Astrophotography
DeepSky Objects

CVAS Members DeepSky Astrophotography using Telescopes and CCD and Digital Cameras.  These are typically long exposures and multiple exposures that are "stacked" and processed with software.

Deep Sky

Galaxies, Nebula, Star Clusters

Solar System

Sun, Moon and Planets

Comets

Comet NeoWise

Wide Field

Star Clouds, Milky Way

M57 Ring Nebula

exposure: 18 minutes total (2 minute exposures)

camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6

telescope: CVAS North observatory 12" newtonian

Patrick Sonday

Milky Way Galaxy (cassiopeia region)

exposure: 18 minutes total (90 second exposures)

camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6

lens: 18-55mm telephoto lens

mount: Orion Min-EQ tabletop equatorial mount

Patrick Sonday


NGC 4631

"The Whale Galaxy"

a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the appearance of a herring or a whale, hence its nickname.

Russ Swaney

NGC2903

 is one of the more conspicuous objects that Charles Messier missed when he compiled his catalog. It was ultimately discovered by William Herschel who catalogued it on November 16, 1784 as a double nebula. In the 1800s it was resolved by the third Earl of Rosse who determined it spiral form. It's a beautiful spiral seen from an oblique angle.

The image also contains many distant background galaxies.

     Its dimension is 12.6 x 6.6 (arc min) and it's approximately 30.5 million light years from Earth with an apparent magnitude of 9. It's diameter is 100,000 light years .

Joe Petrick

M15 Globular Cluster in Pegasus
Scott Kuntz
Canon EOS T6 on 12 inch f/4 Astrotech Newtonian Reflector. 
 10 frames x 60 sec @1600 ISO. 
 Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker. Final processing
with GIMP 12.0.

M51
 6 inch F7 Refractor - stack of 10 - 60 seconds frames
Joe Masar - Painesville Ohio  (Joe had only been imaging a couple of weeks)
NGC 4631 - also known as "The Whale"
10" SN - SBIG 8300M  RGN
Russ Swaney - Bedford Heights Ohio