Astro photos

Equipment

My rig on the balcony

Photos are taken from my somewhat light polluted balcony in Uppsala/Sweden

Please adjust your monitor so that you can see all the shades

M15 globular cluster 35x180s + 11x60s ISO400 (mod 300D)

ngc7000 (and various other nebulas) in Cygnus 14x180s ISO400 (50mm lens + barndoor tracker with mod 300D)

Sh2-101 Tulip nebula & Cygnus X-1 12x600s ISO800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

Sh2-86 (nebula) & ngc6823 (open cluster) 13x600s ISO800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

ngc6992 old supernova remnant (East veil nebula) 16x600s ISO800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

ngc6960 old supernova remnant (West veil) 16x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

M27 planetary "dumbell" nebula 10x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

M13 globular cluster 26x180s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Close to the center of Virgo galaxy cluster (Markarian's chain) 26x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

The "streak" is the asteriod (599)Luisa mag ~14 (lower left)

ngc4725 galaxy 30x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Whale and crowbar galaxies (ngc4631/ngc4656) 30x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Leo galaxy trio (M65,M66 & ngc3628) 29x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M3 Globular cluster 35x180s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M42/M43 Orion nebula 10x60s + 19x600s ISO 400 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

IC443 Jellyfish nebula 20x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

ngc2264 X-mas tree open cluster 18x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

M44 "Beehive" open cluster 20x300s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Flame & Horsehead nebula 17x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

Rosette nebula ngc2244 2x9x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

Monkey nebula ngc2174 17x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

Nebula IC410 & open cluster ngc1893 20x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

"Flaming star" nebula IC405 14x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

"California" nebula ngc1499 8x600s + 9x600s mosaic ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

"Crab" nebula M1 (old supernova remnant) 11x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

M74 galaxy 17x600s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M45 open cluster 420 LY away. 12x360s + 12x360s mosaic ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M33 local group galaxy (~3 Million LY) 31x360s + 20x600 ISO 400 (mod 300D)

ngc7331 and Stephan's quintet galaxy group 26x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

"Crescent" nebula ngc6888 was created by a Wolf-Rayet star 13x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

Pickering's triangle. An old supernova remnant (veil nebula) 13x600s ISO 800 (mod 300D + UHC filter)

Noctilucent clouds 18mm lens 2006/07/14 UT23:00 (mod 300D)

Noctilucent clouds 18mm lens 2006/07/10 UT23:00 (mod 300D)

Comet p73-C Schwassmann-Wachmann 31x60s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

"Sunflower" galaxy M63 5x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Great globular cluster in Hercules 20x180s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

ngc4565 20x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Abell 1656 is a supercluster of galaxies in Coma Bernices about 350 million LY away 20x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

Abell 1367 is a supercluster of galaxies in Leo about 300 million LY away 20x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M91 & M88 galaxies in Virgo 8x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M100 with Supernova 2006X (brighter of two stars just below the core) 26x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M64 "black eye" galaxy 7x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

M95 & M96 galaxy group in Leo 20x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

ngc4559 galaxy 24x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

ngc2903 galaxy in Leo 9x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

ngc3190 group in Leo (Hickson 44) 20x360s ISO 400 (mod 300D)

ngc3344 in Leo 15x600s ISO 400

M31-32-110 Andromeda galaxy 5x600s ISO 400

ngc7814 edge on galaxy 8x600s ISO 400

M2 globular cluster 20x180s ISO 400

M5 globular cluster 7x300s ISO 400

ngc4274 galaxy group 11x600s ISO 400

The Moon :) 1/250s ISO 200

The Moon in color 1/400s ISO 400

(C) 2005 Walter Puccio