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I already have an image of this nebula using just the 656 nm red light from ionized hydrogen: flic.kr/p/2mcJ4iK
There's lots of detail there, but with such a rich starfield, I wanted to bring color into the image. I shot L, G, and B channel data on 2023-07-17, registered it with the original H-alpha data, and was able to cook up this version.
This was also shot with the Atik 414-EX on a Celestron Edge HD 925 at 1530 mm focal length.
L: 120 20 s frames
B: 60 30 s frames
G: 60 30 s frames
I also shot 20 2 min exposures with H-alpha, because, why not? These were combined with the previous data in this channel.
Subframes captured with N.I.N.A. Preprocessing in Nebulosity; registration, stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; a small touch up with Topaz Labs to finish.
I see a lot of renderings of this nebula where the stars are removed or greatly diminished. It lies right along the band of the Milky Way in the sky. I choose to include the stars that give context to how rich this part of the sky in Cygnus is.
M101, a spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, is near enough (~21 light years) for its spiral structure to be visible in modest telescopes under dark skies. The bright knots in its spiral arms are regions of star formation that are rich in ionized HII gas.
This rendering is a reprocessing based on the same data used for an earlier posting from 2024 (flic.kr/p/2pYjtXz). My processing capability and software tools have improved considerably since then!
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8"
Reducer: 0.7x (1440mm Focal Length)
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Filters: Baader RGB-CCD + UV/IR Cut
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Integration: 40-50 mins each RGB; 35 mins L (5 min subframes)
Capture Location: Near Goldendale, WA
Processing Software: PixInsight v1.9, Seti Astro Cosmic Clarity, Adobe Photoshop
NGC 6946, commonly known as the Fireworks Galaxy, straddles the border between the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus. Because, as seen from Earth, it lies near the plane of our own Milky Way Galaxy, it appears nestled amidst a rich field of foreground stars.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8 at f/7
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Integration: Approx 40 mins each of RGB (~8 x 5 minute subframes)
Processing Software: PixInsight v1.9, Adobe Photoshop
Captured under dark skies near Goldendale, WA.
Since we entered PermaCloud season, I reprocessed an older image of M78 taken in January 2015, just for fun :)
QHY23M & 11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar
L-24x60
R-10x60
G-10x60
B-10x60
Ha 9x300
99 minutes
There's a lot of noise in the subframes, this was taken before I received an upgraded driver for the QHY23M.
Here's my final image of the dark nebulas located in Cepheus. The Garnet Star has some neat flares coming from it, most likely due to the optics in my Celestron EdgeHD8.
A total of 204 min of LRGB subframes were captured using a ZWO ASI2600 MM Pro connected to an EdgeHD8 with 0.62x reducer (approximately 1450 mm focal length at f/6.2).
Luminance: 23x3 min
R/G/B: 23x2 min each filter
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.
The nebula off center left is SH2-102. There are a number of dark nebulae placed around the image.
Dwarf 3
530x45sec subframes, which is bit more than 6 and a half hours of exposure time.
Attended a Lime Rock Show yesterday, and was mostly disappointed with the subject matter. I'll probably have a few shots to post but one car immediately grabbed my attention and literally stopped me in my tracks. I was clueless as to what it was, but it was a real beauty. And it was until I returned home and did some online research when I found out more about this little gem...like it's 1/2 mullion dollar plus price, among other things. It's a limited production, custom bodied car built by an Italian company, Kimera, and it features the same underpinnings as the original Lancia EVO37, a 500hp+, both supercharged and turbocharged inline 2.1L 4 cylinder powerplant. The following will provide the interested reader with more details:
Following the launch of its original Lancia 037 restomod in 2021, Italian outfit Kimera Automobili has revealed a new limited-run take, inspired by Martini Racing’s iconic Group B racer. Developed in collaboration with two-time World Rally Champion Miki Biasion and Martini, just 37 examples will be produced, with prices expected to exceed the £415,000 of its original car.
Kimera’s EVO37 is not built from one of the few, and very special originals, but built from scratch in a similar construction method with modern materials and techniques. The chassis itself is a bespoke monocoque built from tube steel, with subframes directly welded to it on either side. The steel structure is then clothed in bespoke carbonfibre panels, replacing the original kevlar composite units.
While it features the same underpinnings as the original EVO37, the Martini 7 adopts a new carbonfibre aerodynamics package, applying a new front splitter, side skirts, more aggressive in-built canards and NACA ducts aft of the doors and on the rear haunches. The use of more carbonfibre and carbonkevlar in the Martini 7 is said to drop weight to 1100kg.
Continuing the motorsport theme, the rear has received a complete overhaul, with new carbonfibre air vents framing a transparent engine cover to reveal its rally-inspired power plant. The rear bumper is also now equipped with a quick disconnect mechanism, allowing buyers to display the gearbox casing and ceramic coated exhaust system in all its glory, just like the Group B 037.
As in the homologation car, the forged double wishbone suspension has a long-travel design, with dual Ohlins dampers flanking the separated spring at the rear and a more compact coilover design on the front end.
Like the structure, the engine is also referenced by the original, running a new-build 2.1-litre four-cylinder engine that is both turbo and supercharged. Unlike the original, however, the supercharger will be electrically driven, so as not to bleed power away from the engine itself as all purely mechanical units do.
The engine’s development has been overseen by one of Lancia’s original powertrain engineers Claudio Lombardi, and thanks to the advances in engine technology is said to produce 542bhp in Martini 7 trim, up 49bhp on the original EVO37. The engine will power the rear wheels via either a six-speed manual, or six-speed sequential transmission, the latter operable via electro-mechanically actuated paddles behind the steering wheel – in-line with its motorsport connection, ratios are shortened in Martini 7-trim.
The overall design remains similar to the original restomod, reworking the Lancia 037’s iconic design with the aid of modern, high-tech carbonfibre manufacturing techniques. Details, like the front and rear lighting, mesh inserts and wheels are also new, the latter being of a much larger 18- and 19-inch staggered design to clear the modern brake package. The Martini 7 receives new wheels inspired by those originally featured on the Delta Evoluzione, created with weight-saving in mind and incorporating the yellow/black carbon-kevlar of Delta group A cars.
Inside, Kimera has opted for a tasteful dry carbonfibre and blue Alcantara theme, with the dials coming with the same orange backlight as the racer. A unique limited-edition plaque, enamel Miki Biasion/Martini dashboard logo and Martini Racing harnesses also feature, with the main control panel labelled exactly how it was in the race car. Being a modern recreation, Kimera has also incorporated a second control panel in the centre console for fine tuning of the ABS and traction control.
A total of 37 Kimera EVO37 Martini 7s will be produced, joining 37 of the original recreation.
By: Sam Jenkins
Take it for a spin through the gears here: www.google.com/search?q=kimera+evo37&oq=kimera&gs...
The Jaguar E-Type, is a British front mid-engined sports car that was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd from 1961 to 1974. Its sleek appearance, advanced technologies, high performance, and competitive pricing established it as an icon. The E-Type's claimed 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) top speed, sub-7-second 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) acceleration, largely unitary body construction, front and rear independent suspension with disc brakes, mounted inboard at the rear, and rack-and-pinion steering spurred industry-wide changes.
The E-Type was based on Jaguar's D-Type racing car, which had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for three consecutive years beginning in 1955.
The E-Type employed what was, for the early 1960s, a novel design principle, with a front subframe carrying the engine, front suspension and front bodywork bolted directly to the body tub. No ladder frame chassis, as was common at the time, was needed and as such the first cars weighed only 1,315 kg (2,899 lb).
It is rumored that, on its debut on 15 March 1961, Enzo Ferrari called it "the most beautiful car ever made", but this statement is not fully confirmed. In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed the E-Type at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s. In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in The Daily Telegraph's online list of the world's "100 most beautiful cars" of all time.[
Attended a Lime Rock Show yesterday, and was mostly disappointed with the subject matter. I'll probably have a few shots to post but one car immediately grabbed my attention and literally stopped me in my tracks. I was clueless as to what it was, but it was a real beauty. And it was until I returned home and did some online research when I found out more about this little gem...like it's 1/2 mullion dollar plus price, among other things. It's a limited production, custom bodied car built by an Italian company, Kimera, and it features the same underpinnings as the original Lancia EVO37, a 500hp+, both supercharged and turbocharged inline 2.1L 4 cylinder powerplant. The following will provide the interested reader with more details:
Following the launch of its original Lancia 037 restomod in 2021, Italian outfit Kimera Automobili has revealed a new limited-run take, inspired by Martini Racing’s iconic Group B racer. Developed in collaboration with two-time World Rally Champion Miki Biasion and Martini, just 37 examples will be produced, with prices expected to exceed the £415,000 of its original car.
Kimera’s EVO37 is not built from one of the few, and very special originals, but built from scratch in a similar construction method with modern materials and techniques. The chassis itself is a bespoke monocoque built from tube steel, with subframes directly welded to it on either side. The steel structure is then clothed in bespoke carbonfibre panels, replacing the original kevlar composite units.
While it features the same underpinnings as the original EVO37, the Martini 7 adopts a new carbonfibre aerodynamics package, applying a new front splitter, side skirts, more aggressive in-built canards and NACA ducts aft of the doors and on the rear haunches. The use of more carbonfibre and carbonkevlar in the Martini 7 is said to drop weight to 1100kg.
Continuing the motorsport theme, the rear has received a complete overhaul, with new carbonfibre air vents framing a transparent engine cover to reveal its rally-inspired power plant. The rear bumper is also now equipped with a quick disconnect mechanism, allowing buyers to display the gearbox casing and ceramic coated exhaust system in all its glory, just like the Group B 037.
As in the homologation car, the forged double wishbone suspension has a long-travel design, with dual Ohlins dampers flanking the separated spring at the rear and a more compact coilover design on the front end.
Like the structure, the engine is also referenced by the original, running a new-build 2.1-litre four-cylinder engine that is both turbo and supercharged. Unlike the original, however, the supercharger will be electrically driven, so as not to bleed power away from the engine itself as all purely mechanical units do.
The engine’s development has been overseen by one of Lancia’s original powertrain engineers Claudio Lombardi, and thanks to the advances in engine technology is said to produce 542bhp in Martini 7 trim, up 49bhp on the original EVO37. The engine will power the rear wheels via either a six-speed manual, or six-speed sequential transmission, the latter operable via electro-mechanically actuated paddles behind the steering wheel – in-line with its motorsport connection, ratios are shortened in Martini 7-trim.
The overall design remains similar to the original restomod, reworking the Lancia 037’s iconic design with the aid of modern, high-tech carbonfibre manufacturing techniques. Details, like the front and rear lighting, mesh inserts and wheels are also new, the latter being of a much larger 18- and 19-inch staggered design to clear the modern brake package. The Martini 7 receives new wheels inspired by those originally featured on the Delta Evoluzione, created with weight-saving in mind and incorporating the yellow/black carbon-kevlar of Delta group A cars.
Inside, Kimera has opted for a tasteful dry carbonfibre and blue Alcantara theme, with the dials coming with the same orange backlight as the racer. A unique limited-edition plaque, enamel Miki Biasion/Martini dashboard logo and Martini Racing harnesses also feature, with the main control panel labelled exactly how it was in the race car. Being a modern recreation, Kimera has also incorporated a second control panel in the centre console for fine tuning of the ABS and traction control.
A total of 37 Kimera EVO37 Martini 7s will be produced, joining 37 of the original recreation.
By: Sam Jenkins
Take it for a spin through the gears here: www.google.com/search?q=kimera+evo37&oq=kimera&gs...
Dwarf 3
This is a significant image in that it is the longest exposure I've ever taken. 583 60-second subframes, which is about 9 hours and 43 minutes. That doesn't include the few frames that were flawed by satellites trails or tracking issues. This was taken over two nights.
Brenda has a brand new MOT. A certain amount of surgery was needed, both on Brenda’s subframe and my wallet, but we’re good to go for another year of adventures. When we first took possession of her two and a half years ago, I was frightened to drive her out of the lane at the end of our garden and onto the main road, but nowadays it’s a joy to trundle along at a modest pace along the A30 on the inside lane, towards the blissfully peaceful and charge free car park on the Towans in winter. Even though we’ve stripped out all the soft furnishings and brought them into the house until springtime to keep them from getting damp, she’s comfortable enough to sit in with a cup of tea after a stumble over the dunes, gazing out over the black water towards the darkening hulk of the headland around the bright lights of St Ives. Not that I’m planning to drive Brenda around St Ives any time soon. Anything that might involve reversing in tight spaces is still a bit of a nerve jangler, even with the aid of the onboard reversing camera. Still, I’ve been brave enough to stop in the M&S car park just off Loggans roundabout in the rush hour twice in the last week. Creeping around a car park in over six metres of steel without bashing pedestrians can be a challenge in the dark.
We ended up going to the big free car park on consecutive afternoons. As you’ve no doubt remembered, neither of us have ever been keen on the business of mornings, and at this time of year the sun sets before half past four in the afternoon. So despite a firm intention to head slightly further afield, more often than not we come here. Sometimes we bring lunch with us. On this occasion we picked up a couple of pasties and a salivating spaniel called Rosie. Ali’s sister’s dog. Much as I was delighted to learn that Prima does a flaky steak pasty, having an excitable hound within three inches of my face while I was trying to eat it was rather less enjoyable. And because Rosie didn’t really get the idea that I was hoping to wash it down afterwards, the post lunch coffee was abandoned in favour of letting her loose across the dunes before she exploded with excitement - and other things best not mentioned here. But Ali likes to take the dog for a stomp while I take pictures, so we stomped together for some distance along the dunes before descending onto the beach, where we split up. That dog must cover at least twenty miles in comparison to the two or three we usually manage.
I spent some time on the beach with the long lens, picking out lone figures bathed in light against the backdrop of the bluff and the warmly lit seaspray. Everyone except me seemed to be walking their dogs on this bright winter afternoon that was full of atmosphere. Sunbeams moved continually in and out of the clouds, suddenly illuminating the landscape before everything disappeared into shadows once more. It was an afternoon for catching moments. The lady in the distance really needed to be walking towards me or away from me, but instead she stood in the shallows, throwing a ball for one of her expectant companions, while the other sniffed about in the sand behind her. Actually, I just looked at the picture I worked on from this earlier part of the session and I like it more than I did at first. It might yet make it into these pages - you never know.
After I was happy enough with the shots I’d grabbed down on the beach, I moved up to the dunes, hoping to catch some light on them, much as I’d done the day before, as well as on the last outing of the three happy snappers with Dave and Lee a month earlier. By now we were getting close to sunset, and after trying a wider shot, I returned to the brilliant telephoto lens. Each time the sun peaked out from the dark clouds, the scene before me became a mixture of fire and shadow, parts of the beach lighting up in a golden blaze. I just needed someone to walk across that patch of golden blaze. It seemed unlikely, because who’d be daft enough to walk across the wettest part of the sand and risk a wave breaking over their walking boots? But happily, one barefooted soul obliged. There’s always somebody who wants a paddle, whatever the season.
Shoots at this time of year are often brief, but at the same time I’m always home for tea, and even today I managed the mile across the undulating landscape to the van, arriving just as Ali was unlocking. With a damp snoozing dog sprawled out on an equally sodden blanket across the passenger seat in the cab, we sat in the back and watched the sea through the open side door nursing the steaming mugs we’d been denied earlier in the day. Coffee at last on a perfect winter afternoon.
This is another image I completed on my recent trip to Kartchner Caverns. I had been collecting data with three different combinations of camera and telescope, but just could not get the signal to noise ratio I wanted. After this last run, I had a ton of data, over 100 subframes in each channel of LRGB. With so many subs, I skipped the calibration frames and just stacked them all. Pretty much all the flaws were rejected by the algorithm, and it came out pretty clean. A little cleanup with GraExpert, plus normal processing in PI. Description below is stolen from APOD.
In this celestial abstract art composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170, also known as the Angel Nebula, shines just above the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars. Like the common household items that abstract painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars featured here are also commonly found in a setting like this one -- a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be over 60 light-years across.
Cameras: QSI 683, ASI 2600mm
Telescopes TEC 140, Vixen VC200L
Taken from multiple locations in multiple years, finished in Southern Arizona, October 2024.
Reprocessed Aug 2025 with GraXpert
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NOTE: This photo is mislabelled as having been made on Dec. 16. It was made on Dec. 21!
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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 04.55 EST (Moon altitude: 41° | Sun 30° below the horizon)
* Temperature -6° C. ~ warmer than last week!
The Sun reached the December solstice - marking the start of winter in the northern hemisphere and of summer in the southern hemisphere - at 05.44 EST today. The subframes for this image of the Moon were obtained just 49 minutes earlier.
At the time of this photo the Moon had passed its last quarter phase exactly 8 hours earlier, so the Moon was in its waning crescent phase, with the terminator (the dividing line between day and night) already appearing slightly curved. Slightly less than half (actually, 46.7%) of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun in this photo.
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Nikon D810 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 SynScan mount.
1200 mm focal length, f/8
Best twelve of fourteen identical stacked frames; each frame:
* ISO 200, 1/200 sec. exposure
Stacked in Registax
Processed in Photoshop CS6
(image rotation, brightness, contrast, 35% colour desaturation, sharpening on left side of Moon)
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1995 Chrysler Atlantic Concept
The Chrysler Atlantic was a retro concept car created by Chrysler and fabricated by Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafters in California. It was first shown in 1995. The Atlantic was designed by Bob Hubbach and inspired by the Bugatti Atlantique. The idea for this car began out as a sketch on a napkin by Chrysler's president Bob Lutz in early 1993 and also involved the automaker's chief designer, Tom Gale.
The Atlantic has several similarities to the opulent vehicles of the 1930s such as the aforementioned Bugatti Type 57S Atlantique (or Atlantic). Its styling is also more than a little inspired by the Talbot-Lago T150 SS Coupe that was constructed in 1938, such as the shape of the side windows and the curved boot. Some of the retro details include a straight-8-engine that was actually constructed from two 4-cylinder Dodge Neon engines with an S configuration 4.0 L., which is rarely used in modern cars. Other retro touches to the car's look include the interior that is replete with Art Deco-style gauges. The Atlantic Concept has around 360 horsepower (268.5 kW) and uses Chrysler's 42LE transaxle transmission lifted from the Chrysler LHS mounted to the rear subframe. Power is sent from the engine to the transaxle through a long torque tube hidden under a large tunnel in the interior. Riding on a 128-inch (3,251 mm) wheelbase, its front wheels measure 21 inches and 22 inches in the rear — large at that time.
It was one of Chrysler's most popular concept vehicles and has proven popular enough to still make the occasional public appearance.
The Atlantic's popularity has also allowed its overall design and image to be associated as part of both advertising and labeling of packages associated with a variety of automotive car care products, accessories, and electronics.
Andromeda Galaxy is an island universe that lies some two million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy. I think of my imaging system as a time machine that captured this object as it appeared two million years ago. If it is still there, I wonder what it looks like now.
This is a preliminary LRGB image to which I willl add Hydrogen alpha data (Ha). The Ha data will highlight the star-forming regions in the spiral arms of the galaxy. My objective in this rendering was to explore the full LRGB possibilities before adding the Ha data.
60-second subframe exposures were taken to minimize saturation in the bright galactic center.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (LRGB)
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Integration time:
L: 60s x 233 = 3:53
R: 60s x 74 = 1:14
G: 60s x 80 = 1:20
B: 60s x 71 = 1:11
Total integration time: 7:31
Captured with NINA, processed with PixInsight, and finished with Affinity Photo.
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, between 02.29 and 02.50 EDT
(285 km by road north of Toronto)
* Temperature 12° C.
* Total exposure time: 10 minutes
* 540 mm focal length telescope
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Description:
One of the most famous and best known objects in the sky is this large spiral galaxy, which can be seen with the unaided eye in a dark-sky location late in the northern hemisphere summer and in the autumn.
M31 is about 50% larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, and lies at a distance of about 2.5 million light years. For more information about M31, click here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
For a version of this photo WITH LABELS, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/29251167742
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Technical information:
Nikon D810a camera body on Tele Vue 101is apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Ten stacked frames; each frame:
540 mm focal length
ISO 4000; 1 minute exposure at f/5.4; unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Subframes registered in RegiStar;
Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (levels, brightness, contrast, colour balance, sharpening)
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