Archive for the ‘Peter Campbell-Burns’ Category

NGC 7000 revisited by Peter Campbell-Burns

Here is yet another image of NGC 7000 – the North American Nebula – captured on 29 August 2010.  Although there are plenty of other good targets in the night sky I went back to this one because a bright moon was rising and NGC 7000 is a nice easy target with a  Hydrogen Alpha filter. ...
August 30th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Henry Tiarks and the Museo Astronomico

Whilst taking a short vacation in Marbella my wife and I enjoyed an early evening stroll through the Parque de la Constitucion, a small oasis of green in the midst of a high-rise landscape that is so typical of the Spanish Costas. In the centre of this beautifully tended park we were quite surprised...
May 29th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Waxing Gibbous Moon by Peter Campbell-Burns

 The following image of the Waxing Gibbous Moon was taken on Sunday 25th April using a small Williams Optics SD66 and Philips ToUcam.  The telescope was mounted on a photographic tripod (i.e. unguided) allowing only short AVI video sequences to be captured.     Although the SD66 has a short focal...
April 26th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

The Leo Triplet and NGC 3628 by Peter Campbell-Burns and Kevin Pretorius

Peter: Kevin and I met at my house for a night of imaging. Despite the cloud of volcano ash over the UK we enjoyed a lovely sky.  The promised glorious sunsets had not appeared suggesting that the cloud was having minimal effect, but my images showed a brighter than usual background which may have...
April 19th, 2010 | Featured Articles, Kevin Pretorius, Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Andromeda Galaxy Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

the Andromeda Galaxy (M31, also designated NGC 224) is the only extra-galactic object that is visible to the naked eye.  The Persian scholar Abdal-Rahman Al Sufi was the first to make note of a “small cloud” in the constellation of Andromeda; it was rediscovered over 600 years later in 1612...
September 26th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

 M101, NGC 5457  was discovered by Pierre Méchain in March 27, 1781 was one of the last entries in Charles Messier’s catalog. It was one of the first “spiral nebula” identified as such, in 1851 by William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse.   Also visible is NGC 5474 (to the...
September 22nd, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

North America Nebula (NGC 7000) by Peter Campbell-Burns

 The North America Nebula (NGC 7000, also Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus.  It is so called because seen in full its shape resembles the continent of North America).  Its surface brightness is very low and so NGC 7000 cannot normally be seen with the naked eye,...
September 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Wide-Field Images by Peter Campbell-Burns

The images below are widefield images of regions in the Constellation of Cygnus.  the first is Centred on approximately 55 Cyg, RA: 20h 49m 17.91s Dec: +46° 9′ 16.8″) and the second centres almost on the North America nebula itself.   The field of view of these images is approximately...
August 15th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

M42 Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

The Orion Nebula (also designated Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion’s Belt and is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye.   It is approximately1,344±20 light years away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.  It...
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

M81 Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode’s Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Lookup M81 on SEDS M81 – click to enlarge Imaged using a Takahashi FSQ-106ED and  Atik 16HR.   40 minutes exposure (10 x 4min subframes)
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More