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The awesome Orion Nebula.

 

Shot with an unmodified Canon 5DmkIV in my backyard with no filter and Canon 70-200mm L lens on Star Adventurer tracker.

 

125min integration time.

 

Processed in PixInsight with final cosmetic in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Barnard 22 shot in LRGB.

 

Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.

 

Subs stacked in Astro Pixel Processor, then into PixInsight with the finishing touches in Affinity Photo.

 

I do love these Barnard catalogue targets.

Bubble Nebula and Open cluster M52 in the Hubble palette. Hoping to produce a colour blend of this in the near future.

  

TS APO65Q Telescope

Atik 490EX CCD Camera

QHY5L Guide Camera on 90x50 finder scope

Baader Ha, OIII and SII narrow band filters.

Artemis Capture.

PHD2 Guiding.

All processing Pixinsight incl stacking (image integration) plus some actions in PS

 

Ha=x12 600 Seconds

OIII=x12 600 Seconds

SII=x12 600 Seconds

 

Total of 6 hours July and August 2016

TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6

Moravian G3 16200 + Chroma Ha, [O III], [S II] 8nm

Parallax Instruments HD200c

 

Ha: 16x1800s bin 1x1

[O III]: 8x1800s bin 2x2

[S II]: 3x1800s bin 2x2

 

Total exposure: 13,5h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

Constelación en que se encuentra: Tauro

 

Distancia: 430 años luz

 

De SkySafari Plus: el cúmulo M45 es uno de los objetos más prominente en el cielo nocturno, que dio lugar a leyendas en la mitología antigua. Se mencionan en la Iliada y la Odisea, la Biblia, por los persas, los japoneses que lo denominaron Subaru, de donde vino el nombre de la marca de automóviles. El nombre de Pléyades viene de su madre mitológica, Pléyone, y el nombre de las siete estrellas más brillante proviene de las siete hermanas de la mitología griega.

 

A simple vista pueden verse las seis o siete estrellas más brillantes. Alrededor de las estrellas están las nebulosas de color azul, que se produce al reflejar las estrellas más brillantes del cúmulo, lo que se confirma al ver que los espectros de las estrellas y las nebulosas coinciden.

 

El cúmulo de estrellas solamente está pasando a través de la nebulosa y difieren en su origen. En total, está compuesto por más de 1000 estrellas. Se estima que se originó hace unos 100 millones de años. Las estrellas rotan con velocidades entre 150 y 300 km/s, algo común para estrellas jóvenes de la clase B.

 

Con el tiempo, el cúmulo será visible cerca de la constelación de Orión, después de lo que tardará unos 250 millones de años en dispersarse.

 

Datos de la imagen:

Exposure: RGB: 7 hr 40 min (92 x 5 min)

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge - Hyperstar

Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Focal ratio: f2.3

Capturing software: NINA

Filter: IDAS NBZ

Mount: iOptron CEM60

Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3

Dithering: Yes

Calibration: 30 darks, 30 flat darks, 30 flats

Processing: PixInsight

Date: 6-nov-2021

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

IC 2118 (also known as Witch Head Nebula due to its shape) is an extremely faint reflection nebula believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud illuminated by nearby supergiant star Rigel in the constellation of Orion.

 

Tech Specs:

 

Taken 25-26 Dec 22 between 9:18PM & 2:50AM, clear moonless skies, Bortle 4, Oracle, Arizona, temperature 48F, RH 78%, light winds.

 

Orion Sirius EQ Mount

Nikon d7100

Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/5,

ISO 3200 38x180s

ISO 6400 108x120s

PixInsight, Photoshop

  

From Portal, AZ, with Nikon D750 (Ha modified) and Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 lens. May 2020. 5 hours of 2 minute exposures, processed via PixInsight.

 

A full arch Milky Way shot at North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve in Ardoch, Ontario. The is my version 2 of a previously posted image. Composed of 28 panels for the sky and 6 panels for the landscape. I completely restacked and reprocessed these panels in Pixinsight with calibration frames.

 

Backstory:

I have been trying to photograph the full arch of the Milky Way ever since I began astrophotography 3 seasons ago and all attempts have ended in failure, until this week.

 

My two astro-buddies and I drove 2 hours west of Ottawa in the early morning hours to get to the North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve in Ardoch, Ontario, in time for a 3:30 am setup in -20 degree Celsius temps to be ready to shoot from 4:30 - 5:30 am. After a successful photo-shoot, an artery-clogging trucker's breakfast in Carleton Place was the perfect ending to an awesome photo shoot under the stars!

 

Regarding the footprints:

I really lucked out with this one. My two buddies and I were cramped together on a helipad to the left and our red night lights were getting in each other's shots. So before the shoot I ventured out into the field and walked towards the fence to try to find a more secluded position. Then, just before sun up I shot a few quick landscape panorama shots and as it turned out my footprints from an hour before were just perfect to add interest to the scene! Not planned, just lucky!

 

Technical info

Camera: Nikon D5500

Lens: Sigma 24-35/f2 Art

Tripod head: Sirui L-20S Pan/Tilt Head

Sunwayfoto DDP-64SI Indexing Rotator for Panoramas

Aperture F2

Exposure: 6 seconds x 10 shots and stacked

ISO 3200

Focal length 24mm

 

Shooting workflow:

4 rows, 7 frames/row, 10 shots/frame. Begin shooting at the top row left side and work left to right then down to horizon row. I completely restacked and reprocessed these panels in Pixinsight with calibration frames.

 

Processing workflow:

28 stacks of 10 images each processed in Pixinsight as follows:

- Step 1: Calibration and Integration with 100 darks, 100 bias and 64 flats

- Step 2: Automatic Background Extraction and Dynamic Background Extraction depending on the stack

- Step 3. Background Neutralization

- Step 4. Color Calibration

- Step 4. Stretch using ArcsinhStretch

28 processed stacks were stitched together with Microsoft ICE (awesome program by the way!!!)

Foreground landscape images stitched in MS ICE

Foreground pano blended into sky pano in Photoshop CS5

Final processing of complete image done in Photoshop CS5

 

Sh2-136

Locations: Deep Sky West, Rowe, New Mexico, United States

PlaneWave17" CDK Telescope

LRGB of 3,6h of data, combination in PixInsight done:

L: 7 x 600sec

R: 5 x 600sec

G: 5 x 600sec

B: 5 x 600sec

 

Camera: FLI ML16803

Filter: Astrodon Ha

Focal Length: 2939mm

Focal Ratio: f/6.7

Pixels: 9μm

Mount: Paramount Taurus 400

nova.astrometry.net/user_images/4178347#annotated

www.deepskywest.com/

planewave.com/product/cdk17-ota/

Distance: ca.30 Mio. Lj

 

Equipment:

TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton

1000mm f4

ZWO ASI 1600mmc

Astrodon LRGB

Skywatcher EQ8

 

Guding:

Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider

PHD2

 

80x180 luminanz

22x180 red

22x180 green

22x180 blue

 

total exposure time: 7,3 hours

 

Processing: PixInsight/Capture One

Skywatcher Esprit 80/400, ASI2600MM-Pro, Astronomik Ha-OIII en 6 nm pour 6h et 5h.

HEQ5 kit Rowan

Capture : NINA

Traitement : Pixinsight (Plugins NoiseXterminator et StarXterminator), GraXpert

Trifild nebula M20

Completely reprocessed with Pixinsight.

 

58x120sec

24x30sec

128min total exposure

ISO1600

CANON 600Dall+Paracorr

QHY5IIL guded

Newtonian 10" F/3.25

Pixinsight 1.8

The Horsehead and Flame nebulae next to the bright star Alnitak in Orion's belt.

This image is an integration of 15 hours of data captured with a William Optics Zenithstar 103 telescope and a QHY183C camera. Image acquisition was managed via SGP and PHD2, all post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.

Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand

TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6

Atik 460EX + Astrodon LRGB E series gen 2

Parallax Instruments HD200c

  

L: 67x300s bin 1x1

RGB: 100x60s bin 2x2

  

SQM: 21.5-21.7

FWHM: 2"

  

Total exposure: 10.5h

  

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Processed with Pixinsight

Camera: Canon 1100D astro modified

Scope: Askar FMA180Pro

Mount: SW AZ-GTi EQ mode

Filter RGB: Optolong CLS

Expo RGB: 77 x 300s (6.5h) + Dark, Flat, Bias

Controlled by AsiAir Mini

Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop LR

2023.07.11 - 2023.07.16, Varpalota & Törökkoppány, Hungary

The Milky Way rises near Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. Mount Tamalpais is often considered symbolic of Marin County. Much of Mount Tamalpais is protected within public lands such as Mount Tamalpais State Park, the Marin Municipal Water District watershed, and National Park Service land, such as Muir Woods. Astromodified Nikon Z7, 4x180s exposures, Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini, PixInsight, Photoshop.

Constelación en que se encuentra: Orión

 

Distancia: 1600 años luz

 

De Sky Safari:

La nebulosa Cabeza de Caballo (Horse head nebula), conocida también como Barnard 33, es una pequeña nebulosa oscura que contrasta contra la nebulosa roja de emisión IC 434.

 

Fue registrada por primera vez en una fotografía en el Observatorio de Harvard College en 1888 y fue incluida en el catálogo de Barnard en 1919. Dentro de la “cabeza” existen manchas rojas que son protoestrellas en proceso de formación.

 

La región entera está iluminada por la estrella brillante OB Sigma Orionis, que es responsable de la ionización del hidrógeno, produciendo su característico color rojizo.

 

A la izquierda de la imagen se ve la nebulosa de la Llama (NGC 2024), que está a unos 900 años luz, es decir algo más de la mitad de la distancia a la que se encuentra la cabeza de caballo. En ella se aprecian bandas oscuras. Está ionizada por la estrella Alnitak, que es la estrella más brillante de la imagen y la más oriental del cinturón de Orión. Se estima que unas 10 estrellas están dentro de la nebulosa.

 

En la foto también se pueden ver otros objetos como cuatro galaxias muy pequeñas (PGC) y diferentes nebulosas adicionales (IC y NGC).

 

Datos de la imagen:

Exposure: 5hr 00 min (100 x 3 min)

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 Edge - Hyperstar

Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Focal ratio: f2.3

Capturing software: NINA

Filter: IDAS NBZ

Mount: iOptron CEM60

Guiding: ASI462MC with PHD2 and Stellarvue F60M3

Dithering: Yes

Calibration: 100 darks, 100 flat darks, 60 flats

Processing: PixInsight

Date: 02-ene-2022, 04-ene-2022

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Photographed 9200 years later from my backyard, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, Calif. August 2021

 

From Wiki: NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way's Perseus Spiral Arm. This 20×30 arcmin sized nebulosity is also associated with open cluster IC 1590, several Bok globules and the multiple star, B 1. It collectively forms Sh2-184, spanning over a larger area of 40 arcmin. A recent distance from radio parallaxes of water masers at 22 GHz made during 2014 is estimated it lies 2.82±0.20 kpc. (9200 ly.) from us. Colloquially, NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to the video game character.

 

For The Techies:

Scope: Stellarvue SVX130T 936mm f/7

Camera: ASI2600MC Mount: EQ6R Pro

Filters: L-Extreme

Moon Phase: 8% waxing

Lights: Night #1 08-10-21: 87 @ 180” 100 gain, -10 deg

Night #2 08-11-21: 99 @ 180” “ “

9.3 hrs total integration.

Darks: 30 @ 180” MD Flats: 30 @ 2.9” MF

Dark Flats: 30 @ 2.9” MDF

Capture: ASIAIR Pro

Processing: A.P.P, Pixinsight, PS

 

Skywatcher Esprit 80, 400mm, f5, ISO3200, 30sec, 60sec

Sony α7r3

PixInsight, Photoshop

Sky: Class 8 Bortle.

 

Lights: Total 2H30

30x300s Optolong L-Extreme

DOF: 20x

 

Prétraitement: Siril

Traitement: PixInsight / EZ Processing Suite / PS / DxO PhotoLab

 

Canon 450D Défiltré

Skywatcher 80ED Equinox (80x500)

Télévue TV85 Field Flatteneur 0.8x

Skywatcher Neq6 Pro

Guide Scope: Zwo 30mm F/4

Guide Cam: Zwo Asi120MM

Guide Soft: Phd2 on Rpi

34x7min subs,iso 640

D5300 Mod

Sky Watcher ED80 telescope

Tele Vue 0.8 reducer/flattener

Pixinsight,Photoshop CS

Taken 6 to 10 August 2022 on consecutive nights, a wide field of the Cygnus region containing The Tulip, Crescent, Soap Bubble, WR 134 and Sh2-104 Nebulae. This image comprises 18hrs of capture of narrowband Sii, Ha, and Oiii plus LRGB for the stars. So many elements in this image to bring out in processing, starting from scratch 5 times now, but this is the finished version for now anyway. Whilst there are many individual nebulae in this image, a few of the more identifiable due to structure are listed below.

 

The Tulip Nebula – Sh2-101 The emission from the Tulip Nebula is powered by ultraviolet radiation of the hot young star HD 227018. The O6.5III class star belongs to the Cygnus OB3 association and has a visual magnitude of 9.02. In images, it can be seen near the nebula’s centre.

 

The Soap Bubble Nebula, or PN G75 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus, near the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). It was discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich using an Astro-Physics 160 mm refractor telescope with which he imaged the nebula on June 19, 2007 and on July 6, 2008. Can you see it? It is underneath the Crescent Nebula, a little to the left in this image.

 

WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun.

 

NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula, is about 25 light-years across blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. The oxygen atoms produce the blue hue that seems to enshroud the detailed folds and filaments. Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years.

 

Sh2-104 is a very faint emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. This is located due east of the popular Crescent Nebula. Sh2-104 is viewed by professional astronomers as a good illustration of the "collect and collapse" model of star formation triggered by the rapid expansion of a Helium II region.

 

Sky Quality 19.67 Magnitude Class 5 Bortle.

 

Astromiks 50mm SHO 6nm Filters and LRGB Filters

 

30 x Darks, Flats and Dark Flats

 

ZWO ASI6200MM Pro

ZWO 7x2" EFW

ZWO EAF

Williams Optics GT81 IV

WO 6A III Field Flattener 0.8

HEQ5 Pro Rowan

ASIAIR Pro

Astro Pixel Processor

Pixinsight

Photoshop 2022

Image acquired using the Telescope Live remote imaging platform.

 

Telescope: ASA 500cm reflector.

CCD: FLI PL16803

Filters: Astrodon LRGB

 

L: 7 x 600s

R: 4 x 600s

G: 5 x 600s

B: 4 x 600s.

 

Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight, Affinity Photo.

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Captured under dark skies near Goldendale, WA.

 

Telescope: Tele Vue 76mm with 0.8X Reducer

Camera: QSI 683wsg

Filter: Astrodon Ha 3nm

Mount: iOptron iEQ45 Pro

Integration: 80 minutes (16 x 5 min).

Processing: PixInsight v1.8, Adobe Lightroom

Reprocessed!

 

6hrs of integration time, 120 x 180s

ZWO ASI 533 MC Pro

ZWO ASIAIR

Sigma 150-600mm @ 300mm

Optolong UV/IR cut filter

Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro mount

120mm guide scope

Edited in Pixinsight & Adobe Lightroom.

 

Imaged in Hailuoto, Finland. Bortle 3-4 sky.

 

Older data (October 2021) but revised processing techniques in PixInsight given what I have learned over recent weeks. Maybe my best yet.

  

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

 

It will collide with our own Milky Way in about 4.5 billion years.

 

Image Details:

- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet

- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter

- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval

- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider

- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap

- Guiding Software: PHD2

- Light Frames: 32*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -15C, 40x2 mins @ 150 Gain, Temp -20C

- Dark Frames: 32*4 mins, 40x2 mins

- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise

   

Officially named NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184, the nebula is popularly named the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to Pac-Man, the character in the popular 1980s maze video game. A dark dust lane forms the Pac-Man’s mouth.

 

The Pacman Nebula is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It is part of the Milky Way's Perseus Spiral Arm, lies approximately 9,200 light years from Earth and stretches 48 light years across.

 

The nebula is a star-forming region that contains young stars, large dark dust lanes and Bok globules. Bok globules are small, dense dark nebulae packed with material from which new stars are formed.

 

EXIF

ZWO ASI 1600MM

Baader Ha Oiii RGB filters

William Optics Megrez 88 f/5.6

Skywatcher AZ-GTI controlled with ASIAir

Total integration time: 4h20min

ASI 294 MC PRO.

72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.

Star Adventurer 2i.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc.

L-Extreme 52x300s.

Bortle 8.

PixInsight.

Getting to know Nina better.

 

QHY183C -10c 90 shot 10 min

MeLE Mini PC

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps.

This is a very difficult target in the sky,

2300 light years from earth

10 minutes exposures are requied

Data captured in september 2023

 

Full resolution : astrob.in/9s1ink/0/

 

-Images- HOO+RGB

Ha= 55x600s

Oii= 97x600s

R=40x120s

G=40x120s

B=40x120s

 

Total exposition time : 29h20'

 

Setup : flic.kr/p/2qAv2tN

 

-Equipment-

Scope: Askar107PHQ (740mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro at -15°C gain 101 offset 49

Filter: Optolong SHO 3nm 50.80mm

Optolong LRGB 50.80mm

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM+ZWO OAG-L

 

All processing was done in Pixinsight

 

Clear sky !

NGC2244 Nébuleuse de la rosette

43X180S=66X300S =469mn soit 7H45

PRISE à 10 mois d'intervalles sur 2 nuits, 2 caméras 294MC PRO ET 2600MC 2 filtres différents, azeq5 et azeq6 lunette fsq85, traitement pixinsight ciel 5

63 tomas de 300 seg a ISO 3200

Darks

Flats

Bias

Canon 6D Modificada

Filtro Optolong L-Extreme

Skywatcher Ed-80

Skywatcher EQ6-r

N.I.N.A

PixInsight

Photoshop

 

En la constelación Cepheus , la impresionante nebulosa de emisión IC 1396 mezcla el gas cósmico brillante y las nubes oscuras de polvo. Esta región de formación estelar , excitada por la estrella brillante y azulada que hay en el centro, se extiende cientos de años luz, abarca más de tres grados en el cielo y se encuentra a unos 3.000 años luz del planeta Tierra.

 

Entre las intrigantes formas oscuras de IC 1396, arriba en el centro, está la sinuosa nebulosa de la Trompa de Elefante.

 

La Nebulosa de la Trompa de Elefante es una concentración de interestelar gas y polvo dentro de la región de gas ionizado mucho más grande IC 1396 ubicada en la constelación Cefeo alrededor de 2.400 años luz lejos de la Tierra. La pieza de la nebulosa aquí se muestra el glóbulo denso y oscuro IC 1396A; Se la denomina comúnmente nebulosa de la Trompa de Elefante debido a su apariencia en longitudes de onda de luz visible, donde hay una mancha oscura con un borde sinuoso y brillante.

 

Ahora se cree que la Nebulosa de la Trompa de Elefante es un sitio de formación estelar, que contiene varias estrellas muy jóvenes (menos de 100.000 años) que fueron descubiertas en imágenes infrarrojas en 2003. Dos mayores (pero aún jóvenes, un par de millones de años) estándares de estrellas, que viven miles de millones de años) las estrellas están presentes en una pequeña cavidad circular en la cabeza del glóbulo.

47 tomas de 5 min a ISO 1600

Darks

Flats

Bias

Canon 6D Modificada

Filtro Optolong L-Extrem

Skywatcher Ed-80

Skywatcher EQ6-r

N.I.N.A

PixInsight

Photoshop

 

Se me ha quemado el núcleo de la nebulosa así que tendré que volver a realizar la toma bajando la ISO a 800, a ver si así aguanta.

  

La nebulosa de Orión forma parte de una inmensa nube de gas y polvo llamada nube de Orión, que se extiende por el centro de la constelación de Orión y que contiene también el bucle de Barnard, la nebulosa Cabeza de Caballo, la nebulosa de De Mairan, la nebulosa M78 y la nebulosa de la Flama. Se forman estrellas a lo largo de toda la nebulosa, desprendiendo gran cantidad de energía térmica, y por ello el espectro que predomina es el infrarrojo.

 

La nebulosa de Orión es una de las pocas nebulosas que pueden observarse a simple vista, incluso en lugares con cierta contaminación lumínica. Se trata del punto luminoso situado en el centro de la región de la Espada (las tres estrellas situadas al sur del cinturón de Orión), y debajo de la estrella iota de Orión ( para los habitantes del hemisferio sur terrestre ). que los astrónomos árabes llamaron Nair al Saif que en español significa : "La Espada Luminosa". A simple vista, la nebulosa aparece borrosa, pero con telescopios sencillos, o simplemente con prismáticos, la nebulosa se observa con bastante nitidez.

 

La nebulosa de Orión contiene un cúmulo abierto de reciente formación denominado cúmulo del Trapecio, debido al asterismo de sus cuatro estrellas principales. Dos de ellas pueden observarse como estrellas binarias en noches con poca perturbación atmosférica, efecto denominado seeing, lo que hace un total de seis estrellas. Las estrellas del cúmulo del Trapecio acaban de formarse, son muy jóvenes, y forman parte de un masivo cúmulo estelar con una masa calculada en 4500 masas solares dentro de un radio de 2 parsecs llamado cúmulo de la nebulosa de Orión,​ una agrupación de aproximadamente 2000 estrellas y con un diámetro de 20 años luz. Este cúmulo podría haber contenido hace 2 millones de años a varias estrellas fugitivas, entre ellas AE Aurigae, 53 Arietis, o Mu Columbae, las cuales se mueven en la actualidad a velocidades cercanas a los 100 km/s.

 

Los observadores se han percatado de que la nebulosa posee zonas verdosas, además de algunas regiones rojas y otras azuladas con tintes violetas. La tonalidad roja se explica por la emisión de una combinación de líneas de radiación del hidrógeno, Hα, con una longitud de onda de 656,3 nanómetros. El color azul-violeta es el reflejo de la radiación de las estrellas de tipo espectral O (muy luminosas y de colores azulados) sobre el centro de la nebulosa. El color verdoso supuso un auténtico quebradero de cabeza para los astrónomos durante buena parte de comienzos del siglo XX, ya que ninguna de las líneas espectrales conocidas podía explicar el fenómeno. Se especuló que estas líneas eran causadas por un elemento totalmente nuevo, y a dicho elemento teórico se le acuñó el nombre de «nebulium». Más tarde, cuando ya se poseía mayor profundidad en el conocimiento de la física de los átomos, se llegó a la conclusión de que dicho espectro verdoso era causado por la transición de un electrón sobre un átomo de oxígeno doblemente ionizado. Sin embargo, este tipo de radiación es imposible de reproducir en los laboratorios, ya que depende de un medio con unas características concretas solo existentes en las entrañas del espacio.

Centaurus A (NGC5128)

 

LRGBHa data from Telescope Live. Processed with PixInsight.

 

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nova.astrometry.net/user_images/13048313#annotated

 

Image Details:

Scope: A-P 130mm EDFS @ f/6.44 (no flattener)

Camera: QSI 6120

Filters: Astrodon 3nm

Mount: Takahashi EM-200

Guiding: QHY 5LII-M & Mini Guidescope (PHD2)

Image Capture: Sequence Generator Pro

Processing: PixInsight

Location: Central District, Seattle, WA

 

Ha: 31x10min

OIII: 30x10min

SII: 32x10min

Total integration time = 930 min ~ 15.5 hours

Giosi Amante & Alessandro Pensato acquisition

2xRC8"

2x QHYCCD 183M

2x StarPi (Stellarmate)

Ha filter 7nm Baader

LRGB Baader

LRGB Optolong

N_EQ6

CEM70

Processing Giosi Amante exclusively with Pixinsight

 

Totale esposizione 31 ore e 33'

 

L 489X180S 24 ore e 27'

 

R 24X180 ---------------

G 24X180 -- 3 ore e 36'-

B 24X180 ---------------

 

HA 21X600S 3 ore e 30'

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200, Borg 125

Imaging cameras: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI, QSI 683WSG-8 OAG QSI 683

Mount: Paramount-ME

Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED

Guiding camera: QSI 683WSG-8 OAG QSI 683

Software: Pixinsight 1.8

Filters: Ha 5nm, OIII 5nm, SII 5nm

Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2

Resolution: 3282x2458

Dates: Oct. 1, 2015, Oct. 2, 2015, Oct. 3, 2015, Dec. 1, 2016

Frames:

Astronomik Ha 6nm: 20x1800" bin 1x1

Ha 5nm: 30x600" bin 1x1

OIII 5nm: 21x1800" bin 1x1

SII 5nm: 21x1800" bin 1x1

Locations: FOVO - Field of View Observatory, Home, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

 

A reboot with new data of a target I have previously looked at.

The previous target was pretty but I felt it lacked all the detail the target had to offer so added an additional 30 HA subs from the RH to help realise that. Small percentages but makes a lot of difference when reviewed in detail.

It also allowed me to resolve the ICC mismatch issues my PC suffered after recent updates which caused all sorts of issues on my last image!

 

NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus. The complex encompasses the emission region designated Sharpless 171, and the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59. The complex is believed to be some 800-1000 pc distant, with the younger components aged no more than a few million years. The complex also includes one of the hottest stars discovered within 1 kpc of the Sun, namely BD+66 1673, which is an eclipsing binary system consisting of an O5V that exhibits a surface temperature of nearly 45000 K and a luminosity ~100000 times that of the Sun. (Wikipedia)

RC8 @ 1090 mm, ASI294MC

409 X 60"

NINA, Pixinsight

Celestron 9.25 + Celestron f/6.3 Reducer + ZWO ASI533MC + Optolong L-Pro

EQ6-R Pro

Guiding with ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm

214x120" lights calibrated with darks and bias frames

Nebulosity4 for Mac

PixInsight

Cairns, Australia

Bortle 6

The Iris Nebula or NGC 7023, is a reflection nebula, its color comes from the light of its central star, which lies in the constellation Cepheus. You can find it nearish to the North Star. It is located ~1,400 light-years away from Earth, and its gasses stretch ~6 light-years across.

 

Equipment:

Celestron CGEM Mount

Nikon 500mm f/4 P AI-s

Sony a7RIII (unmodified)

Altair 60mm Guide scope

GPCAM2 Mono Camera

 

Acquisition:

Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3

101 x 181" for 5 hours 4 min and 41 sec of exposure time.

6 dark frames

15 flats frames

15 bais frames

Guided

 

Software:

SharpCap

PixInsight

Lightroom

Photoshop

  

My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I then mounted my a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 P Ai-s lens to the top rail of my scope. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 3200, f/4 and 181" exposures. Image frames were stacked and integrated and processed in PixInsight using: STF, Cropping, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator and then the DSO was separated from the stars, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping to the final image.

Lights: 180x60" (3h)

DOF: 30

Iso: 1600

 

Traitement: PixInsight / PS / DxO PhotoLab / Topaz Denoise

 

Canon 450D Défiltré

Skywatcher 80ED Equinox (80x500)

Télévue TV85 Field Flatteneur 0.8x

Skywatcher Neq6 Pro

Camera & Lens: D750mod, AF-S24-70, 70mm, ISO1600, f4.0, 60sec

Light, Dark, PIxinsight, Photoshop

This scene features a trio of interacting galaxies found in the constellation of Virgo, being some 70-90 million light years away from Earth. The largest galaxy in the group is NGC 5566, which is a barred spiral galaxy stretching nearly 150,000 light years in diameter. Having widely sweeping spiral arms, with dark dusty lanes, these arms are speckled with new star forming regions throughout. The elongated galaxy to the left of NGC 5566 is the heavily distorted NGC5560. You can just see faint dusty interconnections between NGC 5560 and NGC 5566, providing us some clues that these are in fact interacting. The lower blueish galaxy NGC5569 does not appear to be disturbed, and maybe placed slightly in the foreground.

 

In the darkness of the surrounding space, the speckled background indicates a sea of background objects, all being in the significant distance.

 

This image represents only 34% of the cameras full frame, composed of luminance, red, green, blue, and hydrogen alpha filtered colour channels. Thanks for having a look.

 

Hi res link:

live.staticflickr.com/65535/50577593972_849ecd82d2_o.jpg

 

Information about the image:

Center (RA, Dec):(215.064, 3.940)

Center (RA, hms):14h 20m 15.436s

Center (Dec, dms):+03° 56' 24.737"

Size:28.7 x 18.8 arcmin

Radius:0.286 deg

Pixel scale:0.733 arcsec/pixel

Orientation:Up is 126 degrees E of N

  

Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8

Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO

Camera Sensitivity: Lum & Ha: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2

Exposure Details: Total: 22.75 hours | Lum: 47 x 900 sec [11.75hr], Ha: 15 x 1200 sec [5.0hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]

Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.

Observatory: ScopeDome 3m

Date: June-July 2020

Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight

Author: Steven Mohr

The Rosette Nebula is in the Constellation of Monoceros approximately 5000 Light years from earth.

36x300 LRGB

STL 11000M

Stellarvue SVX102T-R

Lodestar

PixInsight

SG Pro

Losmandy G11

Still waiting for the new mount

A re-edit of a single 180sec single exposure, shot May 2013, Sutherland.

 

Canon 5D MIII

24-70mm Canon f/2.8 II USM

180 Sec Single exposure

iso 3200

Single exposure (not stacked)

Celestron CGem mount

Image acquisition : Nebulosity

Processing: LightRoom, PixInsight & PhotoShop

Fireworks galaxy, NGC 6946

2 x RC 8"

2x QHYCCD 183M

total exposition 32 Hours

L, H-alpha, RGB

This image shows two groups of galaxies. You might recognize Stephan's Quintet, the galaxies near the lower left corner, as the conversing angels in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”. 😀 The Deer Lick Group of galaxies, with NGC 7331 as its largest member, is near the upper right corner.

 

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8 at f/7

Camera: QSI 683wsg

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO

Integration: Approx 65 mins each of RGB (~13 x 5 minute subframes)

Processing Software: PixInsight v1.9, Adobe Photoshop

 

Captured under dark skies near Goldendale, WA.

Der Helixnebel oder auch Auge Gottes genannt.

 

distance ca. 650Lj

 

bicolor + RGB

Equipment:

TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton

1000mm f4

Moravian CCD G2-8300FW

Astrodon RGB

Astronomik Ha Filter

Astronomik OIII Filter

Losmandy G11/LFE Photo

 

Guding:

Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider

PHD2

 

5x300 RGB

14x600 Ha

11x600 OIII

 

15.10.2017

16.10.2017

17.10.2017

 

total exposure time: ca. 5:25 hour

 

Processing: PixInsight/Photoshop/Lightroom

  

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ASI 294 MC PRO.

72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.

Star Adventurer 2i.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc

L-Extreme 38x300s

Bortle 8.

PixInsight.

Bill Blanshan's Color Palette.

ASI 294 MC PRO.

Samyang 135mm

Star Adventurer 2i.

Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.

Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc

30x300s

L-Extreme

Bortle 8.

PixInsight.

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