This is my first good image (May 2022) of two spectacular objects in the Northern sky. The Owl Nebula (Messier 97) is relatively near to...

In April 2022 I observed Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, through the night while I slept. This is an extremely popular object, but I...

One more image from March 2022. This is an image of a group of galaxies, namely NGC4151, NGC4156, NGC4145, PGC38811, and...

The new telescope mount, the CEM70, failed in the cold weather and it took over a month before I finally hauled it into the house. Once...

Here is one more image from my recent Cayman Islands trip. This is a longer stack of subframes- to increase sensitivity and capture deep...

It would be great to take a trip outside our Milky Way Galaxy, far enough to get a nice image of the galaxy with all its stars, nebulae...

Ah, the weather in Canada. Between early November and Christmas there have only been one or two reasonable nights for Astrophotography. I...

When we look at an astrophotography image, what are the different features and how are they related to each other? Let's begin by looking...

Two "dwarf spheroidal" galaxies that are part of our local group of galaxies. These two small galaxies show no spiral arm structure and...

NGC772 is a spiral galaxy which has one elongated spiral arm that leads to the informal name of "Fiddlehead Galaxy". It is believed to be...

What are those spiral patterns we observe in galaxies and what causes them? Do they represent a stable pattern of differing star/nebula...

Messier 74 (M74) is a prototypical "grand design spiral-arm galaxy". It is oriented facing us and we see very clear spiral arms. It is...

The galaxy named IC342 is located along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy as viewed from Earth. It is located vastly beyond our galaxy,...

The image is of two galaxies in the same field of view, Messier-77 (M77) and NGC1055. M77 is the roundish galaxy at the top of the image...

M2 or Messier-2 is a "Globular Cluster"... a spherical collection of many stars that are gravitationally bound to each other. Presumably...

I have had a passion for galaxies since I was a child. I was born at a time when it was understood that the Earth revolved around a star...