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Canon 60D

6" Newton

ISO 800

13 x 7min

20 x 2min

15 x 20s

  

This is my first Orion Nebula of the season. I used my smaller 6" Newton to capture it. In the next weeks i try to use the 10" to get a detailed picture of the center of the nebula.

Bode's Galaxy (M81), Cigar Galaxy (M82), NGC 3077

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Location: Whittier, California, USA (Bortle 8)

Date: March 2, 2021

Moon: Waning Gibbous (80%)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9

Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener

Adapter: None

Filter: Optolong L-Pro

Mount: iOptron SkyGuider Pro

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75

Imaging Controller: ZWO ASIAIR PRO

Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 4 min

Acquisition: 44 x 4 min Lights | 100 Darks | 100 Bias

Integration Time: 2 hour 56 min

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Canon 60Da

10" Newton

ISO 800

80 x 2min

  

This is my first time using the H-Alpha Version of my Canon 60Da. Great to see it captures the H-Alpha lines so well. Barnard 33 is one of the most amazing objects is captured so far, I hope you enjoy the picture !

NGC 7000 – The North America Nebula ✨🌌

 

Stretching over 100 light-years across and located approximately 2,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the North America Nebula is one of the largest and most recognizable emission nebulae in our night sky.

 

This image reveals glowing hydrogen gas, intricate dust lanes, and the dramatic Cygnus Wall—a region where intense radiation from young, massive stars is sculpting the surrounding clouds and triggering new generations of star formation.

 

Every photon in this image began its journey long before human civilization reached its modern age, traveling across the galaxy to arrive at my telescope.

 

The universe never fails to amaze.

 

📍 Object: NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)

🌌 Constellation: Cygnus

📏 Distance: ~2,600 light-years

✨ Size: ~100 light-years across

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OBJECT: ESO 099-SC06

CLASS: Open Cluster aka Galactic Cluster

CONSTELLATION: Triangulum Australe

POSITION (2000.0): 15 29.8 -64 52

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 208L

DIAMETER: 8.0'

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REFERANCE: Star Clusters - Archinal & Hynes, 2003

 

DATE: May 25/26, 2015

TIME: 01:58 to 02:14 AM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimuth

CAMERA: Canon 60Da

EXPOSURE: 10 minutes

SUBS: 15 seconds

ISO: 6400

 

reprocessed-190816

Sky-Watcher 80/400 (Achromatic Refractor)

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 350Dm

45x60s @ ISO1600 (45min)

 

Calibrated, registered, stacked in PixInsight.

Postprocessing in PS5.

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Mar. 20, 2005

Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA

14 inch f/10 SCT Meade LX200

SBIG ST-8 ccd camera TEST image

15 sec subs, 8 frames at 1x1

30 sec subs, 8 frames at 2x2

exposure 6 minutes

 

Hercules

PN G043.1+37.7

16 44.5 +23 48 (J2000.0)

20"x13"

8.8 mag; 12.3 mag CS

Type 2+3b

3,600 light years

Uranometria 2000.0 Map 68R

Star forming region Milky Way Galaxy

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Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC3628), 03/17/2021

Galaxy season is here. In Spring most of the nebulas set too early to photograph so attention turns to distant and dim galaxies. For my current setup this is unfortunate because I have wrong field of view for tiny galaxies. But a YouTube channel I watch (Chuck’s Astrophotography) did this group using the same telescope I have so I gave it a go. Thanks Chuck! I did spend a lot of time on this so I would have enough detail to crop it in a bit. So, I give you the Leo Triplet, unsurprisingly found in the constellation Leo. These gravitationally bound galaxies are approximately 35 million lights years from you.

 

Equipment:

RASA 8

iOptron GEM45

ZWO ASI294MC-Pro

ZWO Asiair

Optolong L-Pro filter

 

Details:

Location – My Backyard

Bortle Class 7

109 120-second Lights (3.6 hrs.)

60 Darks

60 Dark flats

60 Flats

Astro Pixel Processor

Lightroom

Photoshop

 

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Apr. 30, 2015

Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA

14 inch f/6.5 SCT Meade LX200

Canon 60Da camera

15 sec subs, 22 frames

exposure 5 minutes 29 sec

 

Ophiuchus

PN G000.3+12.2

17 01.6 -21 50 (J2000.0)

11"x9";

17.4? mag CS

Type 2a + 3

9,500 light years

Uranometria 2000.0 Map 146R

OBJECT: NGC 4755; "Jewel Box"; Cr 264; Mel 114; OCL 892; Caldw 94; C1250-6000

CLASS: Open Cluster aka Galactic Cluster

CONSTELLATION: Crux

POSITION (2000.0): 12 53 38 -60 21.4

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 1989L

DIAMETER: 10.0

DISTANCE (parsecs): 1498

TYPE: I3r

MAGNITUDE: 4.2

MEMBERS: 218

REFERANCE: Star Clusters - Archinal & Hynes, 2003

 

DATE: May 23/24, 2015

TIME: 11:01 to 11:17 PM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimuth

CAMERA: Canon 60Da

EXPOSURE: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Captured from Karachi with Canon 1200D and Rokinon 800mm f/8 Mirror Lens.

Constellation Cygnus - Sadr (star) (Narrowband image)

Starting to pull out detail from the galaxy. Need to start generating flats. Start Data collection over on these images. Make sure that certain temp is attained before taking lights. Prevents noise.

M97 - Owl Nebula (Soví mlhovina), top right

M108 - galaxy bottom left

 

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm (Semi-apochromatic Refractor)

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 450D

25x300s @ ISO800 (2h 5min)

Lacerta MGEN2

 

Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.

Postprocessing in PS5.

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NAME: BlDz 1; ESO 217-11; PK293+10.1

PN G#: 293.6+10.9

CLASS: ?

TYPE: Planetary Nebula

MAGNITUDE: 12.3

CENTRAL STAR MAG.: 18.0b

CONSTELLATION: Centaurus

POSITION (2000.0): 11 53.1 -50 51

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 185L

SIZE: 82"

DISTANCE (parsecs): 1,100

REFERANCE: Strasbourg-ESO Catalog of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker et al.1992)

DISCOVERER: Blaauw et al, 1975

 

DATE: Apr. 20/21, 2015

TIME: 03:52 to 04:36 AM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimut

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C’è un momento preciso in cui il cosmo smette di essere astronomia…

e diventa qualcosa che assomiglia più a un incidente in corso.

La Nebulosa Crescent è uno di quei momenti.

Non è una nuvola.

Non è un ornamento del cielo.

È il risultato di una stella che sta letteralmente cercando di sopravvivere a sé stessa.

  

Quella che chiamiamo Nebulosa Crescent, catalogata come NGC 6888, non è nata per “assomigliare” a qualcosa.

La forma a mezzaluna è un effetto collaterale.

Un residuo geometrico di forze in conflitto.

Si trova nella costellazione del Cigno e la sua luce ha viaggiato per circa 5.000 anni prima di arrivare fino a noi.

  

Al centro di tutto c’è WR 136.

Una stella Wolf-Rayet.

E già questo basta per capire il problema.

Non sono stelle “normali”.

Sono stelle che hanno consumato quasi tutto il loro combustibile e hanno iniziato a comportarsi in modo estremo.

Secondo le osservazioni spettroscopiche raccolte da missioni come Hubble (NASA/ESA) e da telescopi terrestri ad alta risoluzione:

WR 136 perde massa a velocità impressionanti, tramite venti stellari che superano milioni di chilometri orari.

Non sta “soffiando via gas”.

Sta letteralmente smontando i propri strati esterni.

  

La Nebulosa Crescent non è un’esplosione.

È uno scontro.

Per farti capire la suddivido in fasi:

  

Prima fase: la stella espelle materiale più lento.

  

Seconda fase: diventa Wolf-Rayet e inizia a emettere vento stellare molto più veloce.

Terza fase: Quando il secondo flusso raggiunge il primo…non lo attraversa.

Lo schiaccia, lo comprime e lo illumina.

E da questa collisione nasce la struttura che vediamo.

Una bolla instabile che si espande nello spazio interstellare come un’onda d’urto tridimensionale.

  

Quello che appare come “bello” nelle immagini astronomiche è in realtà un codice fisico.

Le osservazioni spettroscopiche mostrano che:

* il verde-blu è ossigeno ionizzato (O III)

* il rosso intenso è idrogeno eccitato (H-alpha)

Non sono colori estetici.

Sono stati energetici della materia.

È come se la nebulosa stesse parlando…

ma in una lingua che non è fatta per gli occhi umani.

  

La Nebulosa Crescent non è una struttura stabile.

È una fase, un passaggio.

Le simulazioni evolutive delle stelle Wolf-Rayet indicano che sistemi come WR 136 sono destinati a cambiare radicalmente su scale di tempo relativamente brevi (astronomicamente parlando).

Molte termineranno la loro vita in una supernova.

Un evento così energetico da superare l’intera luminosità della galassia per un breve periodo.

E quando succederà, la Crescent scomparirà, non lentamente, non poeticamente, semplicemente verrà cancellata da un altro evento fisico più potente.

La cosa bella di questa nebulosa è che all’interno di essa stanno nascendo stelle, pianeti e perché no anche nuove forme di vita.

  

Perché come dice il primo principio della termodinamica, nulla si crea, nulla si distrugge ma tutto si trasforma.

15 MARZO 2021

3671 sec - Frames da 1 minuto

 

TS OPTICS 80/540

ASI 290 COLOR

FOCAL REDUCER 0,5

 

SHARPCAP

PHOTOSHOP

A comet streaks across a dark night sky, dotted with distant stars. No specific person is identifiable in the image, but the image shows a celestial event, likely captured by an amateur astronomer or astrophotographer. The comet's tail is visible, indicating its movement through space. The image's purpose is likely to document and share the observation of this astronomical phenomenon.

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A Whisper from the Long Night: Comet 24P/Schaumasse

 

On December 30, 2026, beneath the still and patient sky of Desert Bloom Observatory, Comet 24P/Schaumasse revealed itself not as a spectacle, but as a whisper. At a modest magnitude of 9.4, its light arrived faint and restrained, a reminder that not all celestial travelers announce their presence with grandeur. Ten stacked exposures of 600 seconds were required to gather enough ancient photons to form this image—each one a fragment of sunlight reflected by ice and dust released as the comet slowly warms. The absence of a pronounced tail is not a failure of vision, but a lesson in physics: low activity, distance from the Sun, and limited gas production all conspire to keep its signature subtle. This image teaches patience—how astronomy rewards those who listen carefully to the dark, where even the quietest messengers still carry the story of the early solar system.

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The North America Nebula. 25x5 minutes with a Nikon D600 and an 80mm Refractor

OBJECT: Trumpler 27; Cr 336; OCL 1021; C1732-334

CLASS: Open Cluster aka Galactic Cluster

CONSTELLATION: Scorpius

POSITION (2000.0): 17 36 12.7 -33 29 19

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 164L; A20

DIAMETER: 7.0'

DISTANCE (parsecs): 1379

TYPE: III3m

MAGNITUDE: 6.7

MEMBERS: 82

REFERANCE: Star Clusters - Archinal & Hynes, 2003

 

DATE: May 17/18, 2015

TIME: 12:17 to 12:35 AM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimuth

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Apr. 4, 2005

Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA

14 inch f/10 SCT Meade LX200

SBIG ST-8 ccd camera

5 min subs, 3 frames

15 min subs, 1 frames

exposure 25 minutes

 

Lyra

PN G063.1.8+13.9

18 53.6 +33 02 (J2000.0)

86"x63"

8.8 mag; 15.0 mag CS

Type 4 + 3

2,000 light years

Uranometria 2000.0 Map 49L

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The Rosette Nebula is a large spherical H II region around open cluster NGC 2244. The stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light years from Earth and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter.

 

Sky-Watcher 80ED 600mm

Sky-Watcher 0.85x Reducer/Flattener

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

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73x600s (12h 10min)

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Apr. 10, 2005

Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA

14 inch f/10 SCT Meade LX200

SBIG ST-8 ccd camera

30 min. subs, 2 frames

15 min. subs, 3 frames

exposure 1 hour 45 minutes

 

Ophiuchus

PN G036.0.8+17.6

17 53.5 +10 37 (J2000.0)

80"x74"

14.7 mag; 14.7 mag CS

Type 2c

6,800 light years

Uranometria 2000.0 Map 86R

EM5mk2, 3 x 5 min shots stacked

OBJECT: Harvard 6; H 6; Cr 261; OCL 889; C1234-682

CLASS: Open Cluster aka Galactic Cluster

CONSTELLATION: Musca

POSITION (2000.0): 12 37 54 -68 23.0

URANOMETRIA 2000.0 MAP: 209L

DIAMETER: 9.0'

DISTANCE (parsecs): ?

TYPE: II1r

MAGNITUDE: 10.7

MEMBERS: 100

REFERANCE: Star Clusters - Archinal & Hynes, 2003

 

DATE: May 25/26, 2015

TIME: 11:57 PM to 12:13 AM (local time)

PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimuth

CAMERA: Canon 60Da

EXPOSURE: 10 minutes

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PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa

INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT

FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3

ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer

MOUNT: Meade Altazimut

CAMERA: Canon 60Da

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