The Great Nebulae in Orion … colour

This is the full colour version of this stitched image

The Great Nebulae in Orion … greyscale

One of the most commonly imaged objects in the sky. This is a two frame mosaic stitched with Canon Photostitch. This is a greyscale version.

Messier 100

Another stunning spiral galaxy …..

Sculptor Galaxy

Otherwise known as NGC253 or the Silver Dollar Galaxy to our North American friends.

Sunspots Up Close

Once again this is a close up crop of the sunspots in natural white colour from the previous image.

The Sun natural colour

This is another image of the full Sun but this time in natural colour as seen through my Baader Solar Film filter. Once again there were sunspots clearly visible on this occasion.

Sunspots Close Up

This is a crop of the sunspots from the previous image. The full scale image was taken with a Canon 350D DSLR mounted on a Meade DSX90AT Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope with a home made Baader solar film filter fitted. Never look at or point a telescope or a camera at the Sun without a proper solar filter to protect all the afforesaid … particularly your eyes.

The Sun

Centre of our solar system … this is a false colour image … our planet Earth would easily fit inside the sunspots visible in this image.

M20 in Ha

The Trifid Nebula in hydrogen alpha. Because this nebula consists of both emission and reflection nebulosity only the red emission portion of it’s structure shows in this image due to the effect of the Ha filter.

Eta Carina Nebula in Ha

This vast cloud of gas and dust can be seen with the naked eye under dark skies … here it is shown in hydrogen alpha.