Image Description and Details : This is an image of SH2-301. It is an emission and reflection nebula about 13,000 light years away in the constellation Canis Major.

Telescope: Planewave CDK-24
Camera: FLI PL9000
Mount: Mathis MI 1000/1250
Ha: 20x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
OIII: 20x10 minutes (binned 1x1)
SII: 20x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright: Bernard Miller

Image Description

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico

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 2022 Bernard Miller

This is an image of M8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula. It is an emission nebula about 4,100 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The nebula measures about 110 by 50 light years and has a number of Bok Globules throughout.

May 15, 2022

Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile

Telescope: ASA 500N

Camera: FLI PL 16803

Mount: ASA DDM85

Ha: 6x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 6x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

SII: 6x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright: Bernard Miller

This is an image of NGC 3344. It is a barred spiral galaxy about 22.5 million light years away in the constellation Leo Minor. This galaxy belongs to the group known as the Leo spur, which is a branch of the Virgo Supercluster. It is a weakly barred spiral galaxy that exhibits rings and moderate to loosely wound spiral arms. There is both an inner and outer ring, with the prominent arms radiating outward from the inner ring and the slightly elliptical bar being situated inside.

March 8 - April 23, 2022

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico

Telescope: Planewave CDK-17

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount ME

Luminance: 27x20 minutes (binned 1x1)

Ha: 18x30 minutes (binned 1x1)

Red: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)

Green: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1)

Blue: 16x15 minutes (binned 1x1

Copyright: Bernard Miller

This is an image of NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, also known as the Siamese Twins or Butterfly Galaxies. They are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. They are in the process of colliding and merging with each other with high star formation where they overlap.

March 10 - April 4, 2022

Location: Dark Sky New Mexico

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 2022 Bernard Miller

Image Description and Details : Messier 82 is the very first galaxy I was able to observe with the naked eye with my old telescope: a C9.25 EDGE HD on a Losmandy G11 Gemini mount. This was in early January 2014, when the supernova SN 2014J was visible. It was also the first galaxy I photographed in May 2017. So it was a great pleasure to have been able to process the data of this galaxy from a much more ambitious setup.

Messier 82 (the Cigar Galaxy) is a starburst galaxy, meaning that it has an exceptional rate of star creation compared to most galaxies. It’s located approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. About five times brighter than the Milky Way, the intense star formation activity was triggered by an interaction with the neighboring galaxy M81.

OPTICS Planewave CDK17 @ F/6.8
CAMERA FLI Proline 16803
MOUNT Paramount ME
FILTERS Ha, L, R, G, B
LOCATION Dark Sky New Mexico, Animas, New Mexico, USA
DATE January 2022 & 2017
EXPOSURES 46 hours (L 58 x 1200 sec, R 28 x 900 sec, G 27 x 900 sec, B 28 x 900 sec, Ha 12 x 1800 sec)
PROCESSING SOFTWARE Pixinsight, CCDstack, Photoshop

Copyright: Data acquisition: Bernard MILLER
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

Image Details:

Location: Oria, Almeria, Spain

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount MX+

Ha: 10x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 80x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

RGB: 8x10 minutes each (binned 1x1)

Copyright 2022 Bernard Miller

This is an image of M22. It is a globular cluster about 10,000 light years away in the constellation Sagittarius. It has over 70,000 stars in a diameter of about 100 light years.

October 25, 2021

Location: Rio Hurtado, Chile

Telescope: Planewave CDK-24

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250

Luminance: 12x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

Red: 12x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

Green: 12x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

Blue: 12x5 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright 2021 Bernard Miller

Image Description:

This is an image of Cederblad 111. It is a nebula complex about 500 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon. Cederblad 111 refers to the blue reflection nebula near the center left of the image. You can also see the reddish nebula GN 11.07.3 at about the ten o'clock position relative to the blue reflection nebula. If you zoom in really close, you can just make out the Herbig-Haro objects: HH 49 and HH 50 at about the five o'clock position relative to the blue reflection nebula. The entire Chamaeleon I cloud covers an area of 5 square degrees and, at this distance, is one of the closest regions of star formation to the Earth.

Copyright: Bernard Miller

Image Details:

September 19, 2021

Location: Yass, NSW, Austrlia

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Paramount MX+

Ha: 26x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 26x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

SII: 31x10 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright 2021 Bernard Miller

Image Description:

Location: Oria, Almeria, Spain

Telescope: Officina Stellare ProRC 700

Camera: FLI PL16803

Mount: Officina Stellare Equatorial Fork

Ha: 20x3 minutes (binned 1x1)

OIII: 21x3 minutes (binned 1x1)

SII: 37x3 minutes (binned 1x1)

Copyright 2021 Bernard Miller