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Sharpless-82 is a small emission nebula, surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. These two nebulae are located in front of the huge and branched dark dust clouds, resembling the wings of an eagle, which absorb light from distant stars. The whole complex is located in the small constellation Sagitta.
This picture was photographed during 2015 August in Petrivske village, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg with Paracorr-II. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 19 * 900 + 49*600 seconds, RGB = 13 * 600 seconds in each filter, bin.1. Total of 19.5 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.25″-3.59″, Sum in L channel - 2.67"
The height above the horizon from 58 ° to 35 °, scale = 1.01"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Around 120, tracked, 60 second exposures of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Adobe Photoshop.
Still very much a beginner at astrophotography, and honestly, it's the hardest thing I've ever done in photography.
Nella mia vita di astrofilo non ero mai riuscito a dedicare il tempo necessario alla bellissima "Nebulosa Omega".
Questa nebulosa ad emissione, nel cui interno c'è attività di formazione stellare, è nota anche come nebulosa Cigno, nebulosa Ferro di Cavallo, nebulosa Aragosta o con le sigle "M 17" o NGC 6618, e si trova nella grande costellazione del Sagittario.
Grazie alla sua luminosità, al filtro a banda stretta, che ha tagliato buona parte dell'inquinamento luminoso, e all'integrazione generosa il risultato ottenuto è stato per me appagante. Se nell'immagine lineare era visibile soltanto il cuore della M17, lo strecth ha fatto risaltare anche le nebulose ad emissione più deboli che circondano M17. E questo ha evidenziato anche le nebulose oscure che con i loro intrecci tortuosi, insieme alle sfumature e bordi delle nubi Ha, eccitate dalle giovani e calde stelle al loro interno, danno un effetto di profondità a tutta la nebulosa.
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In my life as an amateur astronomer I had never managed to dedicate the necessary time to the beautiful "Omega Nebula".
This emission nebula, in which there is star formation activity, is also known as the Swan Nebula, the Horseshoe Nebula, the Lobster Nebula or by the acronyms "M 17" or NGC 6618, and is located in the large constellation of Sagittarius.
Thanks to its brightness, the narrow band filter, which cut out a good part of the light pollution, and the generous integration, the result obtained was satisfying for me. If in the linear image only the heart of M17 was visible, the stretch also highlighted the fainter emission nebulae surrounding M17. And this also highlighted the dark nebulae that with their tortuous interweavings, together with the shades and edges of the Ha clouds, excited by the young and hot stars inside them, give an effect of depth to the entire nebula.
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Optic: APO Refractor Askar 103APO + 0.6X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 4 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2" + SVbony UV-IR cut
-130x300s 250gain /250gain / 35 dark /21 flat / 18 darkflat /80 bias
t° sensor: -10°C
Date: 27-30-31/05/2025, 1-2/06/2025
Integration: 10h 50min
Temperature: 16°C (media)
location: Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6)
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert
Stellar magnitude > 18th (GAIA-DR3).
NGC1491 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Perseus at about 10,000 light years away.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: AT 8" RC CF
C: QSI690-wsg with 3nm Ha, OIII and SII filters
22x1800s Ha
12x1800s OIII
12x1800s SII
Totalling 23 hours
Heading Towards Planet
Interplanetary Travel
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
This is the CIGAR GALAXY in the constellation Ursa Major.
Probably one of my favorite galaxies in the night sky, and a real pleasure to process.
For this image, I used Topaz Labs GigaPixel AI (bit.ly/GIGAPIXEL) to increase the resolution of this small DSO. I also enjoy the "Sharpen AI" plugin and use it often.
What do you think? 😃
About 5 Hours Total Exposure. Captured Spring 2020.
Camera: bit.ly/2RrkJOM
Telescope: bit.ly/2VYOTMy
Mount: bit.ly/EQ8RPRO
SH2-132 is a faint emission nebula on the Cepheus/Lacerta border, estimated to be at a distance of about 10,000 to 12,000 light years.
I have included the starless version to show the tremendous detail in the nebula.
Image captured from Grasslands National Park, SK under Bortle 1 skies. 2020-08-19, 2020-08-20 & 2020-08-22.
Image capture details: (7h 20m)
Ha-10x1,200sec (3h20m)
OIII-6x1,200sec(2h)
SII-6x1,200sec(2h)
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet with reducer
Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned),
ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera
Not a real space photo. Light art. Photoshop manipulations = composite image: gas clouds/nebula created using Waterworld technique; galaxy formation, background/foreground stars from separate image (LED/laser/plastic).
Base layer is Waterworld image, thus the short exposure time...star field/galaxy exposure was approximately 300 seconds.
This is my third attempt at photographing the Orion Nebula. Over the years I’ve used different star trackers and lenses with different results, and this is by far my best attempt, but I still have a lot to improve upon. I recently purchased a small telescope, the William Optics Zenithstar 61 refactor. That plus the iOptron SkyGuider Pro have worked out quite well, the telescope is small and light enough to work with the lightweight tracker. This is actually heavily cropped from the original framing. The Z61 telescope has a focal length of 360mm, which isn’t enough to really zoom in on the nebula, so I had to crop in significantly. But I did use 2x drizzle upscale resampling with DeepSkyStacker, so the file was 2x resolution from the original 24MP Nikon Z 6 file, so cropping in dramatically wasn’t as bad as it would have been without the upscaling.
The Orion Nebula (M42) is the big one, with Mairan’s Nebula (M43) sort of sticking out the top left side of M42, and then the Running Man Nebula (NGC 1975) is the other nebula in the top part of the frame. Lots of dust clouds are also visible in the background.
This image is a blend of 2 main images, both acquired on different nights. The Orion Nebula is difficult to photograph with one capture because the core of the nebula is easily blown out with the bright stars blocking the view, so two captures with different settings are often used to get a good exposure of the whole scene, with one capture blowing out M42’s core, and another capture to get a good exposure of just M42’s core.
Nikon Z 6 with FTZ lens adapter
William Optics Zenithstar 61 telescope
William Optics Flat61A flattener
iOptron SkyGuider Pro star tracker
Darker exposures for M42 core: 188 x 30 seconds @ ISO 100 — 94 minutes total
Brighter exposures: 84 x 60 seconds @ ISO 3200 — 84 minutes total
The 30s exposures were taken on a night with an almost full moon, so the ISO was much lower because the sky was so bright. The 60s exposures were taken without moonlight and so the signal needed to be boosted dramatically (very high ISO) to get above the noise.
I probably could have used significantly fewer darker exposures for M42’s core, but I captured those images when I was still figuring things out and thought the data might be good enough by itself to create the final image, but there was just way too much noise because I was exposing for the highlights, leaving the nebula and background buried in the electronic noise of the camera.
Both set of captures were stacked in DeepSkyStacker, running on a Windows 10 VM on my MacBook Pro. Then each resulting image was processed in PixInsight for color calibration and stretching, then they were blended in Photoshop, and final edits applied in Photoshop and PixInsight.
Visit my website to learn more about my photos and video tutorials: www.adamwoodworth.com
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 25x600s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO OIII 7nm: 20x600s bin2 gain 200
• ZWO SII 7nm: 18x600s bin2 gain 200
(total integration 10.5h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
Cepheus Pilars (NGC7822) in Hα-SII/OIII/OIII+rgb.
It's a mosaic of 2x1 panels providing a original drizzle resolution of 12K and reduced to 3k for showing purposes.
Was challenging acquire and process all that amount of data, more than 160 hours of integration time in two panels of 80 hours each one.
It was captured in 18 sessions, between September 10th and October 15th with my dual setup.
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 (3,000 light years), with the younger components aged no more than a few million years.
(credits Wikipedia)
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo · Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI183MM-Cool · ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts: Skywatcher EQ6R Pro · Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron OAG Deluxe · Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI290 Mini · ZWO ASI174 Mini
Focal reducers: Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x · Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Seqence Generator Pro
Filters: Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm · Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm · Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm · Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm · Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm · Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm · Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessory: Astrolink 4.0 mini · Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox v2 · Pegasus Astro Falcon Rotator · ZWO EFW · MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 · TALON6 R.O.R · MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:Sept. 11, 2020 , Sept. 14, 2020 , Oct. 11, 2020 , Oct. 12, 2020 , Oct. 14, 2020 , Oct. 15, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 200x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 200x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 460x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 260x600" (gain: 178.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 260x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 200x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 168.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 25.42 days
Avg. Moon phase: 20.12%
Astrometry.net job: 3961397
RA center: 0h 3' 14"
DEC center: +67° 16' 4"
Pixel scale: 0.579 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.709 degrees
Field radius: 0.546 degrees
Resolution: 3171x2274
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Distance: ca. 2,030 Lj
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
ZWO ASI585MC
Skywatcher EQ8
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
309x30s
Gain 252
2,5 hours total integration time
March 2023
Processing: PixInsight
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267). The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
This is a mono image taken in Ha, that I hope to add colour to when the conditions allow.
Details
Mount: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
Telescope: Orion Optics ODK10
Camera: QSI683 with Astrodon 3nm Ha and OIII filters
This is a two pane mosaic to form the horizontal letterbox effect.
11x1800s Ha / 11x1800s OIII Pane 1
11x1800s Ha / 11x1800s OIII Pane 2
Totalling 22 hours of exposure
🔭 L'observatoire AstroQueyras sous le centre galactique ! 💫
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Voici le POURQUOI je suis venu ici, au cœur des Alpes, sous un des meilleurs ciel d'Europe 😍. J'avais ce panorama en tête depuis que j'ai débuté ma pratique de l'astrophoto. Je n'ai jamais vu une astrophoto de l'observatoire de Saint-Véran depuis le pic de Château Renard avec le bulbe galactique juste derrière.
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🚀 La qualité du ciel est absolument dinguissime ici. Je ne sais pas pourquoi on ne voit pas plus d'astrophoto de Voie Lactée avec de somptueux détails. D'autant plus qu'ici, aucun stacking n'a été nécessaire. Des simples poses unitaires suffisent pour déjà sortir un paquet de signal ! Rien qu'à l'oeil nu, on voit très facilement la forme caractérielle de la nébuleuse du cheval sombre (ou nébuleuse de la pipe) . Les mesures que nous avons réalisées ce soir-là montrent que nous sommes proches d'un ciel Bortle 2 mais tout de même dans la tranche Bortle 3 (ville de Turin assez proche). L'airglow massif n'a pas aidé non plus, il était bien présent sur l'horizon avec sa couleur verte.
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Je tiens à remercier @aurelienbaill pour son soutien de malade pour m'avoir fait monter à pied jusqu'au pic, j'ai failli craquer plus d'une fois ! 🙏 Il aura son petit post dédié bientôt 😉😝.
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EXIF & DATA :
- @canonfrance EOS 6D Astrodon
- @samyangfrance 135mm f/2
- @nisifrance Natural Night Filter
- @sky_watcher_official Star Adventurer
- Ciel : 66x1mn 3200 ISO f/2.4
- Sol : 34x15s 1600 ISO f/2 fin de l'heure bleue
- Le tout en pose unitaire, avec tracking, sans stacking, tout est fait sur le même spot, la même nuit et avec l'orientation parfaitement identique depuis la fin de la prise à l'heure bleue.
- Traitement et assemblage : PTgui, Pix & PS.
- Inspiration : Adrien Mauduit (@nightlightsfilms) AKA le goat de l'astro .
A LRGB composite of Flaming Star Nebula IC 405 is my first attempt at this deep sky object and this type of post-processing. It was imaged in the northern hemisphere in my front yard. Flaming Star Nebula is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga, surrounding the bluish star AE Aurigae. It is about 1,500 light-years away from Earth.
astro.carballada.com/tulip-nebula-sh-101-close-up-in-hsorgb/
The Tulip Nebula (Sharpless 101) is an emission nebula in Cygnus.
It lies at an approximate distance of 6,000 light years from Earth and has a linear diameter of about 70 light years.
It's apparent magnitude is 9.0 and it occupies an area of 16 x 9 arc minutes of apparent sky.
I used HSO palette with RGB stars. More than 33 hours of integration time, selecting only the best frames of the total valid frames captured (80%).
All c&c will be appreciated.
Technical card
Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mount:Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Astro-Physics AAPC, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Resolution: 2568x3411
Dates:June 22, 2019, June 23, 2019, June 24, 2019, June 26, 2019, June 27, 2019, June 28, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 35x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 35x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 131x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 33x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 35x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 31x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 33.4 hours
Avg. Moon age: 22.26 days
Avg. Moon phase: 48.88%
Astrometry.net job: 2789822
RA center: 299.944 degrees
DEC center: 35.352 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.671 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.147 degrees
Field radius: 0.398 degrees
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Explanation: Star Cluster NGC225 opened Caroline Herschel in 1783. Age clusters - about 10 million years: this is one of the youngest clusters in our galaxy
With a light hand of an amateur astronomy Rodney Potter cluster called «Sailboat cluster» - sailboat. And indeed, highlighted by young blue stars vdB4 reflection nebula looks like a taut sail, and the dark nebula LDN1302 - on waving black pirate flag :)
This picture was photographed during 2015 September in Petrivske village, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg with TS 2.5″ 0.95x Wynne corrector. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 22 * 900 seconds, RGB = 12 * 400-600 seconds in each filter, bin.2. Total of 10 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.20″-3.00″, Sum in L channel - 2.43"
The height above the horizon from 65° to 77°, scale = 1.25"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Also called Caldwell 34 or NGC 6960, the Western Veil Nebula contains the very bright star, 52 Cygni. The expanding shock waves of the nebula are thought to be very thin and we observe only the edges giving it the appearance of fine filaments.
Televue NP-101is
Takahashi EM-200 mount.
SBIG STF-8300M
Baader HO Filters
This image was shot just outside the city center of New Orleans in Bortle 7 skies using narrowband techniques.
H 19x600s
O 25x600s
Pixinsight:
BPP / LN / Reg / Integration
DBE / HOO Combination
HOO Luminance: DC / MMT Noise Reduction
Photoshop:
Color Efex Pro - Detail Enhancer
Star Mask / Minimize
Curves
● Object specifications:
► Designation: ARP214 | NGC 3718
► Object type: Galaxy
► Stellar coordinates:
-Ra: 11h 32m 36.75s.
-DEC: +53° 04′ 07.5″.
► Distance: 48M Ly.
► Constellation: Ursa major.
► Magnitude: 10.61
● Gear:
► Telescope: SW 200/1000 F5
► Mount: IOptron CEM60-ec
► Camera: Canon EOS 700d astrodon
► Autoguiding: guidescope 50mm microspeed + ZWO asi
120mm
► Other optic(s): Baader mpcc mk3 coma corrector
► Filter(s): Optolong L-pro 2"
● Softwares:
► Acquisition: Nina
► Autoguiding: PHD guiding 2
► Preprocessing: PixInsight
► Processing: PixInsight
● Data acquisition:
► 137 X 300 sec (11H25m)
► ISO 800
► Date(s): 27/02/2022 - 04/03-2022
Equipment:
Takahashi Epsilon 130ED
QHY268m
CFW3M
Astronomik H-alpha MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
Februar 2022
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
IC410 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Auriga at about 12,000 light years from Earth. It is part of a larger star forming region that also contains the Flaming Star Nebula. The gas structures in this picture are lit by the radiation from the open star cluster NGC1893 that lies in the center of the nebula.
Equipment & Image Details:
Celestron 8" EdgeHD scope, Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned), ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera. Narrowband subs: 7 x 1,200 sec Ha filter, 3 x 1,200 sec OIII filter, 6 x 1,200 sec SII filter.
Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop.
The Triffid is a combination of an emission nebula (pink section) and reflection nebula (blue section). Situated in the constellation Sagittarius near M8 the Lagoon Nebula. Often these two objects are photographed together.
Takahashi TAO-150B
FLI 16200 (scale 1.1")
AP 1600GTO Abs Encoders
Data from Deepskywest El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile)
Ha (12x30min)
Oiii (13x30min)
Sii (15x30min)
L (37x5min)
R (24x5min)
G (11x5min)
B (20x5min)
Total Integration = 27.7hrs
Pixinsight:
Bias/Dark/Flat/CC
LocalNorm/Drizzle
ChannelCombination RGB
PCC
PixelMath SHO
ChannelExtraction Lum
Deconvolution
SHO Lum combined with Lum in PS using masks
ChannelCombination Lum on RGB
Photoshop:
Saturation
Minimum filter with Star Mask
ColorEfex Pro - Detail Extractor
Curves
Deep Universe
Planet Impero
Interplanetary Travel
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 154x600s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 56x600s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 35h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
The Cat's Eye Nebula (also known as NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins, demonstrating that planetary nebulae were gaseous and not stellar in nature.
Data from the Hubble Space telescope and Chandra x-ray observatory
Filters:
Optical - ACS F502N (Blue)
Optical - ACS F505N (Green)
Optical - ACS F658N (Red)
Chandra X-ray(Mangenta)
Data Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI/CXC
Processing and copyright : AMAL BIJU
Explanation: Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial wonder was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. Later, it was added to the catalog of his friend and colleague Charles Messier as M106. Modern deep telescopic views reveal it to be an island universe -- a spiral galaxy around 30 thousand light-years across located only about 21 million light-years beyond the stars of the Milky Way. Along with a bright central core, this colorful composite image highlights youthful blue star clusters and reddish stellar nurseries tracing the galaxy's spiral arms. It also shows remarkable reddish jets of glowing hydrogen gas. In addition to small companion galaxy NGC 4248 directly above it and galaxy NGC4217 near the top right edge of the frame, background galaxies can be found scattered throughout the frame. M106 (aka NGC 4258) is a nearby example of the Seyfert class of active galaxies, seen across the spectrum from radio to x-rays. Active galaxies are believed to be powered by matter falling into a massive central black hole. (text from apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090529.html)
This picture was photographed during 3 nights in March, 2014 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L=51*450 sec.
RGB= 14*600 sec., unbinned. Total 13 hours.
FWHM 2.32"-3.31" , sum in L channel - 2.68"
Processed Pixinsight 1.8, Fitstacker and Photoshop CS6
Not a real space photo. Light art. Photoshop manipulations = composite image from 2 exposures, gas clouds/nebula created using Waterworld technique, background/foreground stars/gas planet from separate image (LED/laser/kiln), (Took out the increased noise layer...didn't like it, all effects now from two unmanipulated exposures). Still testing effects.
🎣 Le mystérieux pêcheur nocturne du Blanc-Nez 🐟.
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On termine l'année comme on l'a commencée, avec un "deepscape", c'est-à-dire un champ du ciel profond très détaillé avec un élément du paysage au premier plan. Il me manquait ce spot dans ma bibliothèque de photos “à faire”. C’est maintenant chose faite, même si tout ne s’est pas passé comme prévu.
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Les falaises autour du Cap Blanc-Nez sont impressionnantes de par leur taille et de par ce blanc “craie” bien caractéristique. Nous sommes partis à marée basse avec @remiaug et @aurelienbaill pour une expédition tumultueuse où se mêlait vent violent et sable mouvant. Bien dérangeant pour faire de la pose longue sur trépied 😅. On a voulu innover et faire une image originale et intrigante en rapport avec la vie maritime d’ici. Une ombre portée sur la falaise blanche s’est alors tout naturellement proposée à nous 😍. Rémi à pu s’improviser pécheur le temps d’un soir 👀. Aurélien était au light.
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C’était la première grosse sortie hivernale de mon Canon R, et purée, qu’est-ce qu’il est bon ! Les 30 Mpx permettent d’accéder à un autre monde niveau détail. Le début de l’hiver permet d’admirer la zone du Taureau au-dessus de l’horizon. C’est une zone incroyablement colorée et la planète Mars est venue ajouter une touche d’orangé dans le ciel. Seulement 10 poses du ciel ont été nécessaires pour avoir ce niveau de détail avec un ciel Bortle 4/5 . Malheureusement, je n’ai pas pu faire mon ciel au même endroit car le sol était beaucoup trop meuble pour y mettre une monture et le vent était bien trop fort. Je suis revenu juste un peu plus haut sur les falaises pour me protéger du vent derrière un mur et faire mon ciel avec l’orientation exactement identique. La pollution lumineuse de Wissant est conservée.
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EXIF :
- Sol : 3 tuiles panoramiques dont 1 avec ombre (1*20s f/3.2 ISO3200)
- Ciel : 1 tuile suivie et stackée (10*90s f/2 ISO1250)
- Dans un soucis d’éthique, orientation ciel/sol identique, tout est fait le même soir, à quelques minutes d’intervalle
- Canon EOS R mod by a-m.de + 35mm f/1.4L II USM
- Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
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Bonne année 2023 à tous 🎉 !
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• ZWO Hα 7nm: 36x900s bin1 gain 200
• ZWO OIII 7nm: 39x900s bin2 gain 200
• ZWO SII 7nm: 41x900s bin2 gain 200
(total integration 29h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
My Last Night on Planet Impero
Planet Impero
Interplanetary Travel
And again we have come to the end of an adventure. Thank you very much for not leaving me alone again on my exploration of another planet. Thanks to you, I do not feel alone in this vast universe. This gives me great morale. I am grateful to you for this. Even though I like being alone, it makes me happy to feel you. I think about what I am looking for in this huge universe. I question why I'm here. I'm looking at my own body. I question whether I exist. I'm talking to myself, trying to hear my voice. Sometimes I feel like I don't exist. I remember the past. I think it's all just a dream and it's possible that it never happened. Maybe it's just a dream. I guess I'm trapped in my fantasy world. I am not bothered by this situation. It's just that sometimes I feel real pain in the face of reality. And, that makes me even more addicted to my imagination world. A world where I am alone in a universe without pain and sorrow.
It's my last day on this planet. When I first noticed the planet, I thought I would encounter traces of civilization. However, I was wrong. I did not find even a trace of intelligent life. I have been on this planet for about three months. I have finished my research. I've collected enough samples from the planet. After making my final preparations, I will fire the rockets of my spacecraft to embark on a new journey. I think that's one of my favorite things to do. Firing my spacecraft's rockets. And, traveling in outer space. It's like a huge void. It's like an endless darkness. This gives me peace. I think I like the dark. But when alone.
This is the last photo I will publish from the planet Impero. Right after I post this photo, I will fire my spacecraft's rockets. And, I will travel alone in endless space to make new discoveries. I wonder what planet my next discovery will be. I may not be able to post new photos for a while. I will try to share photos from outer space whenever I can. However, I have told you before about the difficulty of communicating in outer space. I'll do my best.
Thank you again for following me. I hope we'll meet again, on a new planet exploration.
Keep following me.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
NGC 7000 North America Nebula and IC 5070 Pelican Nebula
Catuured over 10 nights in October 2021 for Gergal, Almeria, Spain.
A reprocess of data captured earlier this year (Feb & Mar 2022).
SH2-261, Lower's Nebula
I was not completely satisfied with the initial results processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop. As I had a few days off last week, I tried again. A few new techniques have changed this image from "Meh" to "Wow". I was able to reveal more OIII (Oxygen III) blue details along with better clarity in the Ha (Hydrogen Alpha) structures.
Lower's nebula is found in the constellation Orion. It is estimated to be about 3,200 light years from earth.
Image captured over 5 nights; 2022-02-25, 2022-03-06, 21, 24 & 29
15 hours 40 minutes total integration
Ha subs 23 * 1,200 sec = 7 hours 40 min
OIII subs 9 * 1,200 sec = 3 hours
SII subs 15 * 1,200 sec = 5 hours
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
Explanation: Interstellar dust clouds and bright nebulae abound in the fertile constellation of Orion. One of the brightest, M78, on center in this colorful telescopic view, covering an area north of Orion's belt. At a distance of about 1,500 light-years, the bluish nebula itself is about 5 light-years across. Its blue tint is due to dust preferentially reflecting the blue light of hot, young stars in the region. Dark dust lanes and other nebulae can easily be traced through this gorgeous skyscape. The scene also includes the remarkable McNeil's Nebula -- a newly recognized nebula associated with the formation of a sun-like star, and the telltale reddish glow of many Herbig- Haro objects, energetic jets from stars in the process of formation. (text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131010.html)
This picture was photographed on November 4-6, 2013 in the Crimea, Ukraine. (height of 600 m. above sea level)
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10" f/3.8, mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L: 17x450 sec., RGB: 8*600 sec. each filter, unbinned
6 hours total.
FWHM 2.69"-3.11" , sum in L channel - 2.94"
Processed Pixinsight 1.8, Fitstacker and Photoshop CS6.
Photo with labels: olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/astrofoto/M78/M78_LRGB_Ole...
Located in the constellation of Canes Venatici is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. This was one of Messier's original discoveries in 1773 while observing a comet. M51 is an example of a face-on spiral galaxy. This object is actually two galaxies. The second, known as NGC 5195, is interacting with M51. The outer regions of the two galaxies actually touch each other. M51 is located about 26 million light-years from Earth.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Celestron C9.25 with 0.63x reducer
C: Atik 460EXM with Baader LRGB filters
50x600s 2xbin Luminance
50x180s Red, Blue and Green - A total integration time of 15.5 hours
ONEDAYs - FELIX OUTFIT
Hellooo Everyoneee this is time to RP outfit again ?? This one inspiration from love and deepspace otome game
If you have some interest please try demo first !!
have a good day everyone <3
TP :: secondlife/ACCESS/70/129/22
Dream Theme
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: 4K | Plutonia - Interplanetary Travel (Tunisia 🇹🇳)
"4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 34x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 22x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 4.6h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
Somewhat overlooked Messier object. :-)
Location: 27.12.2024. Samobor, Croatia
Camera: 585MC pro
Celestron C6 (1500mm)
SW HEQ5 (OnStep)
96x120s
David Hull inspired, kitchen based, deep space exploration tonight. All shot during a long exposure in complete darkness.
I fashioned a new cardboard diorama with a smaller planet which I was keen to pair with some lenslessness.
Led lenser covered in tinfoil with a tiny pin hole pointing at a glass, about 2 meters away. No lens on my camera and positioned a wine glass bottom until happy with the pattern shown in live view. 2 seconds of exposure and placed the 50mm Samyang on the camera and swapped tripods for the planet part. Lit from behind with the www.lightpaintingbrushes.com colour filters and hoods. One torch with orange and the other two with a purple and a blue for the stars.
Minor faffings in light room and there you go.
Taken over multiple nights from Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Sequoia and Frazier Park. Asi1600MM Pro and the Explore Scientific ed102
The enormous mass of gas associated with this section of the Large Magellanic Cloud is accentuated by mapping Ionised Sulphur to Red, Ionised Hydrogen to Green and Ionised Oxygen to Blue. Broadband RGB was taken and applied to the stars only.
AP152 F7.5 Starfire APO + FLI ProLine11002 CCD & CFW-2-7
SII Ha OIII RGB = 135 150 90 10 10 10 (6.75hrs total) Astronomik filters
AstroHandy LightRing used for flats
FOV = approx 1.5deg X 1.0deg
Image scale = 1.4arc sec/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress SXVH9
Processed in Astroart4
M42
Televue NP-101IS
Takahashi EM-200 w/ SBIG ST-I OAG
SBIG STF-8300
Baader HaSiiOiii Filters
Ha 50x180s
Sii 21x300s
Oii 31x150s
Total Integration = 5.54hrs
Processed in PixInsight
The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
After lot's of clouds, rain and storms in Spain, I am really happy to be able to image this open cluster and reflection nebula in two short nights. A very simple capture and edit to kick off imaging during some moonless skies.
115 x 300s exposures totalling 9 hours 30 minutes.
Full details and a full resolution image available at astrob.in/kz8q2q/0/
This smaller neighbor to the bright Lagoon nebula maybe more famous. The unusual name means three-lobe and was discovered by Messier in 1754. The image was captured as HSO but I processed to give a realistic colors.
H: 24x10m
O: 26x10m
S: 27x10m
Total Integration = 12.8hrs
Pixinsight: WBPP, BXT, SXT, NXT with Mask, DBE, Stars from HSO, Nebula from HOOS.
Photoshop: ColorEfex, DfineX, Levels, Curves (local), Smart Sharpen (local), StarShrink.
Data from Telescope.Live
CHI-1-CCD
CDK24
FLI ProLine PL9000
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
total exposure time: 8 hours
121x180 luminanz
19x180 red
11x180 green
12x180 blue
14/22/23.03.2020
Processing: PixInsight/Capture One