in the emission nebula SH2-142. The very dim nebula in the lower left portion of the photo is cataloged as SH2-143.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon S2, Ha & O3
Dates: July 12 through August 10, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 480 Minutes
Ha = 420 Minutes
O3 = 555 Minutes

NGC6960

NGC6960 is a small part of the Veil Nebula, also known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, is a large, relatively faint supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha & O3
Dates: August 6 through August 12, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 465 Minutes
O3 = 270 Minutes
The Ha channel was assigned to red with the O3 used for both the blue and green.

M27

Revision#3 - Added a Shadow/Hightlight adjustment layer in PS to tone down the center and add more contrast.

The above photo was revised for color balance - hopefully to add a a greater blue teal contrast.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha & O3
Dates: July 15 through July 28, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 330 Minutes
O3 = 195 Minutes

The Ha channel was assigned to red with the O3 used for both the blue and green.

IC405 Flaming Star Nebula

Revised for color balance - Thanks for the great help John!

Technical Details

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.

Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.

Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.

Filters: Astrodon 5nm S2, Ha, O3.

Dates: February 2008.

Location: Roswell, Georgia.

Exposure Details:

Ha = 6.5 hours (15-minute individual exposures).

S2 = 4.5 hours (15-minute individual exposures).

O3 = 1.75 hours (15-minute individual exposures).

Sharpless SH2-86

Sharpless SH2-86 is located in the constellation Vulpecula and contains the open star cluster NGC 6823 in the center of the frame.

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Dates: June 17 through July 12, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 480 Minutes
Ha = 300 Minutes
O3 = 330 Minutes

Total exposure 18.5 hrs.

Markarian's Chain of Galaxies

Markarian's Chain of galaxies is a small portion of the Virgo Cluster. The lower right portion of the picture resembles a human face with Messier galaxies M86 and M87 as the eyes, NGC 4388 as the mouth and NGC 4387 in the middle as the nose.

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Luminance
Dates: March 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village

Exposure Details
L = 225 Minutes

(From APOD 2001 January 26):

Well over a thousand galaxies are known members of the Virgo Cluster, the closest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group. The galaxy cluster is difficult to see all at once because it covers such a large area on the sky. A close examination of the image will reveal that many of the "stars" are actually surrounded by a telltale fuzz, indicating that they are Virgo Cluster galaxies. On average, Virgo Cluster galaxies are measured to be about 48 million light-years away.

Elephant's Trunk Nebula

This one is a small part of SH2-131 that includes the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula IC 1396. The nebula is located in the Constellation Cepheus.

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Dates: June 4 through July 3, 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
S2 = 630 Minutes
Ha = 315 Minutes
O3 = 765 Minutes

Sharpless SH2-91

Sh2-91 is a very dim nebula located near the southern part of Cygnus.

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = Two part mosaic totaling 330 Minutes

VDB142

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon Ha
Location: Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 315 Minutes

Sharpless SH2-115 & SH2-116

Revised Processing 8-22-08.

Revised Processing 7-6-08.

Sh2-116 is the small round HII region near the right and SH2-115 is the larger nebula in the photo - both are located in the Constellation Cygnus.

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM
Filters Astrodon HaRGB
Dates: June 4 through June 8 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village and Roswell, Georgia

Exposure Details
Ha = 375 Minutes
R = 60 Minutes
B = 60 Minutes
G = 60 Minutes

Sharpless SH2-33

Revised Processing 8-22-08.

This was a challenge object for me – both to get any data and to adequately process. I’ve attempted this one a few times from downtown Roswell with no luck – to many lights and a lot of skyglow. It wasn’t until I tried from a great dark site in Georgia that I was able to get any data for this object.

Sharpless Sh2-33 is very dim reflection nebula located in the constellation Serpens – the raw 10 minute ccd images show a very small dusting of the nebula above the background. The nebula cast a light reddish hue to the surrounding stars. In addition to the main image I processed this to bring out the faint wispy glow of the extended object in the bottom lower corner of the picture.

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106
Mount: Astro-Physics Ap900GTO
Camera: SBIG ST200XM
Filters Astrodon LRGB
Dates: June 6 & 7 2008
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village

Exposure Details
L – 90 Minutes
R = 90 Minutes
B = 70 Minutes
G = 60 Minutes

Sharpless SH2-112

Sharpless SH2-112

Technical Details
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.
Filters: Astrodon 5nm S2, Ha, O3.
Dates: May 20, 2008 through June 4, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia.
Exposure Details:
S2 = 345 minutes (mapped to red)
Ha = 300 minutes (mapped to green)
O3 = 435 minutes (mapped to blue)

NGC7000

Anacortes Telescope & Wild Bird Photo Gallery
Picture of the Day 6-5-08

NGC7000 Narrowband “The Great Rift”
Technical Details
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.
Filters: Astrodon 5nm S2, Ha, O3.
Dates: May 12, 2008 through May 26, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia.
Exposure Details:
S2 = 435 minutes (mapped to red)
Ha = 165 minutes (mapped to green)
O3 = 360 minutes (mapped to blue)

SH2-112

Sharpless SH2-112 located in Cygnus.

Technical Details Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.
Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha.
Dates: May 20, 2008 through May 26, 2008
Location: Roswell, Georgia.
Exposure Details: Ha = 300 minutes

M16

ATWB Picture of the Day May 10, 2008

http://www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/view_photo.asp?pid=16636

M16 “Eagle Nebula” in Narrowband Color.
A work in progress

Technical Details:

Optics:Takahashi FSQ-106N.

Mount:Astro-Physics AP900GTO.

Camera:SBIG ST2000XM.

Filters:Astrodon 5nm S2, Ha, O3.

Dates:April 18, 2008 through May 6, 2008.

Location:Roswell, Georgia.

Exposure Details:
S2 = 300 minutes (mapped to red)
Ha = 285 minutes (mapped to green)
O3 = 240 minutes (mapped to blue)

IC2177

ATWB Photo of the Day 4/20/08.

http://www.buytelescopes.com/gallery/view_photo.asp?pid=16441

IC2177 in Narrowband Color

IC2177 “Seagull Nebula” part one in Narrowband Color.

Technical Details

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.

Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.

Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.

Filters: Astrodon 5nm S2, Ha, O3.

Dates: February 18, 2008 through March 8, 2008

Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village, Sharon, Georgia and Roswell, Georgia.

Exposure Details:

S2 = 555 minutes (mapped to red)

Ha = 390 minutes (mapped to green)

O3 = 345 minutes (mapped to blue)

IC 2177

Two frame Mosaic of IC2177 “Seagull Nebula”

Technical Details
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.
Filter: Astrodon 5nm Ha.
Dates: February 18, 2008 through March 8, 2008
Locations: Deerlick Astronomy Village, Sharon, Georgia and Roswell, Georgia.
Exposure Details: Ha = 11.75 hours (15-minute individual exposures).

Lunar Eclipse

February 2008 Eclipse.

Technical Details:

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.
Filters: Astrodon RGB Filters.
Date: February 20, 2008.
Location: Deerlick Astronomy Village, Sharon, Georgia.
Exposure Details: 3s total exposure (1s through each filter)

M42

M42 in narrowband color - 255 min. total exposure.

M51

360 total exposure time through LRGB filters.

M101

300 minute total exposure through LRGB filters.

NGC2244

Rosette Nebula in narrowband color. Total exposure time of 440 minutes.

IC405

Technical Details
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106N.
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900GTO.
Camera: SBIG ST2000XM.
Filters: Astrodon 5nm S2, Ha, O3.
Dates: February 1, 2008 through February 1, 2008.
Location: Roswell, Georgia.
Exposure Details:
Ha = 6.5 hours (15-minute individual exposures).
S2 = 4.5 hours (15-minute individual exposures).
O3 = 1.75 hours (15-minute individual exposures).