M20 The Trifid Nebula

Fifteen minute Track and Accumulate image with ST7E camera, 6" AP refractor. August
8, 1999, Valencia, CA.West is up.
 

M8 The Lagoon Nebula

Fifteen minute Track and Accumulate image with ST7E camera, 6" AP refractor. August
8, 1999, Valencia, CA. West is down.
 

IC 5146

Forty minutes with ST7E camera and C11. July 17, 1999, Valencia, CA.
 

M16 The Eagle Nebula

Thirty minute exposure with ST7 camera and 6" AP refractor at f/7. June 19, 1999,
Valencia, CA. West is up.

The Eagle Nebula was made famous by the high resolution Hubble image that showed
new stars emerging from columns of gas and dust. Yet this amazing nebula is easily
accessible to the backyard astronomer with a CCD camera, as the above image shows.
I had hoped to get this at Mt. Pinos a week earlier, but power problems prevented that.
Fortunately, we had good seeing and reasonably dark skies here in the suburbs on this
date, and the result did not turn out too bad.
 

NGC 1977

20 min. exposure at f/7 with ST7 camera, 6" AP refractor. February 2, 1999,
Valencia, CA.

This nebula in Orion is not too far from M42, but seems to have no common name.
Thanks to Ed Turco for helping me reprocess this.