Bodes Galaxy is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light years away. The Cigar Galaxy is thought to have at some point interacted with Bodes Galaxy, taking lots of dust and causing it to be become a starburst galaxy where stars are being born 10 times faster than the milky way. (Wikipedia)

60 300s Lights with 62 flats and 67 bias. Dithered.

Telescope: - Skywatcher 130PDS Newtonian.

Camera: - Nikon D3100.

ISO: 400. Automated white balance

Filters: - Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector. IDAS D2 Light Pollution Suppression Filter

Flats taken with a Huion L4S Light Box.

Wireless Remote: PIXEL TW-283 DC2 2.4G.

Mount: - Skywatcher EQ6R.

Guiding: Skywatcher EvoGuide 50ED & ZWO ASI120MM-Mini.

Polar Aligned with SharpCap Pro.

Control Software: - Stellarium Scope, Stellarium, Poth Hub, EQMOD, All Sky Plate Solver, PHD Guiding 2 and PHD Dither Timer.

Processing Software: Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and edited in Star Tools.

Moon: - New

Light Pollution and Location: - Bortle 8 in Davyhulme, Manchester.

Seeing: - Good

Notes: - I have got to the point where I can just set up and get going. This has taken me a long time to get to. I did take pictures for 2 nights but in the end only kept the second nights work. I may at some point come up with a successful re-process with both days data. In the end I felt 5 hours is enough for this setup although I have read somewhere that this object benefits from as much data as possible.

I think the flats on the first night and prior shots I’ve taken had too much exposure. I still think I am overexposing these as I am getting rings in my pictures. I’ll go even lower on the next object.

The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius some 655 light years away.

This is a new version captured with the new camera, and is processed in a Bi color combination of Ha, Oiii, Oiii (HOO)

Equipment Details:

•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector

•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount

•SBIG STT 8300m CCD Camera cooled to -20'c

•SBIG FW8G-STT Filter Wheel

•Baader Ha and Oiii Filters

•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope

•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera

•Polemaster for polar alignment

Exposure Details:

•Ha 24X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Oiii 20X300 seconds - Bin 1x1

Total Integration Time: 3 hours and 45 minutes.

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Lens: Samyang 135 F2 @ F2.8

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 251x180s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 258x180s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik 6nm Sii: 256x180s Gain111 -15°C

Skywatcher ED80 APO

DSLR (600D) 34minutes 8 seconds total exposure

Made with Fujifilm X-T20, Samyang 12mm F2, Skywatcher Star Adventurer.

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3521, 3528, 3529, 3530, 3531 and 3533 spots.

Reprocess of data from 2022 using latest PixInsight tools.

Skywatcher Esprit 100ED

Canon 700d, 19x240s (1hr 16mins)

Resolution ............... 0.796 arcsec/px

Rotation ................. -89.621 deg

Observation start time ... 2022-07-09 23:06:20 UTC

Observation end time ..... 2022-07-10 00:45:52 UTC

Focal distance ........... 544.32 mm

Pixel size ............... 2.10 um

Field of view ............ 2d 15' 21.7" x 1d 29' 26.7"

Image center ............. RA: 20 58 48.665 Dec: +44 20 06.83

The whirlpool galaxy is actually two galaxies interacting with each other. The quite obvious spiral galaxy that is M51 and the much smaller galaxy catalogued as NGC 5195.

First discovered by Charles Messier in 1773, M51 is located 31 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/ on the 18/03/2025.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair Starwave 50mm & ZWO 120mm mini.

248 light frames 60 seconds each.

Stacked with darks using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

my first try. Skywatcher 150/1200 on a exos 2 goto 29x30sec.

stacked with dss and lightroom

Designation: Messier 31, M31, NGC 224.

Constellation: Andromeda.

Visual magnitude: +3.3.

Apparent size: 178′ x 70′

Diameter: 220,000 light years.

Distance: 2,500,000,000 light years.

Altitude during exposure: 12.5° rising to 14.25° above N. horizon.

Also in image: galaxies M110 (NGC 205), M32 (NGC 221) and NGC 286.

Skywatcher Esprit ED120 telescope.

ZWO ASI071 camera

46 minute exposure.

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3661, 3662, 3663, 3664, 3666 and 3667 spots.

Centaurus A (also known as NGC 5128 or Caldwell 77) is a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from his home in Parramatta, in New South Wales, Australia. Shot with Canon 5Dsr and SW Quattro 250 F/4. 10 x 55 sec frames stacked in Sequator.

Skywatcher 80ED + Canon EOS 7D

This is my first attempt at capturing the Rosette Nebula, also known as Caldwell 49 in the constellation of Monoceros. Using a full frame mirrorless camera, 70-200mm lens and a Star Tracker I was able to get this image from my back garden in Torquay, Devon, UK.

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I had set up to capture 120 light frames but due to intemittent cloud cover and condensation on the filter I only came away with 50 subs so need to get some more when the weather clears again. Still, I am pleased with what I managed to get.

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Nikon Z6ii (unmodified)

Tamron 70-200 G2 lens at 200mm

60 sec subs (61 mins total exposure time)

f/4

ISO 800

61 lights, 50 darks, 50 flats & 50 biases

Skywatcher Star Adventuer 2i tracker

K&F Light Pollution Filter.

Bortle 5 sky.

Edited in Siril, Photoshop & Lightroom.

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Thank you for stopping by and taking a look.

Messier 97 Owl (25% Crop)

Skywatcher 100ED

Canon 700d

ISO800 10x120s (20 mins)

Celestron CGEM DX

Processed in PixInsight

Milky way core rising over the horizon at the Pinnacles desert in Western Australia.

Original panorama was made of 27 frames.

Sky: 8 stacked frames. 120s, ISO 1250 f/1.8, 18mm

Foreground: 3 x 120s, ISO 1250 f/1.8, 18mm

Nikon D500, Sigma 18-35 f/1.8, Skywatcher Star Adventurer

This is first look at a coloured nebula this side of Town As these two are so close this is a two shot Panorama in this case sitting vertically. This shot went straight together in PTGui even though it was only stars as the join. This is a part of the Carina Nebula the Hand cluster is to the left and carina to Right.

This is two nights per panel or 105 shots each as the nights get longer.

QHY183C -10c 105 shot 10 min over two nights each.

Prima Luce Essato Focus, Focus on the hour ,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Rotated 76 degrees

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 11.96 thousand light years away from Earth and 30 light-years in size.

This is an HOO process with Ha mapped to red, oiii to green and blue.

Equipment Details:

•8 Inch Skywatcher Quattro Carbon Fibre F4.0 Newtonian Reflector

•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount

•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera cooled to -20'c

•SBIG CFW8 Filter Wheel

•Astranomik Ha and Oiii Filters

•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope

•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera

•Polemaster for polar alignment

Exposure Details:

•Ha 25X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Oiii 18X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

•Oiii 18X180 seconds - Bin 1x1

Total Integration Time: 2 hours and 10 minutes

16 x 300s integration tiime

ZWO ASI 533 MC Pro

ZWO ASIAIR

Canon 400mm f5.6

Optolong UV/IR cut filter

Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro mount

120mm guide scope

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Telescope: Lacerta 200/800 F4

Corrector: Gyulai Pál GPU

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

Images:

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 264x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 100x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 104x120s Gain53 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 109x120s Gain53 -15°C

Isaszeg, Bortle 4

Skywatcher Teleskop Evostar 72 mm f/6 ED Apochromatic Refractor

Last night's moon, known by some as The Worm Moon, was blazing in the sky here last night, once some earlier low cloud and mist had passed.

So was very hard to ignore and with its light swamping any desire to do some deep sky stuff!

So this is an image captured from last night imaged with my Skywatcher Esprit 120ED refractor @f5.4 and ZWO 2600MC camera.

The moon was in Virgo and was 15.5 days old. The great rayed crater Tycho is presenting nicely!

Many thanks for looking!

I had been putting off processing this image because the conditions were not good on the night it was taken, and I was not convinced there would be enough data to work with, especially since there was no Oxygen or Sulphur data. I plan to revisit during the winter of 2024/2025 to gather more data. The Bubble Nebula (NGC7635) image comprises RGB and Hydrogen Alpha data.

Located in Cassiopeia, NGC7635 (Caldwell 11, Sharpless 162) is an emission nebula close to M52. The bubble is created by the wind emanating from the young central star SAO 20575. The surrounding gas is part of a giant molecular cloud that is also excited by this star.

Imaging session: 10/01/2024

Sky quality: Bortle 5 (approx.)

Mount: iOptron CEM40G

OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED

Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro

Filter Wheel: ZWO

HaRGB Filters: ZWO

Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO

Guiding: iOptron

Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle 5 + ECCO2 (Environment)

Light Exposures:

Ha ……….. 12 x 300s

Red ........... 20 x 90s

Green ......... 20 x 90s

Blue .......... 20 x 90s

Calibration files:

BIAS .......... 100

Dark .......... 50

Flat .......... 20

Dark flat ..... 50

Total integration time: 2.5hrs

Processing

Using Pixinsght, the background was extracted using Seti Astro’s Automatic DBE before using Russel Crowman’s BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator. Some further noise reduction using Topaz DeNoise and touching up with Adobe Photoshop.

Astrometric Information

Center (RA, Dec): 350.195, 61.201

Center (RA, hms): 23h 20m 46.707s

Center (Dec, dms): +61° 12' 05.268"

Size: 49 x 48.7 arcmin

Radius: 0.575 deg

Pixel scale: 1.96 arcsec/pixel

image was taken with 3x Barlow lens and SkyWatcher Dobsonian telescope.

Equipment:

Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto

Guiding: OAG

Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini

Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera

Accessories:

ZWO ASIAIR Pro

ZWO EFW 8x1.25"

ZWO EAF

ZWO OAG

ZWO 1.25 Helical focuser

Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm

Programs:

PixInsight

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

Details:

Camera temp: -15°C

Gain: 53, 111

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 121x300s

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 146x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 20x180s

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 19x180s

Bortle Scale: 4

Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Acquisition date(s):

2021.03.02., 2021.03.08., 2021.03.13., 2021.03.19., 2021.03.20., 2021.03.23.

The great Andromeda Galaxy M31 in messier catalog

This is a 4 panel mosaic capture during two cold nights.

Starless version : flic.kr/p/2mDSYEG

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher NEQ5

Filter: Astronomik L

-Acquisition-

Light :Panel-1 60x300s

Panel-2 60x300s

Panel-3 52x300s

Panel-4 60x300s

Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : Take on 2 night 05 September2021

and 10 October 2021

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

-Build the 4 panel mozaic

It's my first 4 panel mosaic so I follow this tutorial from Amy Astro www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0f8Tl_kC0A

-Processing

DBE master Light

Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light

__L__

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Denoise

Ez_Soft Streatch

Ez_HDR

UnsharpedMask with mask

__RGB__

Linear Fit

BackgroundNeutralization

PhotometricColorCalibration

Ez_Soft Streatch

Starnet++

CuvesTransformation with mask

A lot of curves...

Bring back stars with PixelMath

__LRGB__

LRGBCombination

Final CurvesTransformation

Ez_Star Reduction

DarkStructureEnhance script

Save as jpg

Clear Skies !

This is part of my targets for astro fest. We where asked to sort out some targets we would like to take. my first of the night is below 47 Tucanae above is the second. 29/10/2022

www.flickr.com/photos/33814724@N03/51623278972/in/datepos...

QHY183C -10c 100 shot 10 min

MeLE Mini PC

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps.

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit. Here seem in Triunfo, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 23-July-2020. Using the Skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker.

With all these clear nights in Montana I am finishing target's every 4 nights or so. Much better than my percent in Seattle!

Crescent nebula NGC 6888

Meade 6000 series 115 APO

Asi 1600mm

Skywatcher Eq6R-Pro

one of my favourite deep sky targets, it contains several NGC-objects with a very bright star cluster in the middle (NGC2244), causing the gases to shine brightly.

though it being end of winter and thus only getting about 3h after sunset to shot images in the south, it was two nights in a row to gather 4 hours of data, heavy wind gusts ruined about 1.5 hours worth of data. i also recognized starlink being a problem the last couple of sessions i have, luckily due to stacking its trails usually disappear in post processing.

camera: ToupTek ATR533C

mount: Skywatcher HEQ5Pro

scope: TS Optics 115/800 with 0.8x reducer

80x180sec @gain 100 and 1x1 binning, cooled to -10°C

stacking and editing in APP, SIRIL and Photoshop

shot in two nights at a waning moon (approx 20%) under a bortle 5+ sky from my backyard

Proxima Centauri.

Our elusive nearest stellar neighbour.

It orbits Alpha Centauri, more than two degrees away, which is outside the field of view of my image and much brighter.

Distance 4.2 Light years.

Magnitude: +11.

Field of View: 47.8 x 31.7 arcmin.

Exposure: 300 seconds.

Skywatcher Esprit 120 refractor.

ZWO ASI071 camera.

2020-08-25.

A full description is provided on my website: cosmicfocus.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/our-closest-star/com...

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the huge 3590, 3591, 3592 and 3594, 3595 and 3596 spots

Skywatcher 130/900

QHY 5L-II mono

Barlow Televue 3x

RGB Astronomik

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3772, 3774, 3777, 3780, 3781, 3782 and 3784 spots.

OTA: Newtonian Celestron 130 mm/f5 modified

Mount: Skywatcher Heq 5

Imaging Camera: Canon 700D astro modified

Telescope Guide: Gso 50mm

Camera Guide: QHY5L II Mono

Baader Mk III Coma Corrector

Polemaster Eletronic Polar Scope

Total Exposure: 3:00 hours (subs 300 sec)

Deep Sky Stacker: Calibration and stacking

Adobe Photoshop Cs2 : Data Processing,

Pulg-in: Hasta la vista, green, astroflat pro

PHD Guiding 2: Guide

Darks, Dark Flats, Flats and Bias apply

Serra Negra ( Bortle 4) /São Paulo/Brasil . 05/2022

Autrement dit, la Voie Lactée depuis le désert d'Atacama

Or the Milky Way from the Atacama Desert, Chile

Nikon D7500 on Skywatcher Staradventurer - single shot

Over the last three night I chose this target not knowing how it would come out. The processing in Pix and Ps I get this, as we are about to get clouded in I have gone with the 100shots. Camera rotated to get this view.

QHY183C -10c 100 shots 10 min each over 3 nights, Rotated 103 degrees.

Prima Luce Essato Focus , Focus every hour.

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps Lr.

The (relatively) small batch of North East Proms today with Earth for scale, best 30% of 2100 frames in AS2, bin2x2 - very fast moving low clouds and gusty (45mph+) squalls today, hid in the gazebo with the scope and held on for dear life until I got a break. Image rotated 90 deg CW. Skywatcher 120ED Esprit, Daystar QC, Grasshopper 3 (IMX174). Genika software worked for once too without falling over.

Also different configuration for scope, replaced the Diagonal with an 80mm extension tube (UV/IR filter attached to this), then the Quark, then the camera. Seems to work just as well and lets me have more back focus. For a sense of further scale, see here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/28517451253/in/photost...

Skywatcher 120ED, Canon 700D, Prime Focus, best 85% of 60 images, PIPP, Autostakkert2 and CS5 used.

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 10mm.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 2765 spot, the most proeminent to emerge on solar disk since January.

Skywatcher Esprit80 f400mm, ASI Air Plus

Narrow Band composition HOO, PixInsight, Photoshop

My biggest project so far.

Camera: Zwo Asi183mm Pro

Imaging Lens: Samyang 135 F2 at F2.8

Filters: Astronomik Deep-Sky RGB, Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block, Astronomik 6nm SHO

Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Belt-modded

Guiding: Orion 50mm Mini guidescope, Zwo Asi120mm mini kamera, N.I.N.A

Images:

Astronomik 6nm Ha: 500x300s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik 6nm Oiii: 285x300s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik L-3 UV-IR Block: 755x120s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky R: 112x120s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky G: 163x120s Gain111 -15°C

Astronomik Deep-Sky B: 120x120s Gain111 -15°C

Programs used: PHD2, N.I.N.A, PixInsight

Hungary, Isaszeg, Bortle 4

This image shows the Rosette Nebula (C49) setting behind a rocky peak in Arosa, Switzerland. The peak is aptly called "Hörnli", which means "Little Horn".

The Rosette Nebula Rosette Nebula, lies 5,200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn) and measures about 130 light-years across. It is an emission nebula, meaning that the gases that compose it glow as they are energized by radiation from local stars. The young stars in the nebula’s center are gravitationally bound to each other, forming an open cluster, born out of the material of the nebula.

Shooting this image required two tries. My initial calculations showed Rosetta Nebula setting right behind "Hörnli" and I therefore decided to shoot with my camera in portrait orientation.

As it was a setting target, I started with the sky subs and planned to shoot the foreground after the Rosetta Nebula had set. When it finally hit the horizon, I unfortunately found that it set to the left of the peak.

The problem was that I had marked the position of "Hörnli" slightly wrong in my planning app, which did not know the small peak. This threw my calculations off by 2°. The narrow field of view (3.84° x 5.07°) of the 200mm lens on the micro 4/3rd sensor of my astro-camera made me completely miss my ground target.

Of course I could have made a composite without anybody ever noticing, but for me, this would have taken all the fun out of the image...

After redoing my calculations, I found that the planned view with the Rosette Nebula setting over the peak was actually blocked and I therefore decided to reshoot the scene from my original spot in landscape orientation. Fortunately, the weather gods showed mercy and made the next night clear again.

EXIF

ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro

ZWO EFW with Baader LRGB, H-alpha & Oiii filters

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L @ 200mm

modified Skywatcher AZ-GTI mount

Sky:

3h42min total integration time

60 x 20s L

24 x 40s RGB

55 x 120s H-alpha

22 x 120s O

Foreground:

20min total integration time

20 x 20s L

20 x 40s RGB

SkyWatcher 70mm SK707AZ2 + Filter Thousand Oaks + super 25mm + barlow 2X.

Edited with MS Picture Manager and Photofiltre.

It's possible to see the 3690, 3691, 3695, 3697, 3698 and 3699 spots.

Ormai il pianeta Giove si allontana sempre di più dalle condizioni ideali di osservazione. Fra la fine dell'anno scorso e l'inizio di questo, ho iniziato a fare sul serio e a riprendere in mano la mia grande passione: osservare il cielo e sentirmi parte dell'Universo.

Qui Giove ripreso qualche giorno fa con una focale equivalente di 2.250 mm su un telescopio dal diametro di 15cm. Il risultato è notevole perché arriva al limite massimo teorico dello strumento

Buona giornata

#giove #skywatcher #pianeta #osservazioni #solarsystem #newton #barlow #bands #bande #astronomy

The Lagoon Nebula ( Messier 8, NGC 6523 ) in the constellation Sagittarious- by Mike O'Day ( 500px.com/mikeoday )..The Laboon Nebula ( M8 ) is visible to the naked eye under dark skies from most latitudes except the far north. Seemingly covering an area about three times that of the full Moon, M8 actually covers an area somewhat greater than 110 light years and is around 4300 light years from Earth in the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm of the Milkyway galaxy. ..Links:..https://500px.com/MikeODay.http://photo.net/photos/MikeODay..Details:.Messier 8, NGC 6523 - Lagoon Nebula.Skywatcher Quattro 10" f4 Newtonian. .Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT Mount.Orion auto guider - PHD2. .Baader MPCC Mark 3 Coma Corrector..Nikon D300 (unmodified)..106 x 30 sec ISO 1600 (JPEG)..20 x 120 sec ISO 400 (JPEG)..23 x 240 sec ISO 200 (JPEG)..PixInsight and Photoshop.31 August 14 .processed 13 August 2016

Triangulumgalaxy M33

170 x 40 s Lights + Darks, Flats, Bias

Sony a7 III - Skywatcher 150/750 PDS

So what you read next is not going to make sense, for the last four day in the morning I get the data. I have edited as per I know the shot as a colour sensor looks. After looking at it on the fouth days edit I did not like it so I thought time to try some thing new. Glass of red wine and Pink Floyd "Wish you where here" playing on the computer "Shine on you crazy Diamond", edit how I see the data not some thing else.

I hope there is a few out there understand the madness and like the edit.... for those of you like me never found the chicken once starless the chicken stood out. Bottom left corner on the rim of the light patch looking into the middle of the shot. 100% looking at The lioness profile on the other side of the nebula. This is 27 hours worth of data.

QHY268M -10c 110 Odd shots 5 min each filter over 4 nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.

QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO

MeLE Mini PC

Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box

Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser Rotated 90 degrees

Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA

Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, Nina

Pixinsight, Ps, Lr

Tracked, stacked, composite astroscape, made with Fujifilm X-T2, Fujifilm F1.4 at F2, and Skywatcher Star Adventurer.

21*4min tracked, iso320

Skywatcher Teleskop Evostar 72 mm f/6 ED Apochromatic Refractor