M102 (NGC 5866, UGC 9723, PGC 53933 and others) is a known as the Spindle Galaxy. A lenticular galaxy, this one is located approximately 47 million light-years away in Draco. Luminance – 24x600s – 240

Hi All, I want to ask a question to all of you that use a Digital Loggers Web Power Switch used to remotely turn on the power to your gear. It takes me approx 15-20 minutes to get 3-4 outlets turned o

Hi, This is an image of SH2-101, also known as the Tulip Nebula, in SHO narrowband. It is an emission nebula about 6,000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula is about 70 light yeas

Berkeley 8 is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class II 3 p open cluster approximately 10,274 light-years away in Cassiopeia. Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 m

Berkeley 14 is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class III 3 m open cluster approximately 3,588 light-years away in Auriga. The bright star Almaaz (HIP 23416 and other

Berkeley 15 is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class II 2 p open cluster approximately 4,240 light-years away in Auriga. Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 minut

Berkeley 55 is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class III 2 p open cluster approximately 5545 light-years away in Cygnus. Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 minut

NGC 4145 (PGC 38693, UGC 7154 and others) is a barred spiral located approximately 62 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1 RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes e

Arp 92 in Pisces consists of NGC 7306 (PGC 71035, UGC 12493, VV 1975 and others), the spiral left of center and PGC 71041 (NGC 7396B and others), the elliptical companion. Part of Arp’s, ‘Spiral Galax

UGC 1281 (PGC 6699 and others) is a low surface brightness, edge-on spiral located approximately 17 million light-years away in Triangulum. PGC 6700 is the small ball galaxy of unknown type just to th

PGC 3853 (MCG-01-03-085 and others) is a low-surface brightness galaxy located approximately 38 million light-years away in Cetus. PGC 3855 (MCG-01-03-088 and others) is the edge-on galaxy below PGC 3

vdB 158 is a small, blue reflection nebula illuminated by HD 222142 approximately 1,435 light years away in Andromeda. DG191 (LBN 534) is the larger dusty region is cataloged as DG191. Luminance – 24x

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220618.html The team of Min Xie, Chen Wu, Yizhou Zhang, and Benchu Tang on a pier in building one. Dan ---- Dan Crowson dcrowson@... Dardenne Prairie MO http://www.crowson

NGC 4274 (UGC 7377, PGC 39724 and many others) is a LINER-type Active Galaxy Nucleus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-ionization_nuclear_emission-line_region) located approximately 47 million light-

vdB 109 (* 24 Sco, HIP 81724 and many others) is the gold reflection nebula and bright star. The star is located approximately 384.5 light-years away in Scorpius. The area around vdB 109 is dominated

Hi, This is an image of IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula, in SHO narrowband. It is an open cluster with associated nebula located about 6,000 light years away in the constellation Cen

Hi all: Comet c2017 K2 PanSTARRS continues to brighten and develop more of a tail over the past month, now about magnitude 9.5. Moving slowly through Ophiuchus: http://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/c

Arp 188 (UGC 10214, VV 29 and others) is an odd galaxy merger with a plume found in Draco. This one is part of Arp’s ‘Narrow Filaments’ class. Luminance – 36x600s – 360 minutes – binned 1x1 RGB –8x300

Congrats to Gregg for having his image of NGC 6559 published in the August 2022 Gallery section of Sky & Telescope. ---- Dan Crowson dcrowson@... Dardenne Prairie MO http://www.crowson.com

Hi, This is an image of the region surrounding Orion’s Belt. It is a 2-panel mosaic with over 40-hours of combined exposure. You can see the Flame and the Horsehead nebulae in the lower left of the im