Below are astrophotography images processed with data collected at the Willis Observatory.
By Dr. Naveed Moeed
LUNAR
DEEP SKY
SOLAR
During 2020 Chris was part of the Chile TOA 150 Team of the Deep Sky West Remote Observatory. TOA refers to TAKAHASHI TOA-150B REFRACTOR, the telescope the team used. The telescope is located at El Sauce Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
There are some targets which can’t be obtained from the Northern Hemisphere (and vice versa). Depending on what hemisphere you live in impacts your target selection and how good your data for that target can be so it was great to be a part of the Chile TOA 150 Team.
Below are astrophotography images using data obtained at El Sauce Observatory.
DEEP SKY
B72, Snake Nebula, interstellar dark clouds of obscuring gas and dust
M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away. Image processed by Ron Brecher, AstroDoc, in tutoring sessions with me.
NGC 6357, also known as the Lobster Nebula, is a diffuse nebula many proto-stars shielded by dark disks of gas, and young stars wrapped in expanding "cocoons" or expanding gases surrounding these small stars. Image is HaO3LRGB, processed by Ron Brecher, AstroDoc, in tutoring sessions with me.
NGC 6357, also known as the Lobster Nebula, narrowband SHO processing by Ron Brecher, AstroDoc, in tutoring sessions with me.
NGC7293, The Helix Nebula, is an example of a planetary nebula, formed by an intermediate to low-mass star, which sheds its outer layers near the end of its evolution. Gases from the star in the surrounding space appear, from our vantage point, as if we are looking down a helix structure. The remnant central stellar core, known as the central star (CS) of the planetary nebula, is destined to become a white dwarf star. Some have called NGC7293 The Eye of God. Image is HaO3LRGB, processed by Ron Brecher, AstroDoc, in tutoring sessions with me.