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Astrophotography by Jay Ballauer

Here is a selection of just some of the images I have taken over the many years of pointing a telescope at the night sky.   For the most part, they are taken with a wide variety of apochromatic refractors, ranging from 3" to 6", with narrow-field images taken with a 12.5" RCOS RC.  A variety of cameras are used and you can assume that the images are from a cooled astro CCD unless otherwise indicated in the title.  Clicking on some images will bring up separate pages with more information about them.  Other images will just show an enlarged view.   My goal is to add more images over time, as well as provide more of the individual pages full of details about them.   

Comet Neowise Time Lapse - July 24, 2020


M42 in Orion - "First Light" final image with QHY600 camera
M42 in H-alpha - "First Light" with the QHY600
M20 - The Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius
A Pleiades Mosaic - Four Frames of the Seven Sisters
The Flame and Horsehead - A Multi-Scaled Approach
M31 Mosaic - Eight Frames of the Great Andromeda Galaxy
Harvest Moon September 13 2019
Total Lunar Eclipse - January 2019
NGC 6960 - Witch's Broom in Bicolor
M42 - The Orion Nebula in Bicolor
M42 - The Orion Nebula in Hubble Palette
NGC 7000 - The Cygnus Wall in Hubble Palette
NGC 7000 - The Cygnus Wall in Visual Palette
M31 - Andromeda Galaxy (DSLR)
M8/M20 Region - The Lagoon and Trifid (DSLR)
North America and Pelican Nebulae (DSLR)
M33 - The Pinwheel Galaxy in Triangulum
Flame and Horsehead Nebula Region
M45 - The Pleiades in Taurus
Great American Eclipse 2017 - Full Corona Display
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula
M101 - The Whirlpool Galaxy in Ursa Major
Full Lunar Eclipse - April 15, 2014
April 2014 Lunar Eclipse Timeline
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula (DSLR)
NGC 2244 - The Rosette Nebula (DSLR)
IC 405/410 in Capella
Corona Australis Region
M81/82 in Ursa Major
IC 1848 - The Embryo Nebula
M106 in Canes Venatici
M45 - The Pleiades
NGC 2244 - The Rosette
The Veil Nebula Complex
NGC2244 - Hubble Colors
The Helix Nebula
Rho-Ophiuchus Antares Region
M1 - The Crab Nebula
Luna - March 9, 2014
NGC 5139 - Omega Centauri
M42 - The Orion Nebula
NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group
M13 - The Hercules Cluster
Delta IV Rocket Fuel Dump
M33 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
IC 1396 in Cepheus
M45 with Comet Machholz
The Iris Nebula
B33 - The Horsehead Nebula
M16 - The Eagle Nebula
M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula
The Leo Trio
NGC 6888 - Crescent Nebula
North America and The Pelican
The Cocoon Nebula
M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy
IC 1805 - The Heart Nebula
M35 - Open Cluster in Gemini
NGC 7822 and Ced 214
The Markarian Chain in Virgo
NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula
M51 in Canes Venatici
Horsehead and Flame Nebula Region
NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices

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