NGC 7380

This "project" took almost 6 months. I imaged Ha-channel in September 2008 and finalized it with RGB-colors in April 2009.

This one also would look much better with wider picture area. Again my Atik has too small ccd-sensor... I think this was the final push towards camera with larger one!

M97: The Owl nebula

This was my first ever narrowband image. Picture was taken in the middle of April when there was only 12min of astronomical darkness left here in Southern Finland. Total exposure was about 4hrs (SIIHaOIII).

I'm not too satisfied with this picture! I took too short and/or too few subexposures to get a good image. I didn't realize that collected data through narrowband filters is much weaker than through color filters.

M109

This barred spiral galaxy was photographed in the end of march 2009.

Total exposure was about 4hrs (LRGB).

M51: Whirlpool galaxy

This one was taken in late march 2009. This LRGB picture has total exposure of 4hrs.

M42: Orion nebula

This one was a way too wide object to my Atik camera. Even though this is photographed through my SW ED80 Pro refractor telescope.

Picture was taken in new year's day 2009 under darker skies outside town.

M81: Bode's nebula

My first galaxy picture was taken in early november 2008.

Total exposure of this one is about 3hrs (LRGB).

NGC 1491

This emission nebula was captured on three nights in late september and early october 2008.

This was my first ever HaRGB image and it has about 6hrs of total exposure.

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula

This was my first real attempt to deep-sky imaging. I captured this one in early september 2008.

The nebula was captured on Atik314E monochrome astronomical camera. Total exposure of this LRGB image was about 2hrs.