The Sombrero galaxy

Due to its resemblance to a wide brimmed hat, we call it Sombrero Galaxy. It is a popular deep sky object to be photographed under light polluted skies because of its high surface brightness. Notice there is a faint blob on the lower right, PGC 962963 it has a visual magnitude of +16.65 at 1.4 billion light years away from us!

Equipment: Skywatcher 150/750, Nikon D5300, EQ3 Pro

Settings: 450x20s, ISO400

Software: DSS, PS

Great Orion Nebula

Acquired 90 minutes of data before 2019 ends. This target was also taken around the same time last year but with 40 minutes integration time only, giving me a hard time to bring out the fainter nebulosity. This time, with twice amount of data and good sky condition, I hope I didn't push the image too hard.

Equipment: Skywatcher 150/750, Nikon D5300, EQ3 Pro

Settings: 180x30s

Software: DSS, APP, PS

Partial Solar Eclipse 2019

Very cloudy on that day as usual. Was lucky to get a decent glimpse of this close to annular eclipsed sun. Shot with ASI120MC and 60280 guide scope.

M27 Dumbbell nebula

Equipment: Skywatcher 150/750, Nikon D5300, EQ3 Pro
Settings: 360x30s
Software: DSS, APP, PS

First deep sky M42

Only 40 minutes of data taken under Bortle 8 skies.

Equipment: Skywatcher 150/750, Nikon D5300, EQ3 Pro

Settings: 60x40s, 20 darks and bias frames

Software: DSS, Pixinsight

Perseids and Star trails

 

Can you spot which are the meteors?  I spotted a bright orange meteor streaking across the northern sky that day, it lasted about 2 seconds and left a trail which vanished very quickly in the sky. Taken with ASI120MC+All sky camera, processed in StarStax.