Astrophotography Gallery

Deep-sky images captured through the same telescopes used for the supernova search — galaxies, nebulae, and the occasional comet.

M51 — The Whirlpool Galaxy

M101 — The Pinwheel Galaxy

M33 — The Triangulum Galaxy

M42 — The Orion Nebula

M27 — The Dumbbell Nebula

M20 & M24 — Trifid Nebula region

M78 — Reflection nebula in Orion

IC 434 — The Horsehead Nebula region

Barnard 7 — A dark nebula

NGC 4631 — The Whale Galaxy

Comet Hale–Bopp, imaged from the observatory

Deep-sky field captured from Puckett Observatory

The observatory

Behind the images