Welcome to AstroHep
AstroHep.com is the astro photography web site of Paul Hepner. I am an amateur astronomer in Cypress, Texas. Like most suburban astronomers I deal with significant light pollution, in my case from the near by suburbs of Houston, Texas. Using narrowband emission line filters I can overcome the limitations of a bright sky allowing single band monochrome images or multi band color images to be taken from my light polluted backyard.
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24 Nov 2006 NGC-7635 SII-Ha-OIII (click image for larger view) This is NGC-7635 the Bubble Nebula. I took 10x6 minute subs of SII, Ha and OIII. This is a very faint neblua and stretching SII and OIII created significant noise. Will get more data later...
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24 Nov 2006 IC-1805 SII-Ha-OIII (click image for larger view) This is the "heart" of IC-1805 the Heart Nebula. A small section of the center of a large heart shaped nebula (heart laying on its side with top to the right). I took 12x10 minute...
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24 Nov 2006 IC-434 Ha (click image for larger view) IC-434 is also known as the Horsehead Nebula. I took 10x6 minute subs of Ha framed to not include the bright star Alnitak or NGC-2024 the Flame Nebula. I will add color to this image and then attempt...
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23 Nov 2006 IC-1848 3-Image Ha Mosaic (click image for larger view) IC-1848 is a large nebula. I took 10x6 minute subs over 3 areas to make a 3 image mosaic. MaximDL mosaic tool to combine and blend. Hard to fit on screen so uploaded horizontal and vertical...
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23 Nov 2006 IC-443 SII-Ha-OIII (click image for larger view) IC-443 Jellyfish "Nebula" supernova remnant. Re-Imaged 20x6 minutes of SII, Ha and OIII. See original Ha below and the guess processers versions. 15 minutes with my sky/camera captured...
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