Astro-Imaging By Frank Loch

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For Gallery 12, I am pleased to showcase several images captured and processed by Frank Loch, an amateur astronomer with his own observatory in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.  These are just a small representation of the many images that Frank (used to)present on his own web site. After viewing these planetary nebulae images, I highly recommend visiting his site for additional images of galaxies, clusters, and beautiful astro-art which Frank also skillfully produces.
Frank is using a Meade LX200 12" telescope, an SBIG ST-7 CCD camera, and also the SBIG Adaptive Optics AO-7.  For each image shown and briefly identified here, I have also included a link to the specific web page on Frank's web site that goes into greater detail on exactly how the image was taken and processed.

The images displayed on these two pages are of the following planetaries:

This Page > NGC 7662
The Blue Snowball
NGC 2438
(In Cluster M46)
M57
The Ring Nebula
Next Page > M27
The Dumbbell Nebula
NGC 2346
Hourglass Nebula
NGC 2392
The Eskimo Nebula

 

NGC 7662 In the constellation Andromeda (Image Details)
snowball nebula

 

NGC 2438, A planetary nebula found in the open cluster M46. The
planetary is located at the lower center of the image. (Image Details)
M46 & ngc2438

 

M57 (NGC 6720), The Ring Nebula, in the constellation Lyra
(Image Details)
M57 Ring Nebula

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