It is almost that time of the year when the summer nebulae (plural of nebula) are high enough in the night sky for imaging, while some can even be seen visually. In the past month I have been spending most of my time imaging the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) so I would have enough data to pull out some of the faint details against the background of light pollution. I topped off M101 last night leaving me with twelve hours of exposure data. At the end of the night I decided to take some samples of different nebulae rising in the eastern sky just to share. Each image is only a single five minute exposure and I did some very basic histogram stretching to make some of the gaseous structures noticeable.
There are a ton of excellent and colorful nebulous targets in the summer. Night time on Earth is beginning to face inward toward the Milky Way more and there is a lot to see. I have a great eastern view of many of these objects and there are even more that rise in the South (that unfortunately trees block my view of).
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these rough samples.
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