M20 Trifid Nebula

Had a couple of days without clouds, and got to have a bit of a play editing up some more photos. The Triffid Nebula is around 4100 light years from earth and rather small at only 25 light years across. Not enough data for these, but I did use the flats/darks/bias frames, getting to understand…

M8 – Lagoon Nebula

We have been slowly collecting the bits and pieces needed to allow us to take astrophotography images from the backyard over the last couple of months and last night, the weather, school holidays and enough equipment finally aligned, and Nathan and I were able to undertake our first ever deep sky astro photography attempt collecting…