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Canon 60D
6" Newton
ISO 800
13 x 7min
20 x 2min
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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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Copyright © 2021 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
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
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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
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Hercules
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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
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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.
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RASA 8
iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair
Optolong L-Pro filter
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Location – My Backyard
Bortle Class 7
109 120-second Lights (3.6 hrs.)
60 Darks
60 Dark flats
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
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Apr. 30, 2015
Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
14 inch f/6.5 SCT Meade LX200
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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
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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
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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
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FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
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EXPOSURE: 24 minutes 45 seconds
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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
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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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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
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Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
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Lyra
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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.
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Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
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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
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
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