Tagged: Planet - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Jupiter is high in the skies just after dusk. I period of good seeing allowed me to capture more detail than I've managed before.

For a period of three mostly cloudy nights, the planet Mars and Pluto were within 1.5 degrees of each other.

NGC 1360 is known as the Robin's Egg Nebula, primarily due to its blue hue from strong oxygen-III emissions. It is a diffuse planetary nebula 1794 light years away. Presented is a narrowband image with H-alpha emissions mapped to red, and OIII emissions mapped to both green and blue (HOO palette).

Jupiter is back in the evening skies. This is my first time playing with a new high speed astronomy camera, the ZWO ADI1600MC.

Next to the Lagoon Nebula, there lies the often overlooked collection of absorption, reflection and emission nebulae: NGC 6559, IC 1274, IC 1275, IC 4684, IC 4685, Barnard 303, LDN 227, LDN 213, and planetary nebula PN M 1-41.

Narrowband images are rarely presented as true color light. When imaging in narrowband, colors are assigned to each channel based on the specific emission lines captured. One of the most common choices is the SHO Hubble Pallet, but the choices for mixing colors are endless. Here are 9 examples of how an image of a planetary nebula may be colored.

Although Mars is at it's biggest and brightest this week, it's so small, it's a difficult subject to get any detail out of.

For my first foray into narrowband imaging, I have chosen a very dim & difficult target: planetary nebula Sh2-313, also known as Abell 35 and PK 303+40.1

Jupiter and its moons, Ganemede, Europa & Io.

A near full moon presented in false colour.

Just a crescent moon