NGC6914

Not “First Light”

 in Blog  tagged Flying Bat Nebula / LDN673 / NGC6914 / Northern Cross / Squid Nebula / SVA

Astronomers often use the phrase “first light” in reference to the first time some new equipment is used, especially a telescope.  I’m looking forward to first light for my new observatory in Santa Fe, but these images are from my trip to the Pacific Northwest in August.  The only new equipment there was my travel trailer! I stayed at SkyView Acres (SVA) for most of the trip, and did all the imaging from there (see the Sept. 23rd post for a photo of my setup).  I used the SVX80T ‘scope (with 0.74X reducer) for all the images, and it worked […]

Feeling Blue?

 in Blog  tagged cygnus / Deneb / NGC6914 / sadr

The last of my images from OSP is NGC6914, a small reflection nebula in Cygnus.  To be honest, this includes a lot of data captured from home in addition to what I captured at OSP.  Specifically, the majority of the image (the red areas) are hydrogen, and knowing that I could get that with a narrowband H-alpha filter from home, I didn’t shoot with that filter at OSP. But combining the RGB and H-alpha data did not work out the way that I had hoped.  If there were no stars in the image it would be a simple matter of […]