Starship Asterisk*

NGC 1530, Copyright KG Observatory, San Diego, CA. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PixInsight 1.8, PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, Sequence Generato...

When we first purchased our first telescope in 1990, M1 was the first object we viewed. Of course, you must start with M1! Over the years we tried to photograph M1 using film. Then we tried a digital camera. Anything to see it more! Finally, when we were able to afford a cooled CCD camera, we tried ...

M13 from San Diego, CA. Copyright KG Observatory. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Maxim DL6...

21.3 hours of M101 from an 8" SCT in San Diego, CA. Copyright KG Observatory. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, P...

27.5 hours of M82 from San Diego, CA. Copyright KG Observatory. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator ...

NGC 891. Taken with an 8" SCT on an exceptionally clear, cool and steady night the day after an unlikely rain in San Diego, CA.

M81 from an 8" Celestron Edge HD in San Diego, CA. This image was constructed from 48 5-minute luminance subs and 36 10-minute color subs in a 19.75 mean SQM urban sky.

I'm pleased to be able to produce this image of Stephan's Quintet from my 8" telescope in my San Diego backyard. This was taken over 19 hours with 741 photos stacked on top of each other to get the color and resolution you see here. Nothing fancy, just patience!

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the thir...

Cat's Eye Nebula, Copyright KG Observatory.

Quit a challenge in my light-polluted skies with an 8" SCT.

By using hundreds of 60s L and 90s RGB at 1x1, I can get the lowest noise and highest dynamic range without using masks.

Fireworks Galaxy from KG Observatory in San Diego. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generato...

M13 from San Diego, CA. Copyright KG Observatory. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Maxim DL6...

Coma Cluster. Copyright KG Observatory. The Coma Cluster is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies. The cluster's mean distance from Earth is 321 million light years. Its ten brightest spiral galaxies have apparent magnitudes of 12–14 that are observable with amateu...

M82 in LRGB, Copyright KG Observatory. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Maxim DL6, Adobe Pho...

M106, Copyright KG Observatory, Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Genera...

NGC 2403. Copyright KG Observatory, Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Ma...

Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) in LRGB. Copyright Kurious George Observatory. Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PHD Guiding 2, Neat Image V7, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CS3, Sequence Ge...

NGC 2403 in LRGB from my backyard in San Diego... Imaging telescope or lens: Celestron 8" EdgeHD Imaging camera: QSI 660 WSG Mount: Losmandy G-11 Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Focal reducer: Celestron 0.7X Software: PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, PHD Guiding 2, Maxim DL6...