Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) is roughly 6400 light years from Earth. Taken with SeeStar S50. Bortle 7 in Broken Arrow, OK. January 10. 2024
Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is in the Orion constellation and is about 1,500 light years away. Taken with SeeStar S50. Bortle 7 in Broken Arrow, OK. December 3, 2023
Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244) is about 5,000 light years from Earth. Taken with SeeStar S50. Bortle 7 in Broken Arrow, OK. December 16, 2023.
Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) is about 900 to 1,500 light years away. Taken December 3, 2023 with the SeeStar S50.
This is an image of a trio of galaxies in the constellation Leo called the Leo Triplet. The galaxies are roughly 35 million light years away. This is actually two images stitched together. The first image was of the two on the right and the second was the one on the left. The two on the right are 160,000 light years apart and they are 300,000 light years from the one on the left. Taken with SeeStar S50
This is the Whirlpool Galaxy. It is officially called M51a and is 32 million light years away. It is just now rising in the north and is near the end of the handle on the Big Dipper. It can be seen with binoculars on a clear night. Taken with a SeeStar S50
This is the Horsehead and Flame Nebula complex. The bright star is Alnitak, the left star of the three in Orion’s belt. This is one image of the complex. Orion rose far enough in the sky that I could get it all in one shot unlike the pic on one of the following pages where I did a mosaic of four images.
The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters. It is only 444 light years from Earth.