My name is Peter Nerbun. I'm an astrophotographer who lives in
Perry Hall, Maryland in the USA.
Here are the astrophotos I captured with my C11 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) and ATIK 460EX astronomy camera. Please click on any one of the images to see a description of how and when I captured that particular image. After you've read the description please click on the green oval icon at the top left corner of this page, this will take you back to the page showing all of my astrophoto images.
This is my image of Messier 64, the Black Eye Galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenecies. Here is a summary of the length and number of camera exposures and dates for each of the color filters that I used over a period of 13 hours in June, July and August 2018:
Red: 14 x 8 minutes on July 7 2018
9 x 9 minutes on Aug 4 2018
Total = 193 minutes
Green: 12 x 8 minutes on July 9 2018
11 x 8 minutes on Jul 14 2018
Total = 184 minutes
Blue : 16 x 8 minutes on July 8 2018
1 x 5 minutes on Aug 6 2018
1 x 9 minutes on Aug 6 2018
11 x 8 minutes on Aug 6 2018
Total = 230 minutes
Luminance: 7 x 8 minutes on June 14 2018
21 x 5 minutes on June 15 2018
14 x 5 minutes on June 16 2018
Total = 231 minutes
Total Integration Time = 838 minutes
(14 hours)
I captured M64 with my C-11 SCT, an ATIK 460EX monochrome camera, LRGB color filters, a 0.63X focal reducer an On Axis Guider, a Lodestar X2 guide camera and a motorized focuser.
The Black Eye galaxy collided with another galaxy and absorbed it more than a billion years ago; in the process a dark dust feature was deposited near the center of my image on the right side of the galaxy's core.