The Statue of Liberty Nebula. NGC 3576
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
The Eta Carina Nebula from Chile
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
M16...Pillars of Creation.
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
God's Hand
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
NGC6188
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
NGC2084
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.Processing by Scott Johnson
NGC3324
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
The Antennae Galaxies NGC4038-4039
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
NGC 6357 The Lobster Nebula
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
Galaxy M83
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
Galaxy NGC4945
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
Galaxy NGC 5128
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
Galaxy NGC253
Total exposure time: 16 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
Galaxies NGC5566-5569-5560
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
The Eta Carina Nebula
Total exposure time: 10.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
NGC1760
Total exposure time: 29 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
NGC2032
Total exposure time: 6.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia. With only 1.5 hours of H alpha data gathered for this image, it is not nearly as deep as I would like to have gone so might revisit this area in the future.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
The Tarantula Nebula
Total exposure time: 15.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
The Prawn Nebula IC4628
Data acquired in Chile by: Mike Selby, John Kasianowicz, Leo Orazi, Scott Johnson, Josh Balsam, and Rick Stevenson.
Processing by Scott Johnson
The Tarantula Nebula #2
Total exposure time: 15.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia. I used a different processing technique to make a more or less natural colored image from a narrowband data set.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
The Prawn Nebula IC4628
Total exposure time: 4.75 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
The Small Magellanic Cloud
This image was produced entirely from a Narrowband data set using Sulfur, Hydrogen, and Oxygen filters with the resulting image being a combination of a Bi-Color (Hydrogen and Oxygen) and SHO (Sulfur added) modified Hubble pallet image. I am not sure if this technique has been used before but it allowed me to get exactly what I was looking for in the final image.
Total exposure time: 24 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
NGC6726
Total exposure time: 6.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
IC2944
Also known as the running chicken nebula. Total exposure time: 10.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
NGC1365
NGC1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy about 56 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Total exposure time 26 hours.
NGC1532
NGC1532 is one of many edge-on spiral galaxies that possesses a box-shaped bulge. The galaxy is clearly interacting with another galaxy, the amorphous dwarf galaxy NGC1531 producing a collision of grand scale.
Thor's Helmut
Total exposure time: 21.5 hours. Data acquired with the help of Martin Pugh in New South Wales Australia.
Processing by Scott Johnson.
Southern Hemisphere
This gallery showcases images taken from Australia in 2017-2018. In addition, after spending more than a year scouting out sites in Australia, I found a world class imaging site in Chile. Upon pooling resources with fellow astrophotographers, we were able to get an observatory built and equipment in place. This is an exciting project and the images being captured are superb. With ~320 clear nights a year there is little time wasted waiting for the next great night to photograph.