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

Equipment:

Epsilon 130ED dual rig

QHY268m + CFW3M

Touptek IMX571 + ZWO EFW

Astronomik MaxFR

Skywatcher EQ8

September 2022

Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo

M1 - An Explosion in Space

Sky-watchers on Earth witnessed and wrote about a bright “supernova” (literally meaning “new star”) in the year 1054. What they were really viewing was the birth of rapidly expanding clouds from an exploding star. By the year 2021, roughly one thousand years later, these clouds have covered a distance of nearly 10 light years, and they continue to expand at a rate of about 1000 kilometers per second.

In 1840, after viewing this supernova remnant through a telescope and sketching it, astronomer William Parsons thought that it looked like a crab, and the name “Crab Nebula” caught on. If you can't see such a crab, you're not alone! With modern cameras we can collect so much more light and detail than that which could be previously captured with the eye and eyepiece combo, so to me (and probably to you) it looks more like, well, an explosion in space.

See on Fluidr

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

LDN 1622 is located near the galaxy plane in the constellation of Orion. It is close to Barnards loop, a huge cloud that surrounds the emission nebulas found in the Belt and Sword of Orion.

LDN 1622 is thought to be much closer to the more famous Orion Nebula, perhaps only 500 light years away.

The REALLY interesting thing about this image is that I have got a pre-main-sequence (PMS) star .... Please take a look at my website to find out more www.swagastro.com/ldn1622.html

​Details.

M: Mesu 200

T: TMB 152/1200

C: QSI690 3nm Chroma Ha filters

​5x1800s in each pane - Totalling 15 hours of total exposure time.

The Cocoon Nebula (Sh2-125, IC 5146) In the constellation Cygnus, an active star forming region.

See on Fluidr

OTA: Takahashi CCA-250

GUIDER: None

MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount ME-II w/AOE encoders

CAMERA: FLI PL-16803

GUIDE CAMERA: none

REDUCER: Takahashi 645 CA 0.72X (f/3.6)

SOFTWARE: SGP, PhD2, TheSkyX, Pixinsight, Starnet++, Photoshop

FILTERS: Astrodon LRGB; 5nm Hα

ACCESSORIES: FLI CFW 5-7 Filter Wheel

LOCATION: SRO

To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space

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.

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

The Rosette Nebula is a Hydrogen II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula is at a distance of 5,000 light-years from Earth and measures roughly 130 light years in diameter.

Taken from my backyard in Gérgal, Almería, Spain over multiple nights. The narrow band imaging started in November and December 2021 and final RGB images in January 2022. Total usable imaging time 20 hours. The image is a classic Hubble colour palette with RGB stars added.

Equipment details can be found at astrob.in/j9lej9/0/

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!

Red hydrogen emission and blue reflection nebulae, dark molecular clouds and a bright star sitting in the middle, flooding the scene its yellow light... Sounds like the Rho Ophichui region?

Sure. There is, however, another smaller, but similarly colorful area in the sky:

Meet the Cave Nebula!

Officially designated Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula in the constellation Cepheus, is a diffuse nebula of ionized hydrogen with ongoing star formation activity, at an estimated distance of 2400 light-years from Earth. It lies within a larger complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity.

The name "Cave Nebula" for Sh2-155 was coined by Patrick Moore, presumably derived from photographic images showing a curved arc of emission nebulosity corresponding to a cave mouth. Earlier, the name was already used to refer to another brighter but unrelated reflection nebula in Cepheus, known as Ced 201. The name's application to Sh2-155 has come into vogue through the nebula's inclusion in Moore's Caldwell catalogue as object Caldwell 9.

EXIF

ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro

Baader Ha, Oiii, RGB filters

William Optics Megrez 88, f/5.6

Skywatcher AZ-GTI controlled with ASIAir

ZWO ASI 385MC for autoguiding

PixInsight processing

Total integration time: 5h10min

My Friday night was spent setting up my scope and targeting the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the furthest object visible to the naked eye as it lies relatively close to us at only ~2.5 million light years from Earth.

Equipment:

SkyWatcher EQ6-R

Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S at f/5.6

Sony a7RIII (unmodified)

ZWO 30mm Guide scope

GPCAM2 Mono Camera

Acquisition:

Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3

36 x 210" for 2 hours, 6 min, and 30 sec exposure time.

5 dark frames

15 flats frames

15 bias frames

Guided

Software:

SharpCap

PHD2

DeepSkyStacker

Photoshop

Lightroom

My Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S were mounted on an ADM vixen rail and secured to the SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount. I polar aligned my mount using SharpCap Pro. The guide scope/camera was attached to the camera's hot shoe. I used PHD2 to autogude during the imaging session. DeepSkyStacker was used to combine all frames, and then I processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32-bit file using Levels. I then made it a 16-bit file and continued to stretch the file in levels and curves. I used the color sampler tool and levels to do my best to help keep colors accurate. I then used my skillset, including some dodging & burning, and relied on Astronomy Tools Action Set and Topaz Denoise to give the image a polished look. I brought it into Lightroom to do final color corrections and add EXIF data.

NGC 6334 in Scorpius

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Diameter: 30 light years.

Distance: 3,300 light years.

Apparent size: 31.0 arc min

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Field of View: 77.4′ x 51.6′

Exposure: 72 min (120 sec x 36)

Image Date: 2021-05-31

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Telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 120

840 mm f/l @ f/7

Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 071

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My Flickr Astronomy Album

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.

This deep-space image showcases two stunning nebulae in the constellation Auriga: the Tadpoles Nebula (IC 410) at the top center, and the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) toward the lower left.

IC 410, the Tadpoles Nebula, is an emission nebula located about 12,000 light-years from Earth. It surrounds the young star cluster NGC 1893, whose massive, energetic stars light up and shape the surrounding gas. The 'tadpoles' that give the nebula its nickname are dense streams of dust and gas about 10 lightyears long. They are assumed to be sites of star formation.

IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, lies in the lower left portion of the image. This beautiful mix of emission and reflection nebula is about 1,500 light-years away and is illuminated by the hot, massive star AE Aurigae. Its flowing, flame-like filaments of gas and dust give the nebula its name and striking appearance.

Set against a dense star field, this image uses narrowband imaging techniques to highlight different elements: hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. The result reveals both the structure and composition of these rich star-forming regions.

This image is a SHO combination with the classic gold and blue hues of the Hubble Palette

Equipment

Telescope: William Optics Megrez 88

Mount: Equatorially mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI

Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM

Filters: Baader H/Sii/Oiii with ZWO EFW

Autofocus: ZWO EAF

Autoguider: ZWO ASI 385MC & Artesky Guidescope UltraGuide 32mm

Rig control: ZWO ASIAir

15x 300s H

15x 300s Sii

15x 240s Oiii

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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Messier 56 is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation of Lyra. It was discovered in 1779 by Charles Messier.

Spanning 84 light-years in diameter and approx 32,900 light years away it is believed to be about 13.7 billion years old, It is believed to contain around 80,000 stars.

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A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as as satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centres.

​Details.

M: Mesu 200

T: TMB 152/1200

C: QSI683 Baader LRGB filters

30x600s Luminance

30x600s Red

30x600s Green

30x600s Blue

Totalling 20 hours.

Horse head late Feb 2023

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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

90x120s - ISO400.

Newton 200x1000 SUR heq5 + Canon 1000Ddp + filtre Idas LPS D1.

The **Eagle Nebula**, also known as **Messier 16 (M16)** or **NGC 6611**, is a stunning region of active star formation located about **7,000 light-years** from Earth in the **constellation Serpens**. It is best known for containing the **Pillars of Creation**, towering columns of gas and dust famously photographed by the **Hubble Space Telescope** in 1995.

This vast nebula spans about **70 by 55 light-years** and consists of **interstellar gas, dust, and young, hot stars** that illuminate and shape the surrounding material. The Eagle Nebula is a **stellar nursery**, where massive new stars are born from collapsing clouds of gas. These young stars emit intense ultraviolet light and powerful winds that sculpt the nebula’s features and erode the dense pillars from which they formed.

The "eagle" shape that gives the nebula its name is created by dark, silhouetted dust lanes against the bright background of glowing hydrogen gas. The Eagle Nebula is both a scientifically important object and a visually iconic one, offering astronomers insight into how stars and planetary systems form and evolve over time.

Shot in New Orleans, LA

Bortle 8 Skies

TEC140

AP900

SHO: 21 / 20 / 24 x15m

Total Integration = 16.25h

SXT/LF/SHO/NBNorm/NXT/NBStars/HT/Conv/Recreen

ColorEfex/Curves/Sat

First image using the new Celestron Edge HD 9.25 SCT.

Messier 81 (M81), also known as Bode’s Galaxy, is a grand design spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy lies at an approximate distance of 11.8 million light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 6.94. It has the designation NGC 3031 in the New General Catalogue. Technical Info:

36 x 180 sec. ZWO Red filter

35 x 180 sec. ZWO Green filter

32 x 180 sec. Zwo Blue filter

Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1

Total Integration 5.2 hours

Celestron Edge HD 9.25 f/10 SCT Reflector

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. 2.0

Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.9, and Photoshop CC 2023

The Orion and Running Man Nebulae are a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. The Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years away, and the nearest star-forming region to Earth. Technical info: 210 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter

173 x 300 sec. Astronomik OIII 12 nm filter

170 x 300 sec Astronomik SII 12 nm filter

Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1

Total Integration 46.1 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. 2.0

Image processing Pixinsight 2.0 and Photoshop 2023

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) is an emission nebula located in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula lies at a distance of 7,100 light-years from Earth. The nebula is in fact a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the brilliant star within it. Technical Info:

102 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter

66 x 300 sec. Optolong L-eHance

Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1

Total Integration 14 hours

Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor

Sensor cooled to -20°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)

Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.

Plate Solve-ASTAP via N.I.N.A. 1.11

Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.8 and finished in Photoshop CC 2021.

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 and Starlight Express Trius M25C

This is a 2x2 pane mosaic for the Ha data

29x1800s in Ha

And 35x600s with the OSC camera.

This has been combined as LHaRGB

Total exposure time 20 hours and 20 minutes

Sony a7IV | Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG DN macro

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Peek toward the handle of the Big Dipper with a telescope and you can find the Pinwheel Galaxy also known as M101. It lies 21 million light-years away, meaning the light traveled for 21 million years before hitting my camera's sensor. Discovered in 1781 by Pierre Méchain, one of Charles Messier's colleagues, the spiral arms stretches 170,000 light-years wide—almost twice the size of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Equipment:

SkyWatcher EQ6-R

Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 AI-S at f/5.6

Sony a7rIII (unmodified)

ZWO 30mm Guide Scope

GPCAM2 Mono Camera

Acquisition:

Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3

40 x 212-second exposures for 2 hours, 11 minutes and 20 seconds of exposure time.

5 dark frames

15 flats frames

15 bias frames

Guided

Software:

SharpCap

PHD2

PixInsight

Photoshop

Lightroom

My a7rIII and adapted Nikon 800mm f/5.6 lens were mounted to my SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount using a vixen rail. The guidescope/camera was fixed to the front of the rail. I used SharpCap to achieve "excellent" polar alignment. I shot ISO 1600 at f/5.6. I took 212-second exposures using PHD2 with my guidescope to keep tracking accurately. I brought the lights/darks/flats/bias frames into PixInsight for stacking and aligning and then used: STF, Cropping, GraXpert, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator, and then the galaxy was separated from the stars using StarXterminator, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping. I used Photoshop to sharpen the final image.

LBN 458, LBN 462, LBN 460 and more

Equipment:

Epsilon 130D dual rig

QHY268m + CFW3M

TS2600MP (Touptek IMX571) + ZWO EFW

Astronomik DeepSky RGB

Astronomik MaxFR

Pegasus NYX-101

June/July 2024

Location: french alp

412x180s Luminanz

34x180s red

46x180s green

43x180s blue

26,75 total

This one turned out way better than I anticipated!

Messier 104 a.k.a. Sombrero Galaxy

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Discovered 250 years ago, the Sombrero galaxy (The Hat) is an elliptical galaxy located just over 30 million light-years from us and can be seen between the constellation Virgo and the constellation Corvus. According to measurements made by specialists in the field, M104 has a diameter of about 40,000 light-years, being about 3 times smaller than our galaxy. The name of the Hat is given both by the angle from which we can see it, and due to that prominent ring of cosmic dust that surrounds this galaxy and which is also the main source of new star formation. Regarding the nucleus of this galaxy, with the help of special infrared measurements it was found that in the galactic center of M104 there is a massive black hole, larger than in any other galaxy located within a radius of 40 million light years around the Milky Way.

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Equipment and settings:

Mount: Skywatcher Eq6 R

Telescope: 150/750 Newtonian telescope

Camera: ASI 533MC Pro

Total integration: 4 hours.

120 light frames x 2 min + calibration frames.

Stacking in Deep Sky Stacker.

Edit in Pixinsight and Lightroom.

Version LHaRVB.

100x180s (5h) - Filtre Idas LPS D1 - gain 120, -10°C - ciel Bortle 4.

80x300s (6h40) - Filtre Optolong L-Extreme - gain 120, -10°C - ciel Bortle 7.

Lunette TS triplet 80x480.

Réducteur TS x0.79.

Monture HEQ5 pro goto modifiée.

Caméra ZWO ASI294mc pro.

Guidage chercheur SW 9x50 + ASI120mm mini.

Asiair pro.

Pixinsight, PS.

DWB111 Propeller Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The Propeller Nebula is actually part of a much larger nebular complex which are common in this area of the sky.

Imaging camera: Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius

Imaging telescope: Vixen VSD @ F3

Chroma filters: Ha 3nm x10x1800 OIII 3nm x 10x1800. SII 10x1800

moonrocksastro.com/index.php/2016/06/30/dwb111-propeller-...

The Eastern Veil nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation of Cygnus, located at around 1470 light-years from Earth. It is part of the Cygnus Loop which is a 7000 years old, faint supernova remnant, covering roughly 3° on the sky (almost 6 full moons). The red hues in this image are from ionized hydrogen gas clouds, emitting light in the H-alpha wavelength, while the cyan hues are from oxygen ions.

Prints available: ralf-rohner.pixels.com

EXIF

Camera & Filters:

ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro

ZWO EFW / Baader Ultra Narrowband

3,5nm H-alpha

4,5nm Oiii

Telescope:

William Optics Megrez 88 f/5.6

Mount:

Skywatcher AZ-GTI

Camera, Mount & Focus control:

ZWO ASIair

20x 300s H-alpha

20x 300s Oiii

HOO image processing with PixInsight and Photoshop

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067 is an emission nebula associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name. Technical Info:

53 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter

23 x 300 sec. Optolong L-eXtreme filter

Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1

Total Integration 6.3 hours

Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor

Sensor cooled to -20°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)

Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.

Plate Solve-ASTAP via N.I.N.A. 1.11

Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.8 and finished in Photoshop CC 2021

The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, M 27, and NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula (nebulosity surrounding a white dwarf) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1360 light-years. A planetary nebula is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives. [wikipedia]

Imaged using the Celestron C14 Edge HD telescope in dome 4 at Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos observatory in Gorafe, Spain.

A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/3hreww/0/

Thank you for looking.

Technical summary:

Captured: 8 Nights in June 2024

Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain

Bortle Class: 3

Total Integration: 21 hours 25mins

Filters: UV-IR 329 x 120s, Red 68 x 180s, Green 74 x 180s, Blue 67 x 180s

Pixel Scale: 0.4 arcsec/pixel

Telescope: Celestron C14 Edge HD

Image Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro

Filters: Astronomik Lum, Red, Green, Blue,

Mount: Skywatcher EQ 8

Computer: Minix NUC

Capture software: NINA, PHD2

Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom

Avevo iniziato nel 2015 ad acquisire queste immagini flic.kr/p/CCbNR7 , flic.kr/p/CCejHs , flic.kr/p/CCi68y per realizzare un mosaico con 5 pannelli. Purtroppo solo la 1° acquisizione è stata buona, mentre le altre hanno avuto vari problemi e il 4° pannello aveva poca integrazione quindi speravo di rifarmi quest'anno, ma non è stato possibile.

Malgrado ciò, ho unito i 4 pannelli ed ho tentato di elaborare il mosaico nel modo migliore possibile.

Il risultato (work in progress) mi è sembrato molto gradevole quindi lo condivido con piacere con voi.

I dati EXIF sono riferiti all'acquisizione del 4° pannello in data 20/08/2016

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I started in 2015 to acquire these images flic.kr/p/CCbNR7, flic.kr/p/CCejHs, flic.kr/p/CCi68y making a mosaic with 5 panels . Unfortunately only the 1st acquisition was good, while the others have had various problems and the 4th panel had lower integration so I was hoping to solve this year, but it was not possible.

Despite that, I joined the 4 panels and attempted to process the mosaic in the best possible way.

The result (work in progress) seemed very nice so I share it with pleasure with you.

The EXIF data refers to the acquisition of the 4th panel on 08.20.2016

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Lens: Zenit Giove-11A 135mm f/4

Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) mod. Baader BCF

Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan

flic.kr/p/CCbNR7 > 30x300s 1600iso / 21 dark / 21 flat / 21 bias

date 16/07/2015(24) - 18/08/2015(6)

flic.kr/p/CCejHs > 30x300s 1600iso / 21 dark / 21 flat / 21 bias

date 16/07/2015 (11) - 19/08/2015 (19)

flic.kr/p/CCi68y > 33x300s 1600iso / 21 dark / 21 flat / 21 bias

date 13/08/2015 (13) - 19/08/2015 (20)

4th panel > 22x300s 1600iso / 21 dark / 21 flat / 21 bias

date 20/08/2015 (10) - 12/09/2015 (12)

Total Integration 9h 35min

Location: Rifugio Margio Salice, monti Nebrodi (Sicily-Italy) 1250m slm

Elaborazione DSS + PSCS3.

10se, F/4, iso 400

This galaxy has an inner bar rotating at a faster speed than the outer bars resulting in this shape. Our own galaxy could also be a barred spiral galaxy.

L 13x5m / R 16x5m / G 9x5m / 12x5m) 4.2h

ASA RC-1000AZ

FLI PL16803 (0.27''/pixel)

PI:

Lum - Reg/Drizzle/DC/MMT/HT

RGB - Reg/Drizzle/Reg/RGBComb/PCC/ArcSin/HT/Curves

Data from Telescope.Live

This is a 4 night Two panel shot join is in the middle of the two shots. As I am able to rotate the Nikon 300mm F4 prime on its lens clamp I marked the degrees so I could rotate to suit camera angle. once done I got an error reading each night 1.4 degrees.

the two panels joined perfectly with next to no step between the two panels. I am impressed so much I am almost willing to for go the Auto Focus with the belt to be able to rotate the camera.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Supernova_Remnant

for those interested a bit more info in the link.

Who can see the face in the shot.

ZWOASI071MC -10c 90 shots per panel 600 secs, over 4 night camera rotated.

ZWOEAF disconnected ,

Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,

Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

Discovered in 2011 by French astrophotographer Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula (Ou4) is distinguished by its elegant bipolar shape and the vivid blue glow of doubly ionized oxygen (Oiii). It is nestled entirely within the reddish hydrogen-rich emission nebula Sh2-129, also known as the Flying Bat Nebula.

Recent research indicates that Ou4 lies roughly 2,300 light-years from Earth and resides within Sh2-129. This makes Ou4 a dramatic outflow, originating from HR 8119, a triple system of hot, massive stars at the nebula’s core. With an enormous physical size of nearly 50 light-years, the Squid Nebula stands as one of the largest and most intriguing emission structures in the night sky.

Capturing the Squid Nebula is a real challenge and requires very long integration times over several nights... The perfect challenge to test my new deep space imaging rig.

Equipment:

Telescope: Sharpstar SQA106

Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i

Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro

Filter: Baader RGB, 3nm Ha & 4.5nm Oiii with a ZWO EFW

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Autoguider: ZWO ASI 385MC with Artesky UltraGuide 32mm

Rig control: ZWO Astrophotography ASIAir Plus

EXIF

130x 30s with RGB

50x 300s Ha

150x 300s Oiii

Total exposure time: 20h

newton skywatcher 150/750 pds canon eos 600D modificada con filtro baader bcf, sobre neq6 pro2.

3,5h de integración dividida en subtomas de 30, 60, 120, 240 y 360 segundos

This is a montage of the best bits of 2016 ..... It's been an interesting year for sure and I've had some imaging fun!

2017 is already turning into an interesting year, with things in the pipeline that I am looking forward to.

There are many hundreds of hours of total exposure time in this complete montage. Some of the images have been published in magazine and one of them got a NASA APOD as well.

I hope you enjoy looking over it as much as I've enjoyed the imaging and processing time spent doing each and every image on here.

NGC7380 or Sh2-142 - The Wizard nebula - is approximately 8000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus.

This is a reprocess of some old data as I was never happy with the original

Details

M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse

T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x

C: Atik 460EXM with 3nm narrowband filters

24x1800s Ha

15x1800s OIII

15x1800s SII

Total integration time - 27 hours

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus, at about 2400 light years from us.

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop,a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. In modern usage, the names Veil Nebula, Cirrus Nebula, and Filamentary Nebula generally refer to all the visible structure of the remnant, or even to the entire loop itself. The structure is so large that several NGC numbers were assigned to various arcs of the nebula. There are three main visual components: 1. The Western Veil (also known as Caldwell 34), consisting of NGC 6960 (the "Witch's Broom", Lacework Nebula, "Filamentary Nebula"; 2. The Eastern Veil (also known as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula"; 3. Pickering's Triangle (or Pickering's Triangular Wisp), brightest at the north central edge of the loop, but visible in photographs continuing toward the central area of the loop.

The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of the explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in the daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 36 times the area of the full Moon.

Equipment and settings:

Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 R pro

Lens: Rokinon 135mm F2

Camera: ASI 533MM Pro

Filters: Astrodon SHO

Total integration: 10h30 ( Ha 49 exposures x 5 min, Sii 30 x 5 min, Oiii 77 x 3 min )

Edit in Pixinsight.

Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.

olgeir.zenfolio.com/

In honor of tonight's full moon, here's an image from last month's full moon which I photographed about an hour after it rose.

The moon itself here is my capture, and I have used a deep space filter layered behind it, giving a three dimensional element and experience.

Hit the Enlarge button and enjoy your galactic journey floating into space as you view it :)

Discovered in 1786 by William Herschel, the North

America Nebula shows its characteristic shape only in wide field astrophotographs.

The North America Nebula is separated from the Pelican Nebula by a dark dust cloud catalogued in 1962 as L935.

It took until 2004 for astronomers to identify the star that ionizes both the North America and the Pelican Nebula. The light of the inconspicuous star, named J205551.3+435225, is almost entirely blocked by the dark cloud L935. As J205551.3+435225 lies just off the “Florida coast” of the North America Nebula, it has been more conveniently nicknamed the Bajamar Star ("Islas de Bajamar," meaning "low-tide islands" in Spanish, was the original name of the Bahamas).

Equipment:

Telescope: William Optics Megrez 88

Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro

ZWO EFW with Baader HaRGB filters

ZWO EAF autofocus

ZWO ASI 385MC autoguider

Equatorially mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI

Controlled with ASIair Plus

9-panel panorama, each 3x60s with RGB @ 5x 180s Ha, total exposure time: 3h36min