Equipment - Modified 350D

2009

M51 - The Whirpool Galaxy thumbnail

M51 - The Whirpool Galaxy

20:11 15/4/2009 UTC: What a spectacular conditions. SQM read almost 22 and sky was pristine and seeing was very good....  [Read More]

 
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy thumbnail

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

19:10 26/3/2009 UTC: M101 is a very nice photogenic spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. The galaxy is positioned face-on and ...  [Read More]

 
Leo Triplet thumbnail

Leo Triplet

18:26 19/3/2009 UTC: Leo Triplet is a photogenic group of galaxies in the constellation Leo. This group is also known ...  [Read More]

 
M42 - The Orion Nebula thumbnail

M42 - The Orion Nebula

21:01 9/1/2009 UTC: Very cold night. I haven't been out imaging in such a cold weather yet. Usually I don't take my g...  [Read More]

 
 

2008

Horsehead and The Flame Nebula thumbnail

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]

 
M45 - The Pleiads thumbnail

M45 - The Pleiads

21:02 29/9/2008 UTC: Pleiads is one of those targets fairly easy to capture but extremely difficult to make a good ima...  [Read More]

 
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy thumbnail

M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy

23:46 26/9/2008 UTC: Regards from DS-Meet, a Deepsky observers gathering in Tähtikallio observatory, Artjärv...  [Read More]

 
IC5070 - The Pelican Nebula (SII:Ha:OIII) thumbnail

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) thumbnail

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) thumbnail

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 thumbnail

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 thumbnail

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]

 
IC5146 - Cocoon Nebula thumbnail

IC5146 - Cocoon Nebula

21:32 11/8/2008 UTC: Here's the first image from this fall. Cocoon Nebula is a nebula associated with open cluster IC...  [Read More]

 
Partial Solar Eclipse thumbnail

Partial Solar Eclipse

09:52 1/8/2008 UTC: Weather forecast wasn't very promising for this eclipse, mostly showers and thunderstorms. Howev...  [Read More]

 
 

2007

Comet 17P/Holmes thumbnail

Comet 17P/Holmes

16:05 1/11/2007 UTC: This was a very intresting event in the sky. Comet 17P/Holmes brightened from 17mag to naked eye ...  [Read More]

 
Narrowband Cygnus  thumbnail

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 thumbnail

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]

 
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy thumbnail

M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy

20:01 6/9/2007 UTC: Sky cleared a bit unexpectly for me and I decided to go imaging. I had no plans for the evening, ...  [Read More]

 
NG6960 - Western Veil (Narrowband) thumbnail

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) thumbnail

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) thumbnail

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) thumbnail

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]

 
Markarian's Chain and The Galactic Face thumbnail

Markarian's Chain and The Galactic Face

21:26 14/4/2007 UTC: While I had a chance to be under dark skies in Artjärvi, I had to image galaksies. Short foc...  [Read More]

 
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy thumbnail

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

22:50 13/4/2007 UTC: M101 taken under dark sky in Artjärvi. Too bad I quit imaging after clouds rolled in, since ...  [Read More]

 
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy thumbnail

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

20:01 8/4/2007 UTC: It was a very nice spring night and Moon had not yet been risen to lit up the sky. I decided to g...  [Read More]

 
Leo Triplet thumbnail

Leo Triplet

20:04 24/3/2007 UTC: Last image from Solar System Meet in Artjärvi. Eventually I just had to make a side step to ...  [Read More]

 
M81 Group thumbnail

M81 Group

19:25 14/3/2007 UTC: This time of the year M81 group is high near zenith during evening hours. Weather was pretty dece...  [Read More]

 
Leo Triplet thumbnail

Leo Triplet

18:54 13/3/2007 UTC: Pretty lousy transparency during this session. Leo is in the most light polluted parts from my ba...  [Read More]

 
Horsehead and the Flame (Ha:OIII:OIII) thumbnail

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]