PETER D MATTHEWS

Historian, Academic Philosopher, Shakespearean Scholar

Observatory

Below is a photo of my roll-off-roof observatory in Stanthorpe, Queensland under Bortle 2 skies. Please click on the below images to see my high resolution photos in Telescopius. Many of these targets are cited within my academic work, and imageries used within Shake-speares Sonnets and various plays: comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances.

My Observatory
My Rig
IC434 - Horsehead Nebula
M45 - The Pleiades (used in Shake-speares Sonnets, book 2)
M31 - Andromeda with LPro filters
M20 - Trifid Nebula with L-Pro filters
M20 - Trifid Nebula with Antila filters
NGC6960 - Veil Nebula
M7 - Ptolemy Cluster
M16 - Pillars of Creation
NGC292 - Small Magellanic Cloud
M24 - Small Sagittarius Star Cloud
IC4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula
IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula with Optolong L-Pro filters
IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula with Antila Filters
IC4628 - The Prawn Nebula with StarXTerminator
Sh2-54 - Sharpless 54 using StarXTerminator
SH2-8 Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpious
M17 - Omega Nebula
M8 - Lagoon Nebula
NGC6357 - War & Peace Nebula (Sonnet 77)
NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula, taken with ALP-T Golden Dual Band 2.00" 5nm filter
NGC3199 - Bright Nebula (Banana Nebula)
M42 - Orion Nebula (April 2023)
IC2944 - Runnig Chicken Nebula including IC2948, Gum39 and Ru94.
SH2-311 - Scull & Crossbones Nebula
NGC2244 - Rosette Nebula
LMC - Large Magnetic Cloud, a massive project on one of the largest targets in the southern hemisphere. It encompasse so many nebula with it: 30DOV, NGC2100, NGC2108, NGC2077, NGC2080, NGC2074, NGC2050, NGC2055, NGC2034, NGC2086, NGC2091 and a couple of others.
NGC5128 - Centaurus A (Caldwell 77). It was catalogued by the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century, but it was mentioned in earlier Greek texts by the astronomer Eudoxus and the poet Aratus, although astronomers claim to have been discovered on 29 April 1826 by James Dunlop during a survey at the Parramatta Observatory.
C\2022 E3 (ZTF) - Final Proccessing for Academic Paper
NGC3372 - Carina Nebula with StarXTerminator
NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet (Hamlet's Ghost) reprocessed in StarEXTerminator