Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:26:05 -0700 (PDT)
To: FRAC <front-range-tac@seds.org>
Subject: *FRAC* VDB142 (Hubble Palette)

VDB142 or the Elephant Trunk Nebula is located in IC1396.

Thanks for looking,
Brian Kimball
                                                                                    VDB142 in IC 1396 (Hubble Palette)

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:24:27 +0000 (UTC)
To: FRAC <front-range-tac@seds.org>

This is a bicolor image made with the H-alpha and Olll filters.  Total exposure was 8 hours.

Thanks for looking,
Brian Kimball
                                                                           IC1805 (Bicolor)

                                The Bubble Nebula - NGC7635  &  Globular Cluster M 52 (Bicolor)

M52 open star cluster in Cassiopeia, distance ~5000 LY, obscured by interstellar dust, some of which can be detected in this image. The Bubble Nebula or NGC7635,
is formed by the ionizing radiation from a 30,000* - 60,000* K hot, Wolf-Rayet star.  BD+602522, a  star with a mass of 40x Sun and hundreds of  thousand times the
luminosity, has a stellar wind greater than 900 mi/s, which causes the star's  surrounding shell of hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur gas to be
compressed into a  Bubble shape approximately 6 LY wide.  Wolf-Rayet's die as a supernova, and are quite rare, about 300 W-R stars are known in the Milky Way galaxy.

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 02:52:46 +0000 (UTC)
I'm not liking this winter weather. I don't mind the cold, it's just the bad seeing. You know it's bad when you look at a star and it looks like a beating heart.
Anyway, here is one from last month. The Bubble Nebula and M52. This is a Bi-color image with 4 hours of exposure through each (H-alpha, Olll) filter.

Thanks for looking,
Brian Kimball

       Hubble Narrow Band                       The Wizard Nebula- NGC7380 in Cepheus

RA  22h 47.0m  Dec  58° 06?  Dist 7.2 kly           Galactic Cirrus visible      App mag (v)  7.2              App dim (v)  25LY     First  Found in 1787 by Caroline Herschel

                                    NGC 6992,  the Network Nebula, northern part of the Veil Nebula

                                                          Using Hubble type bi-color filters.

                                                                                    IC5146 (Cocoon Nebula)

From: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:58:04

   I'm really enjoying this cloudless week. This image, taken last night, is a LRGB image. 80 minutes for the luminance and 50 minutes
each for the red, green and blue. Taken with the AT10RCF, a 10" f/8 Richie. I use it with a .75x reducer making it f6.  Processed in
CCDStack and Photoshop 6.0.
The first clear night was a frosty one. When I closed the observatory up for the night, everything was frosty. But when I opened it up
the next evening, everything was dripping wet. What a mess. Won't do that again.

Thanks for looking,
Brian Kimball