The Eagle Nebula

I shot this object in a few different ways. Here’s how it looks in pure “LRGB” light – how it would appear to the eye in its natural wavelengths, if your eyes could detect color on something so dim! And here’s a narrowband take on this same object. Notice that the structure of its core…

Granted this is only a portion of it, but for the life of me I don’t see a pelican in this thing. But, it’s still pretty. I processed this object two ways: using the “Hubble palette” that maps red, green, and blue to Sulfur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen emissions (that results in the pretty blue one)…

There’s a reason I’ve been quiet lately – we sold our house and are in the process of moving to Los Angeles! Also, Florida’s weather hasn’t been terribly cooperative either. The sad news is that we had to leave the observatory behind, and I donated its equipment to the Central Florida Astronomical Society, as LA…

My first image from Starfront Observatories in Central Texas! They’ve been fantastic to work with so far, and I’m really stoked to be able to image remotely from anywhere, under clear, dark skies. While collecting data on M33, the “Triangulum Galaxy”, I was still fine-tuning everything and figuring things out – so there are things…

Try saying that three times fast! Fortunately, the “Silver Sliver Galaxy” has a formal name that’s easier to pronounce: NGC 891. It’s about 30 million light-years away, and is thought to be very similar to what our own Milky Way galaxy would look like when viewed edge-on. Explore the wider-field image; click on it for…

Located 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, M91 is part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies – and if you zoom in and explore this image, you’ll find many other galaxies surrounding it, and also far in the distance beyond it.