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NGC 891 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. Note the dust lane running down the middle of the galaxy.
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hst_12675_01_wfc3_uvis_f555w (Blue)
hst_12675_01_wfc3_uvis_total (Green)
hst_12675_01_wfc3_uvis_f656n (Red)
hst_11643_08_wfc3_uvis_f438w (Blue)
hst_11643_08_wfc3_uvis_total (Green)
hst_11643_08_wfc3_uvis_f625w (Red)
The Lagoon and Trifid nebulas.
Taken with a Canon 20D and 100-400 mm lens piggybacked. Two 6-8 minute manually guided shots were stacked.
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hst_12295_01_wfc3_uvis_f336w (Blue)
hst_12295_01_wfc3_uvis_total (Green)
hst_12295_01_wfc3_uvis_f814w (Red)
hst_12118_04_wfc3_uvis_f606w (Blue)
hst_12118_04_wfc3_uvis_f390w (Blue)
hst_12118_04_wfc3_uvis_total (Green)
hst_12118_04_wfc3_uvis_f814w (Red)
Target: M31
Telescope: Celestron SP-C6
Mount: Vixen Super Polaris
Unguided
Camera: unmodded Canon 300D Rebel
Subs: 10x3min, 11x2min, 13x1min, 6x30sec. lights, Same amount of Dark's as lights, 20 Flats, ISO 800
Target: M88
Telescope: Celestron SP-C6
Mount: Vixen Super Polaris/guided
Camera: Full Spectrum Canon 300D Rebel with CLS Filter
Guide scope/camera: LX SPC900NC, Celestron 9x50 finder scope
Subs: 11x5min lights at ISO 800, 11x6min Darks, 11 Flats
What a striking visual spectacle! Gotta love the interplay of dark and light regions within the #ElephantsTrunkNebula, which are so dramatic and picturesque. If you aim to capture this beauty and appreciate the intricate details and vibrant colors, long exposures using narrowband filters are the way to go.
My reprocessed starless image helped me dive deeper into PixInsight’s range selection tool and curves transformation, as well as the masking tool in Lightroom. More images are on my Instagram page: Astro_Chroma. Clear skies!
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hst_09042_02_wfpc2_total_wf (Green)
hst_09042_02_wfpc2_f814w_wf (Red)
hst_09042_38_wfpc2_f450w_wf (Blue)
hst_09042_38_wfpc2_total_wf ( Green)
hst_09042_38_wfpc2_f814w_wf (Red)
hst_11966_17_wfpc2_f336w_wf (Blue)
hst_11966_17_wfpc2_total_wf (Green)
hst_11966_17_wfpc2_f814w_wf (Red)
First attempt at a DSO, the Double Cluster in Perseus also knowen as Caldwell 14, with the NexStar 5SE, could have done with higher ISO or longer exposure but this important thing here is the stars are not trailing even though the alignment wasn't perfect which should mean I can lengthen exposures with better alignment. This was taken on the simple Alt-Az alignment, using the built in wedge and EQ aligning should help a lot too. Progress!
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hst_09042_15_wfpc2_total_wf (Green)
hst_09042_15_wfpc2_f814w_wf (Red)
OK so it's not ultra impressive but to be fair the target (just below centre) is 1344 light years away and I've only got a 400mm lens to play with until I get the telescope! Single shot too.
hst_09042_h4_wfpc2_f450w_wf (Blue)
hst_09042_h4_wfpc2_total_wf (Green)
hst_09042_h4_wfpc2_f814w_wf (Red)
hst_09042_h4_wfpc2_f606w_wf (Red)
The blinking planetary nebula is a dying star that is emitting waves of gas and solar wind. As the star burns out and nears the core, the solar wind increases in speed, exciting the slower material ejected earlier as it passes through. This creates an emission nebula around the star. These nebula are short-lived and burn out after a few thousand years.
The blinking PN gets it's name because the bright star in the middle obscures the faint nebula when viewed directly, but when viewed using averted vision the nebula magically appears!
# Sharpless 2-240, The Spaghetti Nebula
Image created using Ha & Oii data for the nebula and RGB data for the stars, This is a very faint supernova remnant in Auriga Constellation known as the Spaghetti Nebula, Sharpless 2-240 or Simeiz 147. Location is a Bortle 4 site in eastern Long Island, NY.
# Equipment:
- ZWO ASI1600MM imaging camera with ZWO EFW & filters
- Askar FMA 180 Pro f/4.5 telescope
- Skywatcher EQ6-R mount
- Orion 60mm guide scope with ZWO 120mm guide camera
- Acquisition using N.I.N.A
- PHD2 for guiding
# Data:
- Ha: 68x300s (gain 139, offset 21)
- Oiii: 59x300s (gain 139, offset 21)
- R: 16x60s (gain 76, offset 15)
- G: 16x60s (gain 76, offset 15)
- B: 16x60s (gain 76, offset 15)
# Processing:
## Siril:
- image stacking/registration per channel with background extraction in each sub frame
- Histogram stretch
- registration of stacked/stretched images
- Ha/Oii & RGB composition
- final background neutralization
- Pixelmath to combine Ha & Oiii data
- Starnett++ for star removal and recomposition
## GIMP:
- levels & curves adjustment for luminance layer
- merge L & Core layers into final luminance layer
- color temperature adjustment
- hue/saturation
- noise rereduction
- sharpening
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The Orion Molecular Complex.
I originally wanted to just capture the Witch Head Nebula near Rigel (bottom right corner) but used the clear skies to try out a different astro imaging suite called NINA. It's pretty easy to use but I stuck with gold ol' APT to catch this short session.
Canon 6DMk2
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 prime lens
15 light frames (240 seconds each) / No darks
Stacked and initially processed in Siril
Edited in Photoshop
M35 and NGC 2158 are two open clusters in the constellation Gemini. M35 is newer and has mostly (baby) blue stars. NGC2158 is older and burns more yellow/red. Looks better viewed large.
Finally was able this year to catch this beautiful nebula. Orion imaged my best so far by my cpc925, 60d at prime iso400 20"exp. post in LR.
Target: Bubble Nebula/NGC7635
Telescope: Celestron SP-C6
Mount: Vixen Super Polaris/guided
Camera: Orion StarShoot Deep Space Monochrome Imager III
Subs: H-a 4x800sec 2x600sec 2x300sec Lights
Triple of North American Nebula 25-10-21 Oxon UK 1) 4x900 HA 2) 10x300 L-Exstreme 3) all combined - WO Z61ii - ASI294MCPro - SWNEQ6-R-Pro - Nina - Stellarium - PH2 - DSS - Photoshop
North America Nebula 25-10-21.
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). The shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico.
Pacman Nebula this evening 24-9-2021.
Only 13 240sec frames before the cloud rolled in.
NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula and part of an H II region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way's Perseus Spiral Arm. This 20×30 arcmin sized nebulosity is also associated with open cluster IC 1590, several Bok globules and the multiple star, B 1. It collectively forms Sh2-184, spanning over a larger area of 40 arcmin. A recent distance from radio parallaxes of water masers at 22 GHz made during 2014 is estimated it lies 2.82±0.20 kpc. (9200 ly.) from us. Colloquially, NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to the video game character.
Edward Emerson Barnard discovered the nebula in August 1883, describing it as "a large faint nebula, very diffuse." Multiple star 'B 1' or β 1 was later discovered by S. W. Burnham, whose bright component is identified as the highly luminous O6 spectral class star, HD 5005 or HIP 4121. It consists of an 8th-magnitude primary with four companions at distances between 1.4 and 15.7 arcsec. There has been no appreciable change in this quintuple system since the first measures were made in 1875.
SH2-103 The Cygnus Loop is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. The remains of a massive star which exploded as a supernova approx. 20000 years ago. It is about 2400 lightyears distant. The gasses, mostly Hydrogen and Oxygen form an expanding sphere which is ionised by ultraviolet starlight and glow in the colors of red and blue-green.
More information on my Astrobin www.astrobin.com/s7qjvh/F/?nc=user
Caldwell C6 Cats Eye Nebula. Its my 1st time achieving some detail of this dso. I am on alt/az alignment and look forward to future attemps at improving the detail and colouration as skill and equipment improves. imaged with cpc925 60d at prime, iso100 10"exp.
Venus with M45 Pleiades. This is my first play with Deep Sky Stacker and this is 18 shots stacked with flats etc, this shot was one of the stack processed on it's own.
www.flickr.com/photos/grant_r/6900025254
Not perfect but I do like the lack of noise in the shot.
M57, the aptly named "Ring nebula". This is a planetary nebula, which is to say that it is a dying star that is emitting various gases which generate all the colors. I looked for this a few times before when it was low in the sky but never saw it. This morning (early this morning!!!) it was high in the sky and easy to find. This was shot with the camera using the telescope as the lens. There are some tracking errors that I hope to iron out next time with PEC (and a little TLC!).
Here’s a first light with my William Optics Minicat 51. As with any new scope, persistent clouds arrived in the Northeast New England all of December, making imaging a challenge. I managed to capture just under 39 hours of data on NGC 7822, the “Cosmic Question Mark,” using Antlia 4.5nm SHO+rgb filters. Check out more of my Astrophotographs on Instagram or Astrobin. Happy New Year and Clear skies!
May 14, 2020
Canon 6D mI (astromodified)
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher EvoStar 72ED
Dual-narrowband LP filter
120 X 1 min exposures at ISO3200
HST_9714_03_ACS_WFC_F435W (Blue)
HST_9714_03_ACS_WFC_F555W (Blue)
HST_9714_03_ACS_WFC_total (Green)
HST_9714_03_ACS_WFC_F625W (Red)
September 13, 2020
Canon 6D mI (astromodified)
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher EvoStar 72ED
Dual-narrowband LP filter
438 X 1 min exposures at ISO1600
Triple of North American Nebula 25-10-21 Oxon UK 1) 4x900 HA 2) 10x300 L-Exstreme 3) all combined - WO Z61ii - ASI294MCPro - SWNEQ6-R-Pro - Nina - Stellarium - PH2 - DSS - Photoshop
North America Nebula 25-10-21.
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). The shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico.
While "scouting" a location, I missed the comet (could see handle of big dipper slipping away under horizon) but there was this fantastic expanse of dark sky all around. The lens at 70mm was still too narrow to capture much of the milky way,.. but here it is, nonetheless.
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