A Common Name for the IC1396 Nebula.

Why doesn’t this magnificent nebula have a “common name”?

What would you call it?

Is today’s EPOD – http://epod.usra.edu/blog/

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work, and Dr. Brian May for creating the stereograph.

We are entering galaxy season and Leo is well placed for imaging.

I took a very deep image of the Regulus region wanting to pick up the Leo I dwarf galaxy – and caught something else at the same time.

You can see the capture on today’s EPOD.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

A 22-degree lunar halo taken last night (09/03/2017) at 8:20 p.m.

Lovely view of Orion too.

Red flashing light photobombing the image was a military helicopter which was tailing another military helicopter that had NO LIGHTS showing!!

Got today’s EPOD with the recent deep Pleiades image.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Taurus Molecular Cloud Region and Stellar Nursery”.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with “Contrasting Star Pair in Auriga”.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with the 200mm lens 2-framer of Castor & Pollux.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.

Got today’s EPOD with the North America & Pelican nebulae image that  you can see just a couple of posts below.

Cramming so many stars into such a small image size makes it look like the Milky Way stars aren’t resolved.  But if you zoom in on the image you can in fact clearly see right down to the smallest individual star.

Many thanks again to Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.  That is EPOD number 84.

Got today’s Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) with a Sky90 array shot of the Carbon star La Superba.

Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.