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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, is a true wonder of the cosmos. From its location in the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud offers a breathtaking view of a celestial spectacle - two big, bright smudges of light hanging over the southern horizon like two stubborn clouds refusing to dissipate.
With the help of a telescope and camera, its glowing gas clouds and vibrant colours reveal a dazzling display of cosmic artistry. The colourful regions peppered across the galaxy are a massive collection of supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and star clusters. Intense radiations from those active targets energise the nearby hydrogen gases, causing them to glow like neons. Perhaps the most striking target is the Tarantula Nebula (the largest nebula seen in the pictures), a sprawling gas cloud resembling a giant spider dancing in the night sky.
(The data was acquired from Telescope Live, which I processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop).
🌺 Balade cosmique dans le jardin de Diane de Poitiers ✨.
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Cet été était prévu un très court road trip de quelques jours pour visiter un maximum de châteaux de la Loire avec @amande.sen 💜. Et comme d’habitude, je ne peux pas m'empêcher de sortir faire de l’astro quand j’en ai l’occasion surtout dans ce secteur où le ciel est bien sombre. Bien-sûr j’avais des rêves d’astrophotos avec les châteaux en tête mais en sachant pertinemment que ça allait être compliqué de trouver ces lieux ouverts de nuit…
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J’ai eu l’immense chance d’avoir accès à Chenonceau de nuit pour moi tout seul, chose qui ne se fait pratiquement jamais surtout aussi tard la nuit en été. Je suis tellement reconnaissant pour cette opportunité et je remercie infiniment la personne qui a rendu cela possible 🙏. Avancer dans l’allée centrale, voir le château au loin, se rapprocher, déambuler dans les magnifiques jardins de nuit, c’était un mélange d'émotions et un sentiment d’être tellement privilégié de me tenir ici. La magie est encore montée d’un cran quand toutes les lumières se sont éteintes…
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🏰 Je voulais faire le maximum de projets photos que j’avais en tête pour ne rien regretter. J’en avais 2, peut-être 3 dépendant de la météo qui prévoyait des nébulosités en fin de nuit… Il y en a bien eu 3 et on commence par le dernier : un panorama ultra détaillé réalisé au 135mm avec le centre de la Voie Lactée passant juste derrière le château et la région de Rho Ophiuchi derrière la Tour des Marques, le tout s’alignant avec le superbe jardin de Diane de Poitiers. Le cadre est idyllique, on dirait que l’alignement de ces 3 éléments a été pensé tellement c’est parfait, la géométrie et les courbes menant vers le fond l’image… A ce moment, je m'imaginais les balades sous les étoiles qui pouvaient se passer ici il y a plusieurs siècles, c’est juste dingue.
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EXIF :
-@canonfrance EOS R(a) by a-m.de
-@samyangfrance 135mm f/2 ED UMC
-@nisifrance Natural Night Filter
-@skywatcherofficial Star Adventurer GTi
-Ciel : 16 tuiles 45s f/2.4 ISO1600
-Sol : 12 tuiles 45s f/2 ISO3200
-Pix/PS/DxO/PTgui
The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is one of my favorite spring targets. Not only is the region extremely colorful, it also consists of many interesting astronomical objects:
- Rho Ophiuchi is the star within the blue reflection nebula. If you zoom into the image you can see that it is actually a 3-star system. The blue color of the nebula is produced by Rayleigh Scattering, the same process that colors our daylight sky blue.
- The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex on the other hand is the dark nebula south of the star Rho Ophiuchi. At a distance of 427 light-years, it is one of the closest star forming regions to the solar system.
- The yellow star within the yellow nebula is Antares, the brightest star of the constellation Scorpius. It is a red supergiant, nearing the end of its live. The star has depleted the fuel supply of hydrogen within its core and is now bloated to monstrous proportions. As it goes through its death throes, the star has expelled a lot of its mass as shells of gas and dust into space. The nebulosity surrounding Antares is created by this gas and dust which is reflecting the dying star’s yellowish light.
- To the right of Antares is the globular cluster M4. Globular clusters are massive, tightly packed spheres that contain thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of individual stars.
- Above M4 you find Sigma Scorpii. It is multiple star system of hot, young stars, emitting of UV radiation. As this high energy UV light hits the hydrogen atoms it energizes them, and the electrons separate from the atomic nucleus. When they recombine, the electrons give off a reddish-pink light which makes the gas cloud glow.
- Below Antares is Tau Scorpii, surrounded by another faint emission nebula of energized hydrogen.
- Both Sigma and Tau Scorpii share the same name: Al Niyat. They got their name from ancient Arabic astronomers and it means, "the arteries". Seeing how these stars with their red nebula flank Antares, the heart of Scorpius, it makes sense that they could be viewed as the arteries of that colossal, dying heart.
As you can see, the region around Rho Ophiuchi has it all. Its colors tell a story of darkness and light, of peaceful coexistence and violence and of birth and death.
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
15 × 60s @ ISO1600
Foreground:
7 x 60s @ ISO3200
is a barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away
distance 22.5 Mly
exposure time: 13,7 hours
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
ASI1600mmc v2
ZWO EFW 8x
Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar
247x120s Luminanz
55x120s red
50x120s green
59x120s blue
February/March 2021
Little Bright Blue Stars
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
As the two suns illuminating the planet set behind the mountains, bright blue stars began to illuminate the sky. They looked like little blue light bulbs. They were like those little blue light bulbs that light up the scene on a wedding night. I really felt like I was at a country wedding while watching the sparkles of the stars. But I was the only guest at this wedding. There was no one around me to dance with. There was neither a groom nor a bride in this country wedding, illuminated by the stars in the sky. There was only me. Maybe this was the wedding of my eternal solitude. That night, under the stars, the whole universe witnessed this agreement that would last forever with my loneliness. It was a night when I blessed my loneliness. Thanks to this wedding, my loneliness would not bother me for many years and I would be able to continue my journey in space without any problems. It was as I thought. For many years, I never thought of my loneliness. I was very healthy mentally. Until the end of these long years. For the past year, all I've been thinking about was no longer the lost civilization of Plutonia. There was one more profound thing occupying my mind. My loneliness. I couldn't help but think about this situation. Maybe I should have made myself a new wedding of solitude. I should have remarried my loneliness. It is very difficult to make a decision in this huge vacuum of space. I want to get to the ending without hurting myself any further. I don't know yet what this ending will be. All I want is an end.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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
80x180 luminanz
22x180 red
22x180 green
22x180 blue
total exposure time: 7,3 hours
Processing: PixInsight/Capture One
Old data processing of M106 galaxy ( 24/04/2020 ) .
Processed with the help of sp.la.sh.id, find him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/sp.la.sh.id/
Gear used:
■ Mount: skywatcher neq-6 goto with Rowan modification belt
■ Telescope: skywatcher 200/1000 F/5
■ Autoguiding: Asi 120mm
■ Total exposure: 2H25m || 29 X 300 seconds
■ Camera: modified canon eos 700d astrodon
■ Filter(s): no filter
■ Other optic(s): baader coma corrector
■ Software : Siril / PixInsight / photoshopCC
Unfortunately the seeing and the conditions were bad and got worse and worse that i had to break off early.
Many haze clouds were around.
Also the collimation of the RC-Telescope is still not very good.
/// Setup
- Camera: Moravian G2-8300 + OAG
- Telescope: TS 10" RC 254/2000
- TS 2.5" Corrector
- Mount: Paramount MX+ on concrete pier
- Guiding Camera: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2
/// Software
- Capturing Software: TheSkyX, Kstars Ekos
- Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8
/// Image Integration
- 3x900" H-alpha / bin 1x1 / -30°C
- 2x900" OIII / bin 1x1 / -30°C
(1.25h)
NDN 935, NGC7000 H-Alpha
distance: 2000 - 3000 ly
NDN 935, NGC7000 HSO RGB
distance: 2000 - 3000 ly
Equipment:
10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton
QHY268m
Astronomik H-Alpha MaxFR
Skywatcher EQ8
September 2021
Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo
Explanation: These two spiral galaxies make a photogenic pair, found within the boundaries of the northern constellation Draco. Contrasting in color and orientation, NGC 5965 is nearly edge-on to our line of sight and dominated by yellow hues, while bluish NGC 5963 is closer to face-on. Of course, even in this well-framed cosmic snapshot the scene is invaded by other galaxies, including small elliptical NGC 5969 at the upper left. Brighter, spiky stars in our own Milky Way are scattered through the foreground. Though they seem to be close and of similar size, galaxies NGC 5965 and NGC 5963 are far apart and unrelated, by chance appearing close on the sky. NGC 5965 is about 150 million light-years distant and over 200,000 light-years across. Much smaller, NGC 5963 is a mere 40 million light-years away and so is not associated with the edge-on spiral. Difficult to follow, NGC 5963's extraordinarily faint blue spiral arms mark it as a low surface brightness galaxy. (text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120216.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 = 31 * 900 seconds , bin.1, RGB = 15* 450-600 seconds, bin.2 each filter. 14 hours total.
FWHM source in L filter 1.86"-2.76", sum in L channel - 2.30"
The height above the horizon from 58° to 75°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
NGC7822 & SH2-171 imaged from Seven Skies Observatory 2022-09-21 thru 2022-10-04.
The third of 3 images captured during our 'test run' with the new observatory.
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. NGC7822 is approximately 2,900 light years from Earth.
Image captured over 8 nights; 2022-09-21, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 30, 2022-10-01, & 03
18 hours 40 minutes total integration
Ha subs: 27 * 1,200 sec = 9 hours
OIII subs: 14 * 1,200 sec = 4 hours 40 min
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
CTB 1 is a supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Cassiopeia and a source of optical, radio, and X-ray emissions. A recent study reports that a pulsar was born from the supernova that produced CTB 1 and ejected into the galaxy.
CTB 1 is approximately 9784 light years away and physically spans another 98 light years in diameter while it is dated to be approximately 10,000 years old.
Image captured over 5 nights; 2021-11-06, 07, 08, 10, & 11
20.5 hours total integration
Ha subs 18 * 1,800 sec = 9 hours
OIII subs 12 * 1,800 sec = 6 hours
SII subs 11 * 1,800 sec = 5 hours 30 min
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
2.4 hours of 3 min stacked exposures. 120mm Skywatcher , Canon Rebel 6ti mod, My first great astrophoto. 1,500 light-years away. The left star is the left star in Orion's Belt.
Caldwell Object 79
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Constellation: Vela
Magnitude: +6.75
Apparent size: 20 arc min
Diameter: 93 light years.
Distance: 16,000 light years.
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Image date: 2021-03-04
Exposure: 44 minutes
Frames: 11×239.6 sec
Field of View: 1.59° x 1.06°
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This is my latest deep-space photography shot. This was from October 26th at Lake Hudson Recreational Area in Michigan. This image is from 68 minutes of data exposure (34 photographs each at 2-minute exposures).
Located close to the Orion Nebula and usually included in the same frame but not very often given the main stage.
Imaged 17 Dec 2022 on a single night test imaging session after a complete rebuild of the Celestron C11 Edge HD imaging setup.
This is 362 x 60 second subframes totaling 6 hours of integration.
The full details are available on my Astrobin page astrob.in/w1lbb3/0/
Technical summary:
Celestron C11 Edge HD with 0.7 focal reducer.
ZWO ASI2600 MC Pro camera.
Baader Moon and Sky Glow filter.
EQ6 R Pro mount.
200mm guide scope.
No flats, no darks only 50 bias frames for calibration.
Edited with PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom Classic.
On this night the skies were beautifully clear and I was able to capture the data to create this image of Centaurus A (aka NGC5128 or 'The Hamburger Galaxy').
This is one of the closest radio galaxies to earth and is the fifth-brightest in the sky thanks to the supermassive black hole at the centre. This black hole has an estimated mass of around 55 million solar masses and ejects cosmic rays from it's core which can be captured in images taken at different wavelengths.
🌀🌠🌌🌟
Image Information
Telescope: Planewave 17" CDK | f6.8
Camera: FLI Proline 16803 CCD
Mount: Planewave Ascension 200HR
Exposure Details: L 12 x 300 sec (bin 1x1), R 6 x 200 sec (bin 2x2), G 6 x 150 sec (bin 2x2), B 6 x 300 sec (bin 2x2),
Observatory: Siding Spring, NSW, Australia
Date Taken: 15 April 2020
Post-Processing: AstroPixelProcessor, Lightroom Classic CC
The Iris Nebula or NGC 7023, is a reflection nebula, its color comes from the light of its central star, which lies in the constellation Cepheus. You can find it nearish to the North Star. It is located ~1,400 light-years away from Earth, and its gasses stretch ~6 light-years across.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikon 500mm f/4 P AI-s
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
101 x 181" for 5 hours 4 min and 41 sec of exposure time.
6 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PixInsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
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/4 and 181" exposures. Image frames were stacked and integrated and processed in PixInsight using: STF, Cropping, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator and then the DSO was separated from the stars, 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 to the final image.
SH2-308, commonly known as the "Dolphin Head Nebula" is a HII region located in the constellation Canis Major. It is approximately 4300light years away. he massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive star evolution. Fast winds from this Wolf-Rayet star create the bubble-shaped nebula as they sweep up slower moving material from an earlier phase of evolution.
This image was captured with a ASI 2600MC Pro OSC camera and a TS-Optics 90mm CF APO f.6 Refractor (543mm focal length). I used a optolong L-eXtreme filter to capture the narrowband data.
This was my first time shooting 1000s exposures! I think it turned out pretty great, although I only have about 4.1hrs on the target.
The Soul Nebula is a large emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. This star-forming complex lies within the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy.
The Soul Nebula is estimated to lie approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth.
Image captured over 6 nights; 2021-11-04, 06, 07, 09, 10, & 11
20.5 hours total integration
Ha subs 24 * 1,200 sec = 8 hours
OIII subs 20 * 1,200 sec = 6 hours 40 min
SII subs 17 * 1,200 sec = 5 hours 40 min
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 94EDPH with reducer at 414mm focal length,
Rainbow Astro RST-135,
ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
Equipment:
10" f/4 ONTC Newtonian Teleskope
ASI294mmPro
Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB
Astronomik L-2
Skywatcher EQ-8 Pro
exposure time: 16hour
Processing: PixInsight/affinity
photo
285x120 Luminanz
74x120s red
74x120s green
75x120s blue
The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula formed by an intermediate to low-mass star. When a star of this size ages, it gradually sheds its outer layer, making an outward-drifting shell of gas and dust. Its core collapses to form a compact white dwarf that slowly radiates its energy away. The radiation then catches up with the gases, ionizing them and creating this astonishing scene. You can find the white dwarf star in the centre of this image; it's now about the size of the Earth.
Another interesting thing about this nebula is that the star that formed it is similar to our sun. This led to the belief that in 5 billion years, when our solar system begins to age and fade away, it might turn into a beautiful nebula just like this one.
(The data was acquired from iTelescope, which I processed using pixinsight and photoshop).
NGC 6820 is a small reflection nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in a large faint emission nebula called SH2-86. The whole area of nebulosity is often referred to as NGC 6820. Open star cluster NGC 6823 is about 50 light-years across and lies about 6,000 light-years away. The center of the cluster formed about two million years ago and is dominated in brightness by a host of bright young blue stars.
Image captured over 8 nights; 2022-09-21, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 30, 2022-10-01, & 03
20 hours 50 minutes total integration
Ha subs: 28 * 1,200 sec = 9 hours 20 min
OIII subs: 12 * 1,200 sec = 4 hours
SII subs: 18 * 1,200 sec = 6 hours
Red subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Green subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Blue subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
RGB fliters
Milkyway mosaic (16-frames) taken under perfect skies in the australian outback (mag 7, sometimes even mag7.5).
Equipment used: Canon EOS 40D (modified), Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 at f/4.0, AstroTrac (generation 1)
Exposure time was 211 times 5min.
Simeis 147, also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, SNR G180.0-01.7 or Sharpless 2-240, is a supernova remnant (SNR) in the Milky Way, straddling the border between the constellations of Auriga and Taurus. Discovered in 1952 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory using a large 25" telescope. it is difficult to observe due to its extremely low brightness.
The nebulous area is fairly large with an almost spherical shell and filamentary structure The remnant has an apparent diameter of approx 3 degrees, an estimated distance of approximately 3000 (±350) light-years, and an age of approximately 40,000 years.It is about 1000 light years away and is roughly 15 light years in diameter.
Due to its size this is a 2x2 pane mosaic in order to fit the whole nebula in the frame.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 with Astrodon 3nm Ha filter
23x900s in Ha in each pane
Totalling 23 hours of exposure.
When Atlas was punished to bear the heavens on his shoulders, his seven daughters with Pleione - Asterope, Electra, Merope, Maia, Celaeno, Taygeta, and Alcyone – started to be pursued by the hunter Orion, who had fell in love with them and their mother. In pity of their suffering, Zeus first turned them into doves and then into stars, to protect them from the Orion’s advances who, it is said, still pursues them across the sky.
Known from, at least, the Bronze Age, the Pleiades star cluster an hallmark and leitmotiv for mythologies across several civilizations and they were/are also known as Soraya (old Persia) or Subaru (Japan).
The Pleiades is an open cluster with about 1,000 stars at about 440 light years but only the brightest are visible at naked eye, even in light polluted skies; but in a dark sky and viewed through binoculars it is a truly amazing sight. They will be gravitationally bound for another 250 million and by then it will disperse in Orion’s constellation.
Shot at Santa Susana, Portugal on 01.Oct.2023 and 18.Jan.2023.
Technical details:
LUM: 178 x 180s (8h54)
RGB: 105 x 180s (5h15)
SW EQ6-R Pro | TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115 | TS Optics TSFLAT2 0.79x | QHYCCD 268M | Optolong LRGB | RBFocus Gaius-S | RBFocus Myrrdin 2.3
Acquisition: N.I.N.A. | Processing: Pixinsight
The name of this one how could I resist. Has been a cloud fight to get the shots over 4 night in very strong winds. this sits just below the Horse head nebula and just off the red ring that goes around Orion. Barnards loop the goes around half of the Orion area, Barnards loop I will wait for moon less night to try and get this target with my 50mm F1.8 lens ZWOASI071.
QHY183C -10c 82 shots 10 min each over 4 nights and camera rotated.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
wenn man schon 2 stunden lang meteoriten jagt und keine erwischt dann kann man das material noch zu startrails umbauen :D
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 and IC434 ) is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. It is located approximately 1500 light years from earth.
This is a two pane mosaic of the Horsehead area in Orion. I originally did the lower pane (the image below) but felt that a pane above this would give a sense of completeness in the image.
This is the first image that has taken advantage of the dual rig that I have got together.
Details:
M: Mesu 200
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
Pane 1:
C: QSI683 3nm Ha filter
27x1800s
Pane 2:
C: QSI683 3nm Ha filter / Moravian G2-8300 3nm Ha Filter
20x1800s QSI / 8x1800s G2-3800
Total exposure time 27.5 hours
● Object specifications:
► Designation: NGC 2903
► Object type: Barred spiral galaxy
► Stellar coordinates:
-Ra: 9h 32m 09,76s.
-DEC: +21° 30′ 07.0″.
► Distance: /.
► Constellation: Leo.
► Magnitude: 9.01
● Gear:
► Telescope: SW 200/1000 F5
► Mount: IOptron CEM60-ec
► Camera: QHY294C
► Autoguiding: guidescope 50mm + ZWO asi
120mm
► Other optic(s): TS coma corrrector Maxfield 0.95X
► Filter(s): Optolong L-pro 2"
● Softwares:
► Acquisition: Nina
► Autoguiding: PHD guiding 2
► Preprocessing: PixInsight
► Processing: PixInsight
● Data acquisition:
► total +-7H, 5 min per capture
► Gain: 1601
► Offset: 60
► Cooling: -15°C
► Date(s): 25/02/2023 -> 26/02/2023 | 2 nights
An open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog. This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually.
Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. (I personally don't see that)
Image capture details: (6h 20m)
Ha-9x1,200sec (3h)
OIII-5x1,200sec((1h 40m)
SII-5x1,200sec(1h 40m)
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet
Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned),
ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera
I hope you are not fed up with Rho Ophiuchi shots yet. As spring is Rho time, I cannot guarantee that there will not be more coming...
I captured this image in the Toggenburg Valley of eastern Switzerland from the same area as my "Rural Idyll" post. Those who have seen that image may recognize the teeth as two of the Churfirsten peaks. These rocky twins are called Schibenstoll and Zuestoll and are up to on meter of the same hight (2234 and 2235 meter).
EXIF
Canon EOS Ra
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM @ 100mm, f/2.8
iOptron SkyTracker
Sky:
Stack of 12 x 90s @ ISO1600, tracked
Foreground:
Stack of 5 x 90s @ ISO3200
An Impossible Return: A New Beginning
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
I left many things behind when I left planet Earth. My friends, the streets I like to walk, the old florist uncle selling daffodils in his basket, the city where I have lived memories in every street, my favorite mountain bike, my best friend and the most beautiful girl in the world. My love. I had to leave all this behind. It was as if I had never lived. All my memories turned into dreams over time. As soon as I transitioned from the earth's atmosphere to the dark space, I began to purify myself from many of my emotions. I was turning into an emotionless person pretty quickly. That's how I was supposed to be. Otherwise, I could go back to earth to relive all the emotions I longed for. My space journey to find a planet suitable for life could have ended before it could reach its goal. So I had to get rid of all my emotions. First of all, I started to move away from my sense of longing. That way, I would be able to get away from my passion for love, albeit little by little. The thing that I had the most difficulty in leaving planet Earth was the feeling of love. I would never be able to experience true love again. When I was in the world, I had a girlfriend. She was the most beautiful being in the world. I miss her the most. Her hair, her smile, the smell of her skin. I miss her the most. I will never see her again. Every spring, there was an old uncle in the city where I live, selling daffodils in his wooden basket. Every time I left school, I would buy my girlfriend and myself a bunch of daffodils. While she was walking next to me with the most fragrant flower in the world against her nose, while I was smelling my own flower, I would watch the most beautiful girl in the world. I wouldn't turn my eyes away for once. Watching my beloved was the best moment for me. We used to do this every time after school.
I experienced the feeling of love very intensely. That's why I was sure that the first feeling I had to get rid of was love. But it was not easy for me to get rid of the feeling of love. Memories flooded my mind. In particular, during these last days of my deep space travel, memories of my life on earth had brought some feelings back to life. This was pushing me to return to planet earth. But I was so far from planet earth, my home, that it was a near impossible request for me.
I don't know if I will be able to return to planet earth, my home, from the interplanetary deep space voyage that I took off. Returning to Earth meant a new beginning for me. I would have to start everything from scratch. Maybe I was too old for that. I do not know. I've been thinking too much lately. Maybe I should stop thinking and focus on my research. I had so much time in space, but my time for planet earth was running short. This was quite the contradiction. And in the face of this situation, I was the only person who would give me the right mind.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Two galaxies in a cosmic collision will eventually form a larger single galaxy. There is significant star forming ongoing likely as a result of the collision. Two tails of stars are left streaming from the galaxies that appears as little antennae.
LRGB: 12x600s 8hrs Total
Pixinsight:
L - CC/Reg/Drizzle/DC/MMT/HT/HDR/Curves RGB - CC/Reg/PM/PCC/ArcSin/HT/LRGB
Photoshop:
Crop/Nik Dfine 2/Smart Sharpen/Curves
Data From Telescope.Live
CHI-1-CCD
Planewave 24in
FLI PL9000
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
ZWO ASI 1600mmc
Astrodon LRGB
Skywatcher EQ8
exposure time: 5,4 hours
10" ONTC Newton
37x240s Luminanz
Epsilon 130D
20x240s red
11x240s green
11x240s blue
Processing: PixInsight
März 2021
The Orion nebula (M42) is about 1.350 light years away.
Tri(false)colour composition done with Baader H-alpha, OIII and SII filters. Reduced starfield to highlight the nebula. (Star71/347mm; ATIK 383l+; Celestron AVX)
Image which has exceptional meaning for me. Taken on my last night at the GEO Observatory in Spain with my friend John Griffiths. He'd asked for a printout when I finished processing this image, which sadly I was not able to ever show him. This one is for him.
Atik 4000 CCD. H-Alpha/OIII filters
The surrounding nebula and star cluster NGC 346 is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud near the constellation Tucana. The image also contains: NGC 371, NGC 395, NGC 416, IC 1624, IC 1611, and IC 1612.
Takahashi TAO-150B
FLI 16200 (scale 1.1")
AP 1600GTO Abs Encoders
Data from Deepskywest El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile)
Ha (17x30min)
Oiii (17x30min)
R (13x5min)
G (49x5min)
B (21x5min)
Total Integration = 23.9hrs
Fog Signal
Planet Dokeia
Interplanetary Travel
Camera: Samsung Galaxy S8
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
The constellation of Scorpius lies in the general direction of the galactic core of our Milky Way galaxy. As a result, myriads of star clusters and nebulae can be found within the boundaries of the constellation. This 12 panel mosaic attempts to capture as much detail in the constellation as possible by combining the view through a 90mm lens together to cover the entire well known region of Scorpius.
Technical details:
10X30s
5X30s (with Softon Filter)
12 panel panorama combined
Sony A7S + Leica 90mm Elmarit f2.8@f4 ISO2000
Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracking mount (unguided)
Median stacked in Photoshop
Panorama stitched in PTGUI
In the constellation of Canes Venatici but quite close to Ursa Major’s star Alkaid lies the Whirlpool Galaxy, a beautiful interacting grand-design spiral galaxy. It is located at about 31 million light years from us and can be seen during Spring even with binoculars if the sky is dark enough.
Very prominently, this galaxy is interacting with a smaller one - NGC 5195 - the yellowish one on the right. As a result, large tidal tails are formed - those are the faint yellow structures around both galaxies.
Looking closer to M51, dark lanes in the spiral arms can be seen; what are these? They are compressed gas and dust clouds - the raw material for stars. And these new stars being formed are what makes the blue patches seen nearby.
One of amateurs astrophotographers preferred targets, the Whirlpool galaxy is, for sure, an amazing view. I hope you enjoy.
Shot at Santa Susana, Portugal on the 29th and 30th of April, 2022.
IG: @the.cosmic.arena
Technical details:
LUM: 172 x 180s (8h60), BIN1
RGB: 3 x 40 x 180s (6h00), BIN2
Telescope: TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115
Camera: QHYCCD 268M
Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ5-GT
Filters: Optolong LRGB
Reducer: TSOptics TSFLAT 3’ 0.79x
Acquisition: N.I.N.A.
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
Newton SW 200x1000 sur HEQ5 pro modifiée Rowan.
Canon 1000D défiltré + filtre Idas LPS D1 + correcteur de coma Baader MPCC Mark III.
71x120s ISO400, 40 dark, 101 bias, 15 flat.
Ciel Bortle 8.
PixInSight, PS.
The horse head nebula in Orion. This was a tough one to process. Alnitak kept taking over the photo. Next time out I will take shorter exposures on the blue and green filter.
Taken with a ZWO ASI1600mm-cool, R=12 @ 240 sec , G=25 @ 120 sec, B= 45 @ 60 sec, HA=15 @ 240 sec. Clouds moved in before Luminance were taken. Default HDR gain setting. Edit with Pixisight. Taken Nov. 2018