The Eagle Nebula

Imaged in narrowband filters from my suburban driveway. This object lives up to its name with the right color mappings!

Narrowband image of the cone-shaped absorption nebula in front of the brighter emission nebula in this interesting region of the Christmas Tree Cluster, about 2,700 light-years away.

Here’s 20 hours of exposure time on the Pleiades in Taurus… a lot of people call this the “little dipper” since it does look like a tiny one to the eye, but the little dipper is a larger constellation. Although it’s known as the “seven sisters,” in fact it’s a cluster of a thousand or…

This image was something of a happy accident – I spent a night capturing narrowband data on M16, the Eagle Nebula (home of the famous “pillars of creation”.) Of course I had to try reproducing the iconic Hubble image as best I could, but the color palette they use results in big, ugly, magenta-colored stars….

11 light years away, the “bubble” itself is formed from the solar wind of the large, hot star inside of it. Imaged with narrowband filters.

I’ve wanted to image the “Fox Fur Nebula” for awhile now – it’s pretty obvious where it is in this image! Within the same field of view is the Cone Nebula (near the bottom.) It’s all an area of gas within the Christmas Tree Cluster, which is an open cluster of stars that kind of…