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Jupiter with the giant red spot The giant red spot (lower center) is a hugh storm.  

Saturn It is a little brighter than I would have liked but it is not to bad. I will be taking more pictures of saturn and jupiter with higher power after the moon goes away. Hopefully I will get a better picture.  

Saturn  

Mars If you can see a tiny white spot on the top Mars it is the polar ice cap.  

The Orion nebula  This is a huge area of gases and dust. So huge that stars are born here. These types of nebula are stellar nurseries.

m17 the omega nebula. this is the result of 44 pictures totaling 3.5 hours of exposure time.

the veil nebula This was my hardest photo yet. This nebula is so dim that when I was on target, I could not even see it on the computer screen. This is a photo of 32 pictures at 8 minutes exposures each for a total of four hours of exposure. the trifid nebula the owl nebula the wirlpool galaxy   The ring nebula - The tiny white dot in the center is what is left from the red giant star that exploded. It is the stars core. It is still bright enough to make the material and gases that is left glow.