Abell 2151 is a cluster of over 200 galaxies. I’ve spent the last three weeks collecting over 32 hours of…
You know it couldn’t be spring without revisiting my favorite galaxy, Messier 51. As I’ve learned, I was patient with…
Well, I finally did it. I impulse bought PixInsight. Everyone says that this is the ultimate astrophotography processing software. I…
The “Little Pinwheel Galaxy” was the first major galaxy to come up for me this year after M81 and M82.…
The dull winter is quickly turning into spring. I was blessed with six mostly clear nights in a row. I…
With nothing else to do with the endless cloudy skies, most of my astronomy has lately consisted of looking at…
By far my most ambitious project yet, it took me three weeks to get 42 hours of data on the…
The first target with my new NexDome observatory was Andromeda. Given that it is so close to us and so…
This was one of those projects where nothing was going to go right. Between dew problems on my primary mirror,…
Taking a break from the summertime nebulae, I focused on the Fireworks Galaxy for three nights. I had to work…