A collection of astronomical photos taken by Adam Lundie at Eatons Hill Observatory.
Equipment Used:
- Telescope 1: Celestron 1100 Edge HD
- Telescope 2: Skywatcher Esprit 120ED
- Telescope 3: Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
- Mounts: Skywatcher EQ8 Pro
- Imaging Cameras: QSI 683ws-8 Monochrome, ZWO ASI290MM
- Filters: Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen 2 LRGB, Astronomik CLS-CCD, 6nm Hα, 6nm SII, 6nm OIII, ProPlanet 742nm IR-pass
- Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
- Guiding Optics: Innovations Foresight ONAG, Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
- Focusers: Starlight Instruments Feather Touch + Posi Drive Motor
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Recent Work:
17-Jun-2020
NGC 2626 is a seldom photographed, spectacular reflection nebula in a sea of hydrogen emission clouds.
04-Jun-2020
NGC 1808 has an unusual, warped shape. Most spiral galaxies are flat disks, but this one has curls of dust and gas at its outer spiral arms.
18-May-2020
The Fornax Cluster is a cluster of 58 galaxies centered around 62 million light years distant.
18-Apr-2020
This southern sky barred spiral galaxy shines bright in the southern skies, from about 45 million light-years away.
02-Apr-2020
IC 5325 is a rarely photographed spiral galaxy in the Phoenix constellation
23-Nov-2019
The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.
07-Nov-2019
Perhaps too tough of a target for light polluted skies, elliptical galaxy NGC 474 still managed to show some tidal tails / shells from interacting with the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 470.
25-Oct-2019
IC 5267 (left) is a spiral galaxy 79 million light years away.
13-Oct-2019
Messier 15 is a very old and tightly packed home to over 100,000 stars. It is 33,600 light years from Earth, and is visible to the naked eye in areas with little light pollution.
08-Oct-2019
NGC 7083 is a spiral galaxy located about 134 million light-years away.
24-Sep-2019
At 180 million light years away, spiral galaxy NGC 6962 dominates this field of galaxies.
10-Sep-2019
10600 light years away, Messier 22 is one of the closest and brightest globular clusters visible from Earth.
04-Sep-2019
The dark molecular clouds of Barnard 92 (center) and 93 (left) are superimposed over the Messier 24 Sagittarius Star Cloud.
27-Aug-2019
The Lagoon Nebula is an active stellar nursery spanning 60 light years across. This false color photograph shows the interplay of three gasses: hydrogen-alpha in green, sulfur-II in red, and oxygen-III in blue.
13-Aug-2019
One of the few Messier objects difficult to observe in the northern hemisphere, M55 is a globular cluster 17,600 light years away, comprising of around 100,000 very old stars.