Barnard's Galaxy NGC 6822, plus NGC 6818 Planetary above it, with 4-inch Astro-Physics Traveler apo refractor at f/4.5 with telecompressor. Canon 20Da camera at ISO800 and 6 minutes. Stack of 4 exposures. Shot from Queensland, Australia, July 2006.
NGC 6946 galaxy (below and NGC 6939 open cluster (top) on Cygnus-Cepheus boreder. Taken Nov 6, 2010 with 105mm A&M apo refractor at f/5 with Borg .85x flattener/reducer and Canon 5DMkII at ISO 800 for stack of 5 x 12 minute exposures, Mean combined. Used Celestron CGEM mount and Sky-Watcher SynGuider on William Optics 66mm guidescope. All seemed to work well.