L-extreme Optolong
Optolong L-eXtreme filter for Astrophotography

An image of the Elephant’s Trunk nebula in IC1396 taken with the Optolong L-eXtreme filter. [...]

Deepsky astrophotography with and without a narrowband filter

City lights, neighbours outside lights, limited number of clear nights and astrophotography from your backyard, [...]

A new city light pollution filter! Triad Quadband Ultra Filter.

The Triad Quadband Ultra Filter from OPT is both amazing and fun to use. For [...]

IC1396 and Elephant Trunk Nebula
IC1396 and the Elephant Trunk Nebula

Click image to view higher resolution. IC1396 is a large region of ionized gas about [...]

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 [...]