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"Parasol Mushroom Cluster" by Patti Deters. This cluster of six Green-spored Parasol (chlorophyllum molybdites) mushroom reminds me of a family gathered around their youngest. The umbrella-shaped top, whiteness of the stems, and soft light tan scales help with identification. These fungi are common in lawns and are poisonous if eaten. Other names for this species are green-spored Lepiota, false parasol, and vomiter (because of the poison effect). The spores have a green-ish tint which is where it gets it name. If you like this nature-inspired close-up photograph, please see more outdoor, plants, and other flora at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/parasol-mushroom-cluster....
This Globular Clusters in the constellation Serpens is one of the brighter in the sky. It photographs nicely at low exposures. Shot from Bortle 8 skies in New Orleans.
Takahashi FSQ-106 / EM-200 / ASI 2600MM
L 188x30s
RGB 60x30s
Lum: Drizzle (2x, 0.9, circular) / DBE / BlurXterminator / MMT (denoise) / HT / HDR
RGB: Drizzle (2x) / DBE / BlurXterminator / NoiseXterminator / RGBComb / ArcSin (8x2) / LRGB (Sat=0.4)
PS: Dfine2 / Curves / Levels
Whether named clustered rose, swamp rose or peafruit rose, Rosa pisocarpa smells just as sweet. Blooming slightly later than the Nootka rose, the clustered rose colors vary from a pale lilac rose to a deeper, almost magenta rose hue, splotched with white along the edges of the petals. It’s quite a beautiful sight walking along hedges full of the small fragrant blossoms. Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington
'Pandora's Cluster' (NIRCam Image) by JWST
NASA’s Webb Uncovers New Details in Pandora’s Cluster
Astronomers have revealed the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). Webb’s view displays three clusters of galaxies – already massive – coming together to form a megacluster. The combined mass of the galaxy clusters creates a powerful gravitational lens, a natural magnification effect of gravity, allowing much more distant galaxies in the early universe to be observed by using the cluster like a magnifying glass.
Caption
Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has travelled through varying distances to reach the telescope’s detectors, representing the vastness of space in a single image. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image center, displays Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora’s Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a megacluster. The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by gravity, creating an effect that makes the region of special interest to astronomers: a natural, super-magnifying glass called a “gravitational lens” that they can use to see very distant sources of light beyond the cluster that would otherwise be undetectable, even to Webb.
These lensed sources appear red in the image, and often as elongated arcs distorted by the gravitational lens. Many of these are galaxies from the early universe, with their contents magnified and stretched out for astronomers to study. Other red sources in the image have yet to be confirmed by follow-up observations with Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument to determine their true nature. One intriguing example is an extremely compact source that appears as a tiny red dot, despite the magnifying effect of the gravitational lens. One possibility is that the dot is a supermassive black hole in the early universe. NIRSpec data will provide both distance measurements and compositional details of selected sources, providing a wealth of previously-inaccessible information about the universe and how it has evolved over time.
Credits
SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)
IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
M13 Hercules Cluster
L 38 * 60s
R 14 * 180s
G 14 * 180s
B 14 * 180s
Integration Time 2h 44m
Takahashi epsilon-160ed
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia LRGB filters
ZWO OAG-L + ZWO ASI174MM
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI, Photoshop
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I love looking closer how different flowers grow.
These tiny flowers are maybe 3 mm and altogether they for these clusters gathered on the branches and when the shrub is in full bloom it looks like it is snow-covered.
A joy in the morning, seen from my kitchen window.
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A cropdown from 135mm of the Pleiades open cluster some time in February 2022. This was just above 1 hour of total exposure under bortle 6 skies. I will have to wait until this winter for the opportunity to really hone in and get some serious exposure with this because there is much beautiful detail hidden among these stars. Taken with a Canon rebel t3i and rokinon 135mm lens. Tracked 30 second exposures
NGC869 and NGC884, the Double Cluster in Perseus.
About 7500 light-years distant, about 12.8 million years old, including the surrounding star haloes, the combined two clusters are estimated to have a mass of 20,000 solar masses.
Skywatcher Quattro 8"
Altair Astro 26C camera at gain 100, -10ºC
60 lights @ 180s
Darks, biases and flat calibrations
Stacked in siril, tweaked in siril and Affinity.
Star cluster in Vela constellation
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Magnitude: +2.6
Diameter: 10 light years.
Apparent size: 60 arc minDistance: 570 light years.
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image date:2021-03-25
Exposure:25 minutes (7 subs @215.8 sec)
Field of View:76.7 x 51.1 arcmin.
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or Sh 2-142
Const.: Cepheus
Distanc.: 5545,4 to 7200 light years.
Magnit.: 7,20
Open cluster with nebulosity