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•Target: M42, NGC 1977 and interstellar dust.
•Key Features: Emission, Reflection, and Dark Nebulae.
•Distance: Approximately 1,350 light years.
There is a common misconception that space between the stars is a complete vacuum. But when we point our telescopes toward the constellation of Orion and take a deep sky image, a complex, turbulent stellar "nursery" of gas and dust is revealed. This chaotic and beautiful structure is at work, building the next generation of stars and planets in this region of our galaxy.
In this wide-angle view, the Great Orion Nebula (Messier 42) and the nearby Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977) take center stage. M42 glows intensely due to the ionization of hydrogen gas by the hot, young massive stars at its core known as the Trapezium stars (which are unfortunately not visible in this image, since it would require blending shorter exposures too). Inside this giant star factory, new stars are born by the gravitational collapse of the gas and dust and will shine for millions of years in the future.
Also visible is the vast network of interstellar dust. This dust doesn't emit its own light; instead, it scatters the light of nearby stars or hides them entirely, creating those deep, shadowy silhouettes that give the image such incredible depth and texture.
I wish you all health, happiness and clear skies!
🔭 Technical Specs:
•Camera: Canon EOS 600Da
•Telescope: Orion EON 80/500 mm ED refractor with TS 0.79 Reducer/Corrector.
•Filter: Astronomik CLS
•Location: Chalkidiki, Greece (Bortle 4).
•Imaging: 4 x 5 mins, ISO 800, Custom WB.
•Calibration: -
•Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW).
•Guiding: Skywatcher Evoguide 50/240 mm with Lacerta Mgen-3 Autoguider.
•Software: Processed in PixInsight/ Export with PS.
You're my addiction baby, I can't get enough
The more I think of you, the more I fall in love
Caught in the saga, free-falling from up above, from up above
Interstellar ride
Still seeing glimpses of you when I close my eyes
Can't shake the feeling that you're always on my mind
Forward and backward dripping in and out of time, we're out of time
Freeze up and melt down on walkabout along Keefer Lake Road are depicted in the first comment box below. :)
- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
Those who know me personally will know I have a little van and like to travel around the UK for my photography. I recently spent some time in Brecon and West Wales for just under two weeks. And I really loved spending time focusing on photography again. Just getting through some of the pictures now and so I have lots of wildlife and landscapes stories to come. :)
This Image is from the first night where I walked up Pen Y Fan. I set off at 1am and only reached the peak at 6am as I was too distracted taking pictures of the stars on the way up! But I was just in time for a beautiful sunrise. :) It was seriously an amazing walk in the night and would highly recommend to anyone.
Having some problems with photoshop at the moment and it seems to not work or crash when I'm using it anyone else having problems?
me and Parker Bae ♥
raw shot by Parkerb, edit by Faedra42.
Skin on Fae is Galaxies Nebula by Forty Two.....I'm reworking these skins soon!
This is the central part of the nebula IC 4603 surrounding the bright star SAO 184376 which illuminates the blue reflection nebula. IC 4603 can be seen near the very bright star Antares toward the constellation of Ophiuchus. IC4603 is one small part of the Ophiuchus cloud complex. The impressionistic effect is created by large amounts of interstellar dust, minute globs of carbon similar in size to cigarette smoke. This dust frequently occurs in the outer atmospheres of large, cool, evolved stars. Dense dust clouds are opaque to visible light and can completely hide background stars. For less dense clouds, it preferentially reflects blue starlight, effectively marking the surrounding dust boundary. Text borrowed from APOD
Taken July 2020 from Santa Rosa CA
Scope: TEC 140 Camera: QSI 683 Mount: Paramount MYT
R: G: B: = 3.5: 3.5: 3.5 hours
Reprocessed May 2023
Dress: bonbon - interstellar idol - dress 2 [maitreya]
Shoes: bonbon - interstellar idol - shoes & socks 6 [maitreya]
Microphone: bonbon - interstellar idol - star microphone [wear]
Radio: bonbon - interstellar idol - radio [wear]
Hair: [monso] My Hair - CreamyMami
Decor: SallieLanguage/Crystal Heart/Star Pose Stand
Mesh head: *6DOO* Human mesh head HUCI-04
Facial expression: [HD] bento Facial expression HUD for 6doo HUCI-01interstellar idol - dress 2 [maitreya]
Shoes: bonbon - interstellar idol - shoes & socks 6 [maitreya]
Microphone: bonbon - interstellar idol - star microphone [wear]
Radio: bonbon - interstellar idol - radio [wear]
Hair: [monso] My Hair - CreamyMami
Decor: SallieLanguage/Crystal Heart/Star Pose Stand
Mesh head: *6DOO* Human mesh head HUCI-04
Facial expression: [HD] bento Facial expression HUD for 6doo HUCI-01
Nachdem ich hier nun wieder eine ganze Weile abwesend war, möchte ich nun versuchen meine aufgelaufene Bilderflut der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren. :)
Das heutige Bild ist für mich ein ganz besonderes, darum springe ich zurück in den April diesen Jahres.... Während ich mich all die Jahre erfolgreich vor dem Virus abducken konnte, erwischte es mich nun also doch. Ich musste aufgrund dessen dann in Quarantäne und beschloss jeden Tag ein Bild aufzunehmen. Ich wollte mir selbst beweisen, dass man keine schöne Landschaften und/oder Sonnenuntergänge benötigt um etwas tolles auf den Sensor zu bannen. Gesagt! Getan! Ich bin eben ein Macher, Zeit hatte ich schließlich in diesen Tagen genug... :D (kleiner Einspieler an dieser Stelle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbHGS_bVkXY)
Da ich von dem Ergebnis so fasziniert war (fragt mich lieber nicht wie lange ich bis zur Vollendung benötigt habe ^^) reichte ich es anschließend bei der "NURIA Kunstausstellung" ein. Offenbar war ich mit meiner Faszination nicht alleine und so waren die Formalitäten schnell erledigt. Mein Werk wurde dann vom 10.06.2022 - 12.06.2022 in der Festhalle der Stadt Ilmenau ausgestellt. Ich bin immernoch stolz wie Bolle wenn ich daran zurück denke! :)
Habt ihr eine Idee wie dieses Bild entstanden ist?
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After being absent here for quite a while, I would now like to try to present my accumulated flood of pictures to the public. :)
Today's picture is a very special one for me, so I'm jumping back to April this year.... While I was able to successfully duck the virus all these years, it caught me after all. I had to go into quarantine and decided to take a picture every day. I wanted to prove to myself that you don't need beautiful landscapes and/or sunsets to capture something great on the sensor. Said! Done! I am a doer, I had enough time these days... :D
Since I was so fascinated by the result (don't ask me how long it took me to finish it ^^) I submitted it to the "NURIA Art Exhibition" afterwards. Apparently I was not alone with my fascination and so the formalities were quickly completed. My work was then exhibited from 10.06.2022 - 12.06.2022 in the festival hall of the city of Ilmenau. I'm still proud as punch when I think back on it! :)
Do you have any idea how this picture came about?
Flower, my own picture.
Effects done in DDG.
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I was lucky to catch this unique alien plant jumping from space into my flower bed the other nite.
obviously the aliens have been monitoring our activities and decided that now was the perfect time to bring flowers back from their planet.
Now that I have real evidence of an alien invasion I can go to our leader governor murphy and give him what they need. wish me luck earthlings.
Weightless in your gravity
Drifting
Falling
Home
We've come so close and traveled so far.
So precious, so dear,
time is the only thing I fear.
As our minds, our bodies, and our souls collide in a glittering universe that expands so wide,
I wonder; "How did something so simple become so grand?"
Time stops when we hold hands.
Weightless in your gravity
Drifting
Falling
Home
Heaven.
This is a quadruple out-of-camera image. I meant to post it last year at this time. However, with the recent passing of a loved one, it is good timing to post now for several reasons. Death reminds us to: Love harder, Live fuller, and Do better. Love, real love, surpasses time and distance and outlasts the universe.
I hope each of you has a great Valentine's Day.
Let your loved ones know how precious they are to you.
Thank you for the kind favs and comments.
A glossy Ford in the workshop provided Stellar with the perfect vantage point to watch the work /cups of tea being drunk… 🔧
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Dollzone Jocelyn wearing @saphar_bjd_tailoring
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained Angels
unawares.”
Hebrews 13:2
Song by Pink Floyd~ Astronomy Domine
youtu.be/5uj8IIzbrv8?si=lDwnTF37_nbtJDw8
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©️Textures by Accident
~I do not use Al~
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Thoughts under the Illusonary Phase of the Setting Sun ...
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be.
When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being ...
This is the enormous (and close) Andromeda galaxy shot only through narrow band filters. (I really should put a little picture of the moon in these just to give a sense of the scale, the moon would only be as big as the bright core, if our eyes were sensitive enough and the skies dark enough this would be a huge object in the sky)
I spent a a long time figuring out how to process this. I could see some faint structures outside the galaxy that I hadn't expected I would be able to reach, but every attempt to bring those out resulted in a mess. Typically narrow band images are only lightly used when shooting galaxies. They are more for getting details on faint nebula close by in our own Milky Way. I had never attempted to process an entire galaxy this way. The immediate problem is that the normal light still contributes to most of the narrow band light somehow. I don't understand why yet. After several failed attempts it occurred to me to normalize the narrowband data with the regular color channels and then subtract the regular color from the narrowband. After searching for this technique it turns out this indeed is how some people do it. So subtract natural green from Oiii and natural red from Sii and Ha.
First surprise was what looks to be a surrounding slip stream in Ha. And then the detail in the core... and the off center spike coming out of the core. Finally also just at the edge of the dynamic range is a hint of the blue arc to the top left, this blue arc was only discovered in 2023. All this is low resolution as it's barely in the data.... but I was not expecting any of it to show up yet.
The plan now is to quadruple the amount of light in Oiii and Ha to see if I can get some more detail above the noise level. Unfortunately the moon will be in the way for the next two weeks... and these uncommon clear nights likely won't go on indefinitely ;)
Overview
This energized-gas image of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) filters out the overwhelming starlight and focuses only on the faint emission from ionized gas. In this view, Andromeda’s sprawling spiral structure is largely invisible, replaced by wisps, arcs, and filaments of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. These emission features reveal the energetic processes shaping Andromeda’s interstellar medium and halo.
General Emission Structures Visible in Narrowband
H II Regions: Patches of star-forming activity across the spiral arms, lit by clusters of hot O- and B-type stars. In an energized-gas image these appear as knots and filaments scattered through the disk.
Filamentary Halo Gas: Long, faint filaments of both Hα and O III are visible surrounding the galaxy, showing that Andromeda’s halo is not empty but threaded with ionized material.
Superbubbles and Shells: Several circular or arc-like shells can be traced, likely inflated by clustered supernovae and massive-star winds within the disk.
Major Narrowband Features
O III Arc
A vast, low-surface-brightness arc of doubly ionized oxygen stretches well beyond the stellar disk. Deep imaging suggests this could be part of a large superbubble or a remnant of past starburst-driven winds, marking the interaction between Andromeda’s disk and its extended gaseous halo.
Andromeda Spike
A striking linear feature of energized gas, nicknamed the Andromeda Spike, emerges from near the galaxy’s core but is slightly off-center from the nucleus. Its origin is debated: some models link it to a jet-like outflow from central activity, while others interpret it as shock-excited gas along a structural filament in the disk.
Hα Slipstream
Along the outer regions of the disk lies a diffuse hydrogen-alpha slipstream, a channel-like streak of ionized hydrogen. This may be evidence of galactic winds carrying gas outward, or the signature of tidal interaction between M31 and its companions (notably M32 or M110).
Astrophysical Context
These narrowband features show that Andromeda is not a quiescent spiral but an active environment where stellar winds, supernovae, and possibly nuclear outflows inject energy into the surrounding medium. The O III arc points to large-scale halo interaction, while the Spike may represent nuclear feedback on a galactic scale. The Hα slipstream demonstrates the continuing role of feedback and tidal dynamics in redistributing gas. Together, they hint at how galaxies recycle material between their disks and halos over cosmic time.
Sources of Text
Jenniskens & Désert (1994) – Early detections of extended diffuse ionized gas around M31.
Keel et al. (2012) – Narrowband imaging and analysis of the linear Andromeda Spike structure.
Ferguson et al. (1996, 2005) – Studies of ionized gas in M31’s extended halo.
Modern deep amateur narrowband imaging (2010s–2020s) – Documentation of the O III arc, Hα slipstream, and faint halo filaments in long-exposure mosaics.
Acquisition
25 hours total integration:
1x Canon 200mm f/2.8
2x Askar ACL200: 200mm f/4
3x ZWO ASI533MM Mono Camera at -20C
Guided on ZWO AM5
3nm Chroma filters:
sii 44x5m, 11x10m @f4
ha 104X5m, 13x10m @f4
oiii 105X5m @f2.8
Captured with N.I.N.A. processed with PixInsight, Ps
OBSERVE Collective
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Taken at the Interstellar Music Festival sim
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This weekend, 14th and 15th of May
"After Ice is a documentary made by researchers at the University of Iceland Research Centre at Hornafjörður and the University of Dundee in Scotland. The researchers use the latest technology to shed light on the great impact that a warming climate has had on the melting of glaciers in Iceland. The documentary was released on March 11, 2021."
Interstellar Main Theme Soundtrack [Hans Zimmer]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZXz5nBEdXI
Right now my whole world spin around photography, but music was my first love. That first love that is never forgotten and that permeates you to the last cell of the body.
I am quite a spiritual person and therefore I think that things do not happen by chance.
Last Saturday afternoon I went out again to do Street Photography. It has been more than a month since due to circumstances I had not been able to go out and take pictures in Valencia's old town. This last outing was completely different. Wonderfully different.
I practice yoga and my teacher of this discipline, Juan, also runs a pub called "LA FLAMA" in the historic center very close to the Torres de Serranos. Music sessions are usually held there and a Jazz session was scheduled for yesterday Saturday. The session was canceled due to circumstances and instead of that take his place Julián Díaz, an unusual pianist.
It wasn't too late when I passed the pub door, so the pianist was doing rehearsals. My teacher kindly invited me to come in and take some photos while the pianist was playing…
The piano player put on his hat, sat down at the piano, and began to play the main theme from the movie INTERSTELLAR.
The ethereal light, the atmosphere at the corner of the local, the passion of the pianist in his interpretation of the theme, all the elements formed a magical moment in which the tears fulled up in my eyes making difficult to get focus properly with my camera since I always work with completely manual lenses.
With this humble work I want to deeply thank the great present that I received unexpectedly the day after my birthday; a gift in wich music and photography merged into a stunning and marvellous single feeling.
Thank you Juan. Thank you Julián.