M78 again, this time imaged with the SeeStar. Heavily processed using PixInsight and some payware plugins…
The little SeeStar continues to hit well above it’s weight.
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I am going to add one from yesterday.
its terrible quality but the subject is maybe interesting.
its halo effect around full moon. usualy its very narrow and yesterday it was really huge, never saw it like that before.
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@NEVO that’s a nice halo you captured there.
@schurem , glad you like the images. It’s a great hobby, but I find staying up all night hurts a lot more the next day than it did 20 years ago (when I bought my first telescope). 
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One from last night… NGC 2403, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, approximately 10 million light years from us.
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Another from last night, NGC3628, one third of famous Leo Triplet.
I like to image this galaxy because you can pull out some excellent detail in the dust lane, plus the distortion in it’s shape makes for an interesting target.
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Very cool! It’s like two galaxies merged on a slightly different plane.
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It does look like that, but the distortion is most likely caused by gravitational influence from its neighbors.
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This has been an interesting test project this afternoon. This is a two panel mosaic of M78. I shot both images the same night earlier this week. Next time I have a decent night to image, I might take another image to add a third panel. The great thing with this is that, with some patience, I can take pretty high resolution images of wider field targets. The two images were stitched together using a program called Astro Pixel Processing (APP).
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absolutely beautiful, as always. Would there be any chance of some shots of the other planets in our system
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Imaging the planets is a whole different ballgame. I will give it a try with my current setup but I don’t think the results will be great. Worth a try though.
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That is breathtaking Paul.
Thanks Dan, hopefully it will look even better when I get that third panel on the right hand side.
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I haven’t had much chance to get out under the stars this past month. Today I took my Seestar outside to take a look at the Sun. I heard that there was a very large sunspot that is visible right now… and indeed there is:
Evidently it is about 8 times the size of the Earth. I took a look at it through some solar glasses and it is clearly visible.
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Any pics of the comet 12p/pons-brooks yet @PaulRix? Hopefully should be naked eye visible soon but love to know if you’re searching for it?
Below and slightly to the left of andromeda apparently
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@Paul, what are your plans for the eclipse?
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Unfortunately not yet, but I have seen some stunning images taken by others. I’m on the road all of this week, but hopefully I will get a chance next week.
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Eric, I have a day of PTO booked. I will have just over 4 minutes of totality at my house. I just need the weather to behave.
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Fingers crossed. Where you live, the odds are in your favor.
@PaulRix I hope you don’t mind a little hijacking. I was at the Greenwich Maritime Museum today. Much of it is closed due to upgrades. So TBH it’s a bit boring (but also free). What wasn’t boring was the astronomy photography section. All the examples were recent so maybe this is an annual thing. All were totally, mindexpandingly beautiful. Many of the winningest entries were from China and Iran. I don’t know why that impressed me. One local kid did get a prize and he deserved it. (Don’t bother with the picture; just read his narrative. Many of us here are fathers and can relate to the poetry of the moment)
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