Crescent Nebula NGC 6888
The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888

The Crescent nebula NGC 6888 is a faint, diffuse nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. [...]

H-alpha image of M8 and M20 taken summer of 2011 with an Equinox 80mm APO refractor and modified Canon 350XT.
Gas Clouds Of Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula in H-alpha

  For summer stargazers and astrophotographers, the Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20) are [...]

NGC 2237 The Rosette Nebula and open cluster NGC 2244 at center.
The Rosette Nebula in Hubble Palette

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M20 test image with ASA 16″ astrograph

There’s a fancy new telescope and CCD camera setup at Siding Spring Observatory! An ASA [...]

Ic 1396 Elephants Trunk Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha narrowband astrophotography. Shawn Nielsen 2014
Elephants Trunk Nebula in narrowband H-alpha

Another image taken in July 2014. This time I was collecting narrowband Ha (H-alpha) data [...]

Cygnus Wall in NGC 7000. Shawn Nielsen, 2014
Cygnus Wall in NGC 7000 Nebula (Narrowband)

This is 5 hours of H-alpha and Oxygen 3 data combined to produce a false [...]

IC405 and IC410 Nebula in Auriga. Shawn Nielsen 2013
IC405 and IC410 Nebulae in Auriga

This is an H-alpha narrowband image of IC405 and IC410 nebulae in Auriga. IC405 is [...]