M101 taken by myself and Rich Jacobs with my RC 12.5" and his SBIG STL11000 camera April 26th, 2006. 2 hr L frame, 30 min. RGB.

Triangulum Galaxy, NGC 598

M51, the Whirlpool Galaxie, taken Sept. 2005, with RC12.5. 10 three minute exposures in LRGB, stacked and process with MaximDL and Photoshop.

NGC 7331 Galaxy and cluster. Eight 4 min. L, Six 4 min RG, Eight 5 min B. Stacked and processed with MaximDL.

M33 Triangulum Galaxy, 10 three minute exposures in LRGB with RC12.5". Stacked and processed with MaxinDL. See also the one taken with the Eplison.

M66, take with the RC12.5" 10 three minute exposures, stacked and processed with MaximDL.

The Antennae Galaxy NGC 4038/4039. Taken with RC12.5, ST8E, AstroDon filters. Eight 3 min. exposers in LRGB.

Alapha Centauri, a taken with RC12.5, ST8E, CW8, LRGB, 8 three minute exposures

M81-82 with Eplison 210

M82 with RC12.5 STL11000, AstronDon filters. 2 hour L,

30 Min each, RGB

NGC 7331 a beautiful galaxy. Taken with RC12.5, ST8E, AstroDon filters. Eight 4 min. exposers in LRGB.

M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, taken September, 2005 with Eplison E210, ST8E, CW8, 10 four minute exposures in LRGB, stacked and process in Photoshop.

M33, taken with the Eplison E210. Much larger field than with the RC12.5. Taken January 10, 2006. ST8E, CW8. 10 three minute exposures in LRGB.

M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. May, 2005. with RC12.5", ST8E, CW8, 10 three minute exposures stacked and processed with MaximDL and Photoshop.

M65, taken May, 2005 with RC12.5, ST8E, CW8. 10 three minute exposures, LRGB, stacked and process with MaximDL and Photoshop.

M104, the Sumbero Galaxy. Taken with RC12.5" @ f5 with ST8E, CW8, 10 three minute exposures LRGB, stacked and process with MaximDL and Photoshop.

M108 Galaxy, taken with RC12.5" @ f5, with ST8E, CW8, 8 300 second exposures in LRGB, stacked and process with MaximDL and Photoshop.

This photo has been published in the 2008 Vatican calendar.

Taken with RC12.5", STL 11000, Astrodon filters. At total of 3 hours of L frames, and 1 hour each of RGB taken from my observatory Oct. 2007

The Triangulum galaxy M33 is another prominent member of the local group of galaxies. This galaxy is small compared to its big apparent neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, and to our Milky Way Galaxy, but by this more of average size for spiral galaxies in the universe. One of the small Local Group member galaxies, LGS 3, is possibly a satellite of M33.

According to our present understanding, the pronounced spiral structure is a result of M51's current encounter with its neighbor, NGC 5195 (the fainter one in Messier's description). Due to this interaction, the gas in the galaxy was disturbed and compressed in some regions, resulting in the formation of new young stars. As is common in galactic encounters, spiral structure is preferably induced in the more massive galaxy.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1784.

NGC 7331 is one of the brighter galaxies which is not included in Messier's catalog. It exposes a fine spiral structure despite its small inclination from the edge-on position. Several companions and background galaxies are visible even in my photo.

The Triangulum galaxy M33 is another prominent member of the local group of galaxies. This galaxy is small compared to its big apparent neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, and to our Milky Way Galaxy, but by this more of average size for spiral galaxies in the universe. One of the small Local Group member galaxies, LGS 3, is possibly a satellite of M33.

M66 is considerably larger than its neighbor, M65, and has a well developed but not well defined central bulge, and is therefore classified Sb. Obviously its spiral arms are deformed, probably because of the encounters with its neighbors. They seem to be distorted and displaced above the plane of the galaxy.

The galaxies are 63 million light-years away in the southern constalation Corvus.

Alapha Centauri a is our closed neighboring galaxie. It is 4.3 light years from us.

Eplison 210, ST8E, with AstroDon filers, 2 hour L, 15 min RGB

Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our ownMilky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it

The Triangulum galaxy M33 is another prominent member of the local group of galaxies. This galaxy is small compared to its big apparent neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, and to our Milky Way Galaxy, but by this more of average size for spiral galaxies in the universe. One of the small Local Group member galaxies, LGS 3, is possibly a satellite of M33.

The Sunflower galaxy M63 is one of the early recognized spiral galaxies, listed by Lord Rosse as one of 14 "spiral nebulae" discovered to 1850. It has been classified as of Hubble type Sb or Sc, displaying a patchy spiral pattern which can be traced well to the periphery of its only 6 arc seconds small smooth-textured central region

M65, together with its neighbors M66 and NGC 3628, forms a most conspicuous triplet of galaxies, the Leo Triplett or M66 group, located at a distance of about 35 million light years.

This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero Galaxy because of its appearance. According to de Vaucouleurs, we view it from just 6 degrees south of its equatorial plane, which is outlined by a rather thick dark rim of obscuring dust. This dust lane was probably the first discovered, by William Herschel in his great reflector

The nearly edge-on galaxy M108 appears to have no bulge and no pronounced core at all, it is just a detail-rich mottled disk with heavy obscuration along the major axis, with few H II regions and young star clusters exposed against the chaotic background -- in a word: "Very Dusty". There's little evidence for a well-defined spiral pattern in this Sc galaxy, which is receding at 772 km/sec. According to Brent Tully, it is about 45 million light years distant, and a member of the Ursa Major cloud, a loose agglomeration of galaxies.