Astronomy

I dabble in amateur astronomy and have recently started astrophotography. Here are some of my results. All images are made available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. My astrophotos are available as an Atom feed as well.

NGC 6960 (The Western Veil Nebula)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50; I originally had a different version of this nebula up. This one is with about four hours of integration time and slightly less aggressive processing. This target is quite difficult with an unmodified camera as there is a lot of faint H Alpha, but you can already see quite a bit of it in the fainter structures here.

NGC 7000 (The North America Nebula)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50; This is the result of slightly less than an hour of integration time on an unmodified sensor. With a modified camera, the nebula would look a lot more red.

NGC 869/884 (The Double Cluster)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50; This is my second attempt at this target. To avoid bloated stars, I went with short 20s exposures.

M31 (The Andromeda Galaxy)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50

Shark Nebula (LDN 1235)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50; 5h Integration Time. I'm not super happy with the contrast on this one, but it was the best I could do with an almost full moon. Definitely a target I will revisit.

Iris Nebula (NGC 7023)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50; 5h Integration time.

Bode's Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy (M81 and M82)

William Optics Spacecat 51, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50

Leo Major

SkyWatcher Star Adventurer GTi, Canon EOS R50