Larry's Astrophotography Gallery

Some might say, why bother going through all that effort and expense to do something, which has already been done, and better. Well, in a way is more like a personal satisfaction to be able to image the galaxies and nebulas by your self. Even more since you won't be able to observer them directly with a small telescope or given our current light polluted skies. And who knows, someday you might get lucky and be the first to see a new supernova.    My gallery is currently fairly small, as I am still learning and the weather wasn't really working for me lately. In the same time I like to persist on one object at the time, until I am happy that I've learn most of it and only then move to another. All the photos are taken under heavy light polluted skies and sometimes with heavy dew and wind - well, I am trying to make the best of the worst.
NEBULAS
	M42 - The Great Orion Nebula Distance: 1600 ly Magnitude: 4.0 Size: 85' x 60' Constellation: Orion		M27 -The Dumbbell Nebula Distance: 1.25 kly Magnitude: 7.4 Size: 8.0x5.7 (arc min) Constellation: Vulpecula
	M57 -The Ring Nebula Distance: 2,300 ly Magnitude: 8.8 Size: 1.4x1.0 (arc min) Constellation: Lyra
GALAXIES
	M81 - Bode's Galaxy Distance: 12000 kly Magnitude: 6.9 Size: 21 x 10 (arc min) Constellation: Ursa Major		M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy Distance: 37 million ly Magnitude: 8.4 Size: 11'x 7' Constellation: Canes Venatici
	NGC891 - Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda Distance: 30 million ly Magnitude: 10 Size: 13.5' Constellation: Andromeda		M82 - Cigar Galaxy Distance: 11.5 million ly Magnitude: 9.3 Size: 11'.2 x 4'.3 Constellation: Ursa Major
STAR CLUSTERS
	M13 -The Hercules Globular Cluster Distance: 22,800 ly Magnitude: 5.9 Size: 16.6' Constellation: Hercules
PLANETARY
	The Moon Mean Distance: 384,400 km Mean diameter: 3,476 km Mass 7.349 x 1022 kg Escape velocity 2.38 km/s

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