Nebulas Gallery 1997-2004

As we lead our daily lives, our planet Earth rotates around our Sun cradled within the Milky Way galaxy we belong to. Nightly, amateur astronomers around the world peer into the sky with their telescopes and CCD cameras.

We encounter a variety of gas clouds far beyond our lifetime's reach. We see the clouds of interstellar gas called nebula, made of gas and dust where stars are born and die, they are the most stunning of all deep-sky objects.

These are the many deep-sky nebulas that I have seen and imaged from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, so far...

M1, M20, M8, M76

Ross Star Party in Midlothian, TX
Colorized red, note arrow of the "star birth" region

Argyle, TX Messier Marathon
Next to star Herschel 36
Youngest stars known at 10,000 years old.

Faintest of all Messier objects, 1 light-year across

Barnard 33, NGC 2024, M43

Best known and memorable of the dark nebulas,
1 light-year across, against emission nebula IC 434

M17, M42

1st image with HX916, giant cloud is one of the largest, most massive objects known in the Milky Way

also called the Horseshoe or Lobster Nebula, it is 15 light-years across.

MX5-C shot, note the dark hydrogen gas in the foreground.

Star Party #2 in Argyle, TX
moonless night
8" f/6 scope, view of the faint outer bowl of the nebula

they emit intense ultraviolet radiation exciting the hydrogen gas. False colorized.

First tri-color image with LX200 and Cookbook camera, pale greenish hue, "rainbow like" edge.

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