
M51 – Whirlpool Galaxy
No need to explain why M51 is known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. The smaller galaxy to the top of the
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M42 Variants
Clouds are out, light nights are here… so I am looking through various images that I have processed but have
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M82 – Supernova
Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy) is a starburst galaxy about 11.5 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. A starburst
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Jupiter Back in December 2012 I posted one of my – stacked images of Jupiter Looking through my archives (and
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I have been focusing on deep space objects recently and decided to try my hand at a single star instead.
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My previous 2 M31 images here and here where wide field images, using nothing more than my Canon camera and
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Another open cluster…. Messier 52 is in the Cassiopeia constellation. Due to interstellar absorption of light, the distance to M
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The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum, with
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Beautiful / amazing are just 2 of the words that come to mind when I see the Orion Nebular (M42).
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The Ring Nebula (also cataloged as Messier 57 or NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of
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