Category: KPO Astrophotography

Here is the Great Cluster in Hercules, otherwise known as Messier 13. I have been using PHD2 with my new Orion Starshoot Autoguider, and I am finally getting the settings dialed in. Click on the image to get a larger version. Image Info: Canon 60D at the prime focus of the KPO 18″ Reflector. 15 Read More …

  This was a quick capture from the evening of Saturday, April 9th at our public observing session. This is the 3 day old Crescent Moon. Click here for the full size image.   Image Info: Canon 60D at the prime focus of the KPO 18″ Reflector. 1/400 second at ISO 1600

Here is an image of Comet LINEAR 252P captured with the KPO 18″ Reflector. The green color is from the Cyanogen gas that makes up most comets. Image Info: Canon 60D with an Astronomic CLS LPR in-body filter. 37 subframes at 120 seconds each, for a total integration time of 74 minutes. Two stacks were Read More …

  Here is our first Globular Cluster image for the Spring. This is Messier 5, in the constellations of Serpens. At 13 billion years old, M5 is also one of the older globulars associated with the Milky Way Galaxy. Its distance is about 24,500 light-years from Earth and the cluster contains more than 100,000 stars, as Read More …

Here is a digital image of the Messier 35 area in the foot of Gemini. It contains the open cluster M35 to the lower right, The emission nebula NGC 2174, otherwise known as The Monkeyhead Nebula to the left, and the emission nebula IC 443, also called The Jellyfish Nebula, lies to the upper right. Image Read More …