Andromeda Galaxy

This is the Andromeda Galaxy captured with narrowband hydrogen alpha light overlaid onto a regular RGB image. All of the tiny red "blobs" are actually giant emission nebulae in the Andromeda galaxy.

Heart Nebula

This is the Heart Nebula, also known as IC1805, captured using three narrowband filters for Hydrogen, Sulphur and Oxygen emission. This image uses the so-called "Hubble Palette", in which a false color image is constructed using a monochrome camera plus individual narrow bandwidth filters to create an RGB image. Here, the Hubble palette is "SHO" where red = sulphur, green = hydrogen, blue = oxygen.

Male Cardinal Landing

This is the well-recognized and often admired Male Northern Cardinal. Who can miss his bright plumage, especially on a winter’s day when all the leaves are gone? The image shows a beautiful male Northern Cardinal coming into land at our bird feeder. These are tricky shots to capture as the birds are flying directly towards the camera and the fleeting moment when the bird is in focus is extremely brief. Only 1 in 1000 shots comes out as sharp as this, and the exposure time needs to be extremely short.