This image shows the famous Bubble nebula (NGC 7635) and the nearby emission nebula SH2-157. Equipment used: TMB-92SS telescope QSI-583ws CCD camera Exposures: 18 x 15 min Ha 8 x 15 min OIII 4 x 15 min SII 6 x 10 min R,G,B 68 x 5 min L Total: 16 hours
In 1995 the Hubble Space telescope wrote history by recording he image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula which is one of the most famous images ever made by Hubble. By then it was not known what disaster is waiting for the pillars to happen to them. An image taken by NASA’s Spitzer …
On Monday 17th of June I went to London to visit the Diamonds in the sky exhibition in London. At this exhibition artwork can be seen made by Roksana Ciurysek based partly on my images. At the Annoushka Jeweller store I had a meeting with Roksana and could I look at the images myself. I was …
Recently I was allowed to using a remote Takahashi FSQ106 in Australia to do some testing of the equipment. Using this setup with a SBIG STL11000 color ccd images were made of the Eta Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) and Omega Centauri. Eta carina: Exposure: 5x600s Omega Centauri: Exposure: 14x300s
Mosaic taken remotely with the fsq106 and sbig stl11000 one shot color ccd camera at the siding spring observatory in New South Wales, Australia. This image was taken over 3 consecutive days and consists of 4 panels. Each panel was made of 5 images of 15 minutes. So total effective exposure is 1.25 hours and …
This image is a combination of my own H-alpha imagery together with color information from the Digitized Sky Survey made by the Palomar telescope. The Poss-2 red and blue data is used for the color generation. This shows what result is possible if you combine professional and amateur data in one image. Version 2:
Recently I have been working on images of M78. I thought it was nice to show the process that is involved to show what I started with and how it ended. This way you can see how the first raw images look like. You would never expect something like this coming out of this… My …
IC 405 (also known as the Flaming Star Nebula, SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31) is an emission/reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga, surrounding the bluish star AE Aurigae. It shines at magnitude +6.0. Its celestial coordinates are RA 05h 16.2m dec +34° 28′. It surrounds the irregular variable star AE Aurigae and is located near the emission …
Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula (RA: 20h18m57.4s DEC: +40º 40′ 01″). Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. This region is very rich of dark and emission nebulae. On the image also VanDenBergh 130, …
Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula (RA: 20h18m57.4s DEC: +40º 40′ 01″). Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. This region is very rich of dark and emission nebulae. On the image also VanDenBergh 130, …