Astroshed

Suburban astronomy from a 21st century schizoid garden shed

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The Southern Cross

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Perigee Moon - Supermoon on Flickr.

Rising over Surfers Paradise

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Sharpless 2-54 on Flickr.

Sharpless 2-54 by Eddie Trimarchi Via Flickr: Sometimes called the “Nested Egg” nebula, this emission nebula in the constellation Serpens, appears very close and connected to the Eagle Nebula, in wider-field images of the area. Taken through a GSO 10" f8 RC telescope at f5.5 with a Moravian Instruments G3-11000 camera and 7nm Baader filters. This is a bi-colour narrowband image of 21x30 minutes of Hydrogen-alpha (10.5 hours) and 9x30-minute OIII images (4.5 hours) Totalling 15 hours.

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NGC2736 - The Pencil Nebula on Flickr.

Around 11,000 years ago a distant star about 800 light years away exploded, creating what is now a vast twisted and exotic cloud of gas we now call the Vela Supernova Remnant. A tiny part of that is shown here. Sometimes called the Pencil nebula, this is NGC2736. The VSNR is not all that bright. This picture is a bi-colour image consisting of 28 hours exposure.taken over the last couple of months.

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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a turbulent and exotic satellite galaxy around 160,000 light years away. 

A 6-hour exposure taken with a small 60-mm telescope and processed in pseudo-colour from Hydrogen-alpha and Oxygen-III filters.

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The Eagle Nebula by Eddie Trimarchi Via Flickr: M16 in in Serpens using the Hubble Colour Scheme RGB=SHO.

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Comet C2014 Q2 Lovejoy.

Taken on 23rd-December-2014 from Astroshed, Queensland, Australia

with an AstroTech RC10 f/6 telescope and Canon 5D Mk2 camera.

Exposures, 50 x 30-seconds at ISO 2500.

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The looping nebula NGC3576 and lower cluster/nebula NGC3603. 

A nebula duo in the southern constellation of Carina. 

NGC3576, is an emission nebula appearing connected to NGC3603 (left), but it is not. NGC3603 is much larger and twice the distance with both happening to be in the same line of site for us.

This is a variation on the so-called Hubble colour palette. Luminance is mostly Hydrogen-alpha, with colour coming from Red=SII, Green=Ha and Blue=OIII. Each filtered image made up of  3 hours (15 minutes per sub image) for a total of 9 hours.

Taken with an ST10xe and a 6" Maksutov-Newtonian telescope at f/6, using 6nm Ha, SII and OIII filters.

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Colour Super Moon on Flickr.

The recent super moon, with saturated colour showing mineral composition of the lunar surface.

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IC1283/IC1284 and NGC6589/NGC6590 in Sagittarius on Flickr.

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Lagoon nebula in Sagittarius on Flickr.

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Why the Moon Landings Could Have Never Ever Been Faked

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The Helix Nebula in Aquarius on Flickr.

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Lunar Eclipse April 2014 from Southeast Queensland. Above the moon is the birght star Spica (Alpha Virgo) with brighter Mars to the upper-left.

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The Milky Way.

The bright 'star' in the bottom-right corner is Jupiter.

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M16 - The Eagle Nebula in Serpens on Flickr.

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The Omega Nebula in Sagittarius on Flickr.