Astronomy and astrophotography by Val Ricks for the love of the sky and its Creator. For a better view, toggle F11 and turn off the lights.
January 31, 2018
January 30, 2018
Trapezium E, 80mm
Tonight with a 5mm Vixen Lanthanum eyepiece in my SW80ED I saw the E star of the Trapezium blink in and out!
January 20, 2018
NGC 2403 (January 2018)
This galaxy is only about 8 million light years away and appears in our constellation Camelopardalis. NGC 2403 is bursting with star formation, flowing gas, and other activity.
This image is 38x9' with the SXVF-H9C through the 8" Newt and Baader MPCC. I am still tweaking this scope, but I like this image.
January 17, 2018
NGC 2174 and HD 42088 (Jan. 2018)
NGC 2174 is a bright emission nebula surrounding HD42088, a mag 7.55, O-type star in northern Orion. Most large emission nebulae have an O-type star near their centers. The orange star at lower left is HD252208, a type K star. The brighter star at the top is also a type K.
This is a full spectrum image tempered by the Astronomik CLS light pollution filter. The camera was the SXVF-H9C. The image is a stack of 18x9' frames.
The telescope for this image is new, an 8" Newtonian reflector with parts gathered from various suppliers. I am not finished tweaking the telescope yet, but I like this image. I also like the speed of this scope. Whereas my classical Cassegrain images (with reducer) at f/8.1, this scope images (with coma corrector) at f/4.9.
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