Image Description:                    

Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile    

Telescope: ASA 500N             

Camera: FLI PL16803             

Mount: ASA DDM85                

Red: 7x10 minutes (binned 1x1)  

Green: 6x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

Blue: 7x10 minutes (binned 1x1) 

Copyright 2022 Bernard Miller   

Image Description:

This is an image of SH2-308, also known as the Dolphin Head Nebula. It is a huge bubble of mostly ionized oxygen gas about 5,200 light years away in the constellation Canis Major. It is formed by the strong solar winds of a Wolf-Rayet star near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars are about 20 times the mass of the sun and are thought to be in the pre-supernova stage of star evolution. The nebula spans an area about the size of the full moon and is about 60 light years in diameter.

November 11, 2021                    

Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile         

Telescope: ASA 500N                  

Camera: FLI PL16803                  

Mount: ASA DDM85                     

Ha: 16x10 minutes (binned 1x1)       

OIII: 20x10 minutes (binned 1x1)     

RGB: 4x5 minutes each (binned 1x1)   

Copyright 2021 Bernard Miller        

Image Description and Details :

This is an image of NGC 6946, also known as the Fireworks Galaxy. It is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away near the boundary of the constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. It spans about 40,000 light years in diameter, which is about one third the size of the Milky Way. It is classified as a starburst galaxy which means there is a lot of star forming regions as can be seen in the magenta regions in the image.

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17
Camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: Paramount ME
Luminance: 27x20 minutes (binned 1x1)
Red: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Green: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Blue: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)


Copyright: Bernard Miller

Image Description and Details :

This is an image of Omega Centauri. . It is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way and is located about 16,000 light years away in the constellation Centaurus. It is estimated to contain approximately 10 million stars and is about 150 light years in diameter.

Telescope: Planewave CDK-24
Camera: FLI PL 9000
Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250
Red: 4x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
Green: 4x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
Blue: 4x10 minutes (binned 1x1)



Copyright: Bernard Miller

Image Description and Details :

This is an image of NGC 3981. It is a spiral galaxy about 65 million light years away in the constellation Crater. Its windswept look is due to its outer arms being stripped away by an interaction with another galaxy. Telescope: ASA RC-1000AZ Camera: FLI PL16803 Mount: ASA Alt-Az Direct Drive Luminance: 33x20 minutes (binned 1x1)Red: 24x20 minutes (binned 1x1) Green: 20x20 minutes (binned 1x1) Blue: 25x20 minutes (binned 1x1)



Copyright: Bernard Miller

Image Description and Details : This is an image of M78. Actually, M78 is the brightest reflection nebula (blue nebula near the center) of a nebula complex that includes NGC 2064 (the red nebula on the left of the image), NGC 2067 (the reflection nebula just on the other side of the dark nebula from M78) and NGC 2071 (the reflection nebula in the lower right of the image). This nebula complex is about 1,300 light years away in the constellation Orion, slightly above Alnitak, the leftmost star in Orion’s belt.Telescope: Planewave CDK-17 Camera: FLI PL16803 Mount: Paramount ME Luminance: 27x20 minutes (binned 1x1)Red: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1) Green: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1) Blue: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)



Copyright: Bernard Miller

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico        

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17          

Camera: FLI PL16803                  

Mount: Paramount ME                  

Luminance: 21x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Red: 12x15 minutes (binned 1x1)      

Green: 12x15 minutes (binned 1x1)    

Blue: 12x15 minutes (binned 1x1)     

COPYRIGHT: Bernard Miller

May 11 - June 17, 2020

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount ME

Luminance: 22x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Red: 16x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Green: 16x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Blue: 18x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright: Bernard Miller

This is an image of NGC 4755, also known as the Jewel Box Cluster. It is an open cluster about 6,400 light years away in the constellation Crux. This cluster contains about 100 stars and is estimated to be about 10 million years old.

Copyright 2020 Bernard Miller

March 30, 2020

Location: New South Wales, AU

Telescope: RCOS 12.5 inch

Camera: SBIG STXL11002 with AOX

Mount: Paramount ME II

HA: 12x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

SII: 12x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 12x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

RGB: 8x20 minutes each (binned 1x1)