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Fun with the California nebula in HaRGBL&OIII
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Ha was added to the Red channel then combined to produce an RGB image. Then Ha + OIII was used a luminance layer and OIII colour blue was layered though a masking process in Ps to create separation.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: MX
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop CS5, PHD, Main Sequence Software
Filters: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm, Baader O III 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
Frames:
Baader Ha 3.5nm: 10x1800"
Baader O III 8.5nm: 20x1800"
Integration: 15 hours
Plus RGBL 400x 10 in each
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
What is there to see in that deep space........ or is there nothing.....?
For the Macro Mondays theme "Negative Space"
Bubbles Prelude
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Tomorrow's Macro Mondays theme is "Bubbles". Back in May 2021, I had experimented with photographing soap bubble planets for the theme "Soap". Back then, I had four nice-looking, usable images of rainbow planets in the end, and I've always wanted to upload the other three photos, one at a time, "peu à peu", but somehow, I never got around to doing so. But what better opportunity to present one of these "outtakes" is there than the eve of another "bubbly" theme. So here it is: rainbow planet No. 2 :) Duly overprocessed for Sliders Sunday with several mask layers in Lightroom and some extra vibrancy added in Color Efex with the "Reflector Efex" filter.
You can find a link to my original "Soap" theme photo in the first comment. If you are interested in how to photograph soap bubble planets, you'll also find links to a few tutorials in the description of that first bubble planet photo.
I will try and take some new bubbles for tomorrow's "Bubbles" MM theme, let's see if I can come up with anything nice, if not, I'll skip ;) Wishing you a lovely first Sunday of Advent and Happy Sliders Sunday, dear Flickr friends!
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IC 443 (also known as the faint and elusive Jellyfish Nebula Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. Flanked by two bright stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth. At that distance, this image would be about 300 light-years across.
Integration: 55 hours
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher MX
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD, Photoshop CS5
Filters: Baader Ha, OIII & SII
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel, Baader Planetarium 36mm narrowband filters
This is a three minute exposure of the Milky Way, taken from the low mountain range in Styria, Austria.
This region is a Bortle 2 or 3 - you could see the entire structure of the Milky Way above your head with your bare eyes. It was a clear night in late august, perfect for stargazing.
Although this night was planned ahead, it was a beautiful sight that I will never forget and still much more beautiful than I imagined it to be.
5 hours of exposure from the light polluted skies of Stockholm. Pretty view I think with the green head of the comet.
Telescope WO Magrez90, camera ASI294MM Date january 27 at 01:00 560 x 30s exposure with RGB filters.
Processed in PixInsight
The California Nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of the US State of California on long exposure photographs
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California Nebula in bicolour.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: MX
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop CS5, PHD, Main Sequence Software
Filters: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm, Baader O III 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
Resolution: 3283x2482
Dates: Nov. 3, 2015, Nov. 5, 2015, Nov. 9, 2015
Frames:
Baader Ha 3.5nm: 10x1800"
Baader O III 8.5nm: 20x1800"
Integration: 15 hours
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
A re-process of the Heart and Soul nebula mosaic that I've not looked at for over 2 years.
For interest the original can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/9855898385
I'd welcome your thoughts on the comparison.
M 82 Cigar Galaxy HaLRGB
Messier 82 was discovered in 1774 by Johann Elert Bode, rediscovered by Pierre Mechain August 1779 who reported them to Charles Messier, who added them to his catalog in 1781.
M 82 is the prototype irregular starburst disk galaxy. In the core of M 82, the active starburst region spans a diameter of 500 parsecs.
Tendrils of material extend away from the nucleus, suggesting a colossal explosion. Studies have revealed filaments expanding outward from M 82 at 600 miles per second.
Imaged over 5 nights from my home in Gérgal, Spain.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/full/amhw1l/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 26,27,28-02-2023 & 02,03-03-2023
Imaging Sessions: 5
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain
Bortle Class: 4
Total Integration: 32h 28m
Filters:
Red 349x 60s 5h 49m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Green 300x 60s 5h 00m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Blue 300x 60s 5h 00m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
UV/IR 484x 60s 8h 04m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Ha 103x 300s 8h 35m BIN 3 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.7
Pixel Scale: 0.33 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD 2800mm fl
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG L with ZWO ASI 192MM Mini
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, UV/IR, Ha
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
NGC4565 (also known as the Needle galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
It is known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. First spotted in 1785 by Sir William Herschel (1738–1822), it is one of the most famous examples of an edge-on spiral galaxy.
NGC4565 is a giant spiral galaxy more luminous than the Andromeda Galaxy and it has been proposed that if it were viewed face-on, it would be the most spectacular of the galaxies of its type in the nearby Universe.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 with Baader LRGB filters
50x1800s Luminance
24x600s for Red, green and blue filters
Total exposure 37 hours 30 minutes.
An interesting title you may think and you may wonder why I have written artistic impression........
Firstly let me say that the raw data for this 'experiment' is all mine and has been recently acquired. There is nothing new there. What I have then done is considered the processing and have coined a term 'Monochrome channel mapping'. What this means is that this image has been 'created' using ONLY Ha data, there is nothing more in there.
This is an experimentation processing technique that will horrify some and perhaps please others that this can be obtained by only having to acquire Ha data - In fact lets not be so prescriptive, the same could be done with any single filter data if the signal was sufficient.
So I hope that you enjoy this experiment and the debate that it may bring within yourself. I hope that I won't get burnt at the stake for heresy........
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 ws-g with Astrodon 3nm Ha filter
39x900s in Ha totalling 9h45m of exposure.
Went camping this weekend in Ontario and found a great water front view of the milky way.
This image is a composition of 5 pictures taken with high ISO (3200) blended to remove the noise.
IC1871, part of the Soul Nebula also known as Sh2-199 and LBN667 is about 7500 light years distant in the constellation Cassiopeia.
This is a crop of the central area for the Soul Nebula.
Mount: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
Telescope: Orion Optics ODK10
Camera: QSI683 with Astrodon 3nm Ha, OIII and SII filters
22x1800s Ha
17x1800s OIII
14x1800s SII Totalling 25.5 hours.
Generated By Midjourney V8.2 .
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Un magnifique **portrait féminin de Science-Fiction merveilleuse**, cadré en profil rapproché et orienté vers la droite, représente une mystérieuse fille des étoiles contemplant silencieusement l’immensité cosmique. Son visage jeune et harmonieux conserve une anatomie humaine hyperréaliste, avec un front délicatement modelé, une pommette naturelle, un nez fin aux volumes crédibles, une mâchoire élégante, un menton doux et des lèvres subtilement entrouvertes. Son expression est calme, introspective et presque solennelle, comme si elle observait un phénomène céleste situé hors champ.
Son extraordinaire **œil bleu lumineux** constitue le cœur émotionnel du portrait. L’iris présente de riches nuances de bleu azur, cobalt et cyan, une pupille naturelle, de délicates structures radiales et des reflets lumineux cohérents avec l’environnement cosmique. Les paupières, les cils et l’humidité oculaire restent extrêmement réalistes, sans exagération artificielle. Le regard demeure intense mais paisible, profondément humain malgré l’univers extraterrestre qui l’entoure.
La peau claire possède une **microtexture humaine extrêmement fine et naturelle**, avec des pores minuscules de tailles irrégulières, un grain cutané non répétitif et de très légères variations de texture entre le front, la joue et le contour du visage. La peau reste jeune, lumineuse et élégante, sans aspect plastique, cireux ou artificiellement lissé, mais également sans suraccentuation des pores. Les transitions entre lumière et ombre sculptent délicatement les volumes du visage tout en conservant une douceur cinématographique.
Sa spectaculaire chevelure **argentée aux nuances bleu froid** est organisée en grandes tresses complexes et majestueuses qui enveloppent l’arrière de sa tête. Les cheveux possèdent une véritable hiérarchie naturelle entre masses capillaires, mèches irrégulières, groupes de fibres et quelques cheveux individuels. Les croisements des tresses présentent des tensions légèrement variables, des micro-occultations crédibles et de minuscules ombres de contact. Quelques cheveux périphériques extrêmement fins sont révélés par un magnifique contre-jour bleu argenté.
Une extraordinaire **coiffe-armure extraterrestre noire et bleu nuit** enveloppe son crâne, ses tempes, ses joues et son cou. Son architecture organique et futuriste semble avoir été façonnée dans une matière inconnue, sombre, légèrement métallique, parcourue de filigranes complexes et de milliers de minuscules points lumineux bleu cobalt évoquant des constellations miniatures. Les différentes plaques possèdent une épaisseur physique crédible et s’articulent naturellement autour du visage, avec de délicates micro-occultations et ombres de contact aux interfaces entre la peau et l’armure.
La coiffe se prolonge vers le cou et les épaules en une armure cosmique fluide aux courbes élégantes, dont les lignes semblent suivre les trajectoires d’un champ stellaire. Des réseaux lumineux extrêmement fins parcourent la matière noire, accompagnés de petites concentrations d’éclats bleus semblables à des poussières d’étoiles emprisonnées dans le matériau. La technologie reste mystérieuse et merveilleuse, sans câbles industriels, mécanismes terrestres ou surcharge mécanique.
Derrière elle s’étend un **cosmos profond et spectaculaire**, dominé par des noirs veloutés, des bleus nuit, du cobalt et des nuances cyan. Une immense structure nébulaire lumineuse traverse diagonalement la partie droite de l’image, composée de poussières stellaires, de nuages cosmiques translucides et de concentrations d’étoiles d’intensités différentes. Certaines étoiles apparaissent comme de minuscules points lointains tandis que quelques astres plus lumineux produisent de délicats éclats naturels. La profondeur spatiale doit sembler immense, avec plusieurs plans de poussières, nébuleuses et champs stellaires.
Un puissant **rim light bleu argenté** dessine le contour des tresses, de la coiffe et de l’armure, séparant magnifiquement le personnage du fond cosmique. Le visage reçoit une lumière plus douce et sculptée, avec des transitions progressives et naturelles. Les micro-lumières de l’armure produisent uniquement de faibles interactions lumineuses locales, sans contaminer artificiellement la peau ni transformer le portrait en scène néon.
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A magnificent wondrous Science-Fiction female portrait, framed in a close-up profile and facing right, depicts a mysterious daughter of the stars silently contemplating the vastness of the cosmos. Her young, harmonious face retains hyperrealistic human anatomy, with a delicately modeled forehead, a natural cheekbone, a refined nose with believable volume, an elegant jawline, a soft chin, and subtly parted lips. Her expression is calm, introspective, and almost solemn, as though she were observing a celestial phenomenon beyond the frame.
Her extraordinary luminous blue eye forms the emotional heart of the portrait. The iris displays rich shades of azure, cobalt, and cyan, with a natural pupil, delicate radial structures, and highlights consistent with the cosmic environment. The eyelids, eyelashes, and ocular moisture remain extremely realistic, without artificial exaggeration. Her gaze remains intense yet peaceful, profoundly human despite the extraterrestrial universe surrounding her.
Her fair skin has an extremely fine and natural human microtexture, with tiny pores of irregular sizes, non-repetitive skin grain, and very subtle variations in texture across the forehead, cheek, and facial contours. The skin remains youthful, luminous, and elegant, without a plastic, waxy, or artificially smoothed appearance, while also avoiding overemphasized pores. The transitions between light and shadow delicately sculpt the facial volumes while preserving cinematic softness.
Her spectacular silver hair with cool blue undertones is arranged into large, complex, majestic braids that envelop the back of her head. The hair displays a true natural hierarchy between larger masses, irregular locks, groups of fibers, and a few individual strands. The intersections of the braids show slightly varying tension, believable micro-occlusions, and tiny contact shadows. A few extremely fine peripheral hairs are revealed by a magnificent silver-blue backlight.
An extraordinary black and midnight-blue extraterrestrial headdress-armor envelops her skull, temples, cheeks, and neck. Its organic, futuristic architecture appears to have been shaped from an unknown, dark, subtly metallic material, threaded with intricate filigree and thousands of tiny cobalt-blue lights resembling miniature constellations. The different plates have believable physical thickness and articulate naturally around the face, with delicate micro-occlusions and contact shadows at the interfaces between skin and armor.
The headdress extends toward the neck and shoulders into flowing cosmic armor with elegant curves whose lines seem to follow the trajectories of a star field. Extremely fine luminous networks run across the dark material, accompanied by small concentrations of blue sparks resembling stardust trapped within the surface. The technology remains mysterious and wondrous, without industrial cables, terrestrial mechanisms, or mechanical clutter.
Behind her stretches a deep and spectacular cosmos dominated by velvety blacks, midnight blues, cobalt, and cyan hues. An immense luminous nebular structure crosses the right side of the image diagonally, composed of stardust, translucent cosmic clouds, and concentrations of stars with varying intensities. Some stars appear as tiny distant points, while a few brighter celestial bodies produce delicate natural flares. The spatial depth should feel immense, with multiple layers of dust, nebulae, and star fields.
A powerful silver-blue rim light traces the contours of the braids, headdress, and armor, beautifully separating the character from the cosmic background. The face receives softer, sculpted illumination with gradual and natural transitions. The armor’s micro-lights create only subtle localized interactions with the surrounding light, without artificially contaminating the skin or turning the portrait into a neon scene.
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Contains: NGC 3077, M 82, NGC 3034, M 81, Bode's nebulae, NGC 3031
it's galaxy season again!
M81 and M82 are a pair of galaxies in the constellation Ursa Major.M81 (Bode’s Galaxy), M82 (Cigar Galaxy) and part of IFN, Messier 81 (Bode’s Galaxy or NGC 3031) and Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy or NGC 3034) are respectively spiral and starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This couple is seen through the faint glow of an Integrated Flux Nebulae
Integration: 46.0 hours
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Ian King Ikharos 8" RC
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Ian King Ikharos 8" RC
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: PixInsight 1.8, PHD, Main Sequence Software, Photoshop CS5
Filters: Baader Luminance 2"
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
Light pollution in my location is a problem when dealing with faint luminace data such as finer galaxy detail and flux nebula. My home location is simply not dark enough
This image is made up of Wide field data from 2016 and close up data from 2015
Vixen 2016
Baader B 2'': 10x900
Baader G 2": 10x900
Baader R 2":10x900
Lume 900 x 45
RC 2015
Baader B 2'': 40x600"
Baader Ha 8.5nm: 8x1800"
Baader G 2": 40x600"
Baader R 2": 40x600"
Lume 15 x 40
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Situated 7500 light years away in the ‘W’-shaped constellation of Cassiopeia, the Heart Nebula is a vast region of glowing gas, energized by a cluster of young stars at its centre. The image depicts the central region, where dust clouds are being eroded and moulded into rugged shapes by the searing cosmic radiation.
Details
M: Avalon Linear fast reverse
T: AT 8" RC CF
C: QSI690-wsg with 3nm Ha and OIII filters
17x1800s Ha
9x1800s OIII
This is a reprocess of data that I have never been happy with - I hope to tackle this target again sometime soon :)
#MacroMondays
#OuterSpace
This is the interstellar starship EBS-14767 Papyrus M (of the "Metall advanced audio propulsion" class), preparing for its premier landing on the ringed gas giant Pureanus.
How do you land on a gas planet? The Papyrus M tightly locks onto the rings and projects a trajectory and "landing hull" onto the planet's surface. This landing space – it's the bright spot you can see on Pureanus's surface – is an expandable sphere big enough to take the lander. It protects the crew and the machines from the harsh, life-hostile outside atmosphere. From this sphere, the astronauts can also create smaller spheres, which allow them to leave the "mother sphere" and explore the entire planet.
More of the Solar System 3D puzzle. I assembled Mars and Uranus for this theme. My Mars idea didn't work out (although the Mars puzzle ball is so cute and tiny), so I went back to my other idea involving the rings. The smaller of the ringed gas giants is Uranus (plus it has these lovely turquoise-blue tones), which is why I chose it over Saturn, although the latter would have been the obvious choice.
Since the planet itself is more of a "real thing", I thought that at least the starship should be made from non-space-related items. I started with a tiny (and how tiny can one fold paper?) folded paper plane, moved on to a folded plane made of aluminium foil (the ship needs a heat shield for a safe re-entry, after all), and moved on to a simple metal pen holder/clip. It's one of those clips with a flexible coil (where the pen goes in) attached to the clip. That type of coil is always good for bokeh and also works nicely as a pretendedly "vital" part of any imagined machine or vehicle. But on its own, it looked as if Papyrus's rocket/ship section had gone missing at some point of her journey, and only the secondary hull or stardrive section with that ominous "planetary rings clip contraption" made it to "Pureanus". It would have been a sad ending, so I went searching for something that could serve as the actual starship/rocket component, and stumbled upon a gold-coated audio jack adapter.
HMM, Everyone!
NGC 1333 is the currently most active region of star formation in the Perseus molecular cloud. It was first discovered by Eduard Schonfeld in 1855 and is a bright reflection nebula in the western portion of the Perseus molecular cloud. The star BD +30◦549 illuminates NGC 1333 and was found to be a B8 spectral type. It is approximately 1000 light years away and is about 15 light years in diameter.
I rarely capture data on LRGB targets, so this has been a baptism of fire for me!!
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: Orion Optics ODK10
C: QSI683 with Baader LRGB filters
Luminance 60x600s
Red, Green and Blue 30x600s for each filter
Totalling 25 hours of exposure.
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, first discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27, 1781.
M101 is a large galaxy comparable in size to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is roughly equal the size of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.
Details:
Mount: Mesu 200
Telescope: ODK10
Camera: QSI683 withBaader RGB filters and 3nm Ha Astrodon filter
Luminance 54x1800s
RGB 25x600s in each filter
Ha 17x1800s
This is 48 hours worth of data.
The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away. It was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1792. It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 (HD 192163) colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago. The result of the collision is a shell and two shock waves, one moving outward and one moving inward. The inward moving shock wave heats the stellar wind to X-ray-emitting temperatures.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: Orion Optics ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Ha and OIII filter, Baader RGB filters
50x1800s in Ha
51x1800ss in OIII
15x300s in each RGB
Totalling 54hrs 15 mins
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Gamma Cygni lies at the center of the Northern Cross
Imaging telescope: Vixen VSD 100 f/3
Imaging camera: 9.2mp Sony SX814
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX
Guiding telescope or lens: Vixen VSD 100 f/3
Filters: Chroma SII 3nm, Chroma OIII 3nm, Chroma Ha 3nm
Accessories: Chroma OIII 3nm, Chroma Ha 3 nm
Frames:12x1800"x3
Integration: 18 hours
This image has been labelled as an artistic impression as the colours has been artifically added using only one channel of data.
IC 2177 is a region of nebulosity that lies along the border between the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major. It is a roughly circular H II region centered on the Be star HD 53367.This nebula was discovered by Welsh amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts and was described by him as, "pretty bright, extremely large, irregularly round, very diffuse."
Details:
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 ws-g with 3nm Astrodon Ha filter
28x900s in Ha totalling 7 hours of exposure time
This is a single channel monochrome channel mapping (MCM) image that has NO scientific basis with regards to colour separation. More information on this method can be read on my website swagastro.weebly.com/artistic-one-channel-processing.html
I welcome all thoughts that you have on the principles of this type of processing.
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 ) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.
Messier 81 was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode on December 31, 1774. Consequently, the galaxy is sometimes referred to as "Bodes Galaxy".
Messier 82 (also knows as NGC 3034) is a starburst galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.
Messier 82 is commonly referred to as the Cigar Galaxy.
Ursa Major is approximately 11.7 million light years from Earth. The distance from M81 to M82 is 150,000 light years.
M81 and M82 are best seen during the spring.
Equipment:
Astro-Tech AT80EDT f/6 ED Triple Refractor Telescope
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
Orion 50mm Helical Guide Scope & StarShoot AutoGuider
Orion 38mm clear-aperture Field Flattener
PHD2 Guiding Software
Astronomy Tool Actions
Thank you for your comments,
Gemma
This is data that is about 18 months old .... It was shouting out for a reprocess!!
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The remarkable shape of the emission nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico. The North America Nebula is large, covering an area of more than four times the size of the full moon; but its surface brightness is low, so normally it cannot be seen with the unaided eye. The North America Nebula and the nearby Pelican Nebula, (IC 5070) are in fact parts of the same interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen. The distance of the nebula complex is though to be approx 1800 light years away.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI690-wsg with 3nm Ha filter
This is a 2x2 pane mosaic
29x1800s in Ha
30x1800s in OIII
Total exposure time 29 hours and 30 minutes
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 Ha, OIII and SII Astrodon filters
25x1800s Ha
25x1800s OIII
24x1800s SII
Total exposure time 37 hours
Located within the Cygnus constellation, the Gamma Cygnus nebula is not often imaged on it's own as it's part of a much larger complex,
The dark nebula in here looks like ink and shows the turmoil in the area.
Details:
M: Mesu 200
T: Orion Optics ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Astrodon Ha, OIII and SII filters
47x1800s Ha
30x1800s OIII
30x1800s SII
Total of 53 hours and 30 mins exposure.
First astro party after a long time. Layers of dust and some clouds end our gathering a little early but it was nice to meet everyone again!
Vast clouds of Hydrogen, Sulphur, Oxygen, and dust swirl around bright young stars. The "lower back" region of IC 1848, the Soul Nebula.
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The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.[b] It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years[3][6] and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun
Integration: 26.0 hours
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TSA 102
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TSA 102
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Focal reducers: Takahashi TOA/FS Reducer
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD, Photoshop CS5
Filters: Baader SII 8.5nm, Baader O III 8.5nm, Baader Ha 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel, Baader Planetarium 36mm narrowband filters
The Butterfly Nebula, also known as IC 1318, the Gamma Cygni Nebula, and the Sadr Region, is a celestial object that lies in the heart of the Cygnus constellation. Narowband image processed in Hubble Pallet SHO. Technical Info:
68 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter
66 x 300 sec. Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter
58 x 300 sec Astronomik SII 12 nm filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 16 hours
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor
Sensor cooled to -15°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-PlateSolver 2 via N.I.N.A. 1.11
Image processing Pixinsight 2.0 and Photoshop 2022
It would have looked cool if could've gotten a full reflection of the NRAO radio telescope (25 meter) in the photo, but there was a big tire track just below the frame SMH. www.NRAO.EDU
A band of dawn's early light as it lights up the Eastern Sierra. The Radio Telescope are part of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (owned by CalTech).
The 40M telescope monitiors the 15GHz flux... ----->
IC 5146 (also Caldwell 19, Sh 2-125, and the Cocoon Nebula) is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. The distance is about 4,000 light years away. When viewing IC 5146, dark nebula Barnard 168 (B168) is an inseparable part of the experience, forming a dark lane that surrounds the cluster and projects westward forming the appearance of a trail behind the Cocoon.
This is an image taken with the QSI690 that I was hoping to add to, but it won't be happening, so I decided to post!
Details:
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI690-wsg with Baader RGB filters and Astrodon 3nm Ha.
34x1800s Ha
50x300s for R, G and B
Totalling 29.5 hours.
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This is a ten panel mosaic depicting Caldwell 49 up to and including the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster. It has been around two months in the making.
maging telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Imaging camera: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Filter: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm , OIII & SII
Accessory: Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider
Integration: 100.0 hours
Dates: Jan. 26, 2016
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Monoceros is a faint constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Greek for unicorn. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius.
Monoceros is home to The Rosette Nebula , the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula.
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The Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237, 2238, 2239, and 2246) is a diffuse nebula in Monoceros. It has an overall magnitude of 6.0 and is 4900 light-years from Earth. The Rosette Nebula, over 100 light-years in diameter, has an associated star cluster and possesses many Bok globules in its dark areas. It was independently discovered in the 1880s by Lewis Swift (early 1880s) and Edward Emerson Barnard (1883) as they hunted for comets.
The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) is another open cluster in Monoceros. Named for its resemblance to a Christmas tree, it is fairly bright at an overall magnitude of 3.9; it is 2400 light-years from Earth. The variable star S Monocerotis represents the tree's trunk, while the variable star V429 Monocerotis represents its top.[3]
The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264), associated with the Christmas Tree Cluster, is a very dim nebula that contains a dark conic structure. It appears clearly in photographs, but is very elusive in a telescope. The nebula contains several Herbig-Haro objects, which are small irregularly variable nebulae. They are associated with protostars.
*Awarded a NASA APOD on the 11th October 2016 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161011.html *
The Cygnus Wall complex is part of the more recognisable North American nebula.
This ridge is approximately 20 light years long and is a huge star forming region.
You can see where it is in a larger picture on the following link www.swagastro.com/the-cygnus-wall-complex.html
This is a 4 pane mosaic as the field of view was too small to fit in the Cygnus Wall itself.
Details
M: Mesu 200 / Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: ODK10 / Takahashi FSQ85 x0.73
C: QSI683 / QSI690 with 3nm Ha and OIII Astrodon filters
72x1800s in Ha (36hrs)
16x1800s in OIII (8hrs)
Total of 44 hours. The reason that 8 hours of OIII can kind of match the 36 hrs of Ha data is that the OII us taken at f3.9 and the Ha at f6.8