NGC7635 Bubble Nebula

Since I haven't been able to get out and do any astrophotography lately, I've been going through old data and practising processing. A very generous member, Sean "Falcon-" Murphy on the Cloudy Nights forum, offered some of his raw data to use.

One of the objects he offered was the Bubble Nebula. I've been fascinated with this nebula, lovely delicate shape of a very obvious bubble (top right). It is also not visible from where I live, so will never get an opportunity to image it. He also included in the shot the open star cluster M52 (bottom left).

NGC6334 Cat's Paw Nebula

Went back through some data trying to implement some processing tricks I've picked up along the way. This is NGC6334 Cat's Paw Nebula captured at the 2009 Qld Astrofest.

NASA's big announcement

I was reading this from NASA's website:

NASA will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 15, to discuss the Chandra X-ray Observatory's discovery of an exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood.

Couldn't help but imagine what the announcement was going to be about, and decided to take a photo of what I imagined. Hey, it was Sunday and I had nothing to do.

"A huge comet is heading to Earth. Somebody get me Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck on the phone!"