Starship Asterisk*

NGC 1999 - Keyhole Nebula in Orion

A larger image can be seen here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/79133/0/

I'm posting my latest image which has turned out to be a big and fun project for me. I wanted to shoot the Rosette but my field of view is too small to really do it any justice...so I tackled the idea of doing a four frame mosaic so that I could (barely) fit the entire thing. Here is the result of t...

NGC 1333 - Dusty star forming region in Perseus NGC1333_LRGB_23_3Hrs_20140107_Medium.jpg Here's a link to more information about the image: http://www.astrobin.com/71638/ Here's a link to a larger version: http://www.astrobin.com/full/71638/0/ Finally, a link to the full resolution image: http://ww...

Here's a link to a larger version of the image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/67816/0/

I've posted pictures of other galaxies before, showing big sweeping arms around a really tightly packed core of stars. What would one of those galaxies look like from an edge-on view? NGC 891 is a galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda that gives us just such a view. Here are the results of 20 hou...

AE Aurigae and IC 405 (Flaming Star Nebula)

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Here's a link to a larger version of the image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/62000/?mod=none

I've been working on this one since June. The Arizona monsoon season interrupted my efforts and it's only recently that I've been able to get back to it and finish. Because of it's resemblance to the Kool Aid man from the TV commercials of childhood...I've nicknamed this nebula "The Kool Aid Ma...

This year's edition of the monsoon gave me plenty of time to assess my imaging situation and ponder the future. From the end of June until early September I was able to turn on the camera exactly once. I worked on processing a huge backlog of data and realized I wasn't happy with the color data on a...

The image was shot with narrowband filters to highlight some of the physical processes going on here - i.e. I attempted to get an image with a little scientific value. I shot with three filters that record just the light that's emitted by ionized Hydrogen, ionized Sulfur and ionized Oxygen. I then m...