Jose Bellas

This image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex was the "first light" image for my FLI Proline 11002 camera. I think this is probably one of the most beautiful and color parts of the sky.

This image is one of our "first light" images from our observatory located in Central Texas at Stellar Skies, LLC. It was taken the fist week of October 2013.

This is one of three objects I imaged while at the 2013 Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys.

The Horsehead nebula is an extremely popular nebula in the constellation Orion.

Also in the FOV is NGC2024 which is known as the Flame nebula and two of three stars in Orion’s belt.

I hope to create a mosaic of this entire area and I think this is a good start.

This is one of three objects I imaged while at the 2013 Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys.

The Seven Sisters, also know as The Pleiades is an extremely popular open star cluster that graces our winter skies.

I think this is a beautiful object and I really enjoy imaging it.

Every time I image it I see more details and faint stuff. I’m really looking forward to gathering more data on this.

This image is composed of six hours of exposure using an HA filter from my backyard in South West Miami-Dade. This image was taken with an FSQ-EDXII @F/5.

This was "first light" for my (then) new Starlight Xpress SXVF-H9. 

I captured this image from my heavily light polluted backyard in heavy moonlight. 

At the time I did not have a filter wheel so I used a 2” Baader 35nm (pretty wide) HA filter where I would have put my LPS filter when using the H9C.

This is a single 15 minute sub-exposure I took using a Starlight Xpress SXVF-H9. Great little camera as you can tell. 

Another image taken with my trustee Starlight Xpress SXVF-H9. The Lagoon Nebula was the first deep sky object I ever tried to image so it's a special object to me. 

This is my first ever narrowband image using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) palette. 

This is an image of the Horsehead and Flame Nebulas I took using an HA filter with a Takahashi FSQ-106EDXII @F/3.6.

This an image of The Bubble Nebula and other surrounding objects I took using an HA filter on a Takahashi FSQ-106EDXII @F/3.6.

This image of the Rosette Nebula in the popular Hubble Space Telescope Palette was taken over the course of several nights that had some pretty nice weather in South Florida.

This image is of NGC 6992 which is The Eastern Veil. It is part of a larger structure known as the Veil Complex. This image is in the Hubble Space Telescope Palette and was taken using a scope rented out by Lightbuckets in 2009.

This image is one of our "first light" images from our observatory located in Central Texas at Stellar Skies, LLC. It was taken the fist week of October 2013.

This an image of The Seven Sisters which is also known as The Pleiades. I took from my heavily light polluted backyard using a Takahashi FSQ-106EDXII @F/3.6. I was actually pretty impressed with how well it came out.

This image of NGC 6888 The Crescent Nebula was taken with a 24" RCOS telescope that we rented time on from Lightbuckets out of Rodeo New Mexico. The picture is a bi-color image made up of Hydrogen Alpha (HA) and Oxygen III (OIII) sub-exposures.

This image of NGC 6888 The Crescent Nebula is a wide-field shot taken with a Takahashi FSQ-106EDXII @F/3.6 using a Hydrogen Alpha (HA) filter.

This image of the Eagle Nebula is in the popular Hubble Space Telescope  (HST) Palette.

This image of the Pelican Nebula is in the popular Hubble Space Telescope  (HST) Palette. I really like the contrasts in color in this image.

This image of the Elephant Trunk is in the popular Hubble Space Telescope  (HST) Palette. This is one of my favorite objects in the night sky.

Here is an image of an object from the Sharpless catalog, SH2-108. This image was taking with our observatory (The Praying Mantis Observatory) at Stellar Skies, LLC. in Central Texas over the course of several nights in October and November 2013.

Here is an image of an object from the Sharpless catalog, SH2-171. This image was taking with our observatory (The Praying Mantis Observatory) at Stellar Skies, LLC. in Central Texas over the course of several nights in late October and early November 2013.

This image is of the Iris Nebula and was taken from our observatory located in Central Texas at Stellar Skies, LLC. It is comprised of just under 16 hours of data in LRGB and was captured on the nights of July 27th and August 2-4th 2014.

This image is of the Witch Head Nebula and Rigel and was taken from our observatory located in Central Texas at Stellar Skies, LLC. It is a mosaic consisting of two panels. We began collecting the data on 12-24-2013 and finished on 01-04-2014.

Here is another image in LRGB from our observatory at Stellar Skies in Texas. This is just about 8 hours of data and was a very difficult image to process. :-)

The is a quick glimpse at a narrowband image I am working on. This is a few hours of HA data quickly processed to see what I could get. 07-21-2016

Here is the finished Veil complex image from the data collected this summer. This includes 6 hours and 20 minutes of HA and 6 hoursand 30 minutes of OIII and SII data. It's processed in an adaptation of Bob Franke's color manipulation of the HST palette.
 

This image is one of our "first light" images from our observatory located in Central Texas at Stellar Skies, LLC. It was taken the fist week of October 2013.

This is one of three objects I imaged while at the 2013 Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys.

I really like this object a lot and when I get a  long focal length scope I will definitely put in some serious time on this. 

I was very happy with how this came out in the wide FOV. I was originally going to crop it but when I looked at the original version I loved all the faint and fuzzy galaxies that where littered throughout the image. It was for that reason I decided to post the full non-cropped version.

This image was taken using a scope that we rented from Lightbucks in Pingelly Australia. Unfortunately the color data was unusable so what we have here is a result of the data from the clear filter.