M52 is a fabulous open star cluster in Cassiopeia.  It is set against a huge amount of nebulosity that spans across the constellations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus.   In this image The Bubble Nebula can be seen at the four o’clock position with respect to M52 and many other objects in the Sharpless Catalogue of nebulae are also visible.  These are detailed in the annotated version of the image below.  The square red box on the finder chart on the right represents the image.Full resolution image here (opens in a new tab). Technical Information Imaged from my backyard in Nottingham, UK on 28 November 2021 with a FSQ85 refractor and a Moravian G2-8300 cooled CCD camera with Astrodon HaRGB filters on my MESU200 mount guided with OAG.All image data is binned 1×1:  Note I do not capture a separate luminance when I bin all of the data channels is 1×1 in…

The Moon with my TEC140 December 2022.Images taken on the 6th and the 7th.  The 6th was not quite a full moon and the 7th was just a few hours past full. On the picture on the left you can see that the circle of the moon’s disk is not quite full between the 6 and 11 O’clock positions.Both images were taken with my TEC140 refractor and ASI174M camera through Baader RGB filters.Each capture was of 5000 frames and the seeing was quite good so that I could utilise the best 50% of frames of each capture run.  Because of the Field of View with the combination of the F8 focal length of the TEC140 and the chip size of the AIS174M, each capture run through each filter was comprised of a North and South run.  I then stitched the two together in Photoshop.Weather conditions were extremely cold at about…

M33 is a galaxy about 2.8 – 3 million light years away in the constellation of Triangulum.  Along with M33, it is one of the Local Group of galaxies with which our own Milky Way galaxy shares the local universe.  M33 is the most distant object that the human naked eye can see, appearing as a ghostly white smudge on a very dark night from clear skies.  It is a magnificent spiral galaxy about half the size of our own galaxy and because of its close proximity to us it appears very large in our skies and is am oft-photographed object by many, myself included. M33 Galaxy in Triangulum I’ve imaged M33 multiple times.  For example, with the same FSQ85 telescope here and also at a closer image scale with the TEC140 refractor here. This time I have set the galaxy in a slightly wider field by utilising the FSQ85 0.73…