The Pleiades star cluster is one of the most important objects in the night sky.  Easily identified with the naked eye it has been part of human culture for millennia in various communities across the planet Earth. There is some evidence that it served to mark the line of nodes, later the "first point of Ares" or zero right ascension, many millennia ago. It has certainly been important to mark the seasons and to indicate when it is safe to sail the ocean blue (or the Mediterr

I had a failure of my telescope (the mount) several weeks ago and have not been observing. If I’m going to have a failure like this, the...

Image 1: Blue Snowball Nebula, NGC7662, Lac Teeples, 2023-11-12. One more Planetary Nebula from the observing session of November 12 to...

Image 1: NGC2392, the Eskimo Nebula, Lac Teeples 2023-11-13 The Eskimo Nebula is another planetary nebula captured in November 2023 while...

Image 1:  NGC6826 The Blinking Nebula from Lac Teeples, November 12, 2023. This is one of the smallest deep sky targets I have ever...

Image 1: M76 captured at Lac Teeples on November 12, 2023. Image 2: M76 captured at Lac Teeples on November 12, 2023. Reprocessed to...

Image 1: Eastern Veil Nebula, observed at Lac Teeples on September 25, 2023 The Veil Nebula is one of the most amazing objects in the...

The Ring Nebula is an object people view through large telescopes. I recall seeing it at a public viewing night several years ago,...

I’ve been thinking about imaging the Milky Way with a person in the foreground in some dramatic pose. Well, here it is. Not the...

Image 1: Dumbbell Nebula (M27), Imaged 2023-09-15 at Lac Teeples (As below, cropped) Image 2: Dumbbell Nebula (M27), Imaged 2023-09-15 at...

Figure 1: Southern Milky Way, imaged August 19, 2023 at Lac Teeples. This image is of the Milky Way, captured from the waterfront on my...

Figure 1: IC1396 Nebula in Cepheus. This is an image of a large nebula, IC1396, in the northern constellation of Cepheus with the famous...

Figure 1: Milky Way as seen in the northern sky from Lac Teeples on May 14, 2023. This is a wide-field image of the Milky Way. This is...

Image 1: Milky Way from the north shoreline of Lac Teeples looking South, July 14, 2023. This version based on combining/stacking a...

This year at Christmas a number of people received gift images printed on metal at PosterJack in Toronto. Some others were offered prints...

This is an image of the Great Orion Nebula. You may recall me posting an image before, but this is part of my new series integrating...

The Veil Nebula is one of the most spectacular objects that can be imaged in astrophotography. Conveniently it is in the Cygnus (swan)...

In a number of posts I will be studying the composition of the Milky Way, with the goal of better understanding the sources of the light...

In a number of posts I will be studying the composition of the Milky Way, with the goal of better understanding the sources of the light...

This image is just part of a fully coloured image that I intend to create later this winter. The bright star is Alnitak, one of the...