astrophotography by bill w

Planetary nebula can come in a variety of shapes.  Here are more old images demonstrating morphology.  Although relatively rare, some are ne...

A planetary nebula results from a white dwarf illuminating the gas that was ejected by a dying star... Basically, a ...

Planetary nebulae are clouds of glowing gas surrounding a “dying” star.  Visually, many are relatively bright grey patches (by deep sky obj...

Abell 72 is a faint planetary nebula It's weak signal is almost all (teal/blue) OIII (doubly ionized oxygen) the blue central star...

while it was a super moon (moon at closest point to earth in it's orbit during full moon)  and a blood moon (red due to atmospheric r...

used a variety of cameras telescopes and filters to capture a range of solar activity last Sunday 8/23/15. sunspot grouping AR 2403 in hyd...

Sun showed a lot of activity on Sunday so I took a quick full disk shot with the lunt 60 on my grab and go alt-azm mount. Hydrogen alpha ...