Image taken: April 12, 2021 | Location: Back Yard Upper Left: M 66 / NGC 3627 classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy. Discovered in 1780 by Charles Messier and lies 31 million light years from Earth. Lower Left: M 65 / NGC 3623 also classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy. …
Image taken: August 16, 2020 | Location: Back Yard William Optics Z103 and Canon Rebel T6i again. This time I processed the images through Astro Pixel Processor. Also called M 16, this nebula is about 7,000 light years from Earth and is about 5.504 million years old. The Eagle Nebula …
Image Taken: July 28, 2020 | Location: Back Yard Dumbbell Nebula M 27: This was my first ever “astrophotography” photo. I used the Canon EOS Rebel T6i connected to the William Optics Zenithstar 103 telescope. After stacking in Deep Sky Stacker, this turned out ok for my very first “processed” …
Image taken: July 27, 2020 | Location: Back Yard This may actually have been my first light with the z103 and the Canon T6i (750D). I believe I was trying to use a 1.25″ sky glow filter that I later found was not really tuned for astrophotography. Alternate processing of …
