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IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Aurig. It is about 1,500 light-years away from Earth.. Technical Info:
15 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter
15 x 300 sec. Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter
15 x 300 sec. Astronomik SII 12 nm filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 3.8 hours
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor
Sensor cooled to -25°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-Plate Solver 2 via N.I.N.A. 1.11
Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.8, and Photoshop CC 2021
SH-2 132 Lion Nebula HOO
SH2-132 Lion Nebula has always been an image I wanted to capture and actually look a little like a Lion.
Not sure if it made the grade this time but pleased with the colour contrast and details in the Oiii and Ha regions.
In this image I made some changes to the editing workflow to leave the colour control and blending to PhotoShop and used PixInsight for the image pre-processing and stacking.
A high resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/4pj3m2/0/
Technical summary:
Captured: 8 Nights in August 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 38 hours 20 mins
Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate
LBN 168 is an object in Lynds’ Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN), published in 1965 by Dorothy Lynds based on the Palomar Sky Survey. Data collected with TelescopeLive in Spain during the years 2020-2023. A total of 15 hours of imaging with a Takahashi FSQ 106ED
NGC 4565 lies at a distance of approximately 40 million light years from our own Galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. Its size is approximately 162,000 light years across at the longest edge and 20, 000 light years at the centre bulge. To the lower right of NGC 4565 is the smaller galaxy NGC 4562. This small galaxy is moving away from NGC 4565 at the rate of 123,000 km per second.
Imaged over 3 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/st1ss3/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 22,23,25-03-2023
Imaging Sessions: 3
Location: Gérgal, Andalucía, Spain
Bortle Class: 4
Total Integration: 20h 30m
Filters:
Red 48x 300s 4h 00m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
Green 48x 300s 4h 00m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.5
Blue 438 300s 4h 00m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
UV/IR 102x 300s 8h 30m BIN 2 Gain 100 -5C SQM 20.6
Pixel Scale: 0.5 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD f/10 2800mm
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG L with ZWO ASI 192MM Mini
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, UV/IR
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
Newton 200x1000 sur HEQ5 pro Rowan.
Correcteur Bader MPCC MIII.
Optolong L-Extreme.
Canon 1000Dd.
132 x 3min - ISO 400.
Version HOO.
Ciel Bortle 8
A 4 panel mosaic Frames: 120x1800"
Integration: 60.0 hours
This data was acquired with my Takahashi TSA 102. Hope you enjoy it!
NGC 2237 Inside the Rosette nebula
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: PHD, Main Sequence Software
Filters: Baader Red 2", Baader SII 8.5nm, Baader B 2", Baader G 2", Baader O III 8.5nm, Baader Ha 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
A boney finger of dark nebulas (Barnard 169 to 174) reaches for the light (Ced 199 Sh2-134 and Sh2-135)
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OTA: Takahashi FSQ-106 EDX4
GUIDER: Stellarvue F50
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount MyT
CAMERA: FLI ML-16070M
GUIDE CAMERA: ZWO ASI 174 Mini M
REDUCER: Takahashi 645 QE .72x f/3.6
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop
FILTERS: AstrodonLRGB; 5nm Hα, 3nm SII, 3nm OIII
ACCESSORIES: Optec Gemini Focuser/Rotator
LOCATION: SRO
To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space
Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
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Located at about 500 light-years from Earth, Rho Ophiuchi is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and colorful parts of the night sky.
Emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, dark nebulae or star clusters, all can be found in this small part of the sky. There is also a star nursery, practically the closest to Earth, and not to forget Antares (in the yellow area of the attached photo), a giant star, 700 times larger than the Sun, and 10,000 times brighter.
A book could be written about this area, so I will stop here with the description. I hope I will be lucky enough to repeat the experience at the next new moon.
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Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventure GTI
Camera: Nikon D610 – astro modified
Lens : Rokinon 135mm F2
Settings: F 2.8, ISO 1600
Total exposure: 80 minutes (53 exposures x 90 sec)
Calibration frames: 15 darks.
Location: Bortle ¾.
Edit : Pixinsight.
Last night's full moon was very bright with a slight glow around it although it was a case of standing in the cold night air waiting for the clouds to clear long enough to get a hand-held shot but it was worth it.
Waning Gibbous Moon
Illumination: 98.9%
Distance to Earth: 362, 205 KM
Time: 23.13
Location: West Wales
Taken in black and white hand-held using a Panasonic DMC FZ200
f/2.8
1/1300
108.0 mm
ISO 100
Dedicated to CH (ILYWAMHASAM)
NGC 2244
Caldwell 49 & 50
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OBJECT
Magnitude: +5.50
Distance: 5,500 light years.
Diameter: 128 light years.
Apparent size of object: 80' x 60'
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IMAGE
Exposure: 28.7 min.
Sub-frames: 191s x 9.
FOV: 1.57° x 1.06°
Captured: 2021-03-08.
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An ancient planetary nebula
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OTA: PlaneWave CDK20
GUIDER: Astrodon Monster MOAG
MOUNT: PlaneWave L-500
CAMERA: FLI ML-16803
GUIDE CAMERA: QHY 5-III 174 M
REDUCER: N/A
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, PWI 3 & 4, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop, various plugins
FILTERS: Astrodon NII 3nm, Hα 3nm, OIII 3nm, RGB
ACCESSORIES: Pegasus UPB,
LOCATION: SRO
To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space
NGC 6063 A non- periodic Coment discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 3rd January 2025
Hypothetical exoplanet seen from one of its satellites. The foreground was changed and stars were added to this version.
EXOPLANETS
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Confirmed 3439
Candidates 4696
Solar systems 2569
Earths 348
Data from NASA (exoplanets.nasa.gov/)
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"An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun. Starting in 1988, and as of 1 January 2017, there have been 3,557 exoplanets in 2,668 planetary systems and 601 multiple planetary systems confirmed. HARPS (since 2004) has discovered about a hundred exoplanets while the Kepler space telescope (since 2009) has found more than two thousand. Kepler has also detected a few thousand candidate planets, of which about 11% may be false positives. On average, there is at least one planet per star, with a percentage having multiple planets. About 1 in 5 Sun-like stars [a] have an "Earth-sized" [b] planet in the habitable zone. [c] Assuming there are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, [d] one can hypothesize that there are 11 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, rising to 40 billion if planets orbiting the numerous red dwarfs are included.
Besides exoplanets, there are also rogue planets, which do not orbit any star and which tend to be considered separately, especially if they are gas giants, in which case they are often counted, like WISE 0855−0714, as sub-brown dwarfs. The rogue planets in the Milky Way possibly number in the billions (or more)." (Text credits: Wikipedia).
The Crescent Nebula is a faint emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus, at around 5000 light-years away from Earth. Discovered by William Herschel in 1792.
Imaged from my backyard in Gérgal, Almería, Spain
8 imaging sessions 16th- 27th May 2022
Ha 66x 300s BIN 2x2 Gain 200 -10C
Oiii 257x 300s BIN 2x2 Gain 200 -10C
Ha 5.5 Hours
Oiii 21 Hours
Telescope: Celestron C11 Edge HD x0.7 f/7 @ 1960mm
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro
Guiding: ZWO OAG L with ZWO ASI 192MM Mini
Filters: ZWO Ha 7nm, ZWO Oiii 7nm
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Computer: PrimaLuceLab Eagle 4
Capture software: NINA, PHD2, Sharpcap Pro
Processing software: PixInsight, StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator, Adobe Lightroom, Topaz Sharpen AI
On top of Haleakalā - a volcano on the island of Maui - are a handful of deep space telescopes dotting the barren landscape.
Newton 200x1000 - HEQ5.
Guidage chercheur + ASI120mc.
123x2min - ISO400.
CANON 1000Dd - Filtre Idas LPS D1 - Correcteur de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.
PixInSight - PS.
Ciel Bortle 8.
About 10,000 years ago, a star exploded and died here. The Helix Nebula, also known as the Helix or NGC 7293, is a large planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius.
Karl Ludwig Harding, probably discovered it before 1824 and it is one of the closest objects to Earth among the planetary nebulae, about 700 light years from our Earth. Sixteen hours of exposure from El Sauce Observatory in Chile (TelescopeLive) and image processing with my interpretation of 178 raw images in PixInsight and PhotoShop.
Emission Nebula with dark clouds in the Cygnus constellation.
Image taken from my backyard in Luxembourg between june 9 and 13.
Total exposure about 30 hours.
Gear: 203/926mm Newton, ASI1600mmPro camera, Ha/SII/OIII narrowband filters on an EQ8-Pro mount.
This star forming region in the constellation Perseus resembles a snail inching its way across the Galaxy.
OTA: Takahashi CCA-250
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount ME-II w/AOE encoders
CAMERA: FLI PL-16803
REDUCER: Takahashi 645 CA 0.72X (f/3.6)
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop
FILTERS: Astrodon LRGB; 5nm Hα, SII 3nm, OIII 3nm
ACCESSORIES: FLI CFW 5-7 Filter Wheel
LOCATION: SRO
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To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space
Dusty Subaru?
I don’t see a dusty old hatchback with bumper stickers floating in space, do you?
Of course not, Subaru is what the Japanese call the Pleiades. It means coming together or clustering, which is exactly what this star cluster is all about.
And all the left over dust from the formation of the stars is still floating around, being blown about by the stellar winds.
I was pleased to see that even with my crappy star tracker and vintage 300mm lens I could bring out all the dark dirt that is drifting around that open group of stars.
Big thanks to Siril, the astro photography software that I’m still getting to know.
Dust, the bane of my mother’s existence! As a fifties house wife she was obsessed with banishing it from our home. I hope she’s resting in peace now, and not floating around with a cosmic Swiffer trying to clean it up. Because as astro photographers we love dust, especially when it is illuminated, right?
IOptron Star Tracker Pro
Nikkor 300mm f4.0 at f4.0
Sony A6400
External bulb timer
75 exposures at 60sec each
The obligatory bias, dark and flat frames, 30 frames each
Stacked and processed in Siril, Starnet++
Finished in Photoshop and Lightroom
The comet to see of 2021 ~57 million miles away from Earth in the pre-dawn sky over Taos, New Mexico. | December 4, 2021.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikon 500mm f/4 P AI-s at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3
4 x 75" for 5 minutes and 4 seconds of exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Software:
SharpCap
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
Guided
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I then mounted my a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 P Ai-s lens to the top rail of my scope. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 3200, f/5.6 and 75" exposures. I stacked lights/darks/flats/bias frames in deepskystacker. I then processed the TIFF file in photoshop stretching the file, cropping and I used Astronomy Tools Action Set to help bring out details and colors along with Topaz Denoise to help smooth things out.
Cygnus Wall.
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Cygnus Wall is the most visible and interesting part of the well-known North America nebula, located 1500 light-years from us, in the constellation Cygnus. The "wall" is actually an area of stellar dust combined with hydrogen ionized by the radiation of young stars and stretches over a length of about 20 light-years, thus being one of the largest and best known stellar "nurseries".
Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6r pro
Telescope: Explore Scientific 102ED triplet + 0.75 APM reducer
Camera: ASI 533MM pro
Filter: Astrodon SHO
Total integration: 6h36' ( Ha 43x3min, Sii 40x3min, Oiii 47x3min )
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.
I have been waiting and waiting since November to have a clear night with no wind or moonlight on a weekend. Finally, I got my chance in late March, and it was my last shot until next November as Orion will start to fade below the horizon in April.
Orion is one of my favorite deep space objects to photograph, but the bright core makes it a challenge to capture well. I really like how this turned out!
(Explore # 84)
Lapis colored filaments of Oxygen marbled with veins of ruby like Hydrogen, part of a vast supernova remnant in the constellation Vela.
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OTA: Takahashi FSQ-106
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount MX
CAMERA: SBIG STX-16803
GUIDE CAMERA: SBIG STX built in
REDUCER: na
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop
FILTERS: Astrodon LRGB; Hα 5nm, SII 5nm, OIII 5nm
ACCESSORIES: SBIG FW-7 Filter Wheel
LOCATION: M & K Observatory, NSW Australia
To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space
M78 is is the blue reflection nebula in the centre of the frame and Barnards loop is the red / pink area to the left of the frame.
The nebula Messier 78 (also known as M78 or NGC 2068) is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780.
M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that include NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071. This group belongs to the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is about 1,600 light years distant from Earth.
Barnard's Loop (Sh2-276) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion.The loop takes the form of a large arc centered approximately on the Orion Nebula. The stars within the Orion Nebula are believed to be responsible for ionizing the loop. Recent estimates place it at a distance of between 518 light years and 1434 light years giving it dimensions of either about 100 or 300 light years across respectively. It is thought to have originated in a supernova explosion about 2 million years ago, which may have also created several known runaway stars.
This is another image taken with the dual rig.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 and Moravian G2-8300 with Baader RGB filters, 3nm Ha Astrodon filters and Hutech IDAS.
70x300s RGB
30x1800s Ha
45x1200s Luminance
Total exposure time 47 hours 30 mins.
This has been blended as a simple RGB combination, then with the Ha data added into the red channel. The luminance layer was created using the luminance data and some Ha data added.
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
totalling 13 hours so far
Explanation: A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. Known by the popular moniker, The Sunflower Galaxy, M63 sports a bright yellowish core and sweeping blue spiral arms, streaked with cosmic dust lanes and dotted with pink star forming regions. This deep exposure also reveals an enormous but dim arc extending far into the halo above the brighter galactic plane. A collaboration of professional and amateur astronomers has shown the arc to be consistent with the stellar stream from a smaller satellite galaxy, tidally disrupted as it merged with M63 during the last 5 billion years. Their discovery is part of an increasing body of evidence that the growth of large spirals by cannibalizing smaller galaxies is commonplace in the nearby Universe. (text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100911.html)
This picture was photographed during April 2016 in Rozhen observatory, Bulgaria.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Televue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 54 * 900 seconds , bin.1, RGB = 21* 450-600 seconds, bin.2 each filter. 22 hours total.
FWHM source in L filter 1.80"-2.96", sum in L channel - 2.32"
The height above the horizon from 56° to 83°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
Heart nebula (IC 1805) taken with my mono CMOS astro-camera with narrowband filters and then colored during post-processing with SHO (SII, Ha, OIII) palette. Image data was collected using my ES 102 mm telescope and the field of view (FOV) only covered about 2/3 of the nebula. I am working on new image of this nebula using a mosaic technique to capture the entire nebula. Technical Info:
76 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter
82 x 300 sec. Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter
78 x 300 sec Astronomik SII 12 nm filter
81 x 180 sec. OPTOLONG L-eNhance filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 26.5 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 Deep Sky Stacker 4.2.6, Pixinsight 1.8.8, and Photoshop CC 2021.
NGC 7822
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This is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cepheus, about 3000 light-years from us, being a region where new stars are born. If the strong radiation emitted by the new stars ionizes the surrounding gas and illuminates the entire area, the same radiation erodes those "pillars" of cosmic dust causing, over time, those concentrated areas of dust to disappear and thus destroy the main "material" that forms the new stars.
Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6R
Telescope: Explore Scientific 102ED + 0.75 APM reducer
Camera: ASI 533MM
Filter: Astrodon SHO
Total integration: 10 hours ( Ha 38 exposures x 5 min, Sii 44 x 5 min, Oiii 63 x 3 min )
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.
Here is a selction of some of my astro images from 2015. A wide selection of mono, narrowband and LRGB taken with two very differernt focal lengths and two different camera's.
It's been an interesting 2015 and I am really looking forward to what 2016 brings!
From top left the images are as follows. There's a clickable link to show the picture.
DWB111 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/18055155179/in/dateposted-pu...
IC5146 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/20956920656/in/dateposted-pu...
IC1805 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/20847210896/in/dateposted-pu...
IC1396 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/22841402303/in/dateposted-pu...
IC1848 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/23065199495/in/dateposted-pu...
IC1871 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/23065199495/in/dateposted-pu...
NGC7635 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/21672256872/in/dateposted-pu...
M1 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/16155482830/in/dateposted-pu...
IC434 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/16265877975/in/dateposted-pu...
NGC7023 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/18877814869/in/dateposted-pu...
Veil Complex - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/21230850569/in/dateposted-pu...
NGC1333 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/23235920719/in/dateposted-pu...
NGC2359 - www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/23529756720/in/dateposted-pu...
The Spaghetti Nebula is located in the constellations of Auriga and Taurus within the Milky Way and is a supernova remnant from an exploding star. These extremely faint and fine filaments of ionised hydrogen, sulphur and oxygen are all that remains from the explosion approximately 40,000 years ago. It's distance from our solar system is estimated to be 3000 light-years.
The size of the nebula is extremely large, approximately 3 degrees, and using my small 81mm telescope, the image almost entirely fills a full frame camera sensor. To capture this image I used over 28 hours of images using 3 narrow band filters for each gas.
Technical details:
Location:
Gérgal, Almeria, Spain. Bortle class 4.5
Filters used:
Ha: 256 @ 120s 512 min
Oiii: 342 @ 120s 684 min
Sii: 251 @ 120s 502 min
Total integration: 28.3 hours
Equipment:
Telescope: William Optics GT81 with x0.8 Field Flattener f/5.6 385mm
Image Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro @ -5 C
Pegasus Astro Falcon rotator
Pegasus Astro Focus Cube
ZWO 7 Position filter wheel
ZWO Filters 7nm Sii, Oiii and Ha
Guide scope: William Optics 50mm Uniguide 200mm f/4
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 192 MM Mini
Software:
N.I.N.A, PHD2, Sharpcap Pro, PixInsight, Photoshop, Lightroom and Topaz Denoise.
The Sadr Region (also known as IC 1318 or the Gamma Cygni Nebula) is the diffuse emission nebula surrounding Sadr (γ Cygni) at the center of Cygnus's cross. The Sadr Region is one of the surrounding nebulous regions; others include the Butterfly Nebula and the Crescent Nebula. It contains many dark nebulae in addition to the emission diffuse nebulae.
Sadr itself has approximately a magnitude of 2.2. The nebulous regions around the region are also fairly bright.
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 from Earth. It was discovered by William 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.
It is a rather faint object located about 2 degrees SW of Sadr. For most telescopes it requires a UHC or OIII filter to see. Under favorable circumstances a telescope as small as 8 cm (with filter) can see its nebulosity. Larger telescopes (20 cm or more) reveal the crescent or a Euro sign shape which makes some to call it the "Euro sign nebula".
EQ6R Pro mount
William Optics GT81 iv Scope
Asi2600mc camera cooled to -10c
Optolong L Extreme Filter
ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EAF
ZWO mini guide scope and camera
50 x 300 second exposures
30 x darks
30 x dark flats
30 x flats
Stacked and processed in Pixinsight
Bortle 6 Sky (Kent UK)
A small section of the nebula known as the Vela Supernova Remnant
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OTA: Takahashi FSQ-106
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount MX
CAMERA: SBIG STX-16803
GUIDE CAMERA: SBIG STX built in
REDUCER: na
SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop
FILTERS: Astrodon LRGB; Hα 5nm, SII 5nm, OIII 5nm
ACCESSORIES: SBIG FW-7 Filter Wheel
LOCATION: M & K Observatory, NSW Australia
To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space
NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 are known as the Antennae, or sometimes called the "rat-tail" galaxies. They are located near the western edge of Corvus.
This pair of interacting galaxies was discovered by William Herschel in 1785. The Antennae Galaxies are the nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies. About 1.2 billion years ago, the Antennae were two separate galaxies. Simulations of colliding galaxies suggest that the two will eventually form a single elliptical galaxy.
A high resolution image and full imaging details available at astrob.in/e2yddz/0/
Remotely imaged over 5 nights in April 2024 from Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain.
55 x 120 second exposures with Red, 52 x Green, 19 x Blue and 131 x 120 seconds of UV IR Cut
Total image time: 12 hours 19 minutes
Telescope: Celestron C14 EDGE HD
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro cooled to -5C
Filter: Astronomic Deep-Sky Red, Green and Blue and UV-IR Cut
Mount:Sky-Watcher EQ8
Captured with: NINA, processed with PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom Classic
Thank you for viewing!
Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy in the mid-northern constellation Canes Venatici. Technical Info:
104 x 180 sec. . OPTOLONG L-eNhance filter
97 x 180 sec. ZWO Red filter
93 x 180 sec. ZWO Green filter
86 x 180 sec. Zwo Blue filter
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 19 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 1.8.8-9, and Photoshop CC 2022
103x300s h-alpha
174x300s OIII
20x300s red
14x300s green
18x300s blue
26 hours total
french Alps
August 2024
Equipment:
Takahashi Epsilon 130D dual rig
Epsi1:QHY268m (IMX571)
Epsi1: QHYCFW3M-SR
Epsi1: QHY OAG + ASI220m
Epsi2: TS2600MP (Touptek/RisingCam IMX571)
Epsi2: ZWO EFW
Filter: Astronomik LRGB DeppSky
Filter: Astronomik MaxFR
JTD Dual Rig Alignment Saddle
Sywatcher EQ8
N.I.N.A
Pegasus NYX-101
IC5070 (the Pelican nebula) is located in the constellation of Cygnus at approximately 1800 light years from Earth. You can see on the right of the image a large pillar of gas and at the tip of this is a Herbig-Haro object.
Herbig-Haro 555 is a narrow jet of gas and matter, ejected by newly born stars at speeds of several hundred kilometres per second. It collides with nearby gas and dust in the interstellar medium, producing bright shock fronts that glow as the gas is heated by friction while the surrounding gas is excited by the high-energy radiation of nearby hot stars.
Details:
M: Mesu 200
T: TMB152
C: QSI683 WSG with 3nm Ha filter
26x1800s Totalling 13 hours
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Located about 5000 light years from Earth, the center image shows the Rosette star formation region. The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only a few million years ago. A survey of the nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the presence of numerous new-born stars inside optical Rosette Nebula and studded within a dense molecular cloud. Altogether, approximately 2500 young stars lie in this star-forming complex, including the massive O-type stars HD 46223 and HD 46150, which are primarily responsible for blowing the ionized bubble. Most of the ongoing star-formation activity is occurring in the dense molecular cloud to the south east of the bubble.
This is a part of my new project currently under construction: Part One and two of ten panels. (this image is made up of two panels) This will eventual form a skyscape including Caldwell 49 up to and including the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster. See moonrocksastro.com/index.php/2016/01/13/rosette-nebula-2/
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Imaging telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Imaging camera: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX
Guiding telescope or lens: Vixen VSD
Software: Sequence Generator Pro
Filter: Baader Ha, Hb, OIII & SII
Accessory: Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider
Resolution: 2281x1743
Dates: Dec. 8, 2015
Frames: 78x1800"
Integration: 39.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 26.30 days
Avg. Moon phase: 11.32%
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Dopo aver punatato la galassia M101, dovevo provare il setup anche sulla bellissima "Galassia Vortice", indicata con le sigle "M 51"o NGC5194. M51 ha una compagna con cui interagisce gravitazionalmente: NGC5195. e' una delle galassie più note e osservate da astronomi e astrofili.
2 anni fa evevo già fotografato M51, con un altro setup ad una focale di 448mm, ma con la riscoperta del C8 ho avuto modo di miglorarne la definizione. il mio obiettivo era quello di far emergere le nebulosità deboli che circondano le due galassie, ma l'Inquinamento luminoso non mi ha permesso di evidenziarle come avrei voluto. Oltretutto per registrare segnale così debole anche le condizioni del cielo devono essere favorevoli e non sempre lo sono state.
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After having targeted the galaxy M101, I had to try the setup on the beautiful "Whirlpool Galaxy", indicated by the acronyms "M 51" or NGC5194. M51 has a companion with which it interacts gravitationally: NGC5195. It is one of the best-known and most observed galaxies by astronomers and amateur astronomers.
Two years ago I had already photographed M51, with another setup at a focal length of 448mm, but with the rediscovery of C8 I was able to improve its definition. My goal was to highlight the faint nebulae surrounding the two galaxies, but light pollution prevented me from highlighting them as I would have liked. Furthermore, to record such a faint signal, sky conditions must be favorable, and these weren't always the case.
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Optic: Celestron SC C8 203mm f/10 + Celestron riducer-corrector 0.63X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 4-5 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Astronomik CLS
-356x180s 250gain/ 23 darks /27 flats /80 biases
t° sensor: -10°C
Date: 2026-06-03+05+08+09+10
Integration: 17h 48m
Temperature: 22°C (media)
location for: Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6) flic.kr/p/8AWHek lightpollutionmap.app/it/?lat=37.641252&lng=14.871604...
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: SIRIL1.4.3, SyQon-Prism, StarNet2 2.5 , PS
Pickering's Triangle is part of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, which includes the famous Veil Nebula.
It is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus.
Details.
M: Mesu 200
T: TMB 152/1200
C: QSI683 3nm Astrodon Ha and OIII filters
This is a 2 pane mosaic and has been stitched together using Astro Pixel Processor software.
Pane 1
Ha 20x1800s and OIII 20x1800s
Pane 2
Ha 20x1800s and OIII 20x1800s
The total exposure is 40 hours.
I imaged the Pleiades about a month ago. I used my 300mm lens. After getting some time on the Dumbbell Nebula, I took off the teleconverter and shot this target again with a longer focal length than I had before. I also used ISO 3200 and f/5.6 to bring out those diffraction spikes, which I think look really cool.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
35 x 90" for 53 min and 5 sec of exposure time.
9 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggyback my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32 bit file and used Gradient XT on the image. I then made it a 16 bit file and stretched in level, then curves. I used the color sampler tool and levels to do my best to keep the background space black. I then using my skillset and relyed on Astronomy Tools Action Set, and dodging and burning a bit to give the image the finishing touches.
Hypothetical giant exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. The mountains and hills of one of its satellites can be seen on the foreground. Another satellite is shown on the lower right corner of the frame.
Three giant worlds found orbiting twin suns
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"A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are also effectively siblings of our sun. One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. The system represents the smallest-separation binary in which both stars host planets that has ever been observed." (Text credits NASA -
exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1386/three-giant-worlds-found-or...)
EXOPLANETS
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Confirmed 3439
Candidates 4696
Solar systems 2569
Earths 348
Data from NASA (exoplanets.nasa.gov/)
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Las galaxias son al universo como la arena a la playa, mires por donde mires hay galaxias, sólo hace falta la suficiente exposición (en este caso 12h) y una relación focal rápida (f3.8) para que vayan aflorando por el fondo de una imagen, fotones extremadamente lejanos y antiguos emergiendo de entre el oscuro y vasto universo viajando durante millones de años a la máxima velocidad que permite la física conocida, para terminar entrando en nuestros telescopios, impactando en los sensibles sensores digitales y excitando sus píxeles.
En ésta imagen a parte de M31 la gran galaxia de Andrómeda y sus galaxias satélite M32 y M110, estan enmarcadas y ampliadas al 500% algunas de las lejanas galaxias que hay de fondo.