An instant favorite. Beautiful stars!

thats a stunning result phil , the merope nebulosity looks stunning , what scope did you use?

thanks.. for the deep sky shots, i’m using a very nice Takahashi Epsilon 160 newtonian reflector with correcting element. focal length 530mm at f3.3. some more details for the image here:

thanks.. for the deep sky shots, i’m using a very nice Takahashi Epsilon 160 newtonian reflector with correcting element. focal length 530mm at f3.3. some more details for the image here:http://www.philhart.com/gallery/Astrophoto...

thanks.. for the deep sky shots, i’m using a very nice Takahashi Epsilon 160 newtonian reflector with correcting element. focal length 530mm at f3.3. some more details for the image here:http://www.philhart.com/gallery/Astrophoto... used to hate people with takahashis :-)

Seven Sisters are a beautiful site well captured…..
Tim

INCREDIBLE!!!!!

Ok I now know why you have great star images. the Tak is a great scope for this type of work. What mount are you using?? You have cahught the Merope nebula wonderfully

Awesome!

Just stunning.

Oh my favorite constellation…wonderful image…

Lovely image Phil. You’ve got a lot of the nebulosity showing through for such short subs.