What do they have in common? Nothing really, but someone, someday found a similarity in it. Not for me. I see a galaxy!   Tweet This Post

Viewed from the side NGC 4565 really is a very nice galaxy to image. Not the best circumstances: bad seeing and the moon high up in the sky, but it’s a nice image. I shoot with a clear luminance filter and maybe it’s better to get a lightpollution filter to get more contrast and detail.

This galaxy, with it’s tipical (red) galactic “superwind”, is a very nice object to photograph! But to capture this superwind you have to expose the ccd through halpha (or broadband red) for a long time. I did have some luck for a couple of nights when clouds opened up for several hours. Although not perfect

Although named a nebula, the Andromeda nebula is in fact a galaxy. Visible to the naked eye, but it’s still hard to get those subtle, faint outer regions captured. Again, Holland is not the ideal place to be at to get those “pretty images from abroad”, but we happen to live here….. Therefore I’m quite

Normally I wouldn’t consider imaging M33 without filters, but here I did. Living in one of the most lightpolluted areas of the world, the dim outer regions of M33 are most of the time being photographed with lightpollution filters. But the first half of September there were some very clear nights, so I gave it