This area is VERY rich in Ha which gives it the reddish colour. The reflection nebula in the upper left area is associated with the bright star 15 Monoceros.... This is a total of 43 hours and 20 mins of mixed exposures lengths taken with the dual Taks.

This is a HaLRGB image of M78 (blue reflection nebula) and Barnards Loop (Red in the left hand side) - Taken with the dual rig, there is over 47 hours worth of data in here.

​You can see all the information here

The Horsehead and Flame nebula in a more widefield context, This is a mono image, consisting of 27x1800s (13.5 hours of total exposure) - It;s interetsing to see the FOV differences between the Tak FSQ85 and KAF8300 chip and the Sony ICX814 chip with an 8" RC scope. Take a look here

Here's a target I have avoided for 5 years.... It was one of the first images I ever took and after a while relaised how difficult it is due to it's huge dynamic range... so there was no way I was going near it!! This year I submitted.... Here's my take on the Great Orion Nebula totalling over 26 hours of data mixed from different cameras, mounts and scopes!

Here's the best bits from 2016!!

Taken with a combination of scopes at different focal lengths (330mm and 1700mm) this has been a fun year. There's hundreds of hours of data in this montage. 

This has been an interesting image to complete! This is a 2 pane mosaic of Ha data from the ODK10 and a 2 pane mosaic of SII data from the Takahashi FSQ85.

This is a total of 39 hours worth of data in total.

You can see all of the information on Cederblad 214 and NGC7822 in this link. I've imaged this a number of times, and each time with a different focal length or style the image is different!

Until I looked closely at this image, I didn't notice the very small area of nebulosity top left. After some investigation, it transpires that this small nebula is Abell 1 - The first in the Abell Planetary nebula catalogue.

This is a 2 pane mosaic of NGC7822 - and very apt for Halloween it looks rather like a skull..... This is the mono version of my current project and when it's got colour I'm sure that all skull likenesses will go. 

So far this is 15x1800s in each pane, so 15 hours of exposure in total, taken with the Tak FSQ85.

Here's an image that I've reprocessed from old data. I've never been happy with any rendition I've done of this and so this marks the best one so far!!! 

This is 13 hours of total exposure with some old kit that I no longer have - Perhaps I'll go back to it later this year ..... again!!!