Equipment - Astronomik Ha
2009
IC410 and The Tadpoles in color
17:26 8/3/2009 UTC: IC410 is a HII region in Auriga. This interesting nebula and open cluster hosts two interesting n... [Read More]
First light - IC410
20:26 7/3/2009 UTC: Atik 4000LE First Light! Weather was awful and I had some serious hassle with my gear. First of a... [Read More]
2008
Horsehead and The Flame Nebula
20:52 27/12/2008 UTC: It's been a long time since I was imaging last time. We have had a long cloudy period and wheneve... [Read More]
IC5070 - The Pelican Nebula (SII:Ha:OIII)
18:40 22/9/2008 UTC: At last I could do the SII to this project. I was a bit surprised how much signal I got. This is ... [Read More]
IC5070 - The Pelican Nebula (Ha:OIII:OIII)
18:39 5/9/2008 UTC: I got a short window of opportunity to collect OIII data for the Pelican I started yesterday. I w... [Read More]
IC5070 - The Pelican Nebula (Ha)
19:43 4/9/2008 UTC: The Pelican Nebula is an interesting emission nebula complex in constellation Cygnus. The nebula... [Read More]
DWB111 - The Propeller Nebula
19:52 29/8/2008 UTC: I found this interesting object, which is known as DWB111. Not so widely known DWB catalog lists ... [Read More]
Nebulosity around Sadr
20:09 22/8/2008 UTC: This image is centered on Sadr (Gamma Cygni) which is the center star of constellation Cygnus. Th... [Read More]
2007
Narrowband Cygnus
16:41 20/10/2007 UTC: At last I got an opportunity to try narrowband filters to Cygnus nebulae. I was able to connect m... [Read More]
Cygnus Nebulae in Ha
19:31 9/9/2007 UTC: Sky was pretty nice with good transparency, but some lonely clouds floated here and there making ... [Read More]
NG6960 - Western Veil (Narrowband)
19:38 15/8/2007 UTC: Done! Had an opportunity to finnish this project with 2h30m SII data totalling 5h45m all filters ... [Read More]
NG6960 - Western Veil (Ha:OIII:OIII)
20:41 11/8/2007 UTC: I had a hard time with clouds while taking OIII exposures for my Veil project. Clouds came and we... [Read More]
NG6960 - Western Veil (H-alpha)
20:57 9/8/2007 UTC: I started a little project on narrowband Veil Nebula. First image is 2 hours worth of H-alpha fea... [Read More]
NGC7000 - The North America Nebula (Narrowband)
20:49 7/8/2007 UTC: Nights are starting to get dark here and I started my imaging season with an experimental imaging... [Read More]
Horsehead and the Flame (Ha:OIII:OIII)
17:39 16/1/2007 UTC: Horsehead is visible from my backyard about 2h, which doesn't give much time to do very long expo... [Read More]
2006
Rosette Nebula (Ha:sG:OIII)
18:49 28/12/2006 UTC: I had to return to this. Now I have a filter drawer system, which allows me to switch filters wit... [Read More]
Rosette Nebula (Ha:sG:OIII)
19:11 22/12/2006 UTC: I've always liked the appearance of narrowband images. I don't own SII (yet) so I decided to try ... [Read More]
M42 - The Orion Nebula (Ha:OIII)
19:43 15/12/2006 UTC: I got my OIII filter few days ago. I wanted to try bicolor narrowband imaging with H-alfa and OII... [Read More]
M42 - The Orion Nebula (H-alpha)
20:52 27/11/2006 UTC: I've been waiting to get first H-alpha exposures of this target. This really was a test to my mou... [Read More]
IC1805/Sh2-190 - The Heart Nebula (HaRGB)
17:25 8/11/2006 UTC: Transparency was lousy and bright moon was up while imaging this HaRGB composite. If the conditio... [Read More]
IC1805/Sh2-190 - The Heart Nebula (H-alpha)
17:22 29/10/2006 UTC: I've been waiting for a long time an opportunity to image this beautiful nebula. Unfortunately fr... [Read More]
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy (HaRGB)
18:42 15/9/2006 UTC: M31 is definitely one of my favourite targets. It is fairly easy to capture, but offers endless c... [Read More]
IC1396/vdB142 - The Elephants Trunk (H-alfa)
19:01 12/9/2006 UTC: Milky Way constellations has plenty of H-alfa nebulae to image. IC1396 in this image is a large e... [Read More]
IC1318 - The Butterfly Nebula (HaRGB)
19:08 10/9/2006 UTC: H-alpha filter lets me do imaging also when bright moon is up. This time the dew didn't interrupt... [Read More]
NGC7000 - The North America Nebula (HaRGB)
21:59 6/9/2006 UTC: Finally I got to image colours to my North America Nebula. Almost full Moon was up in the sky whi... [Read More]
NGC7000 - The North America Nebula (H-alpha)
19:53 1/9/2006 UTC: UPS brought a new toy today: Astronomik 13nm Ha filter. Surprisingly weather cleared for few hour... [Read More]