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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.
Heart & Soul Nebulae. RGB ASI6200MC Pro Full Frame + WO SpaceCat51. 57 x 3 Mins. Captured with NINA. Processed in APP. Finished in Adobe CC.
NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula
Taken November 21, 27, 28, and 29, 2019 near Seattle, WA
Telescope: Astro-Physics 130 GTX @ f/4.5 using Astro-Physics Quad-TCC
Camera: QHY 600M
Filters: Chroma 3nm Ha
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO with CP4 and APCC-Pro
Exposure:
Ha: 6 hours (18 x 20 min, bin 1x1)
Total Integration Time: 6 hours
Processed in PixInsight 1.8.8-3
www.starkeeper.it/OrionMosaic.htm
The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The brightest three stars on the far left are indeed the famous three stars that make up the belt of Orion. Just below Alnitak, the lowest of the three belt stars, is the Flame Nebula, glowing with excited hydrogen gas and immersed in filaments of dark brown dust. Below the frame center and just to the right of Alnitak lies the Horsehead Nebula, a dark indentation of dense dust that has perhaps the most recognized nebular shapes on the sky. On the upper right lies M42, the Orion Nebula, an energetic caldron of tumultuous gas, visible to the unaided eye, that is giving birth to a new open cluster of stars. Immediately to the left of M42 is a prominent bluish reflection nebula sometimes called the Running Man that houses many bright blue stars. The above image, a digitally stitched composite taken over several nights, covers an area with objects that are roughly 1,500 light years away and spans about 75 light years.
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDXIII F/3.6 383mm. - APO Refractor
Mount: AP Mach1 GTO
Camera: Canon 5D MkII - Baader Mod
Filters: OSC
Guiding Systems: Tecnosky 60/228 Guide Scope- SX Lodestar
Dates/Times: 20-22-23 December 2014
Location: Pragelato - Turin - Italy
Mosaic Details: 2x2 Frame
Exposure Detailse: OSC => 150 = > (30x5) ISO 1600 [num x minutes] For Each Frame
Cooling Details: Ambient -4°C
Acquisition: BackyardEOS, TheSkyX
Processing: PixInsight, PS CS5
Mean FWHM: 3.65
SQM-L: 20.98 / 21.11
3 stack image of the Flame & Horsehead nebulae taken on a tracking mount using a 300mm lens. The image was taken at Lake Clifton about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
The Crescent and WR134 Wolf Rayett nebulae, the Tulip Nebula, The Soapbubble planetary Nebula and Cygnus X1 Black Hole shock wave in Hubble Palette with RGB stars. RGB and Ha through GT71 QHY600 Oiii and Sii through Askar200
Hi Folks,
I'm happy to say that I have completed my Image Reprocessing Project on SH2-101 - The Tulip Nebula - 12.8 hours of SHOrgb data.
This object is located approximately 6000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan).
As promised, the Project post contains all of the image details and - most importantly - a complete image processing walkthru - is included in the project posting below:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/sh2-101-the-tulip-nebula-202...
How do you like the final version?
I was able to bring out a lot of very subtle details that could not be seen in the original!
Thanks,
Pat
This 6-panel mosaic of the North America (NGC 7000) and Pelican (IC 5070 and IC 5067) Nebulae spans approximately 4.5 degrees , about 9x the apparent width of the Moon. Image data was captured over two under dark skies near Goldendale, WA.
Telescope: Tele Vue 76mm
Mount: iOptron iEQ45 Pro
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Filter: Astrodon H-a CCD 5nm
Mosaic: 6 panels
Integration: 65 min (13 x 5 min) per panel.
Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8.8
First attempt at this one as well. I may need more data, but at least the Cone sticks out nicely.
The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) is a young, open star cluster in the constellation Monoceros, approximately 2,500 light-years away. It's part of a larger star-forming region, including the Cone Nebula and Fox Fur Nebula. The cluster spans about 30 light-years across.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color
- Guiding System: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Filter: ZWO Duo Band (HA & OIII)
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 40*5 mins
- Dark Frames: 15*7 mins, 10*5 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
This large expanse of space captured with the Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy SDSS J225506.80+005839.9. Unlike many other extravagant galaxies and stunning nebulae imaged by Hubble, this galaxy does not have a short, popular name, and is only known by its long name given in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which refers to its coordinates in the sky. This galaxy – visible in the center right portion of the image – and its many wondrous neighboring galaxies lie in the constellation of Pisces (the Fish).
This is a post-starburst galaxy, which is a product of galaxies that have merged within the past billion years. This merger event drove gas to the galaxy's center and created an abundance of new stars, of which the brightest are visible in the remnant galaxy's core. The visible shells and tails surrounding the galaxy are also a result of this merger event.
Residing far beyond our own Milky Way at a distance of about 500 million light-years, it is almost impossible to glimpse this galaxy without the assistance of Hubble, and, like thousands of similar faint and very distant galaxies, it was only discovered and cataloged in recent years. Many millions of galaxies still await our discovery as we build a wondrous picture of our night sky.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Zabludoff
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VdB 14 and VdB 15 are two nebulae in the constellation Camelopardalis. VdB 14 overall is a pure reflection nebula which is mainly blue and only shows very decent pink/red color tones in some outskirs regions. VdB 15 has significantly more red emission signal which leads to pinkish color tones in wide aread of the nebula.
The image is an LRGB image shot with an ASI2600mmpro attached to a TS Photoline 130/910 mm with 0.79x focal reducer.
300 x 60 s Lum
100 x 30 s R
100 x 30 s G
100 x 30 s B
This widefield view shows the entirety of the ghosts of Cassiopeia: IC59 and IC63
Few photographs show more than just the two most prominent nebulae mentioned above.
But there is so much more to see - faint clouds and streaks of hydrogen gas almost encircle Gamma Cassiopeiae, the central star in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
Often, you also don't see the correct colors of these nebulae, comprising partially blueish reflection nebulae and reddish emission nebulae with bright rims.
I did my best to resemble the colors as resulting from the RGB image while at the same time finding a good balance between broadband luminance and Hydrogen Alpha emission.
I hope you like my composition!
Taken in August and September 2022 with a QHY600M on a Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 telescope, tracked with an EQ6-R, guided with MGEN-3:
30x 180sec. Antlia V-Pro Red
30x 180sec. Antlia V-Pro Blue
30x 180sec. Antlia V-Pro Green
84x 300sec. Antlia V-Pro Luminance
78x 600sec. Antlia 3nm Ha
for a total integration time of 24.5 hours.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop.
Since someone stole my campsite Friday night, I went up to Newfound gap and did three star trails, a wide field astro shot of Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae, and a dawn shoot with three compositions. It was a long 40 hour day, but I got some nice images out of it. This one is 88 - 30 second frames stacked.
Looking towards the bright star Antares in the sky above Lake Sonoma on a pleasant night at the beginning of June.
Located around 5000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), Abell 78 is an unusual type of planetary nebula.
After exhausting the nuclear fuel in their cores, stars with a mass of around 0.8 to 8 times the mass of our Sun collapse to form dense and hot white dwarf stars. As this process occurs, the dying star will throw off its outer layers of material, forming an elaborate cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula. This phenomenon is not uncommon, and planetary nebulae are a popular focus for astrophotographers because of their often beautiful and complex shapes. However, a few like Abell 78 are the result of a so-called “born again” star.
Although the core of the star has stopped burning hydrogen and helium, a thermonuclear runaway at its surface ejects material at high speeds. This ejecta shocks and sweeps up the material of the old nebula, producing the filaments and irregular shell around the central star seen in this Picture of the Week, which features data from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and PANSTARSS.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Guerrero; CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
Stack of 15 60 s exposures, tracked on an omegon Mini Track LX2; taken from Red Rock Canyon State Park in California.
There was more light pollution from Ridgecrest than I had anticipated. It took a fair bit of work to remove most of the gradient from that.
This image shows the Milky Way from the Double Cluster in the upper left, through the California Nebula (NGC 1499) and the Pleiades, and into the emission nebulae and star clusters in Auriga. The bright star toward the lower left is Capella, and Aldebaran and the Hyades star cluster are toward the lower right. The dark area in the middle is the Taurus Molecular Cloud -- one of the closest star forming regions to our solar system.
Initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in Photoshop.
A widefield shot showing the Jellyfish and Monkeyhead nebulae with open star cluster M35 and the much tighter NGC 2158 in the top left.
Captured with a ZWO2600 MC Pro OSC camera and a William Optics Redcat51, 5 hours of data taken with an Optolong L-eXtreme filter and 5 hours taken with a luminance filter. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
The Trifid Nebula ( Messier 20 NGC 6514) (Explored 02-05-2011)
In Sagittarius is a remarkable and beautiful object as it consists of both a conspicuous emission nebula and a remarkable reflection nebula component.
Taken with a 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien
Single shot testing...( so more light to follow)
Hydrogen-Alpha (1 x 900s, 1x1)
SII (1 x 600s, 1x1)
OIII (1 x 600s, 1x1)
Charles Messier (1730–1817) was a French astronomer best known for his "Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters." An avid comet-hunter, Messier compiled a catalog of deep-sky objects in order to help prevent other comet enthusiasts from wasting their time studying objects that were not comets.
The Messier catalog includes some of the most fascinating astronomical objects that can be observed from Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. Among them are deep-sky objects that can be viewed in stunning detail using larger telescopes but are also bright enough to be seen through a small telescope. This characteristic makes Messier objects extremely popular targets for amateur astronomers possessing all levels of experience and equipment. They are so popular, in fact, that they have inspired a special award from the Astronomical League (an organization for amateur astronomers) given to observers who are able to spot each of these objects. Those who succeed receive a certificate and are given the distinction of being in the Messier Club.
While the Hubble Space Telescope has not produced images of every object in the Messier catalog, it has observed 93 of them as of August 2017. Some of Hubble's photographs offer views of a given object in its entirety, but many focus on specific areas of interest. While Hubble is able to magnify objects very effectively, it has a relatively small field of view. This means that, in some cases, Hubble would need to take many exposures to capture an entire object. Although this is not always an efficient use of its time, as is the case for the widely spaced “open” star clusters in the Messier catalog, many exposures are taken when the scientific value justifies the time spent. One of these objects is the Andromeda galaxy (designated M31 in Messier’s catalog). In order to create a mosaic image that depicts almost half of Andromeda, Hubble has taken nearly 7,400 exposures of the galaxy.
The Hubble Space Telescope is equipped to take images in various wavelengths of light in order to provide more insight into its targets. The famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (also known as M16: the 16th object in Charles Messier’s catalog) were imaged using both visible (left) and infrared (right) filters. Using infrared light, Hubble is able to probe past the dense gas and dust of the nebula to reveal stars that are hidden in visible wavelengths.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
In this 15x13 degrees FOV we find plenty of dark nebulae such as B7-B10-B19-B22 , also the reflection nebulae VDB 27 towards the image center.
More towards the bottom/center we find planetairy nebula NGC 1514 , as small pale blue ball.
In the bottom left of blue star Atik more dark clouds B3-B4-B5 and Gingrich 1 clouds and IC353 a faint Hii region.
Top right again a series of dark nebulae B14 - B22 and many more LDN's.
Of course not to forget the wonderful Pleiades M45
This image was recorded as a 12-panel mosaic in 50 hours in October 2024 at my remote observatory in Hakos-Namibia with a Redcat 71 and ZWO ASI6200MC camera on an Ioptron GEM28EC mount
Image Profile:
Lee, IL
Type: HaLRGB
Frames: 13x300 1x1; 10x200 1x1; 8x200 2x2; 8x200 2x2; 8x200 2x2
Imaging Date: 20140723
Hardware:
-Main scope: AT8RC
-Guiding Scope: Orion 80mm Short Tube
-CCD: QHY9M with filter wheel with LRGB Ha
-Orion Atlas Mount
Imaging Applications:
-Acquiring: Nebulosity Ver. 3.0.2
-Guiding: PHD Ver. 1.11.3
Processing Applications:
-CCD Stack
-Photoshop cs3
Comments: One of the best nights of the year so far: low winds and dew, good transparency. Probably a 5+ magnitude night. Low temp 54 F.
Sadr region, located almost at the center of the Cygnus constellation, gathers many beautiful nebulae. Sadr star stands out around the center of the image.
EXIF: Canon 70D, Tamron 70-200 mm @ 200 mm, f/3.2, iso 8k, 50'' with iOptron II.
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North America & Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus.
WIliiam Optics 73mm ZenithStar refractor, QSI 583wsg CCD camera, Paramount ME equatorial mount, SX Lodestar autoguider, Astrodon 5nm narrowband filters.
Ha: 25 x 10m
OIII: 29 x 10m
SII: 20 x 10m
Processed in Maxim DL, PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.
Image taken from Boxted, Essex, UK.
A complex of colorful nebulae surround the central feature commonly called the Cave Nebula (Sh2-155) in this 2 panel mosaic captured through both narrowband and broadband filters.
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62 hours integration
LRGB from Westford, MA (SQM=20.17 mpsas)
Ha and OIII from Somerville, MA (SQM=18.0 mpsas)
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More details on my website: www.nebulaphotos.com/sharpless/sh2-155/
One of the latest captures from GrandMesaObservatory.com in Western Colorado earlier this month over two nights using the QHY367C Full Frame CMOS with the Rokinon 135mm F2.0 lens @ F4.0
This 2 panel mosaic of The Rho Orphiuchi Cloud Complex is one of the most beautiful and active star forming regions in the night sky with so many types of objects such as open and globular clusters, dark, reflection and emission nebulae.
I previously captured Rho Orphiuchi using the TAK 130 with QHY367C here: www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/35667959596/in/datepos...
Total Integration Time just under 5 hours
This particular camera/lens combination will be added to our equipment rentals “Subscriptions” commencing the month of August. Contact me terry@grandmesaobservatory.com for details and have a look at what we currently have available grandmesaobservatory.com/subscription-rentals/
Image capture details
Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates: June 12, 18th 2018
RGGB 149 x 2 min
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 170, Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Rokinon 135mm F2 Telephoto Lens @ F4
Focusing: David Lane's Reveal Focus Filter
Mount: Piggyback on 12" RC, Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Pre Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop
This single image of the area around the head and claws of the Constellation Scorpius taken back in July, 2017 highlights the colorful areas of mostly dark reflection nebulae located within this portion of the night sky.
The most notable areas of nebulosity are the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex which is located in the center of this image with red, blue and yellow/orange nebulosity, and the Blue Horsehead Nebula the blue nebula to the left of Rho Ophiuchi. While the bulk of Rho Ophiuchi is technically in the Constellation Ophiuchus (basically everything to the left of Antares the bright yellow star) to me I always consider it also a part of Scorpius since the brightest star in Rho Ophiuchi, Antares is also the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius.
This is definitely one of my favorite areas of the sky because of its inherent striking beauty but also because of the difference in distances relative to the perceptive visual closeness of the objects in Rho Ophiuchi. If you look closely just above Antares you'll see what at first glance might appear to be a fuzzy star is actually a Globular Cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way galaxy, Messier 4 or M4 for short. The majority of the nebulae in Rho Ophiuchi are relatively close to us at ~390 light-years away but M4 is much farther at ~7,200 light-years distant about 18 times as distant.
Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho_Ophiuchi_cloud_complex
Antares: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares
Blue Horsehead Nebula: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_4592
Technical Info:
1x240" Light at 1600ISO
No calibration frames were used.
Camera: Canon 6D Hutech UV/IR Mod
Lens: Zeiss 85mm Otus f1.4 @ f4
Mount: Celestron Advanced VX
Guide Scope: Orion Mag Mini With SSAG
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Processing: Photoshop CC
Date: 7/22/2017
Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA
Image authors: Nevenka Blagovic Horvat and Miroslav Horvat
Description:
Sh2-114 (the Flying Dragon nebula or LBN 347) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus, 10 degrees southeast of Deneb. The structure of the nebula consists of strands of excited hydrogen arranged in a shape reminiscent of a dragon in flight with outstretched wings looking towards us, about to grab a prey. It is assumed that this shape was probably formed as a result of the interaction of winds from hot massive stars and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. Together with the nebula Sh2-113 (LBN 346), which is not visible in this photograph, it looks like a circle of filaments resembling supernova remnant but the existence of a supernova has never been confirmed. These nebulae are thought to be only part of the outer ridge of the great Cygnus Nebula. Little is known about it since it has not been studied enough and therefore we do not know its magnitude or distance. The image shows part of the emission cloud LBN 346 visible behind the right wing of the Dragonfly and the planetary nebula Kronberger (Kn) 26 above the left wing of the Dragonfly. The new data reveal an hourglass morphology typical of bipolar planetary nebula. A detailed analysis of its morphology and kinematics discloses the presence of a second pair of bipolar lobes, making Kn 26 a new member of the subclass of quadrupolar planetary nebula.
Technical data:
Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 120
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 pro
Camera : ASI 1600mm pro and ASI2600mc duo
Exposuer: 30x120 sec Baader red filter
31x120 sec Baader blue filter
30x120 sec Baader green filter
78x240 sec Baader Ha filter
36x300 sec Baader Ha filter
24x300 sec with ASI2600 one shoot color
Image was taken between August 2023 and July 2024 on island Murter in Croatia.
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The famous Orion nebula! a little cloud sneaked into my image (left), but the rest is cosmic dust and gas.
E-M5 and ES-80 Apo
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1,500 light-years away, the famous North America & Pelican nebulae in a star forming region in Cygnus. An integration of 3 1/2 hours of Hydrogen-α, Oxygen III and Sulfur II data that I collected during the short nights of July 2019.
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM-PRO USB 3.0 Mono (Type CMOS)
Sensor Cooling Temperature: -15C
Filters: 1.25" 5nm Astrodon Ha, 1.25" 3nm Astrodon OIII, 1.25" 3nm Astrodon SII
Imaging Telescope: Takahashi FS-60CB
Correcting Lens: Takahashi Reducer 0.72x (composite focal length at 264mm and focal ratio at f/4.9)
Mount: iOptron CEM25EC
26 x 180" Ha subs (Unity Gain, Gain: 139, Offset: 21, Binning 1x1)
23 x 180" OIII subs (Unity Gain, Gain: 139, Offset: 21, Binning 1x1)
21 x 180" SII subs (Unity Gain, Gain: 139, Offset: 21, Binning 1x1)
20 Darks, 20 Flats
Total Intregration Time: 3hrs 30mins
Software: PixInsight Core 1.8 Ripley, Photoshop, SharpCap
There's just no shortage of cool stuff that can be found lingering around the star Alnitak in Orion's belt: the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024), the Horsehead Nebula (IC 434), the emission and reflection nebula NCG 2023, and the smaller reflection nebulae IC 431 and IC 432. Combine all of that with a generally spectacular background and you've got something.
This image maps Ha to red, SII to green, and OIII to blue.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone,
November 30, 2022
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183mm pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
Optolong Ha, OIII, and SII filters
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
12 X 300s Ha
12 x 300s OIII
12 x 300s SII
Darks bias dithering
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS and PS
The Integrated Flux Nebulae, IFN is a huge interstellar structure, illuminated by the light from the entire Milky Way..
Imaging telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII
Imaging camera: QSI 660wsg-8
Mount: iOptron CEM60
LRGB: 6.7 hours total
Taken from Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Georgia
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(275 km by road north of Toronto)
* Temperature 10 degrees C.
Total exposure time: 22 minutes.
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Description:
These are two of the most photographed and celebrated red hydrogen gas clouds in the sky, in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy as it passes through the northern constellation Cygnus (the Swan).
For a description of these nebulae, and another view of this same region made with the same 400 mm lens on July 26, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/20012353576/
... and for another more recent photo, from August 12 this summer, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/19933485213/
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Technical information:
Nikkor AF-S 80 - 400 mm f/5.68G ED VR lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
Eleven stacked frames; each frame:
300 mm focal length
ISO 6400; 2 minutes exposure at f/8
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, colour balance, levels, sharpening)
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M8 region
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Messier 8 - The Lagoon Nebula (below)
RA: 271,039° Dec: -24,379°
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula (NGC 6523) is a giant H II region in the constellation Sagittarius at 4,000-6,000 light years. The nebula contains several Bok globules (dark, collapsing clouds of protostellar material), the most prominent of which have been catalogued as B88, B89 and B296.
vdB 149 and vdB 150 are a reflection nebulae visible in the constellation Cepheus. It seems that they're part of the great dark nebula LDN 1235 and their estimated distance from the earth is about 1019 a.l.
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: Triplet Apo Tecnosky 80mm f/4.8
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: camera Magzero 5m, SW 70/500, Phd guiding
Frames: L: 14X600sec - RGB: 4X600 sec each bin1
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
The Heart and Soul Nebulae in Cassiopeia together with the Double Cluster in Perseus. Two panel mosaic taken with Askar200/ASI2600mc with high resolution images of the Heart and Soul and wide field ha taken with Samyang135ASI1600mm merged in.
A combined image of data of my own (Tom M.) and from the Digitized Sky Survey II. The detail in the DSS-II images is incredible, data I obtained using a modest 71mm scope shows the yellow clouds of the Milky Way as a fuzzy cloudy mass with some stars resolved, combining my image with DSS-II the clouds are resolved into an innumerable field of stars. If you want to see just how many check out the full version of this image here:
www.flickr.com/photos/112501172@N04/29994548415/sizes/o/
In this image the major areas of nebulosity of the constellation Sagittarius can be seen, the Lagoon Nebula (M8) the bright reddish one in the center, the Trifid Nebula (M20) the red and blue one towards the upper left, and last but not least NGC 6559 which is the red/blue somewhat dimmer area of nebulosity below the Lagoon Nebula.
Another prominent feature('s) is the dust-lanes and yellow clouds of the central bulge of the Milky Way towards the right. There are also a couple Globular Clusters, NGC 6544 just below and to the right of the Lagoon Nebula, and NGC 6553 which is further to the bottom right appearing in this image as a fuzzy bright spot in the clouds of the Milky Way. Finally there is the open cluster M21 down and a little to the left of the Trifid Nebula.
Here's some links with info on the objects in this image.
Lagoon Nebula (M8): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon_Nebula
Trifid Nebula (M20): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifid_Nebula
NGC 6559: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6559
NGC 6544: gclusters.altervista.org/cluster_4.php?ggc=NGC+6544
NGC 6553: gclusters.altervista.org/cluster_4.php?ggc=NGC+6553
M21: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_21
Technical Info:
DSS-II 24 Red 1 degree panels
Downloaded from: archive.eso.org/dss/dss
My Data:
8/6-7/2016 (wide-field)
No Filter: 12x300" Light @800ISO
Optolong L-Pro Filter: 12x300" @800ISO
20x Dark20x Bias
Camera: Canon 6D Hutech UV/IR Cutoff Mod no cooling
Scope: William Optics Star 71 Astrograph
Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA
Trifid Nebula Detail:
6/7/2014
15x 280" @640ISO Lights
10x Darks 15x Bias 15x Flats
Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)
Scope: Celestron Edge HD 8
Focal Reducer: .7x Edge HD 8 FR
Location: Charlton Flats, CA
Lagoon Nebula Detail:
8/2/2014
7x Lights 600" @640ISO
10x Darks, Bias, Flats
Camera: Canon 6D (unmodified)
Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS
Scope: Celestron Edge HD 8
Focal Reducer: .7x Edge HD 8 FR
Location: Lockwood Valley, CA
Capture/Processing for all:
Capture/Guiding Software: Backyard EOS PHD/PHD2
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker
Processing: Photoshop CC, Registar, Straton
ccd: Moravian G3-16200 with EFW + OAG
filters: Optolong LRGB and Astrodon 5-nm Ha/O3
telescope: FSQ 106N f/5
mount: 10Micron GM2000 QCI
guider: Lodestar X2
exposure: L 20x10min (binning 1x1) + RGB 15x5min (2x2)
location: Les Granges, 900 m (Hautes Alpes, France)
software: TheSkyX Pro, CCD Commander, Pixinsight, PS CC
date: 25 Jun - 15 Sep 2020
New release, available tomorrow at Timekiller: thenebulae.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/the-nebulae-at-timeki...
The Eta Carina nebula is visible from tropical countries and the southern hemisphere. It is bright enough to be easily visible to the naked eye as a tiny patch of light.
Also known as the Carina Nebula, Keyhole Nebula or NGC 3372, the nebula is estimated to be between 6500 and 10,000 light years from earth.
This image is a stack of 61X30s unguided exposures taken using an astro-modified Sony A7S coupled to a Canon 300mm f4 L lens mounted on the Star Adventurer star tracker. Image stacking was done in Astro Pixel Processor and image processing in Lightroom, Photoshop and using Astro-tools photoshop actions.