Pictures taken at Oxford - details

Galaxies:

The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a spiral with a very dark dust lane.

In Ursa Major, both Bode's galaxy (M81) (NEW!) and M101 are giant spirals (NEW!); so is M109 (NEW!)

In Cygnus, NGC6946 is a pretty, 10-magnitude face-on spiral galaxy.

The Back Eye Galaxy (M 64) in Coma Berenices got its name from its dark dust lane.

Two members of the Leo group of galaxies in one picture (M 65 & 66).

The cigar-shaped irregular galaxy M82 in Ursa Major is nicely colored.

The second closest large spiral galaxy is the Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum.

The edge-on galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda is pretty.

In Pisces, M74 is a faint, 10-magnitude face-on spiral galaxy.

The Whirlpool Galaxy, (M51) was the first whose spiral arms were recognized. (NEW!)

The high-speed jet leaving the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is seen through careful image processing.

The Pinwheel Nebula (M 99) is actually a face-on spiral galaxy, full of star formation regions.

Star clusters:

The globular cluster M3 in Canes Venatici is great on a long exposure picture.

The double cluster NGC 869 and 884 in Perseus.

Another nice globularcluster is M53 in Coma Berenices.

We took a great image of M15, a globular cluster in Pegasus.

The globular cluster M2 in Aquarius.

The open cluster M67 in Cancer.

The open cluster M11 in Scutum.

The open cluster M52 in Cassiopeia.

The open cluster M41 in Canis Maior.

Nebulae:

The Crab nebula (M1) is a spectacular supernova remnant. (NEW and pretty 6-color image!)

The Eagle nebula (M16) is a molecular cloud; the famous "Pillars of Creation".

The Trifid nebula (M20) is a pretty molecular cloud.

The Pelican Nebula (IC 5067) is a HII region in Cygnus.

The Eskimo nebula (NGC2392) is a little but colourful planetary nebula.

The Owl nebula (M97) is a planetary in the Big Dipper.

The Cirrus Nebula, part of hte Veil, (NGC 6960) is a HII region in Cygnus.

A hydrogen-alpha filter helped to a nice Horsehead (IC434). It really looks like the head of a horse!

The Pacman Nebula (NGC281) is a HII region in Cassiopeia.

The Dumbell Nebula (M27) is a great-looking colorful planetary in Vulpecula.

We have great detail in our images of the Ring Nebula (M57), a colorfula planetary in Lyra.

We took great-looking images of the Orion Nebula (M42), a molecular cloud where stars are forming now.

The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) has an extremely low surface brightness, so it is very hard to take an image over skyglow.

The Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) is a HII region in Cassiopeia.

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a large planetary nebula in Aquarius.

The Little Dumbell (M76) is a colorful planetary nebula in Perseus.

Minor planets, Pluto, and comets:

Pluto is very faint (14.5 mg) and is low over the horizon, we still managed to find it.

Here is a movie of asteroid 369 Aeria. (NEW!)

Comet 17P/Holmes after its unexpected outburst of Oct. 24, 2007.

The largest asteroid (minor planet), Ceres is moving among the stars in this animation.

Faint minor planets were imaged up to 17 mg, shown moving.

Comet Encke is very faint and has a very large and faint head and tail. Look at these animations of the way distant, faint comets as they move among the stars.

Other:

In Puppis, M46 is an open cluster with a planetary nebula! (NEW!)

The learning curve towards building a mosaic of the Moon; and where we are now.

In April 2004 we took a few nice exploratory pictures of the Moon and Jupiter.

We took a light curve of a pulsating variable star (AE Ursae Maioris 1). (NEW - improved; AE Ursae Maioris 2!)

We used the Questar 7-inch telescope to image Mars and Saturn, with mixed results.