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Leo Triplet Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It consists of the spiral galaxies M65, the M66, and the NGC 3628. Lookup Leo Triplet on SEDSLeo Triplet – click to enlargeThe image was taken with an Orion...
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Saturn Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

Saturn imaged with an 8″ Meade 4080 SCT and a philips ToUcam.  AVI frames stacked using Registax.
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Horsehead Nebula Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in bright nebula IC 434) is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion located just below Alnitak, the star furthest left on Orion’s Belt.  It is part of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is approximately 1500 light years from Earth. It...
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Jupiter Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

Jupiter imaged using an 8″  Meade 4080 SCT and Philips ToUcam.  AVI frames stacked using Registax.
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

M64 Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

M64, The Black Eye Galaxy (also known as NGC 4826) was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779 and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780.  It has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy’s bright nucleus, giving...
August 13th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Mars Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

This image of mars was taken at the time of the 2003 Mars opposition (August 27, 2003) when the planet was closest its been to Earth in 60,000 years .  Mars - click to expand This image was taken with a Meade 4080 8″ SCT, Philips Toucam and 2x Barlow.  A video of 90 seconds was then post-processed...
August 12th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

M81 and M82 Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

The M81 Group is a group of galaxies in the constellation Ursa Major that contains the  galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82 (as well as several other galaxies with high apparent brightnesses). Lookup the M81 Group on SEDS M81 and M82 - click to enlarge Image taken with Takahashi FSQ-106ED (F5) and Atik...
August 12th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

The Moon by Peter Campell-Burns

This image of the moon was taken with an Orion ED80 and a Philips Toucam.  A mosaic of twelve images were taken and stiched together using  iMerge image-stacking and mosaic-making program by John Grove.  The Moon - click to enlarge image
August 12th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

NGC 6979 Pickerings Triangle Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

Pickering’s Triangle, part of the Cygnus loop supernova remnant (which includes the famous Veil Nebula). It is estimated that the progenitar star exploded between 5,000 to 10,000 years ago; the entire shell stretches more than six full Moons in width across the sky. Pickering’s triangle was discovered...
August 8th, 2009 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More

Comet Swan Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

This comet flared dramatically from seventh magnitude to fourth magnitude in October 2006, to become a naked eye object. Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN) is a non-periodic comet discovered in June of 2006 by R Matson of Irvine, California and M Mattiazzo of Adelaide, South Australia. in publicly available images...
August 13th, 2006 | Peter Campbell-Burns | Read More