The bright spot in the centre of this galaxy is actually a star that went supernova millions of light years ago. This supernova, SN 2009dd, was detected only one week before this image was taken.

The image is a stack of 220 images of 10 seconds exposure each.

This galaxy was a bit futher away from polaris, and this time I really was limited to 5 seconds subs (and even then I had to throw away 50% of my frames...). Luckily the galaxy has a rather high surface brightness, so there is still plenty of detail visible.

For this image I used 274 frames of 5 seconds exposure each. I might try to get some color data for this galaxy in the next couple of weeks.

Two galaxies extremely close to polaris captured in the fov of a modded webcam. Arp 114 consists of the spiral galaxy NGC 2276 (aka Arp 25) and the galaxy NGC 2300 (the other blob).

The image consists of 69 x 15 seconds plus an additional 66 x 10 seconds.

Galaxy.

luminance: 240 x 15s (vesta 680k)

The galaxy is rather dim, and it was difficult to bring out the fine details.

A nice galaxy near Polaris. Also visible is supernova SN2008fv (just right of the center of the galaxy)

luminance: 127 x 15 seconds (Vesta Pro 680k)
rgb: 39 x 15 seconds (spc900nc)

A nice Spiral Galaxy.

b/w image: 187 x 15 seconds (Vesta Pro 680k)

A Barred Spiral Galaxy.

luminance: 374 x 10 seconds (Vesta 680k)
rgb: 40 x 20 seconds (spc900nc)

NGC1530 is an is an archetypical barred galaxy.

The image was taken in between the clouds. I actually wanted to take more luminance and rgb shots, but I simply didn't get enough time. Apart from the lack of color data, I'm quite pleased with the final result.

Processing was done in Registax, CCDSharp, and Photoshop CS3.

Luminance: 126 x 15 seconds with the b/w Vesta Pro 680k webcam (without any filters)
RGB: 8 x 20 seconds with the spc900nc webcam (with an uv/ir-block filter)

An image of M 82 (aka "Cigar Galaxy")

Luminance: 172 x 10 seconds (680k, without any filters)
RGB: 17 x 10 + 16 x 20 seconds (spc900nc, in color mode using uv/ir-block filter)

Images were selected manually, stacked in Registax and further processed in Photoshop.

A very nice edge on galaxy.

L: 119 x 10 seconds - Vesta 680k
RGB: 30 x 20 seconden - SPC900NC, focal reducer

All frames were manually selected. They were stacked in Registax v4 and combined and processed in Photoshop CS3.

Photo was last edited in Photoshop on November 7th, 2008