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These nebulae are located in the constellation Corona Australis, between γ and ε Coronae Australis and features NGC6726, NGC6729, NGC6727, NGC6723 and IC4812 and is not a popular group of objects or area of the sky to be imaged by amateurs.
I imaged a close up on the blue reflection nebulae back in August 2020 and wanted to expose it at a lower focal length to see what surrounds the blue nebulosity.
This area is dark and not as vibrant as other more well known and popular objects, but I think that the combination of reflection nebulae crossed by dark nebulae made an interesting image.
This image was exposed through a 80mm f6.3 refracting telescope with a QHY268M camera for a total exposure time of 17 hours and 20 minutes.
This image was exposed with a QHY268M through a simple doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) over 2 and a half nights, as a 2 plate mosaic but heavily overlapping so that I would only need to crop out the most distorted edges, retaining the whole original frame size... exposures started just after midnight on 10 July and being completed on the morning of 12 July 2023, for a total integration time of 17 hours and 20 minutes, 8 hours and 40 minutes per plate.
NGC 1499 - The California Nebula
Taken October 11 - 17 and 19 and December 3 - 6, 2018, near Seattle, WA
Telescope: Astro-Physics 130 GTX with Quad-TCC @ f/4.5
Camera: QSI 683 WSG-8
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO
Exposure:
5-Panel Mosaic
Panel 1:
Ha: 7 hours 45 minutes (31 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
SII: 4 hours (16 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
Panel 2:
Ha: 7 hours (28 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
SII: 4 hours (16 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
Panel 3:
Ha: 7 hours (28 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
SII: 4 hours 30 minutes (18 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
Panel 4:
Ha: 7 hours (28 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
SII: 4 hours 30 minutes (18 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
Panel 5:
Ha: 6 hours 30 minutes (26 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
SII: 4 hours 30 minutes (18 x 15 minutes, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 56 hours 45 minutes
Processed in PixInsight 1.8
Color combination:
Red = Hydrogen-Alpha
Green = Sulphur II
Blue = .7*Sulphur II
Over 4.6 hours of integration with a variety of exposures including 3 min, 2 min and 30 sec sub-images. All were taken with a QHY183c camera at -20C or -15C cooling, an Optolong L-eNhance filter and a Televue TV-85 at F/5.6.
thors-helmet-25x180-g20-o100-lnh-qhy183c_-20C-85f5_6-crop plus thors-helmet-30x120-g20-284x30-g37-o200-lnh-qhy183c_-15C-85f5_6-v2a
Jellyfish , a 2 pane mosaic first process. 2 pane mosaic, 30 hrs total exposure . 5 hours each Filter
NEQ 6R
FLT 98mm
SXV 694 CCD
Atrodon 5nm Narrow band
C8 Hyperstar , ASI294MC Optolong L-eXtreme filter, ASIAir Pro, S.I.R.I.L. processing, Photoshop and Topaz tweaking
Not the best conditions for deep sky imaging, as it was the shortest night of the year, so never fully dark, and the waning gibbous Moon was about to rise. However it had been nearly 3 months since I last imaged with the telescope, so I was keen to make use of the clear night.
24 x 1-minute exposures, ISO 6400, f/6.25; Canon EOS 600D and Sky-Watcher 80mm ED refractor telescope. Frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker; curves and colour balance adjusted in Canon Digital Photo Professional; noise reduced in Cyberlink PhotoDirector.
I was just going to use this shot as just a silhouette of myself, however i saw a photo taken by Larry Landolfi of the milky way and thought it would be cool to try and incorporate a starry night feel to it. Its got me in the mood to take some sky at night shots now!
LBN782 (from Lynd's catalog of bright nebulae) is the blue reflection nebula on the left.
Captured with a Takahashi FSQ-106ED scope and QSI-683 camera at SRO in California. 21.5 hours of LRGB data in 900 second subs,
The FOV contains several Barnard dark nebulae, some small/distant galaxies (IC359 is the larger E/S0 galaxy at the bottom right.) There's also a brown dwarf if you know where to look - 2MASS J04141188+2811535.
I will never get tired of this part of the sky.
From my latitude, this part of Cygnus passes through the zenith. The bright star toward the left is Deneb, and the one toward the center is Sadr. All of the pink/red areas are hydrogen gas that is ionized by nearby, extremely hot stars. At the center, near Sadr, is the Butterfly Nebula (IC 1318). I did a 24 panel mosaic of this region with my telescope a few years ago -- flic.kr/p/tYxubt
A bit to the right of this region is the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). After I got narrowband filters, I reshot this nebula -- flic.kr/p/2jkujJC
There are so many dark nebula in this region as well. Above and to the right of Sadr is Barnard 343 -- flic.kr/p/2jp2keu
Below and to the right of Sadr is the only Messier object in this view, star cluster M29: flic.kr/p/2oKsPf3
At the left, below Deneb, is the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) with the Pelican Nebula (IC 5067 and 5070) just to its right. I haven't done a detailed study of this object yet.
Toward the right edge of the image is the Tulip Nebula (Sh2 - 101). I have a monochrome image of this using an H-alpha filter -- flic.kr/p/2mcJ4iK and I took additional color data later: flic.kr/p/2oRBCTS
This image is a stack of 37 40 s exposures taken with a Nikon D5100 at ISO 6400 and a focal length of 70 mm. This camera was modified for astrophotography to register the light from emission nebulae better. The camera was on an omegon Minitrack LX2 for tracking. Images were calibrated, stacked, and initially processed in PixInsight. Final touches in Photoshop.
The image is of "The Great Orion Nebula", M42, an emission nebula and stellar nursery in the sword of Orion.
This is accompanied by "The Running Man Nebula", above, Sharpless Sh2-279. So-called because of its resemblance to a fleeing human running with flailing arms outstretched!
M42 is one of the brightest nebulas in our sky, lying at a distance of 1,300 light years. This massive cloud of glowing gas and dust is a stellar nursery and is the closest massive star forming region to earth.
In contrast to M42 which is an emission nebula the Running Man is a reflection nebula. It is only visible to us because light from an illumination source, such as embedded stars, lights up the surrounding gas and dust..
Notable is the extensive amount of dust clouds evident throughout the image.
Imaged with an Askar 71f refractor and a ZWO 2600MC camera fitted with an IDAS LP filter.
A total of 40 (180s) exposures, calibrated with temp. matched darks, flats and dark flats.
Thanks for looking!
Recent reports of eerie sightings from the edge of the galaxy: turtles, swimming, soaring elegantly through nebulae, as if across liquid oceans. It seems that these craft are able to absorb energy and fundamental particles into their neon shells and then retransmit them through movable fins for propulsion in any direction. Piloted by a race of mysterious robots, these mechanical beings have chosen to replicate natural forms in the designs for their spacecraft.
Something a bit different!
I think these were amongst the first Space MOCs I built after my dark ages, and they're relatively simple, but I'm still keen on them. They've been hanging out on my shelf for the last few years. Trans-neon green and dark blue were always my favourites as a kid.
My building process usually involves trying to understand and accentuate (even celebrate!) the unique design of Lego elements, rather than trying to disguise their qualities. Even the unpopular large parts have a lot of fascinating possibilities geometrically and aesthetically, far beyond their usage in sets. What large Lego parts are you a fan of?
EFIX: SW Quattro 250 - EQ8pro - ASI1600MM pro. 60mm Guidescope. 176 x 3 min Ha, 100 x 3 min OIII. Gain 139, Offset 21. Edit: PIX an PS
June and July 2019 provided some wonderful views of the Milky Way from dark sky sites. Jupiter (in the constellation Ophiuchus) flanked the bright center of our galaxy on the west, and Saturn (in Sagittarius) was to its east. Even the small amount of light pollution from the Los Angeles area is mostly blocked by trees in this view. A close inspection will show that all four bright emission nebulae - M8, M20, M17, and M16 - are all visible in this view. They are joined by numerous globular star clusters and open star clusters, along with the rich fields of interstellar dust that reside between our location and the center of our Milky Way.
The sky is a stack of 11 exposures between 140 s and 180 s at ISO 1600 with a Nikon D80. The camera was mouned on an Omegon Mintrack LX2. The trees are mostly from a single exposure, but I built the composite to keep as much sky detail as possible. Thus, some of the trees are a lie. All images were shot with an 18.0mm - 135.0 mm lens at a focal length of 18.0 mm and at f/3.5. Registration, stacking, and initial processing in PixInsight; compositing and final touches in PS CS 5.1.
Veil Nebulae Complex, parallel exposure with (triple mounted with guiding scope)
(1) Borg 480mm F3.9 and Sony A7s (CentralDS modded and cooled), IDAS-V4 filter, ISO 3200, 36 x 240 sec
(2) Canon 200mm F1.8 and ATIK 460EX mono with OIII (Baader HighSpeed) and hAlpha (Baader HighSpeed), each series 11x 420sec
Guided with ED-Apo 70/420mm, ZWO ASI 174, EQ8 mount
Tenerife, 1180 m altitude, November 16, 2015
This is an image of part of the North American Nebula, NGC 7000 & the Pelican Nebula, IC 5070 in the constellation of Cygnus.
It is very early in the season to image this area as it is low down in our NE horizon here. However, I thought I would have a bash in the latter stages of my imaging session on another object.
This is a straight RGB image of the nebulae using only a (very necessary!!) light pollution filter. They are both strong emission nebulae. The red colour is due to the Hydrogen Alpha emission line.
The resultant strong contortions of the gas give the Pelican nebula its name, as it looks rather like the head of a Pelican (r). It lies at a distance of around 1,800 light-years. The blue star near the "beak" is 57 Cygni, around 530 light-years from us. So much closer than the surrounding nebulae.
The North American Nebula (only partly shown here at left) is part of the same interstellar cloud of ionized gas as the Pelican and is separated from it by darker dust.
Imaged with an Askar 71mm refractor and a ZWO 2600MC camera. Exposure was just over 4 hours, lights being calibrated with temp. matched darks, flats and dark flats.
Thanks for looking!
Faint nebulae near Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's belt. The Flame Nebula NGC2024, the Horsehead Nebula IC434 and an unnamed reflection nebula NGC2023 around the unnamed star HD37903. Also in this shot is the five star group of Sigma Ori.
Conditions were not good last night with hazy high cloud which ruined more than half the frames I shot. I will try again on a better night!
Canon 5D3 and Sigma800 mounted on Skywatcher EQ2 with RA motor drive.
ISO3200, f/5.6, 800mm focal length
223 x 10 second exposures
20 darks
20 bias/offsets
Processed in DSS with curves and levels adjusted in PS Elements.
(Made Explore position 97)
An attempt at an HOO palette of these two nebulae. It is a very dim target to start with, and Ha dominates (as always), so my attempt to collect OIII data was something of a wasted effort. However, my new EAF worked like a charm, so not a totally wasted evening. In the end, it is basically a colorized version of the Ha data. C'est la vie!
IC 59 and IC 63 are a combination of faint, arc-shaped emission and reflection nebulae, located about 600 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Together they are approximately 10 light-years across. IC 63 is known as the Ghost of Cassiopeia.
The brightest star in the image is Gamma Cassiopeiae, which is 19 times more massive, 65,000 times brighter, and spins 200 times faster than our sun. The radiation from Gamma Cass is so intense that it affects the IC 63/59 gas/dust cloud several light years away.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5/6 zone --
August 13, 2022
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183mm pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
Optolong H-Alpha filter
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
107 X 300s H-alpha
61 X 300s O-III
with darks bias dithering
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS and PS
Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5.7×1016 km; 3.5×1016 mi) from Earth.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Na Astrodon filter
23x1800s in total - 11.5 hours
UPDATE, APRIL, 2025: Are you interested in checking out big, awesome prints of
my photos? This was one of 14 photos displayed in an exhibition of my work at Slice of Light gallery in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara, California. Come check it out!
The luminescence and dark swirls in this ice cave reminded me of nebulae, thus the title. Taken during a spring of '22 trip to Iceland. It was a fun little adventure for the family to take tank-like trucks on 40-inch tires out to this ice cave in the middle of a snowstorm.
Thanks for looking!
Milky Way with Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae at the centre. Canon 5Dsr and old MF Takumar 135mm Lens on star adventurer 2i . 138 x 30 second frames (1Hour 9 Minutes of data ) stacked in DSS and played with in Pixinsight and PS.
The Lambda Orionis Ring resembles a red flower and this image brings it together with the most famous rose in the winter night sky, the Rosette Nebula. Maybe it is the upcoming Valentine's Day to blame for my wild imagination. With this image I am hoping to give you the opportunity to spark your imagination and love, and why not, share it with your loved one!
This is a 3-panel mosaic made from old, lost data. Processed with the new Starnet version 2 in PixInsight, on a salvaged JPEG file. Some final touches done with love in Lightroom Classic 2022.
Technical Details:
Three hours of total exposure (3 x 60 x 60 sec frames) using an unmodified Canon 6D at ISO 1600 and a Samyang 135mm f/2 lens wide-open. The frames were taken under suburban skies (Bortle 5) on January 5, 2019. Tracked with a Star Adventurer Mini bundle. The image was down-sampled by a factor of two, to counteract for the low tracking quality present in the source data. More details at AstroBin.
ccd: Moravian G3-16200 with IFW + OAG
filters: Optolong LRGB and 7-nm Ha
telescope: TEC 140 f/7
mount: 10Micron GM2000 QCI
guider: Lodestar X2
exposure: L 25x20min + RGB 9x12min + Ha 22x30min (all 1x1)
location: Les Granges, 900 m (Hautes Alpes, France)
software: TheSkyX Pro, CCD Commander, Pixinsight, PS CS5
date: 25 Sep - 1 Dec 2018
Trifid Nebula and Lagoon Nebula, aka M20 and M8, near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. The yellow dust surrounding the nebulae is part of the galactic arm. This photo featured on Flickr blog, 26-JUN-2010. Thanks Flickr!! =)
camera: Apogee U16M
telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED
exp: 160 minutes [LRGB 60:30:30:40]
Stacked/Aligned in Maxim DL 4.61
Processed in PhotoShop CS3
Location: Texas Star Party in Ft Davis, TX
Sky conditions: windy and lots of moisture with lightning in the distance. In other words, lousy seeing. Green data was affected the most. If better, I would provide a larger resolution version of this image.
The first photo taken with the new wide-field setup. It portrays the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) and the Rosetta Nebula, both visible in the Unicorn constellation. Total exposure: 9 and a half hours for both photos, taken in two nights. 116 x300 "ISO1600 with an Optolong l-enhance EOS CLIP in filter, Canon 700d no mod. And Jupiter 135 f4 m42 lens, Skywatcher Neq6 pro astro-tracker www.instagram.com/gianlucabelgrado.jpeg/
2022-08-06 - Canon EOS 600Dfs, Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM, f4, ISO-1600, 26x7 min, on Skywatcher Star Adventurer, APP + PS 2022 CC
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC1396A, is a combination of dark and emission nebulae in the constellation Cepheus and lies around 2400 light-years away. The trunk itself spans 20 light years shrouds many young protostars that are in the process of forming. The wider complex of emission from ionized gas is identified as IC1396 and spans 5 degrees of the sky.
Details:
Scope: TMB130SS
Camera: QSI683-wsg8
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Mount: Mach1 GTO
Ha (5nm): 16x15min
OIII (3nm): 20x15min
9 hrs total exposure
*EXPLORED* 09Jan2011
Location: Killygordon, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Time: 20:00-03:00
Date: 06/07 Jan 2011
Target: Orion and Running Man Nebulae
Exposures: 8 x Five minute exposures (20Darks). Core- 20x 90sec (10Darks), 20 x 30sec (20Darks) 20 x 8sec (20Darks) 40mins total exposure.
Equipment:
Mount- Celestron CG5-GT (unguided)
Camera- Self-modified Canon 1000D
Telescope- Celestron Omni XLT 150
Additional- Astronomik cls clip LP filter.
Stacking & Processing: DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS5
Wide field on the Nebulae (from left to right) Sh2-119, NGC 7000 and IC 5070, are 80 minutes of exposure in HSO with Petzval Red Cat 51 telescope, ASI6200mm pro 61-megapixel full frame Mono camera, Paramount MX 6 mount, are 16 shots of which in Ha 5x300 seconds, in OIII 4x300 seconds and in SII 7x300 seconds, processing with Pixinsight. All data and shots were captured with SadrAstro.
Nébuleuse d'Orion
Canon 5D MkII + Astrotrac
10*15s at 135mmF4 (stars)
40*60s at 300mmF5
PixInSight and Affinity Photo
Winter 2019 - Champsaur - Hautes Alpes - France
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
* Temperature 13 degrees C.
BEWARE - Blobby star images!
This is another example of what happens when thin, high haze covers the sky with an otherwise invisible cloak that becomes visible only in long exposure photographs: The stars turn into extended blobs, rather than the pinpoints that they should be when the sky is clear.
Compare this view with an image made on June 27 last year with the same 400 mm lens, which shows the smaller star images when the sky conditions are very good:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/14363709797/
Here is a view of the equipment set up for a night of astrophotography:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/19614336946/
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Nikkor AF-S 80 - 400 mm f/4.5-5.6 G ED VRII lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount
Total exposure time: 20 minutes.
Ten stacked frames; each frame:
400 mm focal length
ISO 5000; 2 minutes exposure at f/7.1; unguided
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, sharpening)
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The image presents an impressive "Cosmic Tapestry in Cygnus," capturing a series of nebulae and stellar phenomena in the constellation Cygnus. It includes the Crescent Nebula, Tulip Nebula, WR 134, and the Cygnus X-1 shockwave. This image is a mosaic composed of two tiles, captured with H-alpha and OIII filters for nebulae and R,G,B for stars, and it required a total of 24 hours of integration. The equipment used for the capture includes a Takahashi FSQ85 refractor and a QHY16200 camera.
OIII Filter: 90 frames of 600 seconds at 1x1 binning
Ha Filter: 55 frames of 300 seconds at 1x1 binning
R, G, B Filters: 32 frames of 200 seconds per filter at 2x2 binning
Location: Sierra de Grazalema, Cádiz, Spain
Capture Date: August and September 2024
Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49)
Taken February 12 and 24, 2022 near Seattle, WA
Telescope: TEC 180FL with Quad-TCC @ f/5
Camera: QHY 600M
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2
Capture Software: NINA
Exposure:
Ha: 4 hours (24 x 10 minutes, bin 1x1)
OIII: 3 hours 40 minutes (22 x 10minutes, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 7 hours 40 minutes
Bi-Color Combination:
R: Ha
G: .15*Ha + .85*OIII
B: OIII
Processed in PixInsight 1.8.8-12
The Carina Nebula is a large diffuse nebula visible mostly from the Southern Hemisphere.
As one of the largest and brightest nebulae close to Earth it's also one of the easier ones to photograph.
Messier 78 or M78, also known as NGC 2068, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects that same year
M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that includes NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071. This group belongs to the Orion B molecular cloud complex and is about 1,350 light-years distant from Earth. M78 is easily found in small telescopes as a hazy patch and involves two stars of 10th and 11th magnitude. These two B-type stars, HD 38563 A and HD 38563 B, are responsible for making the cloud of dust in M78 visible by reflecting their light. (Courtesy Wikipedia)
Image capture info:
Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town NM, US
Telescope: Officina Stellare RiDK 400mm
Camera: SBIG STX 16803
Mount: Paramount MEII
Data: 900 sec frames: LRGB: 30,24,17,20 (7,6,4,5 hrs respectively)
Processing: Pixinsight
Hi Folks,
This is image is a little different - I would classify this as a "Failed Image" - and I am sharing it as I feel there is still much to learn from bad images.
This is an image of the Horsehead (B33) and The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) and is the result of wideband and narrowband data collected during the incredible stretch of weather we just had in western NY November 5-8, 2021.
I ended up getting in 4 nights of capture on 3 scopes and collected data on 9 Targets!
This is the fifth image I have been able to process from this trove of data and had an integration 4.7 hours.
This was taken with my William Optics 132mm FLT APO scope, the IOptron CEM60 mount, and the ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro camera.
This is the second image from that capture session to have halos and microlens reflection artifacts due to having a bright star in the field. In the first image, IC 63, I was able to find a technique to correct that problem and create a nice image. However, this image had more complex halos and microlens reflections than the first and I was *not * able to process the image to correct these artifacts in a way that I find acceptable.
I can say that I will not be using this scope/camera combination again for any targets with bright star in its field!
When I first created my website I committed to sharing all of my images - both good and bad. The journey of astrophotography will include both and there is something to learn from each. So I share this with that intent in mind.
See the Full details on the capture and extensive processing notes with screen grabs for this image which is available on my website at the link below:
cosgrovescosmos.com/.../b33-horsehead-nebula-lhargb
Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for looking!
Pat
LBN (Lynds Catalog of Bright Nebulae) 782, a bright reflection nebula located in a very dusty region of the constellation Taurus glows blue in the center right of this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory over multiple nights in early November 2019.
Part of LBN 782 is categorized as bright nebula because within its structure there is an area of luminous nebulosity reflecting light from bright stars nearby. Additionally, there are Barnard objects in this wide field of view. These are dark nebula, such as Barnard 7, which is the dark nebula around the bright blue LBN 782. Another interesting object is the very distant IC 359, the white spiral structure just left of center, which is a distant spiral galaxy some 183 million light years away from Earth. For reference, the blue star in the middle of this image, 41 Tauri, is estimated to be around 420 light years away, which is about the same distance as LBN 782, estimated to be about 400 light years distant.
LBN Catalog: heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/nebula-catalog/lbn.html
LDN Catalog: heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/nebula-catalog/ldn.html
Barnard Catalog: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_Catalogue
LBN 782 APOD: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170330.html
IC 359 (original text is in German): de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_359
Technical info:
Grand Mesa Observatory, Whitewater (Purdy Mesa), Colo., U.S.A.
November 2019
38.963365, -108.237225
RGGB: 300sec x 64 with calibration frames
Camera: QHY128C
Optics: Takahashi E180
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software: Maxim DL6
Pre-processed in PixInsight
Post-processed in PixInsight, Photoshop, Starnet
Located in the constellation of Orion, these nebulae make up Orion's sword.
This is another "white whale" target for me. While I've captured it often, I've always encountered some kind of technical problem or lack of weather cooperation and didn't get it as well I could have. In this case, a combination of poor seeing and my focus being a touch off robbed the overall image of a bit of the sharpness it should have had at this resolution.
Despite this, I'm very pleased with what I managed to capture here as this is my best photo of this pair to date.
Tech data:
Explore Scientific ED80
Celestron CGX (guided)
ZWO ASI1600MC Pro camera
30 x 3 minute exposures for main image
60 x 30 second exposures for the core region.
2 panel mosaic
When I was a kid, I always looked at photographs of the universe and said to myself: "One day, I want to take photos of the universe as well“.
Several years later, here it is. My first High Quality astro photo. The Veil Nebula, remnant of a supernova that happened 8000 years ago about 1500 lightyears away from our home. I captured the nebula 18hrs and edited the photo around 7hrs to reach this final image. I am so happy...
I was shooting some different target last night when in the wee hours, I saw Orion's belt rising above the treeline. It was calling to me, teasing me, tempting me. Even though I knew it was too low and still in the haze, I had to train my scope on it and collect some photons for an hour.
After seeing how sensitive this camera is to the faint stuff, I figured this would be a great test of its sensitivity. I wasn't disappointed! Normally it would take me several hours of exposure time to get anywhere near this level of detail. I got this with 1 hour through horizon haze. When I train my camera to it again in a month or so, I'll really be something extraordinary to see. But honestly, this is by far my best image of it so far and I'm absolutely thrilled with the result.
Tech data:
Explore Scientific ED80
Celestron AVX, guided
ZWO ASI1600MC-Pro camera
20 x 3 minute exposures
In this two-panel mosaic image from Aug. 17, 2018 (comet stack from 1:08 to 2:27 a.m. PDT), the aquamarine Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner passes by the Heart and Soul Nebulae on its most recent trip into the inner solar system.
A periodic comet, 21P was first discovered by Michel Giacobini of Nice, France, in December 1900 and was later recovered by Ernst Zinner in October 1913. It now bears their names. It has a period of about 6.6 years and is responsible for the Draconids Meteor Shower, which occurs every October, peaking on or around Oct. 8. As a lucky coincidence, on its current journey towards perihelion (Sept. 10), the closest point in its orbit to the sun, it passed by the Heart and Soul Nebulae in Earth's night sky. The Heart and Soul Nebulae glow red due to ionized hydrogen excited by very bright nearby stars. Both the Heart and the Soul Nebula are around 7,500 light-years distant, while 21P is much closer, around 71.5 million km or 3.97 light-minutes form Earth.
21P/Giacobini-Zinner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21P/Giacobini%E2%80%93Zinner
21P via The Sky Live: theskylive.com/21p-info
Heart Nebula: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Nebula
Soul Nebula: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerhout_5
Technical Info:
~20x240" two-panel mosaic at 1600ISO
15x Dark
20x Bias
Camera: Canon 6D Hutech UV/IR Mod
Telescope: William Optics Star 71 Astrograph
Reveal Focus Filter by David Lane
Mount: Celestron Advanced VX
Guide Scope: Orion Mag Mini With SSAG
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker
Processing: Photoshop CC, PixInsight
Date: 8/17/2018 1:08-2:27am PDT for the comet stack
Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA
Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex. The nebula to the right is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the left is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848 or W5. The Heart and Soul nebulae stretch out nearly 580 light-years across. The two nebulae are both massive star-making factories, marked by giant bubbles that were blown into surrounding dust by radiation and winds from the stars.
This image was taken between September 19 and October 20, 2012, and was stitched together in three panels in order to include both nebulae, with a cumulative exposure of about 10 hours for each panel.
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The Nebulae - Dominus Noster Mask, Sun Lord
Ayashi - Zakira hair, brown set
Other:
Aristo Event July 10th-24th
The Nebulae - War of The Roses Light Gorget & Shoulder Plate, Gold
The Sugar Garden mesh head "Dakota" Tone F w/ears (note* photo taken with Windlight)
Slink Physique and hands
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There is so much more to see north of the famous Rosette Nebula: massive clouds of reddish hydrogen gas, bluish reflection nebulae, dark clouds and star clusters. The most prominent of these are the Cone Nebula, IC 446, IC 447, the Christmas Tree Cluster and Hubble's Variable Nebula.
This is a 2-panel mosaic. Although it presents a very wide field of view, it shows incredible detail in the nebulae! This astrophotography project started in early 2022 and could be completed just before March 2023. Note that the RGB exposures were made with a QHY600C OSC-camera and the narrowband images with a QHY600L mono camera.
Taken during 4 nights between January 2022 and February 2023 with a QHY600C and QHY600L on a Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 telescope, tracked with an EQ6-R, guided with MGEN-3:
75x 240sec. RGB (QHY600C)
33x 600sec. Antlia Ha 3nm Pro (QHY600L)
for each of the 2 mosaic panels.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight, StarXTerminator and Photoshop.