Category: KPO Astrophotography

  This is IC 1396, also known as the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, captured with my travel astrophotography rig from Key West, Florida, and from the KPO field in Saint Cloud, Florida. This image represents over 9 hours of exposure on this faint deep sky target. The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas Read More …

Here is the Great Galaxy in Triangulum, catalogued as Messier 33 or M33, found surprisingly enough in the constellation of Triangulum. This is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with Read More …

This is an image of IC 1848, known also as the Soul Nebula. This nickname comes from the perceived shape of a human fetus, floating in the womb of the Milky Way Galaxy. This is a semi-false color image taken through narrowband filters, where Hydrogen Alpha is mapped to Red, Oxygen III is mapped to Read More …

This is a true color image (RGB) of Messier 31 and 110, collectively named the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest neighbor in galactic space. This behemoth of a galaxy lies 2.5 million light years away. M110 is the small galaxy to the lower right of the main galaxy. Andromeda Gxy is the farthest astronomical object that Read More …

This is a narrowband Image of NGC 281, better known as the PacMan nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This object is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way’s Perseus Spiral Arm. This 20×30 arcmin sized nebulosity is Read More …