3 From last night 2 nebulas and a Galaxy ( plus a hubble comparison lol )

[Skywatcher]

A beautiful night but a frustrating one as for some reason my sensor on my DSLR seems to be becoming very noisy maybe I'm pushing it too hard

Anyway - the Butterfly nebula around Sadr in Cygnus


The Andromeda Galaxy - again more noisy than I would like but better than last year at this height


And the image that started me getting excited about photographing the heavens was this - the Pillars of creation in the Eagle nebula - each column a light year high with a star being produced at the very tip



This had been my intended target all night but unfortunately it lies to the south of the house where I have trees and at the moment the nebula was between them we had a cloud drift by - so instead of the usual 30 frames I had 3 and to cap it all I used the wrong ISO setting so this has been heavily processed - but if you look in the middle you can just make out the tiny columns that Hubble showed so well

[catrancher]

Stunning, Chris!

Absolutely, mind bogglingly, beautiful!

And glad to see you having the time to be back to doing some of the things you enjoy!

Tom (... still grappling with this really big universe stuff.)

[Keith]

I just run out of superlatives to describe your images Chris. Just completely amazing

[foreverducky]

Wow!

[justme]

Wow they are amazing i had to call hilda in to come and have a look as well

[Dawn]

How do you do that?

[ukwdwnut]

awesome photos as usual chris...WOW!!!

do you have to play with your images to get all the colours?

[Skywatcher]

Thanks chaps. No the colours are all there

[ukwdwnut]

Thanks chaps. No the colours are all there

wow

keep em coming i just luv your pix chris