I decided to see what I could get from my suburban Philadelphia location with a Lumicon hydrogen-alpha cutoff filter. Here are the Double Nebulae in Cassiopeia. The image was shot with a Nikon 180mm f/2.8 ED lens at f/2.8 and Gary Honis modified Canon 1000D (Digital Rebel XS) DSLR camera. My exposures were only 30 seconds at f/2.8 at ISO 1600 to get the red channel’s histogram up to 50 ...

... Forth from that sky’s rent vail, sad whispers come, That make us breathless pause amid earth’s busy hum. The full title of this one is “On the Rugged Patches in Starry Nebulae, seen through powerful Telescopes.” It was written at Kirkside on September 12, 1853. (Apparently in a really cheery mood! Heh!) I find it agreeably spooky. The poem is from Alan Stevenson, LL.B., ...

... ones. Yup, they're all just dying stars that form planetary nebulae, and they're all within our own galaxy. Why couldn't the spiral ones be in there too? Thankfully, we've ... , it isn't obvious without doing some serious astronomical analysis, like measuring individual stars in these nebulae, which is what Hubble had to do. So enjoy the nearby planetary nebulae and the ...

... : The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulae in the sky. The star forming region’s glowing gas ... includes the smaller nebula M43 and dusty, bluish reflection nebulae NGC 1977 and friends on the left. Located at the edge ... invisible giant molecular cloud complex, these eye-catching nebulae represent only a small fraction of this galactic neighborhood’s ...

... . The only real change I've made, besides fixing a blending glitch, is to fade the nebulae out as the camera gets closer to them in order to prevent them from overwhelming the sky. (This is also ... . Yes, Babylon 5's effects guys lied to you -- those beautiful Hubble-photographed nebulae wouldn't even be visible to the naked eye if they were that close.) That said, since I always rebuild ...

... about his hobby, driving all around the world photographing stars, nebulae, galaxies, space shuttles and the International Space Station from ... the deep-sky pictures of constellations, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, meteorites and asteroids require an exposure of several ... 's head at almost the exact center of the image. Here's the nebulae M-8 and M20, with the open cluster M21 (top ...