Astrophotography

[wsbrown]

I took this photo of the Lagoon Nebula a couple of weeks ago. I was reading a post on an astronomy forum where another person took a picture of the Lagoon recently and pointed out two asteroids in his photo and I thought the small streaks looked familiar. The asteroids are (64) Angelina and (974) Lioba. This picture is around 1.5 hours worth of exposure. A satellite would streak all the way across the frame in a few seconds.
Tab has notes to point out asteroids, full resolution is plain image.

Full resolution:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/8ravwf/0/

 

[fastfish66]

Im about two miles out of Baxley, SE GA. Pretty dark skies, I get behind my shop to avoid street lights in my yard. Baxley's light pollution foot print is considerably smaller than the Atlanta area or other large cities[/QU

I can resolve individual stars for most of the larger/closer globulars. I havent imaged one in a while, but it is on my to do list. M13 is available spring / early summer, so it will probably be next. I am a fan of globular clusters, especially viewing visually through a scope.

My son is Westcliff,Co. 9,000 ft. up in the rockies living off grid.His area is a desigated dark zone,no lights on outside and the air is so clear people can view space.

 

[wsbrown]

Messier 16, the Eagle Nebula. Its central gas columns are featured in the famous Hubble photo "Pillars of Creation".

Full resolution here:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/8zdhri/0/?nc=user

 

[HERMET]

Beautiful.

 

[wsbrown]

Clouds of dust in front of the Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24).

Full Resolution:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/v5uq6v/0/

 

[LARGO9]

Outstanding photo Sir

 

[bilgerat]

I took this photo of the Lagoon Nebula a couple of weeks ago. I was reading a post on an astronomy forum where another person took a picture of the Lagoon recently and pointed out two asteroids in his photo and I thought the small streaks looked familiar. The asteroids are (64) Angelina and (974) Lioba. This picture is around 1.5 hours worth of exposure. A satellite would streak all the way across the frame in a few seconds.
Tab has notes to point out asteroids, full resolution is plain image.

Full resolution:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/8ravwf/0/

whats the short white streak at the top of the pic, just to the right of center? a spaceship?

 

[wsbrown]

whats the short white streak at the top of the pic, just to the right of center? spaceship?

It's a star. Brighter stars imaged with a Newtonian reflector have diffraction spikes, caused by the veins that hold the secondary mirror.

 

[wsbrown]

NGC 6604 is the open cluster center left of the frame. The nebula in the picture is part of the same molecular cloud as the Eagle Nebula.

Full resolution:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/z86y4b/0/

 

[Dogwood]

Hey wsbrown, any thoughts on the comet? Hoping for some opportunities in next few nights.